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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 44 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 193 125 174
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.53% 4.22% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.28% 13.44% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 90 113
10th Percentile £303 £312 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £519
90th Percentile £650 £613 £630
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 7
10th Percentile £12.29 - £22.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £23.52
Median hourly rate £37.69 £42.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -30.33% +53.46%
75th Percentile £83.38 £54.24 £72.14
90th Percentile £98.50 £60.53 £79.78
England median hourly rate £27.71 £29.07 £22.86
% change year-on-year -4.68% +27.18% -59.86%

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 1,572 930 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.74% 31.42% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 645 966
10th Percentile £280 £280 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £611
90th Percentile £678 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 58
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.95 £18.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.77% -7.90% +39.02%
75th Percentile £77.50 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.05 £62.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -5 98 £500 +11.11% 56
Berkshire -10 68 £505 +16.43% 29
Hampshire -6 51 £438 -16.07% 31
Buckinghamshire -8 22 £425 -22.73% 21
Surrey -21 17 £568 +19.47% 15
West Sussex -9 10 £475 +12.35% 7
Oxfordshire -7 8 £500 +42.86% 7
Kent -4 6 £650 +26.83% 26
East Sussex -1 4 £363 -23.68% 4
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £525 - 2
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 28 (14.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.07%) Confluence
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 55 (28.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (11.40%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.52%) InDesign
5 1 (0.52%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (3.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.52%) iTrent
4 1 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.52%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.61%) Azure
2 42 (21.76%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (13.47%) PowerApps
4 25 (12.95%) Power Automate
5 24 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.77%) AWS
7 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (6.74%) SaaS
8 12 (6.22%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (5.70%) Serverless
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Functions
10 10 (5.18%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.66%) GCP
12 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (4.15%) OneDrive
13 7 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (3.11%) GitHub
15 4 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) DNS
1 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.04%) 2G
2 2 (1.04%) 5G
2 2 (1.04%) LTE
2 2 (1.04%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.04%) Network Security
2 2 (1.04%) VoIP
3 1 (0.52%) DHCP
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Intranet
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (89.64%) Power BI
2 19 (9.84%) Tableau
3 18 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.77%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (4.66%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (4.15%) Metadata
8 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.07%) Big Data
10 4 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.07%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.55%) QlikView
11 3 (1.55%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (14.51%) JIRA
2 8 (4.15%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
3 1 (0.52%) Postman
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 64 (33.16%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (25.39%) Finance
4 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (7.77%) Retail
6 13 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.04%) Advertising
10 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.04%) Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (33.16%) Analyst
2 26 (13.47%) Architect
2 26 (13.47%) Data Analyst
3 22 (11.40%) PMO Analyst
4 19 (9.84%) Senior
5 18 (9.33%) Developer
6 16 (8.29%) Lead
7 14 (7.25%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Platform Architect
8 12 (6.22%) Power Platform Architect
9 10 (5.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.63%) Consultant
10 7 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.63%) Integration Manager
10 7 (3.63%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.11%) Resource Manager
11 6 (3.11%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.59%) Data Manager
12 5 (2.59%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.66%) REST
2 5 (2.59%) ADO
3 4 (2.07%) JSON
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.55%) Node.js
5 2 (1.04%) .NET
5 2 (1.04%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.04%) Middleware
5 2 (1.04%) Plotly
5 2 (1.04%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.04%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.04%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.04%) Web Services
5 2 (1.04%) XML
5 2 (1.04%) YAML
6 1 (0.52%) EDI
6 1 (0.52%) MDX
6 1 (0.52%) NumPy
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.18%) CMDB
2 8 (4.15%) PKI
3 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.59%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.04%) Clustering
8 2 (1.04%) FMCG
8 2 (1.04%) IoT
8 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.04%) Wiki
9 1 (0.52%) AS400
9 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) Windows
2 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (82.90%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (22.28%) Agile
4 39 (20.21%) Analytics
5 38 (19.69%) DevOps
6 36 (18.65%) Decision-Making
7 35 (18.13%) Data Analysis
7 35 (18.13%) Data Modelling
8 33 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (15.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 29 (15.03%) Visualisation
11 23 (11.92%) Data Governance
12 22 (11.40%) Service Management
12 22 (11.40%) Waterfall
13 20 (10.36%) Data Visualisation
14 19 (9.84%) ITSM
15 18 (9.33%) Process Improvement
16 17 (8.81%) Data Cleansing
16 17 (8.81%) Migration
16 17 (8.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.91%) SQL
2 22 (11.40%) Python
3 13 (6.74%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.18%) C#
4 10 (5.18%) R
5 7 (3.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.55%) Bicep
6 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.55%) VBA
7 2 (1.04%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.84%) Degree
4 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.55%) PMP
6 3 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.04%) ACCA
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CIMA
8 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.03%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.95%) PMO
3 12 (6.22%) GDPR
3 12 (6.22%) QA
4 8 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (8.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (2.59%) SCCM
2 2 (1.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (32.12%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.33%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.81%) Databricks
3 17 (8.81%) Oracle
4 8 (4.15%) Foundry
4 8 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.63%) IFS
5 7 (3.63%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.63%) Remedy
6 5 (2.59%) BMC
6 5 (2.59%) SAP
7 4 (2.07%) Palantir
8 2 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.04%) Cognos
8 2 (1.04%) Informatica
8 2 (1.04%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe
9 1 (0.52%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) NEC