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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,384 1,727 2,365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.75% 4.00% 4.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.66% 12.40% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,192 1,687
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £401 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £583 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 34 50
10th Percentile £18.89 £14.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £29.16 £22.86 £50.29
Median % change year-on-year +27.57% -54.54% +118.63%
75th Percentile £34.62 £41.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £49.93 £50.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.24 £21.21 £52.29
% change year-on-year +28.45% -59.44% +133.42%

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 10,930 13,929 21,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.54% 32.30% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,553 9,906 15,594
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £735 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.46% -2.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 342 345
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.81
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.70% +30.58%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 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 +4 1,188 £489 -2.20% 2,294
London +12 693 £513 -2.38% 1,128
UK excluding London -2 531 £450 - 1,537
Work from Home -2 483 £480 -4.00% 1,339
North of England -7 126 £450 - 381
Midlands +2 121 £475 +11.76% 240
South East +6 112 £475 +2.70% 545
West Midlands +8 106 £480 +12.94% 151
Scotland -8 70 £420 -11.58% 76
North West -24 64 £475 +5.56% 226
South West -12 58 £438 -12.50% 144
Yorkshire +5 52 £425 -1.45% 113
East of England +29 38 £488 +18.90% 111
East Midlands -11 14 £475 +11.76% 80
Wales +3 13 £256 -46.05% 42
North East +1 12 £450 -32.08% 48
Northern Ireland -19 3 £550 -8.33% 30

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
1 224 (16.18%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.82%) Confluence
3 28 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.16%) Apache
5 15 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.94%) SAS
7 8 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.36%) CMS
10 4 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.29%) IIS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.072%) JBoss
13 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 222 (16.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.94%) InfoPath
7 12 (0.87%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
11 1 (0.072%) SPSS
11 1 (0.072%) Stata
11 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (6.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.29%) Endur
5 4 (0.29%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.14%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.072%) iTrent
8 1 (0.072%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.072%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 549 (39.67%) Azure
2 336 (24.28%) PowerApps
3 283 (20.45%) Power Automate
4 205 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
5 190 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (8.53%) AWS
7 107 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (5.49%) Snowflake
10 65 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 54 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 54 (3.90%) GCP
12 53 (3.83%) Entra ID
13 52 (3.76%) Serverless
14 43 (3.11%) Azure Functions
15 36 (2.60%) SaaS
16 35 (2.53%) GitHub
17 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
18 31 (2.24%) OneDrive
19 30 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.08%) Network Security
2 14 (1.01%) Firewall
3 9 (0.65%) VPN
4 8 (0.58%) Internet
5 6 (0.43%) SSH
6 5 (0.36%) DNS
6 5 (0.36%) HTTP
6 5 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.29%) Intranet
7 4 (0.29%) SSL
8 3 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.22%) FTP
8 3 (0.22%) SMTP
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.14%) WebEx
10 1 (0.072%) 2G
10 1 (0.072%) 4G
10 1 (0.072%) PBX
10 1 (0.072%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,050 (75.87%) Power BI
2 205 (14.81%) Tableau
3 171 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
4 128 (9.25%) SQL Server
5 79 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 64 (4.62%) Relational Database
7 57 (4.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 55 (3.97%) Power Query
9 53 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 37 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (2.10%) Metadata
12 27 (1.95%) Big Data
13 23 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
14 22 (1.59%) Looker
14 22 (1.59%) NoSQL
14 22 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
15 21 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
15 21 (1.52%) Data Mining
16 20 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 20 (1.45%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 115 (8.31%) JIRA
2 62 (4.48%) Git
3 14 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 12 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.58%) GitLab
6 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.51%) Postman
7 7 (0.51%) RStudio
8 6 (0.43%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.29%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.22%) Hudson
11 3 (0.22%) MLflow
11 3 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 462 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 273 (19.73%) Finance
3 256 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 66 (4.77%) Marketing
6 64 (4.62%) Banking
7 53 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (2.67%) Retail
