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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 61 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 240 120 160
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.64% 3.35% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.19% 10.38% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 75 103
10th Percentile £249 £222 £270
25th Percentile £380 £330 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £575
90th Percentile £623 £640 £638
England median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 7
10th Percentile £26.08 - £33.05
25th Percentile £38.25 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -48.84% +111.20%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £64.73
90th Percentile £102.05 - £73.84
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -23.57%

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 1,820 1,156 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.58% 32.25% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 761 799
10th Percentile £263 £204 £262
25th Percentile £410 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £663
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 46 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.50 £19.45
25th Percentile £25.00 £14.75 £23.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +202.86% -61.77% +75.93%
75th Percentile £80.38 £27.50 £60.95
90th Percentile £101.90 £40.65 £64.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -18 99 £500 +5.26% 96
Berkshire -6 62 £558 +4.01% 61
Surrey +14 48 £461 +53.67% 40
Hampshire -14 40 £525 +1.94% 35
West Sussex -4 34 £371 +115.07% 20
Buckinghamshire -8 25 £475 +5.56% 23
Oxfordshire -23 12 £375 +7.14% 13
East Sussex +4 7 £558 -7.00% 6
Middlesex - 5 - -
Kent 0 4 £550 +76.00% 9
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 25 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.08%) Confluence
3 3 (1.25%) Apache
3 3 (1.25%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 46 (19.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.67%) iTrent
4 3 (1.25%) Maximo
5 2 (0.83%) Primavera
5 2 (0.83%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.08%) Azure
2 26 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
2 26 (10.83%) Power Automate
3 22 (9.17%) PowerApps
4 19 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (6.25%) AWS
7 14 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.42%) Serverless
9 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (4.17%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (3.33%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.50%) dbt
12 6 (2.50%) GCP
12 6 (2.50%) GitHub
12 6 (2.50%) SaaS
12 6 (2.50%) Smartsheet
13 5 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.42%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
2 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (82.92%) Power BI
2 23 (9.58%) Tableau
3 17 (7.08%) Data Lake
3 17 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.33%) Power Query
6 6 (2.50%) Metadata
7 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.67%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.67%) GIS
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
7 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.83%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.42%) JIRA
2 7 (2.92%) Git
3 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) JMeter
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 82 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.67%) Finance
3 48 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.00%) Retail
7 11 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.17%) Legal
9 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.50%) Marketing
12 5 (2.08%) Banking
13 4 (1.67%) Billing
14 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.25%) Local Government
15 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.42%) Automotive
16 1 (0.42%) Military
16 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (23.75%) Analyst
2 36 (15.00%) Developer
3 33 (13.75%) Data Analyst
4 28 (11.67%) Senior
5 20 (8.33%) Lead
6 19 (7.92%) Consultant
7 15 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.83%) Architect
9 12 (5.00%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (4.17%) Power Platform Consultant
12 9 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (3.75%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Data Business Analyst
13 7 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.50%) Power Platform Developer
14 6 (2.50%) Systems Analyst
15 5 (2.08%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.00%) .NET
1 12 (5.00%) REST
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (2.92%) Middleware
3 6 (2.50%) EDI
4 5 (2.08%) Terraform
5 4 (1.67%) CSS
5 4 (1.67%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.67%) HTML
5 4 (1.67%) JPA
5 4 (1.67%) jQuery
5 4 (1.67%) Spring
5 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.67%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.25%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.25%) PySpark
6 3 (1.25%) Web Services
7 2 (0.83%) React
7 2 (0.83%) SPFx
8 1 (0.42%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.58%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.75%) Clustering
5 7 (2.92%) PKI
6 6 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.08%) Social Media
8 4 (1.67%) FMCG
8 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.25%) AS400
9 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.25%) PMI
10 2 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.92%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Linux
5 1 (0.42%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (81.67%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (31.25%) Analytics
3 68 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (27.50%) Decision-Making
5 62 (25.83%) Agile
6 59 (24.58%) Data Modelling
7 43 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (17.50%) AI
9 40 (16.67%) ETL
10 37 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (15.00%) Visualisation
12 35 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
12 35 (14.58%) DevOps
13 33 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (12.92%) Data Governance
15 28 (11.67%) Roadmaps
16 26 (10.83%) CI/CD
16 26 (10.83%) Dashboard Development
16 26 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (10.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 99 (41.25%) SQL
2 26 (10.83%) Python
3 22 (9.17%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.33%) C#
8 7 (2.92%) X++
9 6 (2.50%) Java
10 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.25%) R
13 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.83%) VBA
14 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.42%) JCL
14 1 (0.42%) LookML
Qualifications
1 59 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.92%) Degree
4 12 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.08%) PMP
8 3 (1.25%) ACCA
8 3 (1.25%) CIMA
8 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.83%) CAPM
9 2 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.58%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.25%) PMO
2 15 (6.25%) QA
3 9 (3.75%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.25%) GMP
6 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.25%) Grafana
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (51.25%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.00%) SAP
3 31 (12.92%) Databricks
4 18 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 17 (7.08%) Oracle
6 7 (2.92%) BMC
6 7 (2.92%) Google
6 7 (2.92%) Remedy
6 7 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.92%) Workday
7 6 (2.50%) Baan
8 4 (1.67%) Ariba
8 4 (1.67%) Foundry
8 4 (1.67%) IBM
8 4 (1.67%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) ESRI
9 3 (1.25%) IFS
9 3 (1.25%) Palantir
9 3 (1.25%) Teradata
10 2 (0.83%) OpenAI