Power Platform Contracts in England

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,457 1,925 2,503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.00% 4.00% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.51% 10.94% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,366 1,844
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 48 39
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.33 £26.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £23.22 £51.04 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +121.89% +9.52%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.60 £65.75 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £49.57 £23.50
% change year-on-year -53.17% +110.94% +9.30%

All Cloud Skills
England

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +14 748 £525 - 414
North of England +1 182 £450 -5.26% 179
South East +8 173 £463 -7.04% 175
Midlands +19 141 £425 -11.46% 158
South West -5 124 £500 - 90
North West -4 119 £451 -3.73% 111
West Midlands +16 103 £425 -12.82% 108
Yorkshire +9 56 £438 -12.50% 51
East of England -21 41 £410 +2.50% 61
East Midlands +17 37 £425 +9.68% 49
North East +4 7 £663 +29.27% 17
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 168 (11.53%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.36%) Confluence
3 35 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.89%) Apache
5 13 (0.89%) SAS
6 12 (0.82%) MTS
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Jadu
8 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.069%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.069%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.069%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.069%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 169 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.27%) InVision
7 4 (0.27%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 84 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.82%) Endur
5 12 (0.82%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.75%) Aligne
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.41%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.34%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.21%) Primavera
11 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.14%) Maximo
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 2 (0.14%) Relativity
12 2 (0.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
12 2 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 569 (39.05%) Azure
2 281 (19.29%) PowerApps
3 259 (17.78%) Power Automate
4 210 (14.41%) Dynamics 365
5 163 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 89 (6.11%) AWS
9 58 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 54 (3.71%) Snowflake
11 53 (3.64%) Serverless
12 46 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (3.09%) Azure Functions
13 45 (3.09%) Entra ID
14 31 (2.13%) GitHub
15 28 (1.92%) OneDrive
16 27 (1.85%) GCP
17 23 (1.58%) Collibra
18 19 (1.30%) OCI
19 18 (1.24%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.44%) Firewall
2 8 (0.55%) Intranet
3 7 (0.48%) DNS
4 6 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.27%) MegaStream
5 4 (0.27%) VPN
6 3 (0.21%) Skype
6 3 (0.21%) SNMP
7 2 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.14%) DHCP
7 2 (0.14%) Internet
7 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.14%) XCAP
8 1 (0.069%) FTP
8 1 (0.069%) LAN
8 1 (0.069%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.069%) VoIP
8 1 (0.069%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,203 (82.57%) Power BI
2 211 (14.48%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (14.41%) SQL Server
4 182 (12.49%) Tableau
5 125 (8.58%) Data Lake
6 106 (7.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 74 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 62 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (3.43%) Big Data
10 49 (3.36%) Relational Database
11 45 (3.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 42 (2.88%) Metadata
13 39 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
14 37 (2.54%) NoSQL
15 33 (2.26%) Power Query
16 31 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 27 (1.85%) MySQL
18 23 (1.58%) Data Mining
18 23 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 85 (5.83%) JIRA
2 21 (1.44%) Git
2 21 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 19 (1.30%) ERwin
4 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (1.10%) GitLab
6 13 (0.89%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.55%) Postman
8 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
9 6 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.41%) PyCharm
10 5 (0.34%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Jenkins
11 4 (0.27%) RStudio
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.14%) NUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Selenium
13 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 429 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 383 (26.29%) Finance
3 307 (21.07%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 82 (5.63%) Banking
6 81 (5.56%) Marketing
7 76 (5.22%) Retail
8 49 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.95%) Legal
11 32 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.92%) General Ledger
12 28 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 26 (1.78%) Local Government
14 25 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.17%) Electronics
16 17 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.17%) Front Office
17 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 338 (23.20%) Analyst
2 332 (22.79%) Developer
3 179 (12.29%) Architect
4 160 (10.98%) Data Analyst
5 129 (8.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 114 (7.82%) Consultant
6 114 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 106 (7.28%) Power BI Developer
8 103 (7.07%) Senior
9 82 (5.63%) Business Analyst
10 76 (5.22%) Lead
10 76 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
11 71 (4.87%) Power Platform Developer
12 67 (4.60%) Data Architect
13 59 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 51 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
15 45 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
16 44 (3.02%) Power BI Analyst
17 42 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
18 40 (2.75%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.53%) .NET
2 44 (3.02%) CSS
2 44 (3.02%) XML
3 41 (2.81%) HTML
4 40 (2.75%) JSON
5 32 (2.20%) PySpark
6 27 (1.85%) REST
7 24 (1.65%) Web Services
8 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
9 18 (1.24%) SPFx
10 17 (1.17%) .NET Framework
11 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
12 14 (0.96%) jQuery
13 10 (0.69%) ADO
14 9 (0.62%) Entity Framework
14 9 (0.62%) SOAP
15 8 (0.55%) ARM Templates
15 8 (0.55%) Node.js
15 8 (0.55%) RESTful
15 8 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (3.91%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 24 (1.65%) NHS
5 23 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 15 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 14 (0.96%) Market Risk
9 12 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (0.75%) Life Science
11 10 (0.69%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.55%) Solar Panel
14 7 (0.48%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.54%) Windows
2 17 (1.17%) Linux
3 16 (1.10%) Unix
4 10 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.62%) VMS
6 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (70.56%) Business Intelligence
2 304 (20.86%) Agile
3 275 (18.87%) Analytics
4 267 (18.33%) Data Modelling
5 264 (18.12%) Visualisation
6 219 (15.03%) ETL
7 213 (14.62%) DevOps
8 209 (14.34%) Data Analysis
9 206 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (10.91%) Data Visualisation
11 158 (10.84%) Migration
12 129 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 113 (7.76%) CRM
14 100 (6.86%) Project Management
15 99 (6.79%) Data Governance
16 98 (6.73%) Decision-Making
17 89 (6.11%) Data Analytics
18 85 (5.83%) Data Migration
19 83 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 83 (5.70%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 524 (35.96%) SQL
2 223 (15.31%) Python
3 110 (7.55%) C#
4 94 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 91 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 69 (4.74%) T-SQL
8 36 (2.47%) Java
9 28 (1.92%) R
10 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.24%) Scala
12 15 (1.03%) VBA
13 10 (0.69%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.62%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.48%) PHP
15 7 (0.48%) X++
15 7 (0.48%) XPath
15 7 (0.48%) XQuery
16 6 (0.41%) Groovy
17 5 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 149 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 131 (8.99%) Degree
3 120 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 33 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.48%) Postgraduate
12 6 (0.41%) CIMA
12 6 (0.41%) PMP
12 6 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.21%) ACCA
14 3 (0.21%) CISM
14 3 (0.21%) CISSP
14 3 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.35%) QA
3 33 (2.26%) SLA
4 31 (2.13%) GDPR
5 19 (1.30%) PMO
6 16 (1.10%) GxP
7 15 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.34%) GAMP
10 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) GRC
12 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.069%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.069%) GAAP
13 1 (0.069%) IFRS
13 1 (0.069%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 52 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.48%) Docker
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.069%) HDFS
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.44%) Terraform
3 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.41%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.34%) SysTrack
7 4 (0.27%) Ansible
8 3 (0.21%) Kibana
8 3 (0.21%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.069%) CASB
10 1 (0.069%) logstash
10 1 (0.069%) Matomo
10 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 562 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.62%) Databricks
3 100 (6.86%) Oracle
4 75 (5.15%) SAP
5 43 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 38 (2.61%) Alteryx
8 32 (2.20%) Google
9 30 (2.06%) Informatica
10 20 (1.37%) Remedy
10 20 (1.37%) Sparx
11 18 (1.24%) Adobe
12 11 (0.75%) Citrix
12 11 (0.75%) Talend
13 10 (0.69%) CA
13 10 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.62%) Cadence
15 8 (0.55%) Dataiku
15 8 (0.55%) Splunk
16 7 (0.48%) Nexthink