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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 250 129 181
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.80% 3.77% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.20% 12.37% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 76 120
10th Percentile £269 £263 £304
25th Percentile £365 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +1.35% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £608 £644 £638
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 2
10th Percentile £21.77 - £26.93
25th Percentile £30.94 - £36.19
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -39.81% +64.86%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.18 £71.19
90th Percentile £101.03 £32.26 £80.98
England median hourly rate £29.98 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.46% +6.83% -18.92%

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 1,761 1,043 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.75% 30.51% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 673 888
10th Percentile £268 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -1.77% -5.30%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £623
90th Percentile £685 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 42
10th Percentile £20.85 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.98
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +271.94% -31.56% +1.85%
75th Percentile £85.00 £32.18 £58.06
90th Percentile £105.20 £48.00 £61.01
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -25 94 £475 - 47
Berkshire -12 66 £500 +0.76% 25
Hampshire -1 63 £525 - 26
West Sussex -2 39 £380 -5.00% 5
Surrey -14 31 £461 +53.67% 16
Oxfordshire -16 14 £400 +45.45% 4
Buckinghamshire -31 14 £475 -13.64% 18
East Sussex +7 9 £500 -21.57% 6
Kent - 7 £550 - 6
Home Counties -1 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 - - 3
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 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 56 (22.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.20%) 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 (5.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.20%) iTrent
3 4 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.80%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.80%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Primavera
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 82 (32.80%) Azure
2 30 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.20%) Power Automate
4 18 (7.20%) PowerApps
5 17 (6.80%) AWS
6 16 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.60%) Serverless
8 9 (3.60%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (3.20%) GCP
9 8 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.80%) dbt
10 7 (2.80%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.80%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.80%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.40%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.40%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Network Security
1 2 (0.80%) VPN
1 2 (0.80%) 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
1 216 (86.40%) Power BI
2 27 (10.80%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (10.80%) Tableau
3 20 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.40%) Metadata
5 6 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.60%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.60%) MySQL
7 4 (1.60%) Power Query
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
8 3 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.80%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 17 (6.80%) JIRA
2 9 (3.60%) Git
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.60%) JUnit
4 2 (0.80%) 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 (29.60%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 55 (22.00%) Finance
4 20 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (8.00%) Retail
5 18 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.60%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.80%) Marketing
7 7 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Banking
8 5 (2.00%) Billing
8 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Military
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (31.20%) Analyst
2 38 (15.20%) Data Analyst
3 27 (10.80%) Senior
4 24 (9.60%) Architect
4 24 (9.60%) Developer
4 24 (9.60%) Lead
5 18 (7.20%) Consultant
6 13 (5.20%) Business Analyst
7 12 (4.80%) Data Engineer
7 12 (4.80%) Power Platform Consultant
8 11 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) PMO Analyst
9 9 (3.60%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.80%) HR Analyst
11 7 (2.80%) HR Data Analyst
11 7 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.60%) REST
2 8 (3.20%) .NET
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (2.40%) EDI
5 5 (2.00%) JSON
5 5 (2.00%) Middleware
5 5 (2.00%) Web Services
6 4 (1.60%) CSS
6 4 (1.60%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.60%) HTML
6 4 (1.60%) JPA
6 4 (1.60%) jQuery
6 4 (1.60%) Spring
6 4 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.60%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.20%) Node.js
7 3 (1.20%) PySpark
8 2 (0.80%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.80%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.80%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.80%) Data Structures
1 12 (4.80%) PKI
2 10 (4.00%) CMDB
3 9 (3.60%) Clustering
3 9 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.40%) FMCG
6 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.60%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.80%) Wiki
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.40%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.00%) Windows
2 12 (4.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.60%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (82.40%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (27.60%) Agile
3 63 (25.20%) Analytics
4 62 (24.80%) Decision-Making
5 52 (20.80%) Data Modelling
6 47 (18.80%) DevOps
7 45 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 38 (15.20%) ERP
10 37 (14.80%) Visualisation
11 33 (13.20%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (13.20%) Validation
12 32 (12.80%) ETL
13 31 (12.40%) Dashboard Development
13 31 (12.40%) Data Analysis
14 30 (12.00%) Data Governance
15 29 (11.60%) Process Improvement
16 28 (11.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (39.20%) SQL
2 25 (10.00%) Python
3 19 (7.60%) JavaScript
4 18 (7.20%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.00%) T-SQL
7 11 (4.40%) C#
8 8 (3.20%) X++
9 7 (2.80%) R
10 5 (2.00%) Java
10 5 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.20%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.40%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.40%) Degree
4 14 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.80%) PMP
7 6 (2.40%) ACCA
7 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CIMA
8 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.80%) GDPR
3 21 (8.40%) QA
4 16 (6.40%) PMO
5 9 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.80%) SLA
7 5 (2.00%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) 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 (7.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.60%) SCCM
1 4 (1.60%) Terraform
2 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (35.60%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.00%) SAP
3 20 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 19 (7.60%) Oracle
5 14 (5.60%) Databricks
5 14 (5.60%) Remedy
6 13 (5.20%) IFS
7 12 (4.80%) BMC
8 10 (4.00%) Foundry
9 8 (3.20%) Workday
10 6 (2.40%) Baan
11 5 (2.00%) Palantir
12 4 (1.60%) Google
12 4 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.80%) Informatica
13 2 (0.80%) NEC
14 1 (0.40%) Adobe
14 1 (0.40%) Apple
14 1 (0.40%) Cisco