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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 28 55
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 31 50 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.73% 5.72% 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.44% 15.20% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 34
10th Percentile £273 £388 £352
25th Percentile £381 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £550
90th Percentile £550 £663 £621
Scotland median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - -43.33% +15.38%

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 271 329 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.37% 37.64% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 201 368
10th Percentile £303 £205 £237
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £525
90th Percentile £590 £656 £590
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £14.53 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.77 -
90th Percentile - £20.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%

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 4 July 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 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (9.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (12.90%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) Power Automate
3 10 (32.26%) PowerApps
4 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.45%) IaaS
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (64.52%) Power BI
2 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.68%) MariaDB
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) MySQL
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Power Query
2 3 (9.68%) Redis
3 2 (6.45%) Tableau
4 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) Subversion
2 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.23%) RStudio
General
1 16 (51.61%) Public Sector
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Data Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Security Specialist
3 3 (9.68%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Platform Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
1 3 (9.68%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (9.68%) JSON
1 3 (9.68%) YAML
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (12.90%) Low-Code
2 4 (12.90%) PKI
3 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
1 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) CRM
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.13%) Kanban
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Security Operations
7 5 (16.13%) Software Delivery
7 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
8 4 (12.90%) Email Filtering
8 4 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.81%) C#
2 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (12.90%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) Bicep
6 2 (6.45%) C++
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.45%) VBA
6 2 (6.45%) VBScript
7 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ISEB
2 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (6.45%) MCSE
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (19.35%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.45%) P3O
3 2 (6.45%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) SCCM
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
2 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Pega
2 1 (3.23%) Qualys