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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 11 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.64% 2.80% 5.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.46% 7.83% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 21
10th Percentile £166 £328 £219
25th Percentile £186 £416 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -6.14% +16.82%
75th Percentile £392 £563 -
90th Percentile £405 - £600
Wales median daily rate £275 £475 £586
% change year-on-year -42.11% -18.94% +14.16%

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 96 115 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.51% 35.71% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 97 102
10th Percentile £190 £143 £158
25th Percentile £260 £313 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.61% +6.41%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £600
90th Percentile £587 £580 £661
Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £470
% change year-on-year -18.37% +4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.54
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.25 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -18.55% +24.73%
75th Percentile £38.13 £12.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £41.25 - £20.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £15.00
% change year-on-year +42.09% +5.57% +7.14%

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 31 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 31 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 +4 10 £275 -50.00% 30
Torfaen - 1 £400 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Database Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (18.18%) FHIR
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Data Extraction
5 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Database Security
5 1 (9.09%) Database Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) RedGate