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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,418 1,725 2,395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.85% 3.96% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.89% 12.24% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,189 1,706
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £401 £405 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £602
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £490
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.61% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 51
10th Percentile £18.94 £14.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.86 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.97% -58.44% +139.13%
75th Percentile £37.84 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.38 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.24 £21.21 £61.25
% change year-on-year +28.45% -65.38% +182.00%

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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +7 1,210 £485 -3.00% 1,632
London +11 694 £515 -1.90% 725
UK excluding London +1 558 £450 -2.70% 982
Work from Home 0 505 £489 -2.20% 966
North of England +2 138 £450 - 287
South East +5 121 £469 +1.35% 228
Midlands +4 121 £475 +11.76% 185
West Midlands +13 106 £475 +11.76% 120
Scotland -6 79 £425 -11.46% 62
North West -14 75 £475 +5.56% 177
South West -10 56 £450 -10.00% 118
Yorkshire +17 54 £435 -0.57% 78
East of England +30 38 £488 +18.54% 67
Wales +8 15 £275 -42.11% 25
East Midlands -11 14 £488 +14.71% 61
North East +5 13 £455 -31.32% 32
Northern Ireland -18 2 £450 -25.00% 24

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
1 247 (17.42%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.82%) Confluence
3 32 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.20%) Apache
6 13 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.92%) SAS
7 8 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.35%) CMS
10 4 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.071%) JBoss
13 1 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 222 (15.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.92%) InfoPath
7 12 (0.85%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
11 1 (0.071%) SPSS
11 1 (0.071%) Stata
Business Applications
1 92 (6.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.28%) Endur
6 4 (0.28%) Maximo
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.14%) FastStats
8 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.14%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.071%) FastStats PeopleStage
9 1 (0.071%) iTrent
9 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.071%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 555 (39.14%) Azure
2 367 (25.88%) PowerApps
3 305 (21.51%) Power Automate
4 218 (15.37%) Microsoft 365
5 211 (14.88%) Dynamics 365
6 118 (8.32%) AWS
7 105 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (5.36%) Snowflake
10 67 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 58 (4.09%) GCP
12 54 (3.81%) Serverless
13 52 (3.67%) Entra ID
14 50 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 46 (3.24%) Azure Functions
16 38 (2.68%) GitHub
17 32 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (2.26%) SaaS
18 31 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 29 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.06%) Firewall
1 15 (1.06%) Network Security
2 9 (0.63%) VPN
3 8 (0.56%) Internet
4 6 (0.42%) SSH
5 5 (0.35%) Intranet
5 5 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (0.28%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) HTTP
6 4 (0.28%) SSL
7 3 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.21%) FTP
7 3 (0.21%) SMTP
7 3 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.14%) WebEx
9 1 (0.071%) 2G
9 1 (0.071%) 4G
9 1 (0.071%) DHCP
9 1 (0.071%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,057 (74.54%) Power BI
2 209 (14.74%) Tableau
3 172 (12.13%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 80 (5.64%) Data Lake
6 67 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 56 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 55 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 54 (3.81%) Power Query
10 36 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (2.05%) Metadata
12 27 (1.90%) Big Data
12 27 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
13 26 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (1.62%) Looker
14 23 (1.62%) NoSQL
15 22 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
15 22 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (1.48%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 116 (8.18%) JIRA
2 61 (4.30%) Git
3 13 (0.92%) Visual Studio
4 12 (0.85%) ERwin
5 9 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.56%) GitLab
6 8 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.49%) Postman
7 7 (0.49%) RStudio
8 5 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.35%) Selenium
9 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.21%) Hudson
10 3 (0.21%) MLflow
10 3 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 475 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 274 (19.32%) Finance
3 261 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.36%) Marketing
6 64 (4.51%) Banking
7 51 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.75%) Retail
10 27 (1.90%) Local Government
11 22 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.34%) Military
