Power Platform Contracts

Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 54 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,775 2,950 3,470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.90% 3.78% 3.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.23% 10.06% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 2,106 2,459
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 48 53
10th Percentile £16.06 £15.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.01 £21.29 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +56.39% -10.48%
75th Percentile £49.69 £65.00 £41.82
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.23 £51.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +70.73% -26.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,811 29,338 34,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.78% 37.62% 38.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,382 20,960 25,171
10th Percentile £300 £333 £344
25th Percentile £414 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £748 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 407 502
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.72 £15.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.38 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £39.78 £46.44
90th Percentile £78.00 £68.00 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.20 £18.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +13.07% +1.35% -7.50%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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 +3 1,471 £513 -2.38% 1,251
London +20 825 £550 +4.76% 475
Work from Home +5 744 £500 -3.80% 680
UK excluding London +1 699 £475 -5.00% 854
North of England +10 170 £425 -15.08% 256
South East -13 147 £500 -4.76% 191
Midlands +8 127 £475 -5.00% 160
North West +20 111 £425 -10.53% 136
West Midlands +14 111 £488 -2.50% 112
Scotland +26 92 £480 +6.67% 73
South West -12 88 £500 - 81
Yorkshire -23 49 £450 -16.67% 78
East of England -1 48 £450 -10.00% 73
Wales +16 27 £400 -8.57% 24
East Midlands +1 15 £400 -15.79% 47
North East +36 11 £325 -36.59% 44
Northern Ireland +5 5 £225 -47.06% 7

Power Platform
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
1 232 (13.07%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.54%) Confluence
3 30 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.79%) IIS
5 12 (0.68%) Apache
5 12 (0.68%) SAS
6 11 (0.62%) CMS
7 9 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
9 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.17%) Luigi
10 3 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.11%) Mendix
11 2 (0.11%) MTS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 268 (15.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.79%) Trello
8 6 (0.34%) UXPin
9 5 (0.28%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.17%) SPSS
10 3 (0.17%) Stata
11 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.056%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.056%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 146 (8.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (2.31%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 9 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.23%) Endur
7 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
8 3 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.17%) SAP PLM
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 704 (39.66%) Azure
2 349 (19.66%) PowerApps
3 279 (15.72%) Dynamics 365
4 235 (13.24%) Power Automate
5 215 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
6 154 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 131 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (6.08%) AWS
9 92 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (3.55%) Serverless
11 51 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 51 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 50 (2.82%) GCP
13 49 (2.76%) Entra ID
14 45 (2.54%) OneDrive
14 45 (2.54%) SaaS
15 33 (1.86%) GitHub
15 33 (1.86%) PaaS
16 32 (1.80%) Azure Functions
17 26 (1.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.69%) DNS
2 22 (1.24%) DHCP
3 18 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (0.68%) Firewall
4 12 (0.68%) Network Security
5 8 (0.45%) Intranet
6 7 (0.39%) Wireless
7 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.34%) VPN
7 6 (0.34%) WebEx
7 6 (0.34%) Wireless Security
8 5 (0.28%) SAN
9 4 (0.23%) Internet
9 4 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.23%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.17%) LAN
10 3 (0.17%) Skype
10 3 (0.17%) SNMP
10 3 (0.17%) WAN
11 2 (0.11%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,473 (82.99%) Power BI
2 255 (14.37%) Data Warehouse
3 249 (14.03%) Tableau
4 205 (11.55%) SQL Server
5 124 (6.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 115 (6.48%) Data Lake
7 89 (5.01%) Power Query
8 85 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 80 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 50 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 45 (2.54%) Big Data
12 38 (2.14%) BusinessObjects
13 36 (2.03%) Relational Database
14 31 (1.75%) Metadata
14 31 (1.75%) NoSQL
15 25 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
17 23 (1.30%) Star Schema
18 19 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 18 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 117 (6.59%) JIRA
2 54 (3.04%) Git
3 30 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.79%) ERwin
5 13 (0.73%) GitLab
5 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 11 (0.62%) Selenium
7 10 (0.56%) SpecFlow
8 9 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
9 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) RStudio
12 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.17%) MorphX
12 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 448 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 361 (20.34%) Finance
3 338 (19.04%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.42%) Marketing
6 80 (4.51%) Banking
7 61 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 32 (1.80%) Local Government
