Power Platform Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 38 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +44 -18
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 79 110 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.86% 4.96% 3.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.25% 14.91% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 75 69
10th Percentile £263 £290 £362
25th Percentile £359 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -1.54% +14.71%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £550
90th Percentile £538 £670 £613
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £25.36 - -
25th Percentile £25.52 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.93 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.38% - -
75th Percentile £28.22 £20.61 -
90th Percentile £28.32 £37.70 -
UK median hourly rate £29.16 £22.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.60% -59.09% +139.13%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +6 41 £463 -19.57% 33
Glasgow -17 32 £375 -19.35% 28
Perthshire +2 3 £375 -44.44%
Stirling - 1 £513 -
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 24 (30.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.27%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.27%) Acrobat
6 1 (1.27%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (6.33%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.04%) Azure
2 21 (26.58%) PowerApps
3 18 (22.78%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (22.78%) Power Automate
4 14 (17.72%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.80%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.80%) IaaS
7 3 (3.80%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) SaaS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.27%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) Intranet
2 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (67.09%) Power BI
2 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.06%) Tableau
5 3 (3.80%) OLAP
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.53%) Power Query
6 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.53%) Redis
6 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.27%) Metadata
7 1 (1.27%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) JIRA
2 10 (12.66%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (3.80%) Postman
3 3 (3.80%) Selenium
3 3 (3.80%) Subversion
3 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.80%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.27%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.27%) JMeter
4 1 (1.27%) RStudio
4 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (39.24%) Public Sector
2 28 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 26 (32.91%) Finance
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Banking
6 6 (7.59%) Back Office
7 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
9 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Analyst
2 16 (20.25%) Developer
3 7 (8.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (8.86%) Consultant
4 6 (7.59%) Security Specialist
5 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Portfolio Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Security Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Administrator
7 3 (3.80%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (3.80%) Performance Manager
7 3 (3.80%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) QA Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) SharePoint Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
1 7 (8.86%) Node.js
2 6 (7.59%) CSS
2 6 (7.59%) HTML
2 6 (7.59%) REST
3 4 (5.06%) Express.js
4 3 (3.80%) .NET
5 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.53%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (2.53%) JSON
5 2 (2.53%) SPFx
5 2 (2.53%) YAML
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (6.33%) PKI
2 5 (6.33%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.86%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.70%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (51.90%) Agile
3 24 (30.38%) DevOps
4 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.99%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (17.72%) CRM
6 14 (17.72%) Data Modelling
6 14 (17.72%) Visualisation
7 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
7 13 (16.46%) Migration
8 11 (13.92%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (12.66%) Data Analysis
10 9 (11.39%) Analytics
10 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
11 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.86%) ETL
12 7 (8.86%) Kalman Filter
12 7 (8.86%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (8.86%) Risk Management
13 6 (7.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.78%) SQL
2 15 (18.99%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.92%) Python
4 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.13%) C#
6 7 (8.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (6.33%) Java
7 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.80%) C++
8 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.80%) VBA
8 3 (3.80%) VBScript
9 2 (2.53%) Bash
9 2 (2.53%) Bicep
9 2 (2.53%) Groovy
9 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.80%) CISM
3 3 (3.80%) CISSP
3 3 (3.80%) ISEB
3 3 (3.80%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.53%) ISACA
4 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (10.13%) QA
3 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
4 6 (7.59%) PMO
5 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.53%) GDPR
6 2 (2.53%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 5 (6.33%) SCCM
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.13%) Oracle
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) Qualys
5 1 (1.27%) Adobe
5 1 (1.27%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.27%) IDERA
5 1 (1.27%) Pega
5 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow