Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Microsoft Power Platform
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 5.66% 4.76% 4.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.75% 11.63% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £448 £333 £234
25th Percentile £513 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -16.67% +103.33%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £513
90th Percentile £650 £490 £535
East of England median daily rate £550 £438 £410
% change year-on-year +25.71% +6.71% -18.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 32 43 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 30.19% 40.95% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 19
10th Percentile £220 £172 £145
25th Percentile £409 £189 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +188.89% -30.77% -49.22%
75th Percentile £682 £413 £544
90th Percentile £688 £470 £590
East of England median daily rate £500 £467 £475
% change year-on-year +7.18% -1.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +7.30% +17.65%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Suffolk over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Suffolk

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Ipswich +5 5 £550 +33.33% 2
Power Platform
East of England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) Star Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
General
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 4 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (66.67%) LLM
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 4 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) OCR
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Foundry
1 4 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft