Power Platform Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Power Platform
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 79
Rank change year-on-year +5 +46 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 37 43 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.04% 5.24% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.55% 13.44% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 26
10th Percentile £247 £424 £381
25th Percentile £394 £459 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +18.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £588
90th Percentile £563 £675 £651
Scotland median daily rate £438 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -8.85% +1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.93 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year +58.38% - -

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 273 320 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.54% 38.98% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 194 411
10th Percentile £199 £336 £260
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.80 £13.14
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 £14.86
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £25.23 £17.50 £20.65
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 £22.41
Scotland median hourly rate £24.18 £17.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +42.24% -69.09% +37.50%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (18.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.70%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (13.51%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Power Automate
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (21.62%) PowerApps
4 7 (18.92%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) IaaS
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (62.16%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) OLAP
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) Power Query
3 2 (5.41%) Redis
4 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.70%) Metadata
4 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.70%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.70%) Postman
2 1 (2.70%) RStudio
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) Subversion
2 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (51.35%) Public Sector
2 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Security Specialist
3 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Insight Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Performance Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.41%) CSS
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
1 2 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (5.41%) JSON
1 2 (5.41%) Node.js
1 2 (5.41%) REST
1 2 (5.41%) YAML
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (13.51%) PKI
3 3 (8.11%) Low-Code
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
1 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 10 (27.03%) CRM
3 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (18.92%) Visualisation
7 6 (16.22%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
7 6 (16.22%) Migration
7 6 (16.22%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (16.22%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (13.51%) Email Filtering
8 5 (13.51%) ETL
8 5 (13.51%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
9 4 (10.81%) Project Management
9 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (13.51%) Python
5 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (8.11%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) R
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) VBA
7 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.41%) MCSE
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) ISEB
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (13.51%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) PMO
4 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.41%) P3O
5 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
1 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) SCCM
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) IDERA
4 1 (2.70%) Pega