Power Platform Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 13 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.47% 3.13% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.50% 9.30% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 21
10th Percentile £166 £344 £219
25th Percentile £186 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £586
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -18.94% +14.16%
75th Percentile £392 £563 -
90th Percentile £405 - £600
UK median daily rate £486 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £23.22 £51.25
% change year-on-year +36.29% -54.70% +92.04%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 113 129 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 38.83% 33.68% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 105 127
10th Percentile £190 £143 £161
25th Percentile £263 £313 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £470
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £480 £531 £600
90th Percentile £588 £583 £663
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +5.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.67
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £19.87
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
South Wales +4 11 £275 -50.00% 44
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) PowerApps
3 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Power BI
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (15.38%) FHIR
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Data Security
4 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) MVC
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) RedGate