Power Platform Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Power Platform
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 12 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.96% 2.69% 5.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.37% 6.98% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 22
10th Percentile £167 £328 £224
25th Percentile £203 £416 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -5.66% +29.56%
75th Percentile £384 £563 £586
90th Percentile £445 - -
Wales median daily rate £275 £475 £583
% change year-on-year -42.11% -18.52% +29.56%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 97 129 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.08% 38.51% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 110 110
10th Percentile £195 £143 £162
25th Percentile £257 £336 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £609
90th Percentile £600 £625 £664
Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.25 £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%
75th Percentile £38.13 £12.75 £16.27
90th Percentile £41.25 - £16.51
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
% change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff +9 12 £275 -50.00% 31
Bridgend - 1 £238 -
Power Platform
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Security
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) MVC
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) RedGate
2 1 (8.33%) VMware