Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Power Platform
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 38 74
Rank change year-on-year -29 +36 -28
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 49 76 54
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.31% 5.00% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.35% 15.97% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 38
10th Percentile £410 £363 £326
25th Percentile £438 £385 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £597
90th Percentile £670 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £88.00 - £64.52
25th Percentile £92.50 £41.25 £69.05
Median hourly rate £100.00 £63.15 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year +58.35% -19.23% +247.49%
75th Percentile £102.75 £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile £104.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £100.00 £63.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +58.35% +40.33% +86.10%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 587 476 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.66% 31.34% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 298 379
10th Percentile £268 £365 £323
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +3.68% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.26 £27.00 £42.76
Median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £92.75 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.75 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Berkshire

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Reading -1 34 £599 +17.40% 8
Maidenhead - 4 £475 - 2
Windsor -2 3 £565 -18.12%
Wokingham -35 2 £425 -26.09% 4
Bracknell - 1 - - 2
Power Platform
South East

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (26.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.08%) Primavera
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.04%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) Azure
2 21 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (26.53%) SaaS
5 12 (24.49%) GCP
6 11 (22.45%) AWS
7 6 (12.24%) Miro
8 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (10.20%) Power Automate
9 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (8.16%) dbt
9 4 (8.16%) PowerApps
10 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
11 1 (2.04%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) 2G
1 2 (4.08%) 5G
1 2 (4.08%) DNS
1 2 (4.08%) LTE
1 2 (4.08%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (4.08%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.08%) VoIP
1 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (81.63%) Power BI
2 13 (26.53%) Tableau
3 8 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) NeoLoad
3 1 (2.04%) Postman
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Finance
3 13 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Billing
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Analyst
1 9 (18.37%) Delivery Manager
2 8 (16.33%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle Project Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Lead
5 4 (8.16%) Consultant
5 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) ERP Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Integration Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) ADO
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (4.08%) Pandas
3 2 (4.08%) Plotly
3 2 (4.08%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) ATL
4 1 (2.04%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.04%) MDX
4 1 (2.04%) NumPy
4 1 (2.04%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
1 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.12%) PKI
2 2 (4.08%) IoT
2 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.08%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
1 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (73.47%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (42.86%) Agile
3 19 (38.78%) DevOps
3 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (34.69%) Waterfall
5 13 (26.53%) PRINCE2
6 11 (22.45%) Visualisation
7 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (18.37%) ERP
8 9 (18.37%) Validation
9 8 (16.33%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (16.33%) Analytics
9 8 (16.33%) Contingency Planning
9 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 8 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (16.33%) E-business
9 8 (16.33%) Matrix Organization
9 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 7 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) R
4 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.04%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Master's Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.20%) PMO
3 2 (4.08%) GRC
3 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Oracle
2 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.12%) Foundry
4 3 (6.12%) Palantir
5 2 (4.08%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.04%) SAP