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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 52 77
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 131 159 153
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.09% 4.01% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.95% 13.11% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 107 94
10th Percentile £255 £344 £221
25th Percentile £350 £378 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £588
90th Percentile £666 £638 £638
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £88.00 - £21.02
25th Percentile £92.50 £41.25 £21.60
Median hourly rate £100.00 £63.15 £38.66
Median % change year-on-year +58.35% +63.35% +66.28%
75th Percentile £102.75 £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £104.40 - £75.19
England median hourly rate £24.02 £30.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -19.95% -4.49% -11.52%

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 1,316 1,213 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.02% 30.62% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 825 1,044
10th Percentile £204 £268 £211
25th Percentile £363 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 20 38
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.15 £18.32
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.80 £20.12
Median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%
75th Percentile £40.65 £55.20 £53.21
90th Percentile £91.40 £64.73 £74.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 8 December 2025.

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
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 8 December 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 -19 77 £475 -6.86% 104
Berkshire -27 46 £543 +1.02% 54
Hampshire +6 27 £515 +28.75% 65
Buckinghamshire +1 17 £475 +5.56% 35
Oxfordshire 0 14 £350 -9.68% 22
Surrey -12 12 £475 - 24
West Sussex -5 10 £175 -58.61% 26
East Sussex +3 3 £600 +9.09% 6
Kent +3 3 £481 -6.10% 27
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
Sussex - 1 £525 - 6
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 34 (25.95%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (29.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.05%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.29%) Primavera
6 1 (0.76%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.76%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.30%) Azure
2 37 (28.24%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (12.98%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.45%) PowerApps
5 14 (10.69%) AWS
6 13 (9.92%) GCP
6 13 (9.92%) SaaS
7 8 (6.11%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (4.58%) Miro
9 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.05%) dbt
10 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (1.53%) Collibra
12 2 (1.53%) Contentsquare
12 2 (1.53%) Lucidchart
12 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) 2G
1 2 (1.53%) 5G
1 2 (1.53%) DNS
1 2 (1.53%) LTE
1 2 (1.53%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.53%) VoIP
1 2 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (84.73%) Power BI
2 22 (16.79%) Tableau
3 10 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.82%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (3.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (2.29%) Metadata
8 2 (1.53%) Big Data
8 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.53%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.53%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Looker
9 1 (0.76%) QlikView
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) NeoLoad
General
1 65 (49.62%) Social Skills
2 41 (31.30%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (30.53%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (8.40%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.82%) Marketing
8 4 (3.05%) Local Government
8 4 (3.05%) Retail
9 3 (2.29%) Billing
9 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Electronics
10 2 (1.53%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (30.53%) Analyst
2 22 (16.79%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.69%) Senior
4 11 (8.40%) Developer
5 10 (7.63%) Accountant
5 10 (7.63%) Project Manager
5 10 (7.63%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (6.87%) Administrator
6 9 (6.87%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.11%) Lead
7 8 (6.11%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.34%) Oracle Project Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) IFS Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.58%) Resource Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.05%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) ADO
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.53%) .NET
3 2 (1.53%) CSS
3 2 (1.53%) HTML
3 2 (1.53%) Pandas
3 2 (1.53%) Plotly
3 2 (1.53%) REST
3 2 (1.53%) SPFx
3 2 (1.53%) Web Services
4 1 (0.76%) ATL
4 1 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.76%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.76%) MDX
4 1 (0.76%) NumPy
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.29%) PKI
5 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.53%) IoT
5 2 (1.53%) Life Science
5 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.76%) AS400
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) PMI
6 1 (0.76%) SCADA
6 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
1 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (71.76%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (33.59%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (28.24%) Agile
4 28 (21.37%) Analytics
5 26 (19.85%) Visualisation
6 25 (19.08%) Decision-Making
7 21 (16.03%) CRM
7 21 (16.03%) DevOps
7 21 (16.03%) Project Management
7 21 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (15.27%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (14.50%) Data Analysis
9 19 (14.50%) Data Modelling
9 19 (14.50%) ERP
9 19 (14.50%) Waterfall
10 16 (12.21%) Validation
11 15 (11.45%) Matrix Organization
12 14 (10.69%) Data Management
12 14 (10.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (38.17%) SQL
2 24 (18.32%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) R
4 7 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.29%) C#
5 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.53%) X++
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (16.79%) Degree
2 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
3 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.05%) CCAB
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.53%) ACCA
7 2 (1.53%) CIMA
7 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) PMO
3 7 (5.34%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (37.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.61%) Oracle
3 12 (9.16%) SAP
4 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.87%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Databricks
5 6 (4.58%) IFS
6 3 (2.29%) Adobe
6 3 (2.29%) Foundry
6 3 (2.29%) Google
6 3 (2.29%) Palantir
7 2 (1.53%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.53%) Cognos
7 2 (1.53%) Informatica
7 2 (1.53%) Talend
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) Arqiva
8 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) TikTok