Power Platform Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 142 150 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.28% 4.55% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.29% 13.18% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 106 177
10th Percentile £200 £269 £285
25th Percentile £313 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £649 £681 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £11.03 £24.06 £19.55
25th Percentile - £24.16 £20.38
Median hourly rate £14.00 £24.63 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +4.79% +23.68%
75th Percentile - £25.41 £29.50
90th Percentile £21.70 £25.69 £32.05
England median hourly rate £23.22 £45.04 £23.25
% change year-on-year -48.45% +93.70% +10.71%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 667 1,138 1,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.82% 34.53% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 817 1,222
10th Percentile £190 £223 £200
25th Percentile £319 £370 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 33
10th Percentile - £14.71 £13.30
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £26.50 £26.18 £22.25
90th Percentile £31.53 £28.59 £24.95
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +11 104 £425 -12.14% 121
East Midlands +20 37 £425 +9.68% 45
Power Platform
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (21.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.70%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.41%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.62%) Azure
2 25 (17.61%) Power Automate
3 21 (14.79%) PowerApps
4 19 (13.38%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.04%) Azure Functions
7 10 (7.04%) Serverless
8 9 (6.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (5.63%) OneDrive
10 7 (4.93%) AWS
11 6 (4.23%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.23%) GCP
12 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.52%) OCI
12 5 (3.52%) Oracle Service Cloud
13 4 (2.82%) Apigee
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) Unified Communications
2 4 (2.82%) MegaStream
3 2 (1.41%) VPN
3 2 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (87.32%) Power BI
2 30 (21.13%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.75%) BusinessObjects
3 11 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 10 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (7.04%) Tableau
5 9 (6.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.23%) MySQL
8 5 (3.52%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.52%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.82%) Big Data
9 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.82%) Power Query
9 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.11%) SAP BW
11 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.41%) OLAP
11 2 (1.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Git
1 3 (2.11%) JIRA
1 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (27.46%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.08%) Finance
4 6 (4.23%) Marketing
4 6 (4.23%) Retail
5 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Legal
6 4 (2.82%) Publishing
7 3 (2.11%) Law
7 3 (2.11%) Local Government
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (23.94%) Analyst
2 25 (17.61%) Developer
3 19 (13.38%) Architect
4 16 (11.27%) Senior
5 14 (9.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 13 (9.15%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Consultant
8 10 (7.04%) Administrator
8 10 (7.04%) Power Platform Developer
9 9 (6.34%) Data Architect
9 9 (6.34%) Report Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) Azure Architect
10 8 (5.63%) Data Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) Power BI Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Data Administrator
12 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.63%) .NET
2 5 (3.52%) XML
3 4 (2.82%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.11%) ADO
4 3 (2.11%) Entity Framework
4 3 (2.11%) Flask
4 3 (2.11%) HTML
4 3 (2.11%) Pandas
4 3 (2.11%) Web Services
4 3 (2.11%) XSLT
5 2 (1.41%) CSS
5 2 (1.41%) React Native
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.70%) REST
6 1 (0.70%) SOAP
6 1 (0.70%) SPFx
6 1 (0.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.23%) Digital Signage
3 6 (4.23%) PKI
4 5 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.70%) FMCG
7 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Windows
2 6 (4.23%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (73.24%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (22.54%) Analytics
3 29 (20.42%) ETL
4 28 (19.72%) Data Modelling
5 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.49%) Visualisation
7 19 (13.38%) Data Analysis
7 19 (13.38%) Data Analytics
8 17 (11.97%) Agile
8 17 (11.97%) Migration
9 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (8.45%) CRM
10 12 (8.45%) Data Migration
10 12 (8.45%) Roadmaps
11 11 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (7.75%) Customer Service
11 11 (7.75%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.75%) DevOps
11 11 (7.75%) ITIL
12 10 (7.04%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.39%) SQL
2 16 (11.27%) Python
3 12 (8.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (7.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (5.63%) C#
6 6 (4.23%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.82%) Java
7 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.41%) VBA
8 2 (1.41%) X++
9 1 (0.70%) Bicep
9 1 (0.70%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (7.75%) Degree
2 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.41%) MCSE
4 2 (1.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) ACCA
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) CIMA
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.82%) PMO
2 4 (2.82%) SLA
3 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.11%) QA
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.41%) Docker
4 1 (0.70%) HDFS
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (3.52%) SysTrack
3 3 (2.11%) Terraform
4 2 (1.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.68%) Oracle
3 6 (4.23%) SAP
4 5 (3.52%) Anaplan
4 5 (3.52%) Autodesk
4 5 (3.52%) Citrix
4 5 (3.52%) New Relic
4 5 (3.52%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.82%) Databricks
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
7 2 (1.41%) Apple
7 2 (1.41%) Cisco
7 2 (1.41%) IFS
7 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) Civica
8 1 (0.70%) Denodo
8 1 (0.70%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.70%) Talend