Power Platform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 54 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 779 948 1,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 4.07% 3.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.80% 12.25% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 670 863
10th Percentile £300 £275 £306
25th Percentile £375 £388 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £565
90th Percentile £628 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 36
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.03 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £26.12 £16.94
Median hourly rate £21.21 £46.54 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -54.43% +107.75% +14.87%
75th Percentile £37.19 £65.00 £34.06
90th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £46.54 £23.25
% change year-on-year -50.11% +100.15% +8.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,263 7,736 9,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.22% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,709 7,291
10th Percentile £213 £250 £210
25th Percentile £370 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 226 292
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%
75th Percentile £26.75 £63.56 £31.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.06
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 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
North of England +2 182 £450 -5.26% 191
South East +9 173 £463 -6.57% 180
Midlands +16 141 £425 -11.46% 164
South West -5 125 £500 - 94
North West -3 118 £451 -3.73% 121
Scotland +43 105 £480 +1.05% 30
West Midlands +13 103 £425 -11.46% 111
Yorkshire +11 56 £438 -12.50% 52
East of England -15 42 £410 +2.50% 68
East Midlands +22 37 £425 +9.68% 52
Northern Ireland +8 12 £600 +37.14% 9
Wales +5 12 £475 -18.52% 21
North East +6 8 £663 +29.27% 18
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 84 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.59%) Confluence
3 19 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.54%) SAS
5 7 (0.90%) Apache
6 5 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.26%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Jadu
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 107 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.26%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 33 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.64%) Aareon QL
5 4 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.51%) Maximo
5 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.13%) Relativity
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 278 (35.69%) Azure
2 136 (17.46%) PowerApps
3 135 (17.33%) Power Automate
4 100 (12.84%) Dynamics 365
5 81 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (9.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (4.36%) AWS
9 31 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (3.59%) Snowflake
11 26 (3.34%) Serverless
12 24 (3.08%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (2.57%) Entra ID
15 19 (2.44%) GCP
15 19 (2.44%) OneDrive
16 14 (1.80%) Collibra
17 12 (1.54%) OCI
18 10 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 10 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.93%) Firewall
2 6 (0.77%) Unified Communications
3 5 (0.64%) Intranet
3 5 (0.64%) SSL
4 4 (0.51%) MegaStream
5 3 (0.39%) Skype
6 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.26%) XCAP
7 1 (0.13%) DNS
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) VLAN
7 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (79.20%) Power BI
2 91 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (10.01%) SQL Server
4 73 (9.37%) Tableau
5 59 (7.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 55 (7.06%) Data Lake
7 45 (5.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 32 (4.11%) Relational Database
9 29 (3.72%) Power Query
9 29 (3.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 24 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 18 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
13 15 (1.93%) MySQL
14 14 (1.80%) Big Data
14 14 (1.80%) Data Mining
15 12 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
16 11 (1.41%) Metadata
17 9 (1.16%) GIS
17 9 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 49 (6.29%) JIRA
2 12 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (1.54%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.77%) Eclipse
3 6 (0.77%) PyCharm
4 5 (0.64%) Git
4 5 (0.64%) Hudson
5 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.39%) GitLab
5 3 (0.39%) Postman
6 2 (0.26%) JUnit
6 2 (0.26%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Gradle
7 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.13%) Maven
7 1 (0.13%) NUnit
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 209 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 171 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 153 (19.64%) Finance
4 81 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.36%) Retail
6 33 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.85%) Marketing
8 28 (3.59%) Legal
9 22 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 21 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.05%) Local Government
12 13 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.16%) Banking
13 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.16%) Law
14 8 (1.03%) Billing
14 8 (1.03%) Electronics
15 7 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (24.39%) Developer
2 188 (24.13%) Analyst
3 99 (12.71%) Data Analyst
4 81 (10.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 71 (9.11%) Senior
6 69 (8.86%) Power BI Developer
7 65 (8.34%) Architect
8 60 (7.70%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.93%) Consultant
10 51 (6.55%) Lead
11 38 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 37 (4.75%) Power Platform Developer
12 37 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (3.59%) Business Analyst
15 24 (3.08%) Power BI Analyst
16 22 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 20 (2.57%) Applications Developer
17 20 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
18 18 (2.31%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.72%) .NET
2 23 (2.95%) CSS
3 20 (2.57%) HTML
4 17 (2.18%) XML
5 15 (1.93%) REST
6 12 (1.54%) SPFx
7 9 (1.16%) ADO
7 9 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.03%) Web Services
9 7 (0.90%) PySpark
10 5 (0.64%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.64%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.64%) Entity Framework
10 5 (0.64%) JSON
10 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.64%) Pandas
10 5 (0.64%) SOAP
11 4 (0.51%) jQuery
11 4 (0.51%) XSLT
12 3 (0.39%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.24%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.18%) Data Structures
4 11 (1.41%) NHS
4 11 (1.41%) PKI
4 11 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.28%) Life Science
6 9 (1.16%) CMDB
6 9 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.90%) Housing Association
9 6 (0.77%) Digital Signage
9 6 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.77%) Smart Meter
10 5 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.64%) Market Risk
10 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.11%) Windows
2 14 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.54%) Unix
4 11 (1.41%) Linux
5 7 (0.90%) VMS
6 6 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (69.06%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (18.74%) Analytics
3 136 (17.46%) Agile
4 130 (16.69%) Visualisation
5 108 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (13.61%) ETL
7 101 (12.97%) Data Modelling
8 98 (12.58%) Data Analysis
9 79 (10.14%) Migration
10 76 (9.76%) Data Visualisation
11 75 (9.63%) DevOps
11 75 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (7.19%) Project Management
13 48 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (5.91%) CRM
15 45 (5.78%) Data Analytics
15 45 (5.78%) Data Management
15 45 (5.78%) ITIL
16 44 (5.65%) Decision-Making
17 36 (4.62%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 279 (35.82%) SQL
2 93 (11.94%) Python
3 49 (6.29%) C#
4 46 (5.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.13%) T-SQL
7 32 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.18%) Java
9 7 (0.90%) Scala
9 7 (0.90%) X++
10 6 (0.77%) Groovy
10 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.77%) VBA
11 4 (0.51%) C
11 4 (0.51%) VB
12 2 (0.26%) PHP
12 2 (0.26%) R
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 79 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.22%) Degree
4 17 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.16%) MCSE
9 8 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.64%) CISM
11 5 (0.64%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) PMP
12 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.39%) HNC
13 3 (0.39%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) ACCA
14 1 (0.13%) CIMA
14 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.88%) QA
3 21 (2.70%) PMO
4 19 (2.44%) GDPR
5 15 (1.93%) GxP
6 12 (1.54%) SLA
7 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.64%) GAMP
10 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.39%) Docker
5 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.90%) SCCM
4 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.64%) SysTrack
5 3 (0.39%) Terraform
6 2 (0.26%) Ansible
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 285 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.78%) Oracle
3 44 (5.65%) Databricks
4 43 (5.52%) SAP
5 22 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.18%) Remedy
8 16 (2.05%) Google
9 13 (1.67%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.67%) Informatica
10 12 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.28%) CA
12 7 (0.90%) Ab Initio
12 7 (0.90%) Citrix
12 7 (0.90%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.90%) Trillium
13 5 (0.64%) Aareon
13 5 (0.64%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.64%) New Relic
13 5 (0.64%) OpenAI