10 27 (1.95%) Local Government
11 23 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.16%) Military
15 15 (1.08%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.94%) Back Office
16 13 (0.94%) Legal
16 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 340 (24.57%) Analyst
2 312 (22.54%) Developer
3 167 (12.07%) Data Analyst
4 131 (9.47%) Architect
5 116 (8.38%) Data Engineer
6 111 (8.02%) Senior
7 94 (6.79%) Lead
8 82 (5.92%) Consultant
9 77 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 74 (5.35%) Power BI Developer
11 68 (4.91%) Power Platform Developer
12 67 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 51 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.11%) Data Architect
15 40 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 36 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 30 (2.17%) Power Apps Developer
18 29 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (2.10%) Project Manager
19 27 (1.95%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.78%) .NET
2 63 (4.55%) REST
3 50 (3.61%) HTML
4 44 (3.18%) CSS
5 43 (3.11%) JSON
6 41 (2.96%) React
7 35 (2.53%) SOAP
8 31 (2.24%) HTML5 Canvas
8 31 (2.24%) PySpark
9 25 (1.81%) Plotly
10 21 (1.52%) .NET Framework
10 21 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
11 19 (1.37%) YAML
12 18 (1.30%) Kafka
13 17 (1.23%) XML
14 16 (1.16%) Web Services
15 13 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
16 12 (0.87%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.87%) OAuth
17 11 (0.79%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (2.82%) Low-Code
2 38 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 35 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 26 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.16%) Product Ownership
9 15 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 12 (0.87%) IoT
11 12 (0.87%) Reference Data
11 12 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.79%) NHS
12 11 (0.79%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.65%) FMCG
14 9 (0.65%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.10%) Windows
2 15 (1.08%) Linux
3 7 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.29%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.072%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (63.87%) Business Intelligence
2 330 (23.84%) Analytics
3 326 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (22.62%) Visualisation
5 297 (21.46%) Data Modelling
6 296 (21.39%) Agile
7 229 (16.55%) Data Analysis
8 217 (15.68%) Data Visualisation
9 194 (14.02%) DevOps
10 168 (12.14%) ETL
11 164 (11.85%) Decision-Making
11 164 (11.85%) Migration
12 136 (9.83%) Data Governance
13 131 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 111 (8.02%) CRM
14 111 (8.02%) Data Integration
15 110 (7.95%) Actionable Insight
16 96 (6.94%) Data Engineering
17 93 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
18 92 (6.65%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 598 (43.21%) SQL
2 251 (18.14%) Python
3 128 (9.25%) JavaScript
4 114 (8.24%) C#
5 79 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 76 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 43 (3.11%) R
8 30 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 28 (2.02%) VBA
10 27 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.37%) Bicep
11 19 (1.37%) Java
12 14 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.01%) Scala
13 13 (0.94%) Bash
14 7 (0.51%) VB
15 5 (0.36%) Groovy
15 5 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.29%) VBScript
17 3 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 217 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 184 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 164 (11.85%) Degree
4 27 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.65%) PMP
11 6 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.36%) CBAP
12 5 (0.36%) CISM
12 5 (0.36%) CISSP
12 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.29%) ISEB
13 4 (0.29%) MCSE
14 3 (0.22%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 57 (4.12%) GDPR
3 46 (3.32%) QA
4 40 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.02%) PMO
6 11 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.29%) Basel II
9 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.29%) IFRS
9 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.14%) Basel III
11 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.14%) P3O
12 1 (0.072%) HL7
12 1 (0.072%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.072%) UCITS
System Software
1 42 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.43%) Docker
3 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.072%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.072%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 38 (2.75%) Terraform
2 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.65%) SCCM
5 8 (0.58%) Grafana
6 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) Ansible
9 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.072%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.072%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.072%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.072%) vRealize
10 1 (0.072%) VxRail
10 1 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 481 (34.75%) Microsoft
2 136 (9.83%) Databricks
3 70 (5.06%) SAP
4 64 (4.62%) Oracle
5 46 (3.32%) Google
6 42 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.37%) Informatica
9 16 (1.16%) Ariba
10 15 (1.08%) Alteryx
11 13 (0.94%) Adobe
12 9 (0.65%) Cisco
12 9 (0.65%) Sparx
13 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.58%) Workday
14 7 (0.51%) OutSystems
15 6 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
15 6 (0.43%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.43%) Talend
16 5 (0.36%) IBM