Power Platform Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 47 42 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 124 170 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.93% 4.90% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.84% 14.38% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 129 100
10th Percentile £360 £358 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £541
90th Percentile £645 £621 £622
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Median hourly rate £15.89 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% - -
England median hourly rate £23.22 £51.04 £23.00
% change year-on-year -54.51% +121.89% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 783 1,182 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.84% 34.05% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 950 852
10th Percentile £210 £311 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £594
90th Percentile £680 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 58 20
10th Percentile £12.58 £16.95 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £52.93 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% +101.62% -41.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £56.85
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +1 49 £445 -1.20% 28
Wiltshire -27 32 £463 -15.76% 11
Gloucestershire +4 12 £450 -2.70% 6
Somerset +4 6 £541 +10.97% 11
Devon 0 4 £650 +30.00% 21
Dorset -1 1 - - 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (17.74%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.61%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.81%) Azure
2 23 (18.55%) Dynamics 365
3 20 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (16.13%) Power Automate
3 20 (16.13%) PowerApps
4 14 (11.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Storage
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.42%) AWS
9 3 (2.42%) PaaS
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.61%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.81%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Firewall
2 5 (4.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (76.61%) Power BI
2 25 (20.16%) SQL Server
3 19 (15.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (12.90%) Tableau
5 14 (11.29%) Relational Database
6 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (9.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (6.45%) Data Lake
8 7 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.23%) Biml
10 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.42%) Power Query
12 2 (1.61%) Big Data
12 2 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.61%) Metadata
13 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Postman
2 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 19 (15.32%) Finance
5 9 (7.26%) Marketing
6 7 (5.65%) Electronics
6 7 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.23%) Local Government
8 3 (2.42%) Military
8 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Banking
9 2 (1.61%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Developer
2 24 (19.35%) Data Engineer
3 13 (10.48%) Architect
3 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 12 (9.68%) Power Platform Developer
5 11 (8.87%) Power BI Developer
5 11 (8.87%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (8.06%) Senior
7 9 (7.26%) Analyst
8 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Service Manager
9 7 (5.65%) Consultant
9 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) SharePoint Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.65%) CSS
2 6 (4.84%) SPFx
3 5 (4.03%) PySpark
3 5 (4.03%) REST
4 2 (1.61%) .NET
4 2 (1.61%) HTML
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.81%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
1 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.03%) CMDB
3 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (77.42%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (21.77%) Agile
2 27 (21.77%) ETL
3 20 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 19 (15.32%) Visualisation
5 18 (14.52%) Migration
6 17 (13.71%) Translating Business Requirements
7 15 (12.10%) ITIL
8 14 (11.29%) Service Management
9 13 (10.48%) ITSM
9 13 (10.48%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (9.68%) DevOps
11 10 (8.06%) Analytics
12 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (5.65%) Case Management
13 7 (5.65%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.65%) Dashboard Development
13 7 (5.65%) Document Management
13 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.29%) SQL
2 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
3 12 (9.68%) C#
3 12 (9.68%) T-SQL
4 10 (8.06%) Python
5 5 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 51 (41.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.23%) Degree
5 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.48%) Remedy
3 11 (8.87%) Databricks
4 10 (8.06%) CA
5 9 (7.26%) SAP
6 2 (1.61%) Informatica
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle
6 2 (1.61%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce