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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 44 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 -10
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 153 141 160
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.34% 4.39% 2.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.61% 13.49% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 98 97
10th Percentile £300 £304 £241
25th Percentile £394 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £560
90th Percentile £650 £575 £638
England median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 14
10th Percentile - - £21.48
25th Percentile £12.29 £41.25 £22.77
Median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -41.41% +95.39% -18.69%
75th Percentile £96.25 £64.73 £58.63
90th Percentile £101.65 - £75.19
England median hourly rate £20.69 £28.60 £24.43
% change year-on-year -27.67% +17.07% -60.91%

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 1,442 1,045 1,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.44% 32.51% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 708 1,015
10th Percentile £250 £250 £200
25th Percentile £368 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £512 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -0.13% -2.38%
75th Percentile £576 £616 £615
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 20 52
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.23 £16.52
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £60.34
90th Percentile £93.20 £75.67 £64.30
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.88% -9.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -13 86 £500 +2.04% 32
Berkshire -27 54 £505 +3.06% 17
Hampshire -1 37 £375 -6.25% 35
Buckinghamshire +9 26 £450 -10.00% 7
Surrey -19 11 £593 +24.74% 22
Kent -1 7 £600 +17.07% 14
Oxfordshire -8 6 £388 +10.71% 9
West Sussex -10 6 £333 -21.36% 11
East Sussex +3 5 £375 -21.05% 1
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 (20.92%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) Confluence
3 3 (1.96%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 43 (28.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.96%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.99%) Azure
2 45 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (15.69%) PowerApps
4 21 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (13.07%) Power Automate
6 15 (9.80%) SaaS
7 14 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (7.84%) Copilot Studio
8 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (6.54%) AWS
9 10 (6.54%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.58%) GCP
11 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.27%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.27%) GitHub
12 5 (3.27%) Serverless
13 4 (2.61%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) DNS
1 3 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.31%) 2G
2 2 (1.31%) 5G
2 2 (1.31%) LTE
2 2 (1.31%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.31%) Network Security
2 2 (1.31%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.31%) VoIP
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (83.66%) Power BI
2 12 (7.84%) Tableau
3 10 (6.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 9 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.61%) Metadata
8 3 (1.96%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.96%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.31%) Big Data
9 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.31%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) JIRA
2 5 (3.27%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 63 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 43 (28.10%) Finance
3 40 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.46%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.58%) Retail
8 4 (2.61%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Billing
9 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.31%) Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (30.72%) Analyst
2 20 (13.07%) Data Analyst
3 19 (12.42%) Developer
4 18 (11.76%) Architect
5 17 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
6 11 (7.19%) Platform Architect
6 11 (7.19%) Power Platform Architect
6 11 (7.19%) Senior
7 9 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.88%) Lead
8 8 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.23%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.58%) Integration Manager
9 7 (4.58%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.92%) Consultant
10 6 (3.92%) Resource Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Oracle Project Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.58%) ADO
2 4 (2.61%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) Plotly
4 2 (1.31%) .NET
4 2 (1.31%) CSS
4 2 (1.31%) HTML
4 2 (1.31%) JSON
4 2 (1.31%) Node.js
4 2 (1.31%) Pandas
4 2 (1.31%) PySpark
4 2 (1.31%) SPFx
4 2 (1.31%) Web Services
5 1 (0.65%) ATL
5 1 (0.65%) EDI
5 1 (0.65%) Kafka
5 1 (0.65%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.65%) NumPy
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.96%) PKI
4 2 (1.31%) CMDB
4 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.31%) IoT
4 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.65%) AS400
5 1 (0.65%) Replication
5 1 (0.65%) SCADA
5 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
1 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (74.51%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (26.14%) Agile
4 31 (20.26%) DevOps
5 26 (16.99%) Analytics
6 25 (16.34%) Data Analysis
6 25 (16.34%) Waterfall
7 22 (14.38%) Data Modelling
7 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (14.38%) Visualisation
8 20 (13.07%) Decision-Making
9 18 (11.76%) CRM
10 17 (11.11%) AI
11 16 (10.46%) Matrix Organization
11 16 (10.46%) PRINCE2
12 14 (9.15%) Data Governance
12 14 (9.15%) Project Management
13 13 (8.50%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (8.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.84%) SQL
2 17 (11.11%) Python
3 11 (7.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.23%) R
5 5 (3.27%) C#
6 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.96%) VBA
7 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.31%) X++
8 1 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.46%) Degree
4 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.96%) PMP
4 3 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.31%) ACCA
5 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.31%) CIMA
5 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.42%) PMO
2 12 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.92%) QA
4 3 (1.96%) GDPR
5 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.96%) SCCM
3 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.42%) Oracle
3 16 (10.46%) Databricks
4 10 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.58%) Foundry
6 7 (4.58%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.58%) SAP
7 4 (2.61%) Cognos
8 3 (1.96%) Palantir
9 2 (1.31%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.31%) Blue Prism
9 2 (1.31%) Informatica
9 2 (1.31%) Talend
10 1 (0.65%) Arqiva
10 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.65%) IFS
10 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft