Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Salford

Microsoft Power Platform
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Salford requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Salford 8.33% 2.70% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.00% 25.00% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - -
Manchester median daily rate £410 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% +2.27%

All Cloud Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 20.83% 10.81% 51.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile - £433 £233
25th Percentile £400 £444 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £348
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +36.69% -38.22%
75th Percentile £775 £494 £541
90th Percentile - £498 £738
Manchester median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £63.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £66.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +241.03% -44.29%
75th Percentile - £69.75 £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £47.50 £66.50 £16.86
% change year-on-year -28.57% +294.42% -75.91%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Salford

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Salford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware