Power Platform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 797 877 1,085
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.82% 3.83% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.85% 11.69% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 625 818
10th Percentile £300 £281 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 37
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.98 £26.08 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £49.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% +120.31% +15.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £45.75 £76.44 £52.20
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £49.57 £26.00
% change year-on-year -53.17% +90.65% +19.54%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 7,504 10,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 5,530 7,416
10th Percentile £215 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 218 278
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £30.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.58 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +5 195 £464 -2.37% 183
South East +13 175 £450 -10.00% 170
Midlands +14 142 £425 -11.46% 130
South West +9 133 £500 +1.27% 98
North West +1 128 £464 +0.27% 110
West Midlands +10 103 £425 -12.14% 89
Scotland +43 96 £470 -3.59% 46
Yorkshire +26 60 £450 -10.00% 51
East of England -16 45 £410 -4.65% 43
East Midlands +16 38 £413 -8.33% 41
Northern Ireland +7 13 £600 +26.32% 12
Wales +4 12 £475 -18.94% 9
North East +7 7 £663 +20.45% 22
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 93 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.76%) Confluence
4 12 (1.51%) SAS
5 6 (0.75%) Apache
6 4 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
7 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Jadu
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Mendix
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 106 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.25%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 38 (4.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.63%) Aareon QL
5 4 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.50%) Maximo
5 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.13%) Relativity
8 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 286 (35.88%) Azure
2 146 (18.32%) PowerApps
3 140 (17.57%) Power Automate
4 113 (14.18%) Dynamics 365
5 90 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (7.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.64%) AWS
9 33 (4.14%) Snowflake
10 30 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (3.26%) Serverless
12 24 (3.01%) Azure Functions
12 24 (3.01%) Entra ID
13 23 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (2.76%) OneDrive
15 16 (2.01%) GCP
16 13 (1.63%) Collibra
17 11 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (1.38%) OCI
18 10 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.88%) Firewall
2 6 (0.75%) Unified Communications
3 5 (0.63%) SSL
4 4 (0.50%) Intranet
4 4 (0.50%) MegaStream
5 3 (0.38%) Skype
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.25%) XCAP
7 1 (0.13%) DNS
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) Network Security
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) VLAN
7 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 625 (78.42%) Power BI
2 93 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (10.54%) SQL Server
4 81 (10.16%) Tableau
5 59 (7.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 57 (7.15%) Data Lake
7 47 (5.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (4.52%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 29 (3.64%) Power Query
11 24 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 19 (2.38%) MySQL
13 18 (2.26%) BusinessObjects
14 16 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
15 14 (1.76%) Big Data
15 14 (1.76%) Data Mining
16 9 (1.13%) GIS
16 9 (1.13%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (5.40%) JIRA
2 14 (1.76%) Visual Studio
3 13 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.75%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.75%) PyCharm
5 5 (0.63%) Git
5 5 (0.63%) Hudson
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Gatling
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 216 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 175 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (18.82%) Finance
4 85 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.27%) Retail
6 30 (3.76%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.39%) Legal
8 26 (3.26%) Marketing
9 22 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 19 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.13%) Local Government
12 16 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.25%) Banking
14 9 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.00%) Billing
15 8 (1.00%) Electronics
15 8 (1.00%) Law
16 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (26.47%) Developer
2 194 (24.34%) Analyst
3 102 (12.80%) Data Analyst
4 83 (10.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 74 (9.28%) Senior
6 71 (8.91%) Power BI Developer
7 61 (7.65%) Architect
8 59 (7.40%) Data Engineer
9 56 (7.03%) Consultant
10 54 (6.78%) Power Platform Developer
11 47 (5.90%) Lead
12 40 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 30 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (3.51%) Applications Developer
15 28 (3.51%) Business Analyst
16 25 (3.14%) Power Apps Developer
17 23 (2.89%) Power BI Analyst
18 21 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 17 (2.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.27%) .NET
2 32 (4.02%) CSS
3 28 (3.51%) HTML
4 19 (2.38%) REST
5 18 (2.26%) XML
6 9 (1.13%) ADO
6 9 (1.13%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
6 9 (1.13%) Web Services
7 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (1.00%) SPFx
8 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.75%) Entity Framework
9 6 (0.75%) PySpark
9 6 (0.75%) React
10 5 (0.63%) JSON
10 5 (0.63%) Pandas
10 5 (0.63%) SOAP
10 5 (0.63%) XSLT
11 4 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 15 (1.88%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.63%) NHS
5 11 (1.38%) PKI
5 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.13%) CMDB
7 9 (1.13%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.00%) Life Science
9 7 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (0.88%) Housing Association
9 7 (0.88%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.75%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.75%) Smart Meter
11 5 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.63%) DTCC
11 5 (0.63%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.89%) Windows
2 14 (1.76%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.51%) Linux
3 12 (1.51%) Unix
4 7 (0.88%) VMS
5 6 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (68.88%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (18.19%) Analytics
3 131 (16.44%) Visualisation
4 126 (15.81%) Agile
5 111 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (13.30%) ETL
7 104 (13.05%) Data Modelling
8 102 (12.80%) Data Analysis
9 81 (10.16%) Migration
10 79 (9.91%) Data Visualisation
11 73 (9.16%) DevOps
11 73 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (6.65%) Project Management
13 51 (6.40%) Decision-Making
14 50 (6.27%) CRM
15 49 (6.15%) ITIL
16 48 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (5.77%) Data Analytics
17 46 (5.77%) Data Management
18 39 (4.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 284 (35.63%) SQL
2 87 (10.92%) Python
3 51 (6.40%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (5.77%) C#
6 41 (5.14%) T-SQL
7 31 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.01%) Java
9 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.88%) X++
10 6 (0.75%) Groovy
10 6 (0.75%) VBA
11 4 (0.50%) C
11 4 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.50%) VB
12 3 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.66%) Degree
4 17 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.13%) MCSE
9 9 (1.13%) PMP
10 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.38%) HNC
12 3 (0.38%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.25%) ACCA
13 2 (0.25%) CIMA
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
14 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.77%) QA
3 20 (2.51%) PMO
4 18 (2.26%) GDPR
5 13 (1.63%) GxP
6 12 (1.51%) SLA
7 7 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (0.75%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.63%) GAMP
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) Docker
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.88%) SCCM
4 6 (0.75%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.63%) SysTrack
5 5 (0.63%) Terraform
6 2 (0.25%) Ansible
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Nagios
7 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 306 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.65%) Oracle
3 40 (5.02%) Databricks
3 40 (5.02%) SAP
4 27 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.13%) Remedy
7 16 (2.01%) Google
8 14 (1.76%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.63%) Informatica
10 12 (1.51%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.25%) CA
12 7 (0.88%) Ab Initio
12 7 (0.88%) Citrix
12 7 (0.88%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.88%) Trillium
13 6 (0.75%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.63%) Aareon
14 5 (0.63%) New Relic
14 5 (0.63%) OpenAI