Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 64 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 -33 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 116 64 119
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.48% 3.29% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.24% 10.11% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 45 85
10th Percentile £350 £318 £350
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £525
90th Percentile £612 £580 £600
England median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £16.74 - £31.75
25th Percentile £19.97 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £50.63 - £43.75
90th Percentile £59.00 - -
England median hourly rate £28.55 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -9.77% +32.82% -53.32%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Power Platform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,032 633 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.00% 32.54% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 483 616
10th Percentile £300 £292 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 19 64
10th Percentile £23.95 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +79.02% -40.96%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.75 £63.18
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the North West

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -13 72 £500 +14.29% 48
Cheshire 0 26 £463 -20.26% 9
Merseyside -13 8 £573 +14.60% 9
Lancashire -10 7 £425 -10.53% 13
Cumbria - 2 - - 1
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (15.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.90%) Confluence
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.59%) CMS
4 2 (1.72%) Apache
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.86%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.86%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.86%) Primavera
3 1 (0.86%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.86%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.55%) Azure
2 29 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 21 (18.10%) PowerApps
4 17 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (11.21%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (10.34%) AWS
7 11 (9.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
9 9 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.03%) OneDrive
11 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.31%) Azure Functions
12 5 (4.31%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (4.31%) Serverless
13 4 (3.45%) Azure AI
13 4 (3.45%) SaaS
14 3 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (2.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.86%) DHCP
2 1 (0.86%) DNS
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.86%) VPN
2 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (74.14%) Power BI
2 17 (14.66%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.48%) Tableau
4 9 (7.76%) Power Query
5 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.31%) Metadata
6 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.45%) Looker
6 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.59%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.72%) Impala
9 1 (0.86%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) JIRA
2 4 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (0.86%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.86%) gulp
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.86%) Postman
3 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.86%) Yeoman
General
1 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Finance
3 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.90%) Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Law
7 5 (4.31%) Legal
8 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.72%) Marketing
10 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.86%) Local Government
11 1 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Publishing
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (17.24%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Power BI Developer
5 11 (9.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (8.62%) Lead
7 9 (7.76%) Architect
8 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Senior
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Administrator
10 4 (3.45%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.45%) SQL Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Test Analyst
11 3 (2.59%) Applications Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) REST
2 3 (2.59%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (1.72%) .NET
3 2 (1.72%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.72%) JSON
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.72%) Node.js
3 2 (1.72%) PySpark
3 2 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.86%) LDAP
4 1 (0.86%) OAuth
4 1 (0.86%) OpenID
4 1 (0.86%) React
4 1 (0.86%) SAML
4 1 (0.86%) SOAP
4 1 (0.86%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.72%) IVR
4 2 (1.72%) Life Science
4 2 (1.72%) PMI
5 1 (0.86%) CMDB
5 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.86%) PKI
5 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Windows
2 6 (5.17%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (71.55%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (37.93%) Analytics
3 35 (30.17%) Agile
4 26 (22.41%) Data Modelling
4 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.10%) Visualisation
7 19 (16.38%) AI
7 19 (16.38%) Migration
8 18 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (14.66%) Data Visualisation
9 17 (14.66%) Workflow
10 16 (13.79%) ETL
11 15 (12.93%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (10.34%) Data Analysis
12 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (8.62%) Generative AI
13 10 (8.62%) ITSM
13 10 (8.62%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.03%) SQL
2 19 (16.38%) Python
3 12 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.31%) C#
6 2 (1.72%) VBA
7 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 14 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.31%) CISSP
6 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.45%) PMP
7 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.72%) MBA
8 2 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.48%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) GRC
4 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.45%) PMO
5 2 (1.72%) Basel III
5 2 (1.72%) GDPR
5 2 (1.72%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.72%) Apache Ranger
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.21%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.90%) Databricks
3 8 (6.90%) Splunk
4 7 (6.03%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (6.03%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.03%) Remedy
4 7 (6.03%) SAP
5 6 (5.17%) UiPath
6 4 (3.45%) Foundry
6 4 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.45%) Oracle
7 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.72%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.72%) Genesys
8 2 (1.72%) Google
8 2 (1.72%) Workday
9 1 (0.86%) Ribbon
9 1 (0.86%) Zoho