Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 62 45
Rank change year-on-year +28 -17 +34
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 128 58 70
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 5.45% 3.62% 3.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.11% 9.98% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 34 41
10th Percentile £320 £283 £213
25th Percentile £359 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £575
90th Percentile £600 £525 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Cloud Computing 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 847 581 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.07% 36.29% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 368 397
10th Percentile £300 £352 £213
25th Percentile £402 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £538
90th Percentile £642 £625 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £15.35 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Scotland

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power Platform

Power Platform
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 16 September 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
Glasgow +15 65 £425 -15.00% 64
Edinburgh +16 51 £425 -5.56% 45
Aberdeen +2 8 £498 +42.14% 16
Highlands -24 4 £786 +84.82%
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 22 (17.19%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.59%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (14.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.78%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.78%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.78%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.78%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.13%) Primavera
3 2 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.56%) iTrent
4 1 (0.78%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.78%) Sonata
4 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (36.72%) Azure
2 36 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (26.56%) Power Automate
4 30 (23.44%) PowerApps
5 26 (20.31%) Entra ID
6 25 (19.53%) Snowflake
7 13 (10.16%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.69%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.13%) AWS
12 2 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.56%) GCP
12 2 (1.56%) SaaS
13 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.78%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.78%) Cloud Run
13 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) DNS
2 2 (1.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
3 1 (0.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (81.25%) Power BI
2 17 (13.28%) Tableau
3 11 (8.59%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.81%) Big Data
4 10 (7.81%) Metadata
4 10 (7.81%) Power Query
5 9 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.47%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.69%) MySQL
7 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.91%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.56%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.78%) ERwin
3 1 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
General
1 51 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 40 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (30.47%) Finance
4 18 (14.06%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.16%) Banking
7 11 (8.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Military
10 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (26.56%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Analyst
3 13 (10.16%) Data Engineer
3 13 (10.16%) Senior
4 11 (8.59%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.59%) SharePoint Developer
5 10 (7.81%) Data Analyst
5 10 (7.81%) Power Platform Developer
6 8 (6.25%) Consultant
7 7 (5.47%) Data Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Kafka Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Python Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Site Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 5 (3.91%) Microsoft 365 Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.50%) REST
2 12 (9.38%) HTML
3 11 (8.59%) CSS
3 11 (8.59%) Kafka
3 11 (8.59%) React
3 11 (8.59%) SPFx
4 5 (3.91%) .NET
5 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.56%) JSON
5 2 (1.56%) PySpark
5 2 (1.56%) Terraform
6 1 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
6 1 (0.78%) XML
6 1 (0.78%) XSLT
6 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.13%) PKI
6 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.69%) Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Unix
2 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (79.69%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (28.13%) Agile
3 35 (27.34%) Analytics
4 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.88%) Data Modelling
6 24 (18.75%) AI
6 24 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (17.97%) Visualisation
8 22 (17.19%) Validation
9 20 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.84%) Data Governance
10 19 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (14.06%) Change Management
11 18 (14.06%) Decision-Making
11 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (14.06%) Risk Management
11 18 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (12.50%) Migration
13 15 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (11.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (27.34%) SQL
2 30 (23.44%) Python
3 18 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.59%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.47%) C#
6 6 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (3.91%) Java
7 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.34%) R
9 2 (1.56%) Bash
9 2 (1.56%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.91%) MCSE
5 3 (2.34%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.56%) Degree
6 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.94%) QA
3 6 (4.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (4.69%) GDPR
4 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
5 2 (1.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) GxP
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (8.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.38%) Grafana
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.13%) SCCM
4 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 58 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.16%) Databricks
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle
4 3 (2.34%) Google
4 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.78%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.78%) Informatica
6 1 (0.78%) Pega
6 1 (0.78%) Qualys
6 1 (0.78%) Sparx
6 1 (0.78%) Talend
6 1 (0.78%) Teradata
6 1 (0.78%) VMware