13 27 (1.52%) Retail
14 25 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.41%) Legal
14 25 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.13%) Law
16 19 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.68%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 445 (25.07%) Analyst
2 395 (22.25%) Developer
3 215 (12.11%) Data Analyst
4 158 (8.90%) Data Engineer
5 155 (8.73%) Architect
6 142 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 135 (7.61%) Power BI Developer
8 128 (7.21%) Business Analyst
9 124 (6.99%) Senior
10 103 (5.80%) Lead
11 93 (5.24%) Consultant
12 68 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 66 (3.72%) Power BI Analyst
14 64 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
15 59 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (2.70%) Project Manager
17 45 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
18 44 (2.48%) Data Architect
19 42 (2.37%) Administrator
20 41 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (6.70%) .NET
2 63 (3.55%) HTML
3 49 (2.76%) JSON
4 46 (2.59%) CSS
5 43 (2.42%) REST
6 37 (2.08%) .NET Framework
7 36 (2.03%) PySpark
8 30 (1.69%) XML
9 24 (1.35%) MDX
9 24 (1.35%) Web Services
10 21 (1.18%) Kafka
11 17 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (0.85%) React
13 13 (0.73%) Middleware
13 13 (0.73%) Pandas
14 12 (0.68%) D3.js
14 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
14 12 (0.68%) SPFx
15 11 (0.62%) Node.js
15 11 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 59 (3.32%) Product Ownership
2 58 (3.27%) Management Information System
3 45 (2.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (1.41%) PKI
7 21 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.01%) NHS
9 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (0.96%) FMCG
10 16 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 15 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
12 14 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.68%) Client/Server
13 12 (0.68%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.62%) Life Science
14 11 (0.62%) Market Risk
15 10 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.07%) Windows
2 29 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.52%) Linux
4 22 (1.24%) Unix
5 20 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.90%) Android
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.056%) AIX
12 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Solaris
12 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (67.27%) Business Intelligence
2 435 (24.51%) Analytics
3 365 (20.56%) Agile
4 354 (19.94%) Visualisation
5 317 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 298 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (13.41%) Data Analysis
8 231 (13.01%) Data Visualisation
9 228 (12.85%) ETL
10 217 (12.23%) DevOps
11 185 (10.42%) Migration
12 169 (9.52%) CRM
13 163 (9.18%) Project Management
14 161 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 147 (8.28%) Decision-Making
16 111 (6.25%) Data Integration
17 109 (6.14%) Data Analytics
17 109 (6.14%) Data Governance
17 109 (6.14%) Data Management
18 102 (5.75%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 730 (41.13%) SQL
2 272 (15.32%) Python
3 138 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 136 (7.66%) C#
5 130 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 104 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 72 (4.06%) R
7 72 (4.06%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.59%) Java
9 33 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.46%) VBA
11 24 (1.35%) Scala
12 14 (0.79%) Bash
13 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.51%) X++
15 8 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.39%) Perl
17 6 (0.34%) Korn
17 6 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 236 (13.30%) Degree
2 128 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 105 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 50 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.79%) PMP
11 11 (0.62%) CISM
11 11 (0.62%) CISSP
12 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.23%) IIBA
14 4 (0.23%) MCT
14 4 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.17%) CIMA
15 3 (0.17%) MCSE
15 3 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 57 (3.21%) QA
3 44 (2.48%) PMO
4 26 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.85%) GDPR
6 14 (0.79%) SLA
7 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.45%) GxP
10 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.28%) ISAE 3402
12 3 (0.17%) NIST
13 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.11%) NCSC
14 1 (0.056%) MiFID
System Software
1 95 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (1.18%) Docker
4 20 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
6 11 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) XenApp
8 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (1.97%) SCCM
3 20 (1.13%) Terraform
4 18 (1.01%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.68%) SCOrch
6 7 (0.39%) Ansible
7 6 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) SCOM
8 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.17%) Cacti
9 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) MOM
10 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.056%) Control-M
11 1 (0.056%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.056%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.056%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.056%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.056%) WSUS
Vendors
1 649 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 145 (8.17%) Databricks
3 116 (6.54%) SAP
4 101 (5.69%) Oracle
5 65 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.44%) Google
7 38 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.69%) Informatica
9 20 (1.13%) Citrix
10 19 (1.07%) Alteryx
11 18 (1.01%) Adobe
12 16 (0.90%) Apple
13 15 (0.85%) Cisco
14 13 (0.73%) Blue Prism
14 13 (0.73%) Nexthink
14 13 (0.73%) UiPath
15 12 (0.68%) VMware
16 11 (0.62%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.56%) Cognos
17 10 (0.56%) Sparx