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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 47 81
Rank change year-on-year -19 +34 -23
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 132 166 139
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.26% 4.03% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.32% 13.47% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 108 83
10th Percentile £244 £313 £214
25th Percentile £350 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £570 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £635
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £48.12 £33.05 £21.02
25th Percentile £71.83 £41.25 £21.60
Median hourly rate £95.00 £63.15 £38.66
Median % change year-on-year +50.44% +63.35% +76.53%
75th Percentile £101.38 £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £103.85 £73.84 £75.19
England median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £35.16
% change year-on-year -16.63% -14.68% +0.46%

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 1,279 1,232 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.56% 29.90% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 840 1,036
10th Percentile £204 £274 £207
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -1.90% +0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 20 39
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.15 £18.86
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +57.41% +30.31%
75th Percentile £40.33 £60.86 £57.81
90th Percentile £89.60 £65.22 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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

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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 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South East

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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 24 November 2025.

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 24 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 -23 76 £475 -5.00% 69
Berkshire -26 48 £531 +2.51% 28
Hampshire -4 26 £515 +24.85% 38
Buckinghamshire -4 15 £475 +5.56% 26
Oxfordshire 0 13 £350 -12.50% 19
Surrey -9 13 £450 -5.26% 13
West Sussex -1 11 £213 -49.69% 28
East Sussex +4 3 £600 -4.00% 17
Kent +2 3 £481 -6.10% 12
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
Sussex - 1 £525 - 20
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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 28 (21.21%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (30.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.03%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.76%) BPCS
6 1 (0.76%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.76%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.79%) Azure
2 30 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (14.39%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (11.36%) PowerApps
5 14 (10.61%) AWS
6 13 (9.85%) GCP
7 10 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.82%) SaaS
9 7 (5.30%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.55%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.79%) Miro
12 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (3.03%) dbt
13 3 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
13 3 (2.27%) OneDrive
14 2 (1.52%) Collibra
14 2 (1.52%) Contentsquare
14 2 (1.52%) Lucidchart
14 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) 2G
1 2 (1.52%) 5G
1 2 (1.52%) DNS
1 2 (1.52%) LTE
1 2 (1.52%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.52%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.52%) VoIP
1 2 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (84.09%) Power BI
2 24 (18.18%) Tableau
3 10 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.79%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.27%) Metadata
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.52%) Big Data
7 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.76%) Looker
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.76%) QlikView
8 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) NeoLoad
General
1 63 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 45 (34.09%) Finance
3 44 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.55%) Marketing
9 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.03%) Local Government
10 4 (3.03%) Retail
11 3 (2.27%) Billing
11 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.52%) Banking
12 2 (1.52%) Electronics
12 2 (1.52%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.76%) Automotive
13 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (34.85%) Analyst
2 23 (17.42%) Data Analyst
3 13 (9.85%) Senior
4 12 (9.09%) Developer
5 10 (7.58%) Accountant
5 10 (7.58%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (6.82%) Administrator
6 9 (6.82%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.06%) Lead
7 8 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (4.55%) IFS Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.79%) Resource Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Architect
11 4 (3.03%) Data Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) .NET
1 4 (3.03%) ADO
2 3 (2.27%) CSS
2 3 (2.27%) HTML
2 3 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.27%) Web Services
3 2 (1.52%) EDI
3 2 (1.52%) Pandas
3 2 (1.52%) Plotly
3 2 (1.52%) SPFx
4 1 (0.76%) ATL
4 1 (0.76%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.76%) NumPy
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth
4 1 (0.76%) ODBC
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.76%) React
4 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.27%) PKI
5 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.52%) IoT
5 2 (1.52%) Life Science
5 2 (1.52%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.76%) AS400
6 1 (0.76%) PMI
6 1 (0.76%) SCADA
6 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
1 2 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (71.21%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (28.03%) Agile
4 31 (23.48%) Analytics
5 28 (21.21%) Visualisation
6 27 (20.45%) Decision-Making
7 22 (16.67%) Project Management
7 22 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (15.91%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (15.91%) CRM
8 21 (15.91%) Data Analysis
8 21 (15.91%) Data Modelling
8 21 (15.91%) ERP
9 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (12.88%) DevOps
10 17 (12.88%) Validation
11 16 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
12 15 (11.36%) Data Management
13 14 (10.61%) Waterfall
14 12 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.91%) SQL
2 24 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (6.82%) R
4 7 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.03%) C#
5 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.27%) X++
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Degree
2 19 (14.39%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.79%) ACCA
5 5 (3.79%) CIMA
6 4 (3.03%) CCAB
6 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) QA
3 6 (4.55%) PMO
4 2 (1.52%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.52%) SCCM
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 49 (37.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.70%) Oracle
3 17 (12.88%) SAP
4 9 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.55%) Databricks
5 6 (4.55%) IFS
6 3 (2.27%) Adobe
6 3 (2.27%) Foundry
6 3 (2.27%) Google
6 3 (2.27%) Palantir
7 2 (1.52%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.52%) Cognos
7 2 (1.52%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.52%) Informatica
7 2 (1.52%) Talend
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) Arqiva
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) TikTok