Power Platform people who can keep an app alive after real users touch it.
FERG Search is a specialist recruiter for Power Platform developers, solution architects, Dataverse specialists and governance leads in Australia and New Zealand, permanent and contract. The search is run by the founder for Microsoft partners and the businesses that run Power Platform.
In our experience Power Platform projects rarely fail in development. They fail the moment real users touch them: adoption stalls, bugs appear, workarounds creep in. Teams hire for build speed, not real world complexity. We place the people who build for real usage.
First shortlist within 48 hours of an agreed brief.
The seats we fill in Power Platform.
- Power Apps developers, canvas and model driven.
- Power Automate developers.
- Power Platform solution architects.
- Dataverse specialists.
- Centre of Excellence and governance leads.
- Power Platform functional consultants.
- Managed services consultants who support Power Platform and Copilot Studio estates.
Checked technically and commercially, before you meet them.
- The app that survived real users, and what they changed after go-live.
- The environment strategy they set, and who owns it now.
- The flows they can explain.
- Which apps they built, and which they inherited and kept alive.
What the seat pays.
Power Platform briefs stall when the band is set for a builder and the job needs someone to govern the environments.
Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform architect: $170k to $210k. Sydney. Contract $1,100 to $1,350 a day.
Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform senior consultant: $155k to $180k. Sydney. Contract $950 to $1,150 a day.
Power Platform developer bands follow in the second edition of the FERG Search Salary Guide. Permanent figures are base salary excluding super. Contract figures are per day excluding GST. Sydney unless stated; Melbourne generally runs 4% to 6% lower, and where a Melbourne band is shown, that band applies.
Straight answers on Power Platform.
When does a Power Platform developer become a Copilot Studio developer?
When they have shipped an agent that real users depend on, not when they have passed an exam. Copilot Studio agents act on the same Dataverse data and process a Power Platform developer already knows, so the move is common. What we check is whether they owned what the agent did when it was wrong.
Who should govern Power Platform environments?
Someone whose job it is. The teams that avoid sprawl give one person ownership of environments, connectors and the data loss prevention policies before the hundredth flow, not after. We place Centre of Excellence leads and architects who have done it.
Do you place Power Platform contractors?
Yes. Contract suits a defined build with a known end. Permanent suits the seat that owns the environments afterwards. Most Power Platform briefs we see need one of each.
What does a Power Platform developer earn in Australia?
The first edition of the FERG Search Salary Guide 2026 covers the Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform architect at $170k to $210k and the senior consultant at $155k to $180k, base excluding super, in Sydney. Power Platform developer bands follow in the second edition.
Brief a Power Platform role.
Tell us what has to survive real users. We search for the person who has done it before.