Power Platform Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 46 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 120 182 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.79% 5.00% 3.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.81% 14.40% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 138 95
10th Percentile £363 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £416 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £544
90th Percentile £660 £614 £612
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £14.51 £29.94 -
25th Percentile £14.74 £48.70 -
Median hourly rate £15.13 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.73% - -
75th Percentile £15.51 - -
90th Percentile £15.74 - -
England median hourly rate £23.22 £55.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -57.79% +145.54% +6.67%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 810 1,264 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.58% 34.72% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,020 856
10th Percentile £205 £285 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 58 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £19.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.84% +121.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £34.88 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bristol -8 44 £439 -2.39% 26
Wiltshire -32 33 £502 -8.65% 10
Gloucestershire +15 16 £493 +3.68% 9
Somerset 0 3 £532 +9.13% 12
Devon -1 3 £650 +30.00% 10
Dorset -2 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 27 (22.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.83%) Azure
2 25 (20.83%) Power Automate
3 23 (19.17%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (18.33%) PowerApps
5 18 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.67%) Azure Storage
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.50%) AWS
12 3 (2.50%) PaaS
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.67%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 1 (0.83%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.83%) Matillion
14 1 (0.83%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) Firewall
2 6 (5.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (75.83%) Power BI
2 23 (19.17%) SQL Server
3 18 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (12.50%) Tableau
5 14 (11.67%) Relational Database
6 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.33%) Biml
9 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.50%) Metadata
10 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.67%) Big Data
11 2 (1.67%) Power Query
12 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Postman
2 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Finance
3 20 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.50%) Marketing
5 7 (5.83%) Electronics
5 7 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.83%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.33%) Local Government
6 4 (3.33%) Military
7 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (30.83%) Developer
2 21 (17.50%) Data Engineer
3 15 (12.50%) Architect
4 13 (10.83%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Analyst
6 11 (9.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Senior
8 9 (7.50%) Power BI Developer
9 8 (6.67%) SharePoint Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Consultant
10 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Service Manager
11 6 (5.00%) Applications Developer
11 6 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 5 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) SPFx
2 6 (5.00%) CSS
3 5 (4.17%) PySpark
3 5 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.83%) .NET
5 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.83%) HTML
5 1 (0.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.17%) CMDB
3 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (78.33%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (20.83%) ETL
3 24 (20.00%) Agile
4 21 (17.50%) Migration
5 18 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 18 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 14 (11.67%) Visualisation
7 13 (10.83%) ITIL
7 13 (10.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 12 (10.00%) Service Management
9 11 (9.17%) ITSM
10 9 (7.50%) DevOps
11 8 (6.67%) Analytics
11 8 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.83%) Case Management
12 7 (5.83%) Containerisation
12 7 (5.83%) Dashboard Development
12 7 (5.83%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (5.83%) Identity Management
12 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.17%) SQL
2 15 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.83%) C#
4 12 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 9 (7.50%) Python
6 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 55 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 51 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.33%) Degree
5 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Remedy
3 10 (8.33%) CA
3 10 (8.33%) Databricks
4 9 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (1.67%) Informatica
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) VMware
6 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Xamarin