Power Platform Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 11 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 13 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.09% 5.08% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.95% 16.13% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +28.57% -11.62%
75th Percentile £656 £500 £375
90th Percentile £688 £590 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £49.57 £23.50
% change year-on-year -53.17% +110.94% +9.30%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 42 62 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.37% 31.47% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 25
10th Percentile £521 £174 £414
25th Percentile £525 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £550
90th Percentile £679 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.33 £10.43
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.64
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% -9.32%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £13.89
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +5 12 £600 +29.73% 10
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Platform Specialist
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform Specialist
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Validation
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Coaching
2 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
2 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft