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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 56 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,709 2,392 3,311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 4.00% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.22% 10.85% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,704 2,376
10th Percentile £313 £338 £350
25th Percentile £405 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 52 44
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £32.30 £16.94
Median hourly rate £22.86 £53.75 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -57.47% +139.42% +5.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £65.75 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.21 £57.50 £21.11
% change year-on-year -63.12% +172.38% +9.66%

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 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +6 1,423 £500 - 1,072
UK excluding London +3 758 £463 -5.13% 662
London +18 739 £525 - 442
Work from Home +14 731 £500 - 538
South East +11 172 £463 -6.57% 133
North of England -7 169 £450 -10.00% 185
Midlands +14 135 £425 -10.53% 148
South West -5 120 £500 - 73
North West -9 111 £450 -5.26% 105
Scotland +48 110 £480 -0.26% 46
West Midlands +13 96 £425 -10.99% 97
Yorkshire -6 50 £438 -12.50% 52
East of England -25 41 £411 -8.61% 52
East Midlands +24 37 £425 +30.77% 50
Northern Ireland +10 12 £600 +41.18% 12
Wales -1 12 £475 -17.25% 27
North East +14 8 £663 +29.27% 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
1 212 (12.40%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.28%) Confluence
3 39 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.29%) SAS
5 21 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.94%) Apache
7 12 (0.70%) MTS
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.12%) IIS
9 2 (0.12%) Jadu
9 2 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.059%) JBoss
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 198 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.93%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) InVision
7 4 (0.23%) Sketch
8 3 (0.18%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) SPSS
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
10 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 107 (6.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
3 25 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.70%) Endur
5 12 (0.70%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.64%) Aligne
7 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.29%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 3 (0.18%) Primavera
11 3 (0.18%) Shopify
12 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
12 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 675 (39.50%) Azure
2 334 (19.54%) PowerApps
3 317 (18.55%) Power Automate
4 242 (14.16%) Dynamics 365
5 208 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (7.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 111 (6.50%) AWS
9 69 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 69 (4.04%) Snowflake
10 62 (3.63%) Serverless
11 52 (3.04%) Azure Functions
12 50 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 49 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (2.63%) GCP
15 37 (2.17%) GitHub
16 33 (1.93%) OneDrive
17 27 (1.58%) OCI
18 25 (1.46%) Google Analytics
19 21 (1.23%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.40%) Firewall
2 9 (0.53%) DNS
3 8 (0.47%) Intranet
4 6 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.35%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.23%) 3GPP
5 4 (0.23%) 4G
5 4 (0.23%) 5G
5 4 (0.23%) 5G NR
5 4 (0.23%) DHCP
5 4 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.23%) MegaStream
5 4 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (0.23%) VPN
6 3 (0.18%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Skype
6 3 (0.18%) SNMP
6 3 (0.18%) SSL
7 2 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,376 (80.51%) Power BI
2 222 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (11.88%) SQL Server
3 203 (11.88%) Tableau
4 143 (8.37%) Data Lake
5 114 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 80 (4.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (3.22%) Power Query
9 49 (2.87%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 45 (2.63%) Big Data
12 40 (2.34%) Metadata
13 37 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
14 36 (2.11%) NoSQL
15 33 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (1.64%) QlikView
17 24 (1.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 22 (1.29%) BigQuery
18 22 (1.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 104 (6.09%) JIRA
2 22 (1.29%) ERwin
3 21 (1.23%) Git
3 21 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 20 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 17 (0.99%) ER Studio
6 15 (0.88%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.41%) Postman
7 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.35%) PyCharm
9 5 (0.29%) Hudson
10 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.18%) RStudio
11 3 (0.18%) Selenium
12 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 476 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 419 (24.52%) Finance
3 351 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.56%) Marketing
6 82 (4.80%) Retail
7 78 (4.56%) Banking
8 57 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 45 (2.63%) Legal
11 38 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 30 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.76%) Local Government
15 29 (1.70%) General Ledger
