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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 252 116 168
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.80% 3.32% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.02% 11.19% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 70 112
10th Percentile £270 £222 £310
25th Percentile £380 £303 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -8.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £575
90th Percentile £623 £628 £638
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £28.00 - £33.00
25th Percentile - - £51.37
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -49.25% +95.51%
75th Percentile £85.25 £32.18 £70.42
90th Percentile £101.75 £32.26 £80.67
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.18 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.77% +6.22% -6.27%

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 1,797 1,037 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.08% 29.65% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 677 808
10th Percentile £263 £204 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 42 24
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £29.07 £15.50 £19.10
Median hourly rate £61.74 £18.82 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +228.06% -53.53% +43.82%
75th Percentile £82.25 £31.54 £60.11
90th Percentile £104.00 £50.65 £64.73
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -12 104 £475 - 91
Berkshire -5 66 £513 -4.38% 48
Hampshire -7 52 £525 +1.94% 45
Surrey +6 38 £461 +53.67% 36
West Sussex +1 36 £380 +120.29% 23
Buckinghamshire -9 28 £475 +5.56% 28
Oxfordshire -29 10 £375 +7.14% 16
East Sussex +5 9 £500 -16.67% 11
Middlesex - 5 - - 11
Kent +3 4 £550 +76.00% 10
Home Counties -2 1 - -
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 (9.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 49 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.17%) iTrent
3 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.79%) Maximo
4 2 (0.79%) Primavera
4 2 (0.79%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.73%) Azure
2 32 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.32%) Power Automate
4 20 (7.94%) PowerApps
5 19 (7.54%) AWS
6 17 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.16%) Serverless
9 10 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.17%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.17%) GCP
11 8 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.38%) SaaS
14 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.98%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) Intranet
2 1 (0.40%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.40%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.40%) VPN
2 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (86.11%) Power BI
2 27 (10.71%) Tableau
3 22 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.78%) Metadata
7 5 (1.98%) Power Query
8 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.59%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.59%) MySQL
8 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.19%) GIS
9 3 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.79%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 13 (5.16%) JIRA
2 6 (2.38%) Git
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.59%) JUnit
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.40%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) Hudson
5 1 (0.40%) JMeter
5 1 (0.40%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 85 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (21.03%) Finance
4 18 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 17 (6.75%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.95%) Retail
8 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.38%) Marketing
10 5 (1.98%) Banking
10 5 (1.98%) Billing
10 5 (1.98%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.19%) Military
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (26.59%) Analyst
2 41 (16.27%) Data Analyst
3 35 (13.89%) Developer
4 31 (12.30%) Senior
5 20 (7.94%) Lead
6 18 (7.14%) Consultant
7 17 (6.75%) Architect
8 13 (5.16%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.76%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Power Platform Consultant
11 10 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.78%) Data Manager
14 7 (2.78%) HR Analyst
14 7 (2.78%) HR Data Analyst
14 7 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.76%) REST
2 11 (4.37%) .NET
3 8 (3.17%) Middleware
4 6 (2.38%) EDI
4 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (1.98%) Terraform
6 4 (1.59%) CSS
6 4 (1.59%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.59%) HTML
6 4 (1.59%) JPA
6 4 (1.59%) jQuery
6 4 (1.59%) Spring
6 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.59%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.59%) Web Services
7 2 (0.79%) PySpark
7 2 (0.79%) React
7 2 (0.79%) SPFx
8 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.97%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.97%) PKI
3 9 (3.57%) Clustering
3 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.78%) FMCG
5 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.98%) Social Media
6 4 (1.59%) CMDB
6 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.19%) PMI
8 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.76%) Windows
2 10 (3.97%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (84.13%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (28.57%) Analytics
3 66 (26.19%) Agile
4 64 (25.40%) Decision-Making
4 64 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (21.83%) Data Modelling
6 45 (17.86%) DevOps
7 41 (16.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 39 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.48%) Visualisation
9 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (13.89%) ETL
10 34 (13.49%) ERP
11 33 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (13.10%) Data Governance
12 30 (11.90%) CI/CD
12 30 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
13 29 (11.51%) AI
13 29 (11.51%) Data Visualisation
14 25 (9.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (40.08%) SQL
2 25 (9.92%) Python
3 23 (9.13%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (5.16%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.57%) X++
8 7 (2.78%) C#
9 6 (2.38%) Java
9 6 (2.38%) R
10 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.52%) Degree
4 15 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.78%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.38%) ACCA
8 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.98%) PMP
9 4 (1.59%) CIMA
10 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.79%) CAPM
11 2 (0.79%) CISSP
11 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.14%) QA
3 17 (6.75%) GDPR
4 11 (4.37%) PMO
5 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.19%) GMP
7 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.19%) Grafana
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.48%) SAP
3 21 (8.33%) Databricks
4 20 (7.94%) Oracle
4 20 (7.94%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.97%) BMC
5 10 (3.97%) Remedy
6 9 (3.57%) IFS
6 9 (3.57%) Workday
7 7 (2.78%) Google
8 6 (2.38%) Baan
8 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.98%) Foundry
10 4 (1.59%) Ariba
10 4 (1.59%) Palantir
11 2 (0.79%) ESRI
11 2 (0.79%) IBM
11 2 (0.79%) Informatica
11 2 (0.79%) Teradata
12 1 (0.40%) NEC