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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 48 76
Rank change year-on-year -25 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 129 155 147
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.90% 4.23% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 13.37% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 105 89
10th Percentile £294 £337 £218
25th Percentile £363 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £588
90th Percentile £670 £630 £632
England median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £88.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £92.50 £41.25 £27.78
Median hourly rate £100.00 £63.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.35% +32.95% +97.92%
75th Percentile £102.75 £64.73 £57.25
90th Percentile £104.40 - £79.78
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -25.70%

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 1,367 1,159 1,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.75% 31.61% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 792 1,004
10th Percentile £219 £261 £203
25th Percentile £366 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £624
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -4.94% +0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 16 30
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.75 £18.74
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.10 £19.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.75 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.05% +55.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 £46.25 £59.84
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £79.78
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -6.17% +19.32% +8.02%

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 26 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 26 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 -24 78 £486 -3.33% 199
Berkshire -31 45 £555 +5.71% 124
Hampshire -5 25 £515 +24.85% 82
Buckinghamshire +6 19 £475 -1.71% 50
Oxfordshire -1 14 £350 -17.65% 25
Surrey -18 14 £525 +10.53% 55
West Sussex -8 7 £250 -40.87% 24
East Sussex +7 3 £600 +9.09% 19
Kent -1 3 £481 -6.10% 48
Sussex - 1 £525 -
Home Counties - 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 31 (24.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.33%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (28.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (3.88%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.10%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.55%) Primavera
6 1 (0.78%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.78%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 43 (33.33%) Azure
2 39 (30.23%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (13.18%) PowerApps
4 16 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.63%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (10.08%) SaaS
7 12 (9.30%) AWS
8 11 (8.53%) GCP
9 9 (6.98%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.65%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.10%) Miro
11 4 (3.10%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.55%) Collibra
13 2 (1.55%) Contentsquare
13 2 (1.55%) dbt
13 2 (1.55%) GitHub
13 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) 2G
1 2 (1.55%) 5G
1 2 (1.55%) DNS
1 2 (1.55%) LTE
1 2 (1.55%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.55%) VoIP
1 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (83.72%) Power BI
2 20 (15.50%) Tableau
3 8 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 7 (5.43%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (2.33%) Metadata
6 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.55%) Big Data
7 2 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.78%) Looker
8 1 (0.78%) QlikView
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.85%) JIRA
2 4 (3.10%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 61 (47.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (34.11%) Finance
3 38 (29.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.88%) Marketing
8 4 (3.10%) Local Government
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
8 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.33%) Billing
10 2 (1.55%) Banking
10 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Electronics
10 2 (1.55%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.78%) Automotive
11 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (29.46%) Analyst
2 19 (14.73%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.85%) Senior
4 13 (10.08%) Developer
5 10 (7.75%) Accountant
5 10 (7.75%) Project Manager
5 10 (7.75%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (6.98%) Administrator
7 8 (6.20%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.20%) Lead
7 8 (6.20%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.43%) Oracle Project Manager
9 6 (4.65%) Architect
9 6 (4.65%) IFS Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.65%) Resource Manager
10 5 (3.88%) Consultant
10 5 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) ADO
2 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.55%) .NET
3 2 (1.55%) CSS
3 2 (1.55%) HTML
3 2 (1.55%) Pandas
3 2 (1.55%) Plotly
3 2 (1.55%) REST
3 2 (1.55%) SPFx
3 2 (1.55%) Web Services
4 1 (0.78%) ATL
4 1 (0.78%) EDI
4 1 (0.78%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.78%) MDX
4 1 (0.78%) NumPy
4 1 (0.78%) PySpark
4 1 (0.78%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.33%) PKI
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) IoT
5 2 (1.55%) Life Science
5 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.78%) AS400
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) SCADA
6 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Windows
1 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (72.87%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (36.43%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (28.68%) Agile
4 30 (23.26%) Analytics
5 23 (17.83%) Decision-Making
5 23 (17.83%) DevOps
5 23 (17.83%) Visualisation
6 22 (17.05%) Project Management
7 21 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
8 20 (15.50%) ERP
9 19 (14.73%) Data Modelling
9 19 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (14.73%) Waterfall
10 18 (13.95%) CRM
11 15 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
12 14 (10.85%) Data Management
13 13 (10.08%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (10.08%) Matrix Organization
14 12 (9.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.43%) SQL
2 21 (16.28%) Python
3 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.20%) R
4 3 (2.33%) C#
4 3 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.73%) Degree
3 17 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) CCAB
4 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) ACCA
6 2 (1.55%) CIMA
6 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.20%) PMO
3 6 (4.65%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.93%) Oracle
3 12 (9.30%) SAP
4 9 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.43%) Databricks
6 6 (4.65%) IFS
7 3 (2.33%) Adobe
7 3 (2.33%) Foundry
7 3 (2.33%) Google
7 3 (2.33%) Palantir
8 2 (1.55%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.55%) Cognos
8 2 (1.55%) Informatica
8 2 (1.55%) Talend
9 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.78%) Arqiva
9 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) TikTok