Power Platform Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 100 114 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.90% 5.15% 4.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.58% 14.07% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 83 140
10th Percentile £219 £313 £324
25th Percentile £344 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £480 £457
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +5.15% -3.39%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £547
90th Percentile £638 £688 £626
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £33.93 £24.63 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.79% - -
England median hourly rate £23.22 £38.75 £23.50
% change year-on-year -40.09% +64.89% +9.30%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Power Platform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 486 810 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.80% 36.60% 34.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 565 884
10th Percentile £203 £272 £213
25th Percentile £326 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £611 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.54 £12.55
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.98 £15.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +6.53% +31.03%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £21.82
90th Percentile £33.19 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the West Midlands

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +3 47 £425 -0.87% 41
Warwickshire +7 23 £450 -21.74% 7
Staffordshire +6 11 £425 -15.00% 7
Coventry +7 5 £600 +20.00%
Shropshire 0 4 £117 - 2
Worcestershire - 3 £475 - 1
Walsall - 1 £325 -
Solihull - 1 - - 1
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 10 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.00%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.00%) Azure
2 21 (21.00%) PowerApps
3 20 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (8.00%) OneDrive
8 7 (7.00%) AWS
8 7 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Functions
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.00%) Serverless
9 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.00%) GCP
11 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.00%) Apigee
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) Unified Communications
2 4 (4.00%) MegaStream
3 2 (2.00%) VPN
3 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (93.00%) Power BI
2 19 (19.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.00%) Tableau
4 8 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (5.00%) Data Mining
7 5 (5.00%) MySQL
7 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.00%) Power Query
9 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.00%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.00%) Impala
11 1 (1.00%) MS Access
11 1 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.00%) Finance
4 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.00%) Law
6 3 (3.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Local Government
6 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.00%) Banking
7 2 (2.00%) French Language
7 2 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (1.00%) Automotive
8 1 (1.00%) Billing
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Developer
2 20 (20.00%) Analyst
3 14 (14.00%) Senior
4 10 (10.00%) Consultant
4 10 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 8 (8.00%) Architect
5 8 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Data Architect
6 7 (7.00%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 4 (4.00%) Coordinator
9 4 (4.00%) Lead
9 4 (4.00%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) .NET
2 4 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (4.00%) Web Services
2 4 (4.00%) XML
2 4 (4.00%) XSLT
3 2 (2.00%) ADO
3 2 (2.00%) CSS
3 2 (2.00%) Flask
3 2 (2.00%) HTML
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.00%) Pandas
4 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.00%) Digital Signage
2 6 (6.00%) PKI
3 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.00%) FMCG
4 1 (1.00%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (79.00%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (25.00%) Analytics
3 22 (22.00%) ETL
4 19 (19.00%) Data Modelling
5 16 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 16 (16.00%) Data Analytics
5 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.00%) Visualisation
7 14 (14.00%) DevOps
8 13 (13.00%) Migration
9 11 (11.00%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (11.00%) ITIL
10 10 (10.00%) Agile
10 10 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (10.00%) Data Management
10 10 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 10 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 10 (10.00%) Project Management
10 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.00%) SQL
2 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.00%) Python
3 7 (7.00%) C#
4 6 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.00%) Bicep
7 1 (1.00%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.00%) MCSE
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.00%) ACCA
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.00%) CIMA
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) PMO
2 4 (4.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.00%) HDFS
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.00%) SysTrack
3 4 (4.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Anaplan
3 5 (5.00%) Autodesk
3 5 (5.00%) Citrix
3 5 (5.00%) Databricks
3 5 (5.00%) New Relic
3 5 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (3.00%) IFS
6 2 (2.00%) Apple
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.00%) Denodo
7 1 (1.00%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.00%) Talend