Power Platform Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 77 140 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.65% 5.08% 4.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.32% 15.86% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 102 105
10th Percentile £314 £357 £325
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £464 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +0.27% -2.63%
75th Percentile £535 £525 £525
90th Percentile £579 £600 £656
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £29.85 £23.66
25th Percentile - £41.25 £27.10
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year - -14.26% +134.68%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £56.40
90th Percentile - - £60.36
England median hourly rate £31.64 £23.47 £38.75
% change year-on-year +34.84% -39.45% +66.67%

All Cloud 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 680 883 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.24% 32.05% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 625 858
10th Percentile £313 £283 £300
25th Percentile £392 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -1.72%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 38
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.34
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.53% -12.56%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £42.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £63.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the North West

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the North West

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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 6 July 2025. 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 -18 42 £425 -6.08% 161
Cheshire -12 18 £486 +2.37% 24
Lancashire -5 8 £488 -18.75% 78
Merseyside -4 5 £488 +30.00% 21
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.39%) IBM Domino
2 6 (7.79%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.90%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.30%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (1.30%) Maximo
4 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) Azure
2 16 (20.78%) PowerApps
3 15 (19.48%) Power Automate
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.49%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.90%) AWS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.30%) Boomi
9 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.30%) Firebase
9 1 (1.30%) GCP
9 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (84.42%) Power BI
2 15 (19.48%) Tableau
3 13 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.39%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.79%) Power Query
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.90%) Dremio
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.30%) Big Data
9 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.30%) Looker
9 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.30%) MySQL
9 1 (1.30%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.90%) Hudson
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) Flyway
4 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
General
1 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Finance
4 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.79%) Retail
7 4 (5.19%) Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.60%) Law
9 2 (2.60%) Marketing
10 1 (1.30%) Automotive
10 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Analyst
2 16 (20.78%) Developer
3 13 (16.88%) Data Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (6.49%) Consultant
5 5 (6.49%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Lead
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 2 (2.60%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Lead Consultant
8 2 (2.60%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Power BI Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) .NET
2 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.30%) ADO
2 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.30%) D3.js
2 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.30%) Flask
2 1 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (1.30%) JSON
2 1 (1.30%) Material-UI
2 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
2 1 (1.30%) Middleware
2 1 (1.30%) Node.js
2 1 (1.30%) Pandas
2 1 (1.30%) React
2 1 (1.30%) React Native
2 1 (1.30%) RESTful
2 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.49%) Low-Code
2 4 (5.19%) Life Science
3 3 (3.90%) Shadow IT
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (66.23%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (33.77%) Analytics
4 18 (23.38%) Data Modelling
5 14 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 13 (16.88%) Visualisation
7 11 (14.29%) Agile
8 10 (12.99%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (12.99%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (12.99%) E-Commerce
8 10 (12.99%) ETL
9 8 (10.39%) A/B Testing
9 8 (10.39%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (9.09%) Data Analysis
11 6 (7.79%) DevOps
11 6 (7.79%) Logistics
11 6 (7.79%) Machine Learning
11 6 (7.79%) Migration
12 5 (6.49%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) Python
3 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.19%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.90%) C#
6 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.60%) VBA
8 1 (1.30%) Korn
8 1 (1.30%) R
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) MCSA
5 1 (1.30%) MCSE
5 1 (1.30%) MCT
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) PMO
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) SAP
3 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 4 (5.19%) Ariba
5 2 (2.60%) Anaplan
5 2 (2.60%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Veeam
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Cognos
6 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.30%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.30%) Intapp
6 1 (1.30%) Netlify
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI