Power Platform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 516 786 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.01% 3.81% 3.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.54% 14.79% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 551 644
10th Percentile £290 £300 £275
25th Percentile £368 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £537 £544 £575
90th Percentile £613 £625 £642
UK median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 31
10th Percentile £18.36 £14.00 £22.38
25th Percentile £21.13 £16.11 £26.17
Median hourly rate £31.64 £21.21 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.21% -59.61% +125.81%
75th Percentile £32.97 £41.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £34.56 £44.75 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £23.22 £49.79
% change year-on-year +36.29% -53.37% +86.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,114 5,316 7,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.98% 25.80% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 3,760 5,529
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 264 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.12 £16.54
Median hourly rate £19.62 £17.72 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -33.08% +34.93%
75th Percentile £34.38 £34.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.06 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.37 £36.50
% change year-on-year +30.46% -41.45% +64.41%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England -15 132 £450 - 1,504
Midlands 0 127 £475 +11.76% 1,263
West Midlands +7 112 £475 +11.76% 677
South East +4 102 £496 +10.28% 1,953
North West -33 64 £475 +5.56% 724
South West -14 59 £438 -12.50% 738
Scotland -17 58 £425 -10.53% 321
Yorkshire +11 57 £430 -4.44% 588
East of England +18 31 £500 +21.95% 873
Wales +6 14 £275 -42.11% 190
North East +5 13 £450 -32.08% 204
East Midlands -15 13 £463 +12.12% 507
Northern Ireland -18 5 £575 -4.17% 79
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 100 (19.38%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.71%) Confluence
3 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Apache
5 4 (0.78%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 105 (20.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.91%) MS Visio
5 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.97%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Revit
8 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Maximo
3 4 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.58%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Sage CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 172 (33.33%) Azure
2 126 (24.42%) PowerApps
3 95 (18.41%) Power Automate
4 86 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (5.62%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.65%) AWS
9 19 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.29%) GCP
11 15 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (1.94%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.74%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (1.74%) GitHub
13 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.74%) SaaS
14 7 (1.36%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.13%) Firewall
2 9 (1.74%) VPN
3 8 (1.55%) Internet
4 6 (1.16%) Network Security
5 5 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) 2G
7 1 (0.19%) 3G
7 1 (0.19%) 4G
7 1 (0.19%) 5G
7 1 (0.19%) DNS
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (78.88%) Power BI
2 72 (13.95%) Tableau
3 62 (12.02%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 26 (5.04%) Power Query
6 20 (3.88%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 16 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (2.13%) Metadata
11 10 (1.94%) MySQL
12 8 (1.55%) Looker
13 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.36%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (1.16%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.16%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.16%) QlikView
15 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.97%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (6.01%) JIRA
2 8 (1.55%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.36%) Postman
3 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.16%) Git
5 5 (0.97%) Selenium
6 4 (0.78%) ERwin
6 4 (0.78%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.58%) Hudson
7 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.58%) Subversion
7 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.19%) Flyway
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 117 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (19.57%) Finance
4 58 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.29%) Banking
7 16 (3.10%) Retail
8 15 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.71%) Local Government
10 13 (2.52%) Marketing
11 12 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.36%) Law
14 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.16%) Legal
15 6 (1.16%) Military
16 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (30.62%) Analyst
2 100 (19.38%) Developer
3 81 (15.70%) Data Analyst
4 40 (7.75%) Lead
5 39 (7.56%) Architect
6 35 (6.78%) Power BI Developer
7 34 (6.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 33 (6.40%) Business Analyst
9 29 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 29 (5.62%) Senior
10 27 (5.23%) Consultant
11 26 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (3.68%) Power Platform Developer
13 17 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 14 (2.71%) Project Manager
15 13 (2.52%) Power Apps Developer
16 12 (2.33%) Data Architect
17 11 (2.13%) Data Business Analyst
17 11 (2.13%) Technical Analyst
18 9 (1.74%) Business Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.65%) .NET
2 9 (1.74%) HTML
2 9 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
2 9 (1.74%) React
3 8 (1.55%) Kafka
4 7 (1.36%) CSS
4 7 (1.36%) REST
5 6 (1.16%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.16%) JSON
5 6 (1.16%) Web Services
6 5 (0.97%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.97%) ADO
6 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.97%) Middleware
6 5 (0.97%) PySpark
7 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (0.78%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.78%) LDAP
7 4 (0.78%) Pandas
7 4 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.49%) Low-Code
2 17 (3.29%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.74%) IoT
6 8 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.55%) NHS
6 8 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.16%) Life Science
9 5 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.97%) FMCG
9 5 (0.97%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.33%) Windows
2 5 (0.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (69.96%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (24.03%) Analytics
4 120 (23.26%) Agile
5 108 (20.93%) Data Modelling
6 100 (19.38%) Data Analysis
6 100 (19.38%) Visualisation
7 70 (13.57%) DevOps
7 70 (13.57%) Migration
8 66 (12.79%) Data Visualisation
9 64 (12.40%) Decision-Making
10 60 (11.63%) ETL
11 49 (9.50%) Data Governance
12 48 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
14 35 (6.78%) Data Analytics
14 35 (6.78%) Data Management
15 34 (6.59%) Process Improvement
16 33 (6.40%) Project Management
17 31 (6.01%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 212 (41.09%) SQL
2 75 (14.53%) Python
3 38 (7.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (5.43%) C#
4 28 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 28 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.91%) T-SQL
6 13 (2.52%) R
7 11 (2.13%) Java
8 10 (1.94%) Bicep
9 9 (1.74%) VBA
10 7 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.16%) Bash
12 3 (0.58%) C++
12 3 (0.58%) Groovy
12 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.58%) VB
12 3 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (11.43%) Degree
2 38 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.97%) MCSE
8 3 (0.58%) CISM
8 3 (0.58%) CISSP
8 3 (0.58%) ISEB
8 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.49%) PMO
3 17 (3.29%) GDPR
3 17 (3.29%) QA
4 9 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) HL7
8 2 (0.39%) P3O
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.10%) Terraform
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.16%) Grafana
3 6 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.78%) Ansible
4 4 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.78%) SCCM
4 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.39%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.39%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 200 (38.76%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.81%) SAP
3 27 (5.23%) Databricks
4 20 (3.88%) Oracle
5 14 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.52%) Google
7 11 (2.13%) Ariba
8 5 (0.97%) Cognos
9 4 (0.78%) Adobe
9 4 (0.78%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.78%) Informatica
9 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.58%) Qualys
10 3 (0.58%) VMware
10 3 (0.58%) Workday
11 2 (0.39%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.39%) OpenText
11 2 (0.39%) Veeam
11 2 (0.39%) Veritas