Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 172 129 167
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.34% 4.28% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.01% 13.20% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 92 109
10th Percentile £311 £301 £249
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £630
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile £12.29 - £22.61
25th Percentile £30.82 £41.25 £23.52
Median hourly rate £56.96 £42.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.02% -30.33% +20.79%
75th Percentile £86.56 £54.24 £72.14
90th Percentile £99.50 £60.53 £79.78
England median hourly rate £26.46 £27.31 £23.22
% change year-on-year -3.13% +17.65% -61.31%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,562 977 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.34% 32.42% 26.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 669 993
10th Percentile £263 £280 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £608
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 24 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.76 £16.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.11 £19.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.37% -5.40% +35.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £93.60 £72.27 £62.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the South East

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the South East over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South East

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the South East over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the South East

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Thames Valley -2 95 £500 +12.99% 46
Berkshire -9 64 £505 +26.09% 23
Hampshire -4 42 £425 -12.14% 30
Buckinghamshire -2 24 £438 -20.45% 15
Surrey -21 16 £550 +15.79% 17
Oxfordshire -9 7 £500 +42.86% 10
Kent -5 6 £650 +26.83% 15
West Sussex -17 6 £450 +6.44% 4
East Sussex +1 2 £375 -21.05% 4
Sussex - 1 £525 -
Home Counties - 1 - -
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 32 (18.60%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.74%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 52 (30.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (12.79%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.58%) InDesign
5 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.14%) Azure
2 46 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (16.28%) PowerApps
4 25 (14.53%) Power Automate
5 19 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.72%) Entra ID
7 14 (8.14%) SaaS
8 13 (7.56%) AWS
8 13 (7.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (6.98%) Copilot Studio
10 9 (5.23%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.23%) GCP
10 9 (5.23%) OneDrive
10 9 (5.23%) Serverless
11 7 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.49%) GitHub
12 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.33%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) DNS
1 3 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.16%) 2G
2 2 (1.16%) 5G
2 2 (1.16%) LTE
2 2 (1.16%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.16%) Network Security
2 2 (1.16%) VoIP
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (88.37%) Power BI
2 15 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (8.72%) Tableau
3 12 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 9 (5.23%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (4.07%) Metadata
6 7 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.74%) Big Data
9 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.74%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.16%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.58%) Power Query
11 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (16.28%) JIRA
2 8 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.58%) Postman
3 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 53 (30.81%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (22.67%) Finance
4 15 (8.72%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (6.98%) Retail
7 6 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Marketing
8 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.16%) Advertising
9 2 (1.16%) Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (33.72%) Analyst
2 25 (14.53%) Architect
3 24 (13.95%) Data Analyst
4 22 (12.79%) PMO Analyst
5 16 (9.30%) Developer
6 15 (8.72%) Senior
7 14 (8.14%) Lead
8 12 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) Platform Architect
8 12 (6.98%) Power Platform Architect
9 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.07%) Integration Manager
11 6 (3.49%) Resource Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Consultant
12 5 (2.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.33%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) REST
2 5 (2.91%) ADO
3 4 (2.33%) JSON
4 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.74%) Plotly
5 2 (1.16%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) Pandas
5 2 (1.16%) PySpark
5 2 (1.16%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.16%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.16%) Web Services
5 2 (1.16%) XML
5 2 (1.16%) YAML
6 1 (0.58%) .NET
6 1 (0.58%) EDI
6 1 (0.58%) Kafka
6 1 (0.58%) NumPy
6 1 (0.58%) OAuth
6 1 (0.58%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.49%) CMDB
2 6 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.49%) PKI
3 5 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.16%) IoT
6 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.16%) Wiki
7 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.58%) AS400
7 1 (0.58%) Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Replication
7 1 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Windows
2 3 (1.74%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (81.98%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.51%) Agile
4 34 (19.77%) Analytics
5 33 (19.19%) Data Modelling
6 32 (18.60%) Data Analysis
6 32 (18.60%) DevOps
7 30 (17.44%) Decision-Making
7 30 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (15.70%) Visualisation
9 22 (12.79%) Waterfall
10 21 (12.21%) Data Governance
11 18 (10.47%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (9.30%) ETL
13 15 (8.72%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.72%) Service Management
14 14 (8.14%) AI
14 14 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (8.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.67%) SQL
2 19 (11.05%) Python
3 16 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.65%) C#
5 7 (4.07%) R
6 5 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.74%) Bicep
8 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.74%) VBA
9 1 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.88%) Degree
4 5 (2.91%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.74%) PMP
5 3 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.95%) PMO
2 21 (12.21%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.23%) QA
4 7 (4.07%) GDPR
5 5 (2.91%) SLA
6 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.91%) SCCM
3 2 (1.16%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Databricks
3 16 (9.30%) Oracle
4 15 (8.72%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.65%) Foundry
7 7 (4.07%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.91%) Remedy
9 4 (2.33%) IFS
9 4 (2.33%) Palantir
10 3 (1.74%) BMC
11 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.16%) Cognos
11 2 (1.16%) Informatica
11 2 (1.16%) Talend
12 1 (0.58%) Adobe
12 1 (0.58%) Arqiva
12 1 (0.58%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.58%) SAP