Power Platform Contracts

Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 56 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,736 2,198 3,160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 3.92% 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.43% 10.76% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,572 2,283
10th Percentile £312 £338 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 44 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.25 £18.43
Median hourly rate £23.22 £51.25 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -54.70% +94.17% +22.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.25 £65.75 £59.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.77 £53.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year -61.36% +133.70% +17.95%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +14 1,488 £493 -1.50% 1,090
UK excluding London +9 794 £450 -5.26% 662
London +16 759 £524 -0.24% 408
Work from Home +9 689 £488 -2.50% 553
North of England +6 193 £453 -4.74% 184
South East +14 175 £450 -10.00% 166
Midlands +14 142 £425 -11.46% 126
South West +9 133 £500 +1.27% 95
North West 0 126 £453 -2.16% 115
West Midlands +11 103 £425 -11.46% 87
Scotland +39 96 £470 -1.05% 42
Yorkshire +25 60 £450 -10.00% 48
East of England -22 44 £410 -4.65% 44
East Midlands +19 38 £413 -8.33% 39
Northern Ireland +6 13 £600 +26.32% 11
Wales +4 12 £475 -18.94% 8
North East +8 7 £663 +15.22% 21

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 224 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.94%) Confluence
3 44 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.32%) Apache
4 23 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.15%) SAS
6 10 (0.58%) MTS
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) Jadu
8 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.058%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.058%) JBoss
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.058%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 198 (11.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) InVision
7 4 (0.23%) Sketch
8 3 (0.17%) SPSS
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 108 (6.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.58%) Endur
5 10 (0.58%) EuroRunner
6 9 (0.52%) Aligne
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.23%) Shopify
10 3 (0.17%) Primavera
10 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 685 (39.46%) Azure
2 364 (20.97%) PowerApps
3 332 (19.12%) Power Automate
4 268 (15.44%) Dynamics 365
5 221 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 118 (6.80%) AWS
9 75 (4.32%) Snowflake
10 71 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 60 (3.46%) Serverless
12 53 (3.05%) Entra ID
13 52 (3.00%) Azure Functions
14 48 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (2.42%) GitHub
16 41 (2.36%) GCP
16 41 (2.36%) OneDrive
17 25 (1.44%) Google Analytics
17 25 (1.44%) PaaS
18 22 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.38%) Firewall
2 8 (0.46%) DNS
3 7 (0.40%) Intranet
4 6 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.35%) Unified Communications
5 5 (0.29%) SSL
6 4 (0.23%) 3GPP
6 4 (0.23%) 4G
6 4 (0.23%) 5G
6 4 (0.23%) 5G NR
6 4 (0.23%) LTE
6 4 (0.23%) MegaStream
6 4 (0.23%) Network Security
6 4 (0.23%) SNMP
6 4 (0.23%) VPN
7 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.17%) Internet
7 3 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.17%) Skype
8 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,394 (80.30%) Power BI
2 220 (12.67%) Data Warehouse
2 220 (12.67%) SQL Server
3 216 (12.44%) Tableau
4 146 (8.41%) Data Lake
5 118 (6.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 87 (5.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 71 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (3.74%) Big Data
9 59 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.88%) Power Query
11 46 (2.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 42 (2.42%) Metadata
13 40 (2.30%) NoSQL
14 35 (2.02%) BusinessObjects
15 32 (1.84%) MySQL
16 30 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
18 25 (1.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 24 (1.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 109 (6.28%) JIRA
2 28 (1.61%) Visual Studio
3 26 (1.50%) Git
4 20 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.98%) ERwin
5 17 (0.98%) GitLab
6 12 (0.69%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.52%) Postman
8 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
9 6 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.35%) PyCharm
10 5 (0.29%) Hudson
11 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.23%) RStudio
11 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.17%) Subversion
13 2 (0.12%) JUnit
13 2 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 479 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 430 (24.77%) Finance
3 352 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.47%) Banking
6 85 (4.90%) Marketing
7 81 (4.67%) Retail
8 52 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (2.82%) Legal
10 46 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.79%) General Ledger
14 28 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 27 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.56%) Local Government
16 22 (1.27%) Front Office
17 19 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 411 (23.68%) Analyst
2 408 (23.50%) Developer
3 205 (11.81%) Architect
4 193 (11.12%) Data Analyst
5 154 (8.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 147 (8.47%) Consultant
7 128 (7.37%) Power BI Developer
8 123 (7.09%) Senior
9 121 (6.97%) Data Engineer
10 97 (5.59%) Power Platform Developer
11 93 (5.36%) Lead
12 87 (5.01%) Business Analyst
13 77 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
14 67 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
15 66 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 66 (3.80%) Data Architect
16 50 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 47 (2.71%) Applications Developer
18 46 (2.65%) Power BI Analyst
19 45 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (4.67%) .NET
2 57 (3.28%) CSS
3 54 (3.11%) HTML
4 47 (2.71%) XML
5 40 (2.30%) JSON
6 32 (1.84%) PySpark
7 31 (1.79%) REST
8 28 (1.61%) Web Services
9 25 (1.44%) HTML5 Canvas
10 23 (1.32%) .NET Framework
11 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.75%) ADO
12 13 (0.75%) SPFx
13 12 (0.69%) jQuery
14 11 (0.63%) React
14 11 (0.63%) RESTful
14 11 (0.63%) SOAP
15 10 (0.58%) AngularJS
15 10 (0.58%) Entity Framework
15 10 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.03%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.11%) Product Ownership
3 48 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 28 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 27 (1.56%) NHS
5 27 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (0.86%) Market Risk
8 15 (0.86%) Reference Data
9 13 (0.75%) Hedge funds
10 12 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (0.69%) PKI
10 12 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (0.58%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (0.52%) CMDB
12 9 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.34%) Windows
2 21 (1.21%) Linux
3 19 (1.09%) Unix
4 18 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.63%) VMS
6 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.058%) AIX
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (69.47%) Business Intelligence
2 358 (20.62%) Agile
3 331 (19.07%) Analytics
4 304 (17.51%) Data Modelling
5 297 (17.11%) Visualisation
6 249 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
7 244 (14.06%) DevOps
8 232 (13.36%) ETL
9 226 (13.02%) Data Analysis
10 199 (11.46%) Data Visualisation
11 183 (10.54%) Migration
12 144 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 138 (7.95%) CRM
14 121 (6.97%) Decision-Making
15 112 (6.45%) Data Governance
16 108 (6.22%) Data Analytics
16 108 (6.22%) Scrum
17 103 (5.93%) Data Management
18 99 (5.70%) Project Management
19 90 (5.18%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 615 (35.43%) SQL
2 248 (14.29%) Python
3 123 (7.09%) C#
4 110 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 105 (6.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 103 (5.93%) PowerShell
7 80 (4.61%) T-SQL
8 43 (2.48%) Java
9 29 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 27 (1.56%) R
11 18 (1.04%) VBA
12 15 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 14 (0.81%) Scala
14 12 (0.69%) VB
15 11 (0.63%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.40%) PHP
16 7 (0.40%) X++
16 7 (0.40%) XPath
16 7 (0.40%) XQuery
17 6 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (10.37%) Degree
2 178 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 149 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 46 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.58%) MCSE
12 10 (0.58%) PMP
13 8 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.46%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.40%) CIMA
15 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.23%) ACCA
16 4 (0.23%) HNC
17 3 (0.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.84%) QA
3 38 (2.19%) SLA
4 32 (1.84%) PMO
5 29 (1.67%) GDPR
6 18 (1.04%) GxP
7 16 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.40%) CDISC
9 7 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.29%) GAMP
11 4 (0.23%) NCSC
12 3 (0.17%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.058%) IFRS
14 1 (0.058%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 66 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.35%) Docker
6 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.058%) HDFS
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.44%) Terraform
3 19 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.52%) SCCM
5 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
6 7 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.29%) SysTrack
8 4 (0.23%) Ansible
9 3 (0.17%) Kibana
9 3 (0.17%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.12%) CASB
11 1 (0.058%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.058%) Grafana
11 1 (0.058%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.058%) Matomo
11 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.058%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 704 (40.55%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.85%) Databricks
3 112 (6.45%) Oracle
4 87 (5.01%) SAP
5 62 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 54 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 46 (2.65%) Google
8 41 (2.36%) Alteryx
9 33 (1.90%) Informatica
10 21 (1.21%) Sparx
11 20 (1.15%) Adobe
11 20 (1.15%) Remedy
12 15 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.69%) CA
14 11 (0.63%) Cadence
15 10 (0.58%) Citrix
15 10 (0.58%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
15 10 (0.58%) Talend
16 8 (0.46%) Splunk