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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 52 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 252 127 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.87% 3.76% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.63% 12.29% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 75 119
10th Percentile £278 £263 £301
25th Percentile £367 £365 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £531
90th Percentile £600 £645 £639
England median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £21.77 - £21.49
25th Percentile £30.94 - £22.59
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +31.19% -19.19%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.18 £55.97
90th Percentile £87.17 £32.26 £74.89
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -5.31% +29.51% -33.97%

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 1,723 1,033 1,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.44% 30.55% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 663 900
10th Percentile £280 £250 £285
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -6.88%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £619
90th Percentile £688 £655 £675
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 52 50
10th Percentile £20.70 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £30.81 £15.50 £17.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +245.38% -31.56% +1.85%
75th Percentile £85.00 £32.12 £59.55
90th Percentile £106.40 £47.95 £61.11
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -16 101 £475 - 60
Berkshire -15 69 £500 +3.36% 31
Hampshire +2 62 £525 - 24
West Sussex +2 38 £380 -5.00% 10
Surrey -9 30 £481 +47.85% 21
Buckinghamshire -25 18 £475 -13.64% 19
Oxfordshire -21 14 £400 +60.00% 10
East Sussex +4 8 £500 -10.11% 6
Kent - 6 £550 - 8
Home Counties -1 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 - - 4
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 22 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 56 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.40%) InDesign
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.17%) iTrent
3 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.79%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.79%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.33%) Azure
2 31 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.13%) Power Automate
4 18 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 17 (6.75%) AWS
5 17 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.95%) Serverless
7 14 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.97%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.17%) GCP
9 8 (3.17%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.78%) dbt
10 7 (2.78%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.38%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Network Security
1 2 (0.79%) VPN
1 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) DHCP
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (87.30%) Power BI
2 27 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (10.32%) Tableau
4 20 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.78%) Metadata
7 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.59%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.59%) MySQL
9 4 (1.59%) Power Query
9 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.19%) Big Data
10 3 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (1.19%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.79%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (7.14%) JIRA
2 9 (3.57%) Git
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.59%) JUnit
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) Hudson
5 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 74 (29.37%) Analytical Skills
2 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 57 (22.62%) Finance
4 20 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.54%) Retail
6 8 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.78%) Marketing
7 7 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Banking
8 5 (1.98%) Billing
9 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Military
10 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (30.95%) Analyst
2 40 (15.87%) Data Analyst
3 27 (10.71%) Senior
4 25 (9.92%) Architect
5 24 (9.52%) Developer
6 23 (9.13%) Lead
7 17 (6.75%) Consultant
8 15 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.16%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.76%) Power Platform Consultant
11 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (3.97%) PMO Analyst
13 9 (3.57%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (2.78%) HR Analyst
15 7 (2.78%) HR Data Analyst
15 7 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.56%) REST
2 8 (3.17%) .NET
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.98%) EDI
4 5 (1.98%) JSON
4 5 (1.98%) Middleware
4 5 (1.98%) Web Services
5 4 (1.59%) CSS
5 4 (1.59%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.59%) HTML
5 4 (1.59%) JPA
5 4 (1.59%) jQuery
5 4 (1.59%) Spring
5 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.59%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.19%) Node.js
6 3 (1.19%) PySpark
7 2 (0.79%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.79%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 12 (4.76%) PKI
2 10 (3.97%) CMDB
3 9 (3.57%) Clustering
3 9 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.38%) FMCG
5 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.79%) Wiki
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Windows
2 12 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (82.14%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (27.38%) Agile
3 63 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 60 (23.81%) Analytics
5 54 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 49 (19.44%) DevOps
7 47 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 40 (15.87%) Visualisation
11 37 (14.68%) ERP
12 34 (13.49%) Actionable Insight
12 34 (13.49%) ETL
13 33 (13.10%) Dashboard Development
14 32 (12.70%) Validation
15 31 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (11.90%) Data Analysis
16 30 (11.90%) Data Governance
16 30 (11.90%) Process Improvement
17 28 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 96 (38.10%) SQL
2 25 (9.92%) Python
3 19 (7.54%) JavaScript
3 19 (7.54%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.95%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.37%) C#
7 8 (3.17%) X++
8 7 (2.78%) R
9 5 (1.98%) Java
9 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.19%) Bicep
11 3 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) Degree
4 14 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.78%) PMP
6 6 (2.38%) ACCA
6 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.59%) CIMA
7 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.25%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.13%) GDPR
3 21 (8.33%) QA
4 15 (5.95%) PMO
5 9 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.78%) SLA
7 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) IFRS
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.59%) SCCM
1 4 (1.59%) Terraform
2 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.71%) SAP
3 19 (7.54%) Oracle
3 19 (7.54%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.14%) Databricks
5 14 (5.56%) Remedy
6 13 (5.16%) IFS
7 12 (4.76%) BMC
8 10 (3.97%) Foundry
9 8 (3.17%) Workday
10 5 (1.98%) Baan
10 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.98%) Palantir
11 4 (1.59%) Google
11 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.79%) Cognos
12 2 (0.79%) Informatica
12 2 (0.79%) NEC
13 1 (0.40%) Cisco