13 19 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.92%) Back Office
16 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.85%) Law
18 10 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 347 (24.47%) Analyst
2 334 (23.55%) Developer
3 166 (11.71%) Data Analyst
4 128 (9.03%) Architect
5 117 (8.25%) Data Engineer
6 116 (8.18%) Senior
7 94 (6.63%) Lead
8 85 (5.99%) Consultant
9 76 (5.36%) Business Analyst
9 76 (5.36%) Power BI Developer
10 74 (5.22%) Power Platform Developer
11 69 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 51 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 39 (2.75%) Data Architect
14 39 (2.75%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 32 (2.26%) Power BI Analyst
16 31 (2.19%) Power Apps Developer
17 30 (2.12%) Azure Engineer
18 28 (1.97%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.78%) .NET
2 67 (4.72%) HTML
3 62 (4.37%) CSS
3 62 (4.37%) REST
4 53 (3.74%) React
5 43 (3.03%) JSON
6 37 (2.61%) SOAP
7 31 (2.19%) HTML5 Canvas
8 30 (2.12%) PySpark
9 25 (1.76%) Plotly
10 22 (1.55%) SPFx
11 21 (1.48%) ASP.NET Web API
11 21 (1.48%) YAML
12 20 (1.41%) .NET Framework
13 17 (1.20%) Kafka
13 17 (1.20%) Web Services
14 16 (1.13%) XML
15 15 (1.06%) ADO
16 13 (0.92%) Middleware
16 13 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.96%) Low-Code
2 37 (2.61%) Onboarding
3 36 (2.54%) Data Structures
4 34 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 26 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 14 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.85%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.78%) NHS
13 10 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.71%) IoT
13 10 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.63%) FMCG
14 9 (0.63%) Life Science
14 9 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.19%) Windows
2 15 (1.06%) Linux
3 10 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 4 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.071%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (61.99%) Business Intelligence
2 334 (23.55%) Analytics
3 324 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
4 322 (22.71%) Visualisation
5 310 (21.86%) Agile
6 295 (20.80%) Data Modelling
7 230 (16.22%) Data Analysis
8 221 (15.59%) Data Visualisation
9 192 (13.54%) DevOps
10 167 (11.78%) ETL
11 165 (11.64%) Decision-Making
12 163 (11.50%) Migration
13 139 (9.80%) Data Governance
14 134 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 122 (8.60%) CRM
16 114 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
17 110 (7.76%) Data Integration
18 95 (6.70%) Data Analytics
19 93 (6.56%) Data Engineering
20 89 (6.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 594 (41.89%) SQL
2 251 (17.70%) Python
3 151 (10.65%) JavaScript
4 116 (8.18%) C#
5 100 (7.05%) PowerShell
6 74 (5.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 43 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.96%) R
9 30 (2.12%) VBA
10 26 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.41%) Java
12 17 (1.20%) Bicep
13 16 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.99%) Scala
15 13 (0.92%) Bash
16 6 (0.42%) VB
17 5 (0.35%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.35%) Groovy
18 4 (0.28%) VBScript
19 3 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 226 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 190 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 169 (11.92%) Degree
4 27 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.56%) PMP
12 7 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.35%) CISM
14 5 (0.35%) CISSP
14 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.28%) CBAP
15 4 (0.28%) ISEB
15 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.16%) GDPR
3 50 (3.53%) QA
4 39 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.54%) PMO
6 14 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.21%) Basel II
11 3 (0.21%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) IFRS
11 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) Basel III
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.14%) P3O
13 1 (0.071%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 44 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.42%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
2 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.071%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (2.47%) Terraform
2 27 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.85%) SCCM
5 9 (0.63%) Grafana
6 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.28%) Ansible
7 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.071%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.071%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.071%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.071%) vRealize
9 1 (0.071%) VxRail
9 1 (0.071%) WSUS
Vendors
1 504 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.17%) Databricks
3 73 (5.15%) SAP
4 61 (4.30%) Oracle
5 47 (3.31%) Google
6 42 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.27%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.27%) Informatica
9 16 (1.13%) Adobe
9 16 (1.13%) Ariba
10 9 (0.63%) Cisco
10 9 (0.63%) Sparx
11 8 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.56%) Workday
12 7 (0.49%) Talend
13 6 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.42%) OutSystems
14 5 (0.35%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.35%) UiPath