Power Platform Architect Contracts

Microsoft Power Platform Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Power Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 556 715
Rank change year-on-year +44 +159 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Power Platform Architect 8 26 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.060% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.064% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 2
10th Percentile £616 £513 £621
25th Percentile £620 £531 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £675 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +1.89% +20.45%
75th Percentile £670 £775 £684
90th Percentile £677 - £694
UK excluding London median daily rate - £760 £663
% change year-on-year - +14.72% +6.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Power Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Power Platform Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform Architect in the UK

Power Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform Architect.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform Architect in the UK

Power Platform Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +40 7 £644 -6.70% 8
London +22 5 £644 -3.92% 8
UK excluding London +62 2 - - 2
Work from Home +31 2 £644 +7.29% 7
Midlands +21 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Power Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Power Platform Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Power Platform Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (87.50%) Power Automate
3 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (62.50%) PowerApps
5 4 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (50.00%) Finance
5 4 (50.00%) Power BI
5 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) MVC
7 1 (12.50%) Workflow
7 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
7 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 1 (12.50%) C#
7 1 (12.50%) HTML
7 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) .NET
7 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (12.50%) CSS
7 1 (12.50%) CRM
7 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
7 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 1 (12.50%) Azure
7 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC

Power Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (87.50%) Power Automate
3 5 (62.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft