Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Power Platform
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +34
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 52 33 45
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.58% 5.24% 5.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.16% 13.20% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 22
10th Percentile £330 £299 £368
25th Percentile £375 £394 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £559
90th Percentile £590 £550 £649
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.90 - £17.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 343 250 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.42% 39.68% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 157 200
10th Percentile £350 £308 £185
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% +4.68% -2.31%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £553
90th Percentile £650 £599 £654
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - £26.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £27.35 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +54.63% -0.18%
75th Percentile £60.75 £28.38 £23.30
90th Percentile £64.00 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.38
% change year-on-year -25.49% +15.48% -68.04%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Edinburgh

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (7.69%) Primavera
3 2 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (3.85%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) Power Automate
2 12 (23.08%) PowerApps
3 10 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.92%) IaaS
6 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.92%) PaaS
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (69.23%) Power BI
2 7 (13.46%) Power Query
3 3 (5.77%) Tableau
4 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.92%) Metadata
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) QlikView
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
5 1 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Selenium
2 1 (1.92%) Subversion
2 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.85%) Finance
4 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Front Office
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Military
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Analyst
3 9 (17.31%) Consultant
4 8 (15.38%) Power Platform Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Data Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Power BI Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 4 (7.69%) Report Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Security Specialist
8 3 (5.77%) Accountant
8 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Systems Accountant
9 2 (3.85%) Architect
9 2 (3.85%) HR Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Report Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) .NET
1 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
1 2 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.92%) HTML
2 1 (1.92%) JSON
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (1.92%) SOAP
2 1 (1.92%) XML
2 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (7.69%) PKI
2 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Windows
1 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (34.62%) Agile
3 11 (21.15%) Analytics
4 10 (19.23%) CRM
4 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (19.23%) Data Modelling
5 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
5 9 (17.31%) Visualisation
6 8 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 7 (13.46%) DevOps
7 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.46%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (11.54%) Change Management
9 5 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.62%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (9.62%) ITIL
9 5 (9.62%) Risk Management
9 5 (9.62%) Security Operations
9 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) SQL
2 8 (15.38%) C#
2 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) VBA
6 1 (1.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.62%) MCSE
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.69%) SCCM
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Databricks
3 2 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) Pega
4 1 (1.92%) Qualys
4 1 (1.92%) VMware