Power Platform Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 39 39 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 502 738 1,089
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.07% 4.81% 4.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.74% 13.28% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 475 818
10th Percentile £312 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £602
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
10th Percentile £23.50 - £20.93
25th Percentile - £16.50 £29.19
Median hourly rate £32.05 £21.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.14% -46.99% +58.48%
75th Percentile £34.68 £24.43 £50.00
90th Percentile £50.25 £35.50 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £29.16 £22.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.60% -59.09% +139.13%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Power Platform
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power Platform trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Platform.

Power Platform daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Power Platform daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Platform.

Power Platform hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Power Platform hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 87 (17.33%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.59%) Confluence
3 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.20%) SAS
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
Applications
1 69 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.20%) Revit
7 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (6.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.40%) Maximo
3 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 226 (45.02%) Azure
2 127 (25.30%) PowerApps
3 109 (21.71%) Power Automate
4 85 (16.93%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (13.55%) AWS
7 47 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (7.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 32 (6.37%) Snowflake
10 31 (6.18%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (5.38%) GCP
12 24 (4.78%) Azure Machine Learning
12 24 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (4.58%) Entra ID
14 15 (2.99%) SaaS
15 14 (2.79%) GitHub
16 13 (2.59%) dbt
17 12 (2.39%) Serverless
18 11 (2.19%) PaaS
19 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) Internet
2 3 (0.60%) DNS
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (0.60%) VPN
3 2 (0.40%) FTP
3 2 (0.40%) Intranet
3 2 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.40%) SMTP
3 2 (0.40%) SSL
3 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) SSH
4 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (72.31%) Power BI
2 63 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (12.55%) Tableau
3 42 (8.37%) Data Lake
4 40 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 37 (7.37%) Relational Database
6 24 (4.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (3.78%) Neo4j
8 18 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (3.19%) Power Query
11 14 (2.79%) Big Data
12 12 (2.39%) Looker
12 12 (2.39%) Metadata
13 11 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (1.79%) MS Access
14 9 (1.79%) MySQL
14 9 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (10.76%) JIRA
2 32 (6.37%) Git
3 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.80%) ERwin
4 4 (0.80%) Postman
5 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
5 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.40%) Subversion
6 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) ScriptRunner
General
1 142 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.73%) Finance
4 85 (16.93%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.78%) Banking
5 29 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.18%) Marketing
7 22 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.99%) Retail
9 8 (1.59%) Local Government
9 8 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.20%) Military
11 5 (1.00%) Back Office
11 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (25.70%) Developer
2 119 (23.71%) Analyst
3 59 (11.75%) Data Analyst
4 54 (10.76%) Senior
5 52 (10.36%) Data Engineer
6 49 (9.76%) Architect
7 36 (7.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 31 (6.18%) Lead
9 24 (4.78%) Consultant
10 22 (4.38%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.18%) Data Architect
12 19 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 15 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 15 (2.99%) Power BI Developer
15 14 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 14 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 14 (2.79%) Report Analyst
16 13 (2.59%) Senior Developer
17 12 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.97%) REST
2 30 (5.98%) HTML
3 29 (5.78%) React
4 28 (5.58%) SOAP
5 27 (5.38%) CSS
6 22 (4.38%) Plotly
7 21 (4.18%) .NET
8 14 (2.79%) JSON
9 11 (2.19%) Web Services
10 10 (1.99%) PySpark
11 8 (1.59%) Middleware
12 7 (1.39%) SPFx
13 6 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
13 6 (1.20%) Kafka
14 5 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.00%) Node.js
15 4 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
15 4 (0.80%) LDAP
15 4 (0.80%) XML
15 4 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.98%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.19%) Low-Code
3 11 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (1.99%) Security Posture
5 9 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.00%) IoT
9 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.80%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.60%) Life Science
10 3 (0.60%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.99%) Windows
2 7 (1.39%) Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (57.37%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (22.11%) Visualisation
3 110 (21.91%) Analytics
3 110 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (21.51%) Data Modelling
5 107 (21.31%) Agile
6 82 (16.33%) DevOps
7 77 (15.34%) Data Visualisation
8 72 (14.34%) Data Analysis
9 65 (12.95%) Migration
10 61 (12.15%) ETL
11 56 (11.16%) Data Integration
12 53 (10.56%) Data Governance
13 47 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (8.76%) Decision-Making
15 41 (8.17%) CI/CD
16 40 (7.97%) CRM
17 37 (7.37%) Data Pipeline
18 36 (7.17%) Machine Learning
19 35 (6.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 209 (41.63%) SQL
2 77 (15.34%) Python
3 71 (14.14%) JavaScript
4 45 (8.96%) C#
5 31 (6.18%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.39%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.99%) R
10 9 (1.79%) Java
10 9 (1.79%) VBA
11 7 (1.39%) Bicep
12 5 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) C++
14 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) VBScript
15 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 102 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.56%) Degree
4 8 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.60%) CISM
8 3 (0.60%) CISSP
9 2 (0.40%) ISEB
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CITP
10 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) MCSE
10 1 (0.20%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.38%) GDPR
3 17 (3.39%) QA
4 10 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.00%) PMO
6 4 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) Basel II
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) LOINC
9 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (2.59%) Terraform
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.80%) Grafana
3 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.80%) SCCM
3 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 190 (37.85%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.76%) Databricks
3 25 (4.98%) Oracle
4 22 (4.38%) Google
5 17 (3.39%) SAP
6 14 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.59%) Alteryx
7 8 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.39%) Adobe
8 7 (1.39%) Sparx
9 6 (1.20%) Informatica
9 6 (1.20%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.60%) Qualys
13 2 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.40%) VMware