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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 242 104 169
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.04% 3.56% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.68% 11.83% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 67 107
10th Percentile £285 £304 £296
25th Percentile £380 £403 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £522
90th Percentile £636 £643 £633
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 4
10th Percentile £12.29 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 - £22.61
Median hourly rate £37.06 £32.05 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +34.54% -26.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £33.70
90th Percentile £85.46 - £50.38
England median hourly rate £28.55 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -9.77% +36.29% -54.51%

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 1,649 879 1,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.50% 30.09% 23.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 593 904
10th Percentile £286 £253 £256
25th Percentile £406 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £685 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 33 53
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.59 £16.54
25th Percentile £26.63 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% +14.61% +4.85%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £104.00 £74.75 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -2 108 £500 +1.52% 54
Berkshire 0 75 £505 +9.19% 28
Hampshire +5 58 £500 -4.76% 17
Surrey -5 29 £500 +22.32% 17
West Sussex -2 27 £380 -10.59% 9
Buckinghamshire -20 23 £450 -18.18% 16
East Sussex +4 10 £480 -13.80% 3
Oxfordshire -19 10 £500 +40.35% 11
Kent - 4 £600 - 8
Home Counties - 2 - -
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 30 (12.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 56 (23.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) InDesign
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.31%) iTrent
3 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.83%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 82 (33.88%) Azure
2 38 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (12.81%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (10.74%) Power Automate
5 24 (9.92%) PowerApps
6 15 (6.20%) AWS
6 15 (6.20%) Serverless
7 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (5.37%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (4.55%) SaaS
10 10 (4.13%) Azure Functions
10 10 (4.13%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.31%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.31%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.89%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.48%) Azure AI
13 6 (2.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Network Security
1 2 (0.83%) VPN
1 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.41%) DHCP
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (88.43%) Power BI
2 24 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (9.09%) Tableau
4 17 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 8 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.07%) Metadata
9 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.83%) QlikView
12 2 (0.83%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (9.50%) JIRA
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) ERwin
4 1 (0.41%) Hudson
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 69 (28.51%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 56 (23.14%) Finance
4 20 (8.26%) Retail
5 18 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.07%) Marketing
10 3 (1.24%) Billing
10 3 (1.24%) Military
10 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.83%) Advertising
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (29.34%) Analyst
2 33 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 31 (12.81%) Architect
4 23 (9.50%) Senior
5 21 (8.68%) Developer
6 20 (8.26%) PMO Analyst
7 19 (7.85%) Lead
8 17 (7.02%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.20%) Consultant
10 12 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (4.96%) Platform Architect
10 12 (4.96%) Power Platform Architect
11 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (4.13%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.72%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.72%) Power Platform Consultant
13 8 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.37%) REST
2 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (2.07%) JSON
4 4 (1.65%) .NET
4 4 (1.65%) ADO
5 3 (1.24%) EDI
5 3 (1.24%) Middleware
5 3 (1.24%) Node.js
5 3 (1.24%) Web Services
6 2 (0.83%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.83%) PySpark
6 2 (0.83%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.83%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.83%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.83%) XML
6 2 (0.83%) YAML
7 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Plotly
7 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.13%) CMDB
1 10 (4.13%) PKI
2 9 (3.72%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.89%) Clustering
4 6 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.07%) FMCG
5 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Wiki
9 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Life Science
9 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.96%) Windows
2 10 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (83.06%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (26.86%) Agile
3 53 (21.90%) DevOps
4 48 (19.83%) Decision-Making
4 48 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (18.60%) Data Modelling
6 44 (18.18%) Analytics
7 37 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (12.81%) ERP
8 31 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (12.81%) Visualisation
9 29 (11.98%) ETL
10 27 (11.16%) Process Improvement
11 26 (10.74%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (10.33%) Data Analysis
12 25 (10.33%) Validation
13 24 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (9.92%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.50%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.58%) SQL
2 19 (7.85%) Python
3 18 (7.44%) PowerShell
4 14 (5.79%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.72%) C#
8 6 (2.48%) R
9 4 (1.65%) X++
10 3 (1.24%) Bicep
10 3 (1.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.61%) Degree
4 10 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.07%) ACCA
5 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.07%) PMP
6 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.24%) CIMA
7 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.05%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.68%) PMO
3 20 (8.26%) GDPR
4 15 (6.20%) QA
5 9 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.48%) SLA
7 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (7.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.65%) SCCM
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.24%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (34.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.68%) Oracle
3 20 (8.26%) SAP
4 18 (7.44%) Databricks
5 15 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.37%) IFS
7 12 (4.96%) Remedy
8 10 (4.13%) BMC
9 9 (3.72%) Foundry
10 8 (3.31%) Workday
11 7 (2.89%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.65%) Palantir
13 3 (1.24%) Baan
13 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.83%) Cognos
15 1 (0.41%) Adobe
15 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
15 1 (0.41%) Apple
15 1 (0.41%) Cisco
15 1 (0.41%) Informatica