Power Platform Contracts

Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 56 62
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,656 1,832 2,980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 3.81% 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.64% 10.74% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,299 2,151
10th Percentile £313 £315 £363
25th Percentile £410 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 48 31
10th Percentile £20.30 £18.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.26 £21.33 £18.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.16 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +52.87% -9.80%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.14 £68.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,098 17,060 31,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.56% 35.52% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,675 12,266 22,686
10th Percentile £313 £300 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 336 352
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.77 £13.41
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.19 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +46.67% +5.16%
75th Percentile £65.68 £65.00 £51.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.93 £23.43 £19.71
% change year-on-year +44.85% +18.85% +3.74%

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 10 October 2024.

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 10 October 2024.

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 10 October 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
England +17 1,453 £500 - 970
London +12 768 £525 - 337
UK excluding London +19 725 £475 - 653
Work from Home +8 566 £500 - 537
North of England +13 185 £475 +5.56% 193
South East +24 159 £500 -3.61% 146
Midlands +5 138 £450 -10.00% 116
South West +43 123 £500 +5.26% 72
North West +3 112 £464 +9.12% 99
West Midlands 0 111 £450 -10.00% 84
Scotland +20 73 £461 +2.50% 38
Yorkshire +32 71 £501 +0.10% 67
East of England +7 46 £420 -6.67% 59
East Midlands +14 26 £405 +8.00% 33
Wales -2 16 £450 -2.70% 15
Northern Ireland -5 5 - - 21
North East -18 4 £450 +11.11% 28

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
1 260 (15.70%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.29%) Confluence
4 35 (2.11%) Apache
5 29 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.85%) Umbraco
7 12 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.66%) SAS
9 6 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.30%) Mendix
11 4 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
13 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.12%) WordPress
14 1 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.060%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.060%) SugarCRM
14 1 (0.060%) TWiki
Applications
1 202 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.12%) SPSS
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 117 (7.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.42%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.30%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.18%) Endur
6 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Academy Housing
7 2 (0.12%) Aligne
7 2 (0.12%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 2 (0.12%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.12%) Maximo
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 632 (38.16%) Azure
2 379 (22.89%) PowerApps
3 312 (18.84%) Power Automate
4 253 (15.28%) Dynamics 365
5 225 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (7.43%) AWS
6 123 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 79 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 71 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 70 (4.23%) Snowflake
11 68 (4.11%) Serverless
12 58 (3.50%) Azure Functions
13 53 (3.20%) Entra ID
14 48 (2.90%) GitHub
15 46 (2.78%) dbt
16 40 (2.42%) GCP
17 38 (2.29%) OneDrive
17 38 (2.29%) SaaS
18 31 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.09%) Firewall
2 17 (1.03%) Intranet
3 9 (0.54%) Network Security
4 8 (0.48%) DNS
5 6 (0.36%) Internet
5 6 (0.36%) SSL
6 4 (0.24%) SNMP
7 3 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.18%) VPN
8 2 (0.12%) DHCP
8 2 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.12%) Wireless
9 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,309 (79.05%) Power BI
2 252 (15.22%) Tableau
3 191 (11.53%) SQL Server
4 189 (11.41%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (7.43%) Data Lake
6 92 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 86 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 71 (4.29%) Power Query
9 70 (4.23%) Big Data
10 64 (3.86%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 50 (3.02%) Qlik Sense
13 34 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 34 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (1.99%) Tableau Server
15 32 (1.93%) BusinessObjects
16 31 (1.87%) MySQL
17 30 (1.81%) Metadata
18 27 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
19 24 (1.45%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 78 (4.71%) JIRA
2 30 (1.81%) Git
3 27 (1.63%) Visual Studio
4 20 (1.21%) GitLab
5 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.36%) Postman
8 5 (0.30%) ERwin
8 5 (0.30%) tSQLt
9 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.18%) Hudson
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.12%) kappa
11 2 (0.12%) Poetry
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
11 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.12%) Subversion
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 455 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 378 (22.83%) Finance
3 348 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.00%) Banking
6 65 (3.93%) Marketing
7 37 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (1.87%) Front Office
9 28 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (1.63%) Legal
10 27 (1.63%) Retail
11 26 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.39%) Local Government
13 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.15%) Law
14 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 470 (28.38%) Developer
2 408 (24.64%) Analyst
3 186 (11.23%) Data Analyst
4 155 (9.36%) Architect
5 148 (8.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 124 (7.49%) Senior
7 119 (7.19%) Power BI Developer
8 112 (6.76%) Data Engineer
9 106 (6.40%) Lead
10 103 (6.22%) Power Platform Developer
11 95 (5.74%) Consultant
12 87 (5.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 76 (4.59%) Business Analyst
14 71 (4.29%) Power Apps Developer
15 60 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (3.56%) Power BI Analyst
17 53 (3.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 52 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
19 46 (2.78%) Applications Developer
20 44 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.94%) .NET
2 82 (4.95%) HTML
3 81 (4.89%) CSS
4 44 (2.66%) REST
4 44 (2.66%) XML
5 42 (2.54%) .NET Framework
6 40 (2.42%) JSON
7 30 (1.81%) PySpark
8 29 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 29 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
9 28 (1.69%) Web Services
10 26 (1.57%) SPFx
11 24 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
12 23 (1.39%) ADO
13 21 (1.27%) React
14 17 (1.03%) ASP.NET
14 17 (1.03%) WCF
15 14 (0.85%) Entity Framework
15 14 (0.85%) jQuery
16 13 (0.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.74%) Product Ownership
2 61 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 34 (2.05%) Data Structures
4 32 (1.93%) Low-Code
5 29 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (1.39%) Hedge funds
7 21 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (1.15%) Derivative
8 19 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.09%) Equities
9 18 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 18 (1.09%) NHS
10 17 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.03%) PKI
11 16 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 15 (0.91%) CMDB
12 15 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 14 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.32%) Windows
2 17 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 11 (0.66%) Unix
4 10 (0.60%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.42%) VMS
6 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.060%) Android
9 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (66.85%) Business Intelligence
2 363 (21.92%) Agile
3 360 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 342 (20.65%) Analytics
5 320 (19.32%) Visualisation
6 253 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (13.47%) DevOps
8 222 (13.41%) Data Visualisation
9 219 (13.22%) Data Analysis
10 196 (11.84%) ETL
11 160 (9.66%) Decision-Making
12 154 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 143 (8.64%) Migration
14 140 (8.45%) CRM
15 133 (8.03%) Data Governance
16 122 (7.37%) Scrum
17 119 (7.19%) Project Management
18 117 (7.07%) Data Integration
19 112 (6.76%) Data Management
20 91 (5.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 667 (40.28%) SQL
2 300 (18.12%) Python
3 152 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 132 (7.97%) C#
5 102 (6.16%) PowerShell
6 98 (5.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (4.59%) T-SQL
8 57 (3.44%) R
9 30 (1.81%) PL/SQL
10 28 (1.69%) Java
11 22 (1.33%) VBA
12 12 (0.72%) Scala
13 11 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 10 (0.60%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.30%) Bash
16 4 (0.24%) Bicep
16 4 (0.24%) X++
17 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.12%) PyPy
Qualifications
1 243 (14.67%) Degree
2 175 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 129 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.05%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.81%) PMP
9 21 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.60%) MCSE
11 10 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Architect
14 4 (0.24%) ACCA
14 4 (0.24%) CIMA
15 3 (0.18%) CISSP
15 3 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.88%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.29%) GDPR
3 37 (2.23%) QA
4 36 (2.17%) PMO
5 24 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.79%) GxP
7 10 (0.60%) SLA
8 7 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.42%) MiFID
8 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.30%) HL7
10 4 (0.24%) GRC
10 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.18%) COBIT
11 3 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.12%) NIST
12 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.42%) Docker
6 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.12%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.060%) HDFS
8 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.21%) Terraform
3 12 (0.72%) SCCM
4 11 (0.66%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.12%) Ansible
7 2 (0.12%) Matomo
7 2 (0.12%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.12%) SCSM
8 1 (0.060%) CASB
8 1 (0.060%) Grafana
8 1 (0.060%) Nagios
8 1 (0.060%) Nessus
8 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.060%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.060%) SCOM
Vendors
1 623 (37.62%) Microsoft
2 100 (6.04%) Databricks
3 82 (4.95%) Oracle
4 71 (4.29%) SAP
5 67 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 38 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.23%) Google
8 21 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 13 (0.79%) Splunk
10 12 (0.72%) Adobe
10 12 (0.72%) Cloudera
10 12 (0.72%) Informatica
11 10 (0.60%) Cognos
11 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (0.54%) IBM
12 9 (0.54%) NEC
13 8 (0.48%) Ariba
13 8 (0.48%) Confluent
14 7 (0.42%) UiPath
14 7 (0.42%) Workday