16 18 (1.05%) Billing
16 18 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.05%) Electronics
17 17 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 399 (23.35%) Analyst
2 368 (21.53%) Developer
3 212 (12.40%) Architect
4 192 (11.23%) Data Analyst
5 146 (8.54%) Consultant
6 144 (8.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 124 (7.26%) Senior
8 121 (7.08%) Data Engineer
8 121 (7.08%) Power BI Developer
9 98 (5.73%) Lead
10 88 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (5.03%) Business Analyst
12 71 (4.15%) Data Architect
13 69 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 60 (3.51%) Power Platform Developer
15 59 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
16 56 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
17 54 (3.16%) Power BI Analyst
18 52 (3.04%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 41 (2.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (4.56%) .NET
2 45 (2.63%) JSON
3 44 (2.57%) XML
4 41 (2.40%) CSS
5 38 (2.22%) HTML
5 38 (2.22%) PySpark
6 29 (1.70%) REST
7 23 (1.35%) Web Services
8 20 (1.17%) .NET Framework
8 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (1.11%) SPFx
10 17 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.76%) jQuery
12 12 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (0.53%) ADO
13 9 (0.53%) Node.js
13 9 (0.53%) React
13 9 (0.53%) SOAP
14 8 (0.47%) RESTful
14 8 (0.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 50 (2.93%) Product Ownership
3 45 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.40%) NHS
5 22 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 20 (1.17%) Market Risk
7 20 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (0.94%) Reference Data
9 13 (0.76%) Life Science
9 13 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 11 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 11 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
12 10 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.98%) Windows
2 20 (1.17%) Linux
3 17 (0.99%) Unix
4 16 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) VMS
6 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (69.16%) Business Intelligence
2 346 (20.25%) Analytics
3 344 (20.13%) Agile
4 308 (18.02%) Data Modelling
5 307 (17.96%) Visualisation
6 250 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (14.22%) ETL
8 232 (13.58%) DevOps
9 229 (13.40%) Data Analysis
10 198 (11.59%) Data Visualisation
11 183 (10.71%) Migration
12 141 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 139 (8.13%) CRM
14 117 (6.85%) Data Management
15 116 (6.79%) Data Governance
15 116 (6.79%) Decision-Making
16 108 (6.32%) Data Analytics
17 107 (6.26%) Project Management
18 90 (5.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 89 (5.21%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 595 (34.82%) SQL
2 255 (14.92%) Python
3 122 (7.14%) C#
4 110 (6.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 99 (5.79%) PowerShell
6 96 (5.62%) JavaScript
7 74 (4.33%) T-SQL
8 45 (2.63%) Java
8 45 (2.63%) R
9 21 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 21 (1.23%) Scala
10 16 (0.94%) VBA
11 14 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.70%) VB
13 10 (0.59%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.47%) X++
15 7 (0.41%) PHP
15 7 (0.41%) XPath
15 7 (0.41%) XQuery
16 6 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 181 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 157 (9.19%) Degree
3 152 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 32 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 16 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.47%) Postgraduate
12 7 (0.41%) MCSE
13 6 (0.35%) CIMA
13 6 (0.35%) CISM
13 6 (0.35%) CISSP
13 6 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ACCA
14 3 (0.18%) MBA
14 3 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.92%) QA
3 36 (2.11%) SLA
4 34 (1.99%) PMO
5 28 (1.64%) GDPR
6 19 (1.11%) GxP
7 15 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.41%) CDISC
10 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.29%) GAMP
12 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.059%) GRC
15 1 (0.059%) IFRS
15 1 (0.059%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 64 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.47%) Docker
4 6 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.059%) HDFS
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (1.11%) Terraform
3 10 (0.59%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.47%) SCCM
5 5 (0.29%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.23%) Ansible
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
7 3 (0.18%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.12%) SCOM
9 1 (0.059%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.059%) CASB
9 1 (0.059%) Grafana
9 1 (0.059%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.059%) logstash
9 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.059%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.059%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.059%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 677 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.78%) Databricks
3 115 (6.73%) Oracle
4 91 (5.32%) SAP
5 46 (2.69%) Google
6 43 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.22%) Informatica
8 37 (2.17%) Alteryx
9 26 (1.52%) Sparx
10 23 (1.35%) Adobe
11 18 (1.05%) Remedy
12 15 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.76%) UiPath
14 12 (0.70%) Blue Prism
14 12 (0.70%) CA
14 12 (0.70%) Cadence
15 11 (0.64%) Citrix
15 11 (0.64%) Talend
16 10 (0.59%) Splunk