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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 51 83
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 -20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 120 165 143
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.10% 3.96% 2.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.84% 13.39% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 108 82
10th Percentile £222 £312 £213
25th Percentile £350 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £636
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 16
10th Percentile - £33.05 £21.03
25th Percentile - £41.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £32.31 £63.15 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +95.39% +51.74%
75th Percentile - £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile - £73.84 £72.14
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% -23.57% +12.14%

All Cloud 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 1,220 1,232 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.52% 29.55% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 836 1,086
10th Percentile £204 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £663 £695
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £18.59
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +32.72%
75th Percentile £27.88 £60.95 £57.81
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £71.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 7 November 2025.

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
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 7 November 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
Thames Valley -19 72 £475 -5.00% 309
Berkshire -25 45 £543 +6.47% 249
Hampshire -3 22 £515 +3.00% 54
Buckinghamshire +4 14 £475 +8.57% 40
Oxfordshire 0 13 £350 -12.50% 21
Surrey -10 11 £363 -23.68% 20
West Sussex - 10 £175 - 12
East Sussex 0 3 £600 -4.00% 27
Kent 0 2 £313 -39.02% 12
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
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 26 (21.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (28.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.33%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.50%) Primavera
6 1 (0.83%) BPCS
6 1 (0.83%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.83%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (14.17%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 12 (10.00%) GCP
6 9 (7.50%) AWS
6 9 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.00%) SaaS
8 5 (4.17%) Miro
8 5 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.33%) dbt
10 3 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.67%) Contentsquare
11 2 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.67%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) 2G
1 2 (1.67%) 5G
1 2 (1.67%) DNS
1 2 (1.67%) LTE
1 2 (1.67%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.67%) VoIP
1 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (85.83%) Power BI
2 24 (20.00%) Tableau
3 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 3 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.83%) Big Data
10 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.83%) Looker
10 1 (0.83%) Metadata
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.83%) QlikView
10 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) NeoLoad
General
1 51 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.33%) Finance
3 39 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.00%) Marketing
5 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Local Government
6 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Retail
8 3 (2.50%) Billing
8 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Electronics
9 2 (1.67%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
10 1 (0.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (35.83%) Analyst
2 23 (19.17%) Data Analyst
3 12 (10.00%) Developer
4 11 (9.17%) Senior
5 10 (8.33%) Accountant
5 10 (8.33%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (7.50%) Administrator
6 9 (7.50%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
7 8 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (5.00%) IFS Systems Administrator
10 5 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) .NET
2 3 (2.50%) ADO
2 3 (2.50%) CSS
2 3 (2.50%) HTML
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.50%) Web Services
3 2 (1.67%) EDI
3 2 (1.67%) Pandas
3 2 (1.67%) Plotly
3 2 (1.67%) SPFx
4 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.83%) ATL
4 1 (0.83%) OAuth
4 1 (0.83%) ODBC
4 1 (0.83%) PySpark
4 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.83%) React
4 1 (0.83%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.67%) IoT
4 2 (1.67%) Life Science
4 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.83%) AS400
5 1 (0.83%) PMI
5 1 (0.83%) SCADA
5 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
1 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (72.50%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (28.33%) Agile
3 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (24.17%) Analytics
5 28 (23.33%) Decision-Making
6 27 (22.50%) Visualisation
7 21 (17.50%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (17.50%) ERP
7 21 (17.50%) Project Management
8 20 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 20 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 19 (15.83%) CRM
10 16 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (13.33%) Validation
11 14 (11.67%) DevOps
11 14 (11.67%) Waterfall
12 13 (10.83%) Data Management
12 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (9.17%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.67%) SQL
2 25 (20.83%) Python
3 9 (7.50%) R
4 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.33%) C#
6 3 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.50%) X++
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) Bicep
7 1 (0.83%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.17%) ACCA
5 5 (4.17%) CIMA
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.33%) CCAB
7 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.83%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 4 (3.33%) PMO
4 2 (1.67%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (21.67%) Oracle
3 16 (13.33%) SAP
4 9 (7.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.00%) IFS
5 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.33%) Databricks
7 3 (2.50%) Adobe
7 3 (2.50%) Google
8 2 (1.67%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.67%) Cognos
8 2 (1.67%) Foundry
8 2 (1.67%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.67%) Palantir
9 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.83%) Arqiva
9 1 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.83%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.83%) TikTok