Power Platform Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 30 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 104 98 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.73% 5.03% 5.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.96% 20.90% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 73 84
10th Percentile £368 £240 £343
25th Percentile £400 £350 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £620 £669
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £15.97 - £24.06
25th Percentile £17.01 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.74 - £24.63
75th Percentile £39.68 - £25.41
90th Percentile £52.25 - £25.69
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +3 34 £475 +11.76% 62
Warwickshire +8 27 £525 +16.67% 26
Shropshire +12 19 £454 +287.76% 16
Coventry +12 8 £470 -18.26% 17
Wolverhampton -1 2 £348 - 6
Staffordshire -3 2 - - 45
Solihull +18 1 £575 - 5
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 20 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.85%) InfoPath
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.23%) PowerApps
2 40 (38.46%) Azure
3 27 (25.96%) Power Automate
4 23 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (14.42%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.73%) AWS
7 5 (4.81%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.81%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.85%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (3.85%) GCP
8 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) VPN
1 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (62.50%) Power BI
2 9 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.81%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.88%) Power Query
7 2 (1.92%) Metadata
7 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.92%) Tableau
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.96%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.96%) MySQL
8 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (50.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Finance
4 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.77%) Law
7 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.85%) Local Government
8 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Games
10 1 (0.96%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Developer
2 19 (18.27%) Lead
3 16 (15.38%) Analyst
4 15 (14.42%) Architect
5 12 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Technical Leader
7 7 (6.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Consultant
8 6 (5.77%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) PMO Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Power Apps Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.85%) Junior
10 4 (3.85%) Junior Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Junior Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) CSS
2 7 (6.73%) HTML
2 7 (6.73%) React
3 6 (5.77%) .NET
4 5 (4.81%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (3.85%) Entity Framework
5 4 (3.85%) LDAP
5 4 (3.85%) Middleware
6 3 (2.88%) SPFx
7 1 (0.96%) ADO
7 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.96%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.81%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.96%) Data Modelling
4 24 (23.08%) DevOps
5 23 (22.12%) Agile
6 22 (21.15%) Migration
7 15 (14.42%) Visualisation
8 13 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 13 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 13 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 13 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 13 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 12 (11.54%) Configuration Management
9 12 (11.54%) OO
10 11 (10.58%) Analytics
10 11 (10.58%) Workflow
11 10 (9.62%) Data Visualisation
12 8 (7.69%) Data Governance
12 8 (7.69%) Data Integration
12 8 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.19%) SQL
2 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.73%) C#
3 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.73%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.88%) VB
6 2 (1.92%) R
6 2 (1.92%) VBA
7 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.73%) Degree
2 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) MCSE
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.96%) CEH
5 1 (0.96%) CISM
5 1 (0.96%) CISSP
5 1 (0.96%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) PMO
2 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (6.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.65%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.77%) SAP
4 5 (4.81%) Databricks
5 4 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.85%) Oracle
6 2 (1.92%) Apple
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco
6 2 (1.92%) UiPath
7 1 (0.96%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) QAD