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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 240 120 158
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.69% 3.38% 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.45% 10.63% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 74 101
10th Percentile £249 £222 £310
25th Percentile £380 £320 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £575
90th Percentile £623 £620 £638
England median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £26.08 - £33.05
25th Percentile £38.25 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% -49.25% +95.51%
75th Percentile £92.50 £32.18 £64.73
90th Percentile £102.05 £32.26 £73.84
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.53 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.92% -4.90% -25.93%

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 1,785 1,129 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.43% 31.79% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 744 791
10th Percentile £263 £204 £281
25th Percentile £413 £350 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 44 23
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £18.66
25th Percentile £25.00 £14.75 £21.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +178.96% -55.72% +57.41%
75th Percentile £79.44 £30.51 £60.83
90th Percentile £102.13 £45.45 £64.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -10 99 £488 +5.41% 195
Berkshire -12 60 £550 +4.76% 118
Surrey +12 45 £461 +53.67% 62
Hampshire -17 42 £525 +1.94% 73
West Sussex -3 35 £367 +112.61% 35
Buckinghamshire -4 28 £475 +5.56% 56
Oxfordshire -32 11 £375 +7.14% 22
East Sussex +7 7 £558 -7.00% 20
Middlesex - 5 - - 3
Kent +1 4 £550 +76.00% 15
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 23 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.08%) Confluence
3 3 (1.25%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 47 (19.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.67%) iTrent
2 4 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.25%) Maximo
4 2 (0.83%) Primavera
4 2 (0.83%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.08%) Azure
2 27 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.83%) Power Automate
4 20 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 17 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (6.67%) AWS
7 12 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.00%) Serverless
8 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (3.33%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.92%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (2.50%) dbt
11 6 (2.50%) GCP
11 6 (2.50%) Smartsheet
12 5 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.42%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
2 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (83.75%) Power BI
2 23 (9.58%) Tableau
3 18 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.42%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.33%) Power Query
7 6 (2.50%) Metadata
8 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.67%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.67%) GIS
8 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.83%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.42%) JIRA
2 7 (2.92%) Git
3 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) JMeter
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 83 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.67%) Finance
3 48 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.08%) Aerospace
5 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.00%) Retail
7 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.92%) Legal
9 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.50%) Marketing
10 5 (2.08%) Banking
10 5 (2.08%) Billing
11 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Military
13 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (23.33%) Analyst
2 37 (15.42%) Developer
3 32 (13.33%) Data Analyst
4 29 (12.08%) Senior
5 20 (8.33%) Lead
6 18 (7.50%) Consultant
7 14 (5.83%) Architect
7 14 (5.83%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Engineer
8 11 (4.58%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Power Platform Consultant
10 9 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
13 6 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.50%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (2.50%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.58%) .NET
2 10 (4.17%) REST
3 7 (2.92%) Middleware
4 6 (2.50%) EDI
4 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (2.08%) Terraform
6 4 (1.67%) CSS
6 4 (1.67%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.67%) HTML
6 4 (1.67%) JPA
6 4 (1.67%) jQuery
6 4 (1.67%) Spring
6 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.67%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.67%) Web Services
7 2 (0.83%) PySpark
7 2 (0.83%) React
7 2 (0.83%) SPFx
8 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.42%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.58%) Data Structures
1 11 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.92%) Clustering
4 7 (2.92%) PKI
5 5 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.08%) FMCG
5 5 (2.08%) Social Media
6 4 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.25%) PMI
8 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.92%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (82.50%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (30.42%) Analytics
3 66 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (26.25%) Decision-Making
5 59 (24.58%) Agile
5 59 (24.58%) Data Modelling
6 42 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 38 (15.83%) DevOps
8 37 (15.42%) ETL
9 35 (14.58%) AI
9 35 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.17%) Visualisation
11 33 (13.75%) Actionable Insight
12 31 (12.92%) Data Governance
13 29 (12.08%) CI/CD
14 28 (11.67%) ERP
15 26 (10.83%) Roadmaps
16 25 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
17 24 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.83%) SQL
2 24 (10.00%) Python
3 20 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.33%) X++
8 6 (2.50%) C#
8 6 (2.50%) Java
9 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.25%) R
12 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.83%) VBA
13 1 (0.42%) JCL
13 1 (0.42%) LookML
Qualifications
1 62 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.92%) Degree
4 12 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.08%) PMP
8 4 (1.67%) ACCA
9 3 (1.25%) CIMA
9 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.83%) CAPM
10 2 (0.83%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CIPD
11 1 (0.42%) CISA
11 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.67%) QA
3 13 (5.42%) PMO
4 11 (4.58%) GDPR
5 5 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.25%) GMP
7 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.25%) Grafana
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (51.25%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.58%) SAP
3 26 (10.83%) Databricks
4 17 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.67%) Oracle
6 7 (2.92%) BMC
6 7 (2.92%) Google
6 7 (2.92%) Remedy
7 6 (2.50%) Baan
7 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.50%) Workday
8 5 (2.08%) IFS
9 4 (1.67%) Ariba
9 4 (1.67%) Foundry
9 4 (1.67%) IBM
10 3 (1.25%) ESRI
10 3 (1.25%) Informatica
10 3 (1.25%) Palantir
10 3 (1.25%) Teradata
11 1 (0.42%) Axway