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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 45 68
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 167 137 155
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.45% 4.42% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.12% 13.37% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 91 98
10th Percentile £311 £313 £245
25th Percentile £400 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% -8.75%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £575 £630
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £12.29 - £22.61
25th Percentile £30.82 £41.25 £23.52
Median hourly rate £56.96 £63.15 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +3.52% +20.79%
75th Percentile £86.56 £64.73 £72.14
90th Percentile £99.50 - £79.78
England median hourly rate £24.22 £28.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -15.31% +23.20% -61.31%

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 1,502 1,025 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.05% 33.08% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 693 1,000
10th Percentile £256 £265 £213
25th Percentile £382 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +2.30% -4.57%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £620
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 19 50
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.37 £19.24 £20.49
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £75.84 £62.70
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +40.15% +28.03% -14.08%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 90 £500 +12.04% 37
Berkshire -14 61 £510 +19.88% 25
Hampshire -16 39 £375 -25.74% 35
Buckinghamshire +3 25 £450 -14.69% 10
Surrey -17 16 £550 +15.79% 11
Kent -4 7 £600 +17.07% 10
West Sussex -11 7 £450 +6.44% 2
Oxfordshire -14 4 £500 +42.86% 5
East Sussex +1 3 £375 -21.05%
Sussex - 1 £525 - 1
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 33 (19.76%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Applications
1 51 (30.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (13.17%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.60%) InDesign
5 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.60%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.93%) Azure
2 48 (28.74%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (16.17%) PowerApps
4 22 (13.17%) Power Automate
5 18 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.38%) SaaS
7 13 (7.78%) Entra ID
7 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (7.19%) Copilot Studio
8 12 (7.19%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (6.59%) AWS
10 9 (5.39%) OneDrive
11 8 (4.79%) GCP
12 7 (4.19%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.19%) Serverless
13 6 (3.59%) GitHub
13 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) DNS
1 3 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.20%) 2G
2 2 (1.20%) 5G
2 2 (1.20%) LTE
2 2 (1.20%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.20%) Network Security
2 2 (1.20%) VoIP
3 1 (0.60%) DHCP
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (86.23%) Power BI
2 14 (8.38%) Tableau
3 11 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 10 (5.99%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.39%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.40%) Metadata
7 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.80%) Big Data
8 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.80%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.60%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (16.77%) JIRA
2 7 (4.19%) Git
3 1 (0.60%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 65 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 49 (29.34%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (25.75%) Finance
4 15 (8.98%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.39%) Retail
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (32.34%) Analyst
2 22 (13.17%) PMO Analyst
3 21 (12.57%) Architect
3 21 (12.57%) Data Analyst
4 19 (11.38%) Developer
5 14 (8.38%) Senior
6 12 (7.19%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Lead
7 11 (6.59%) Platform Architect
7 11 (6.59%) Power Platform Architect
8 9 (5.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Consultant
9 7 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Integration Manager
10 6 (3.59%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.59%) Resource Manager
11 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.40%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) REST
2 5 (2.99%) ADO
3 4 (2.40%) JSON
4 3 (1.80%) Plotly
5 2 (1.20%) .NET
5 2 (1.20%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.20%) Node.js
5 2 (1.20%) Pandas
5 2 (1.20%) PySpark
5 2 (1.20%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.20%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.20%) Web Services
5 2 (1.20%) XML
5 2 (1.20%) YAML
6 1 (0.60%) ATL
6 1 (0.60%) CSS
6 1 (0.60%) EDI
6 1 (0.60%) HTML
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.99%) CMDB
2 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.99%) PKI
3 4 (2.40%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.20%) IoT
5 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.20%) Wiki
6 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.60%) AS400
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Windows
2 3 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (79.04%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (25.15%) Agile
4 31 (18.56%) Analytics
4 31 (18.56%) DevOps
5 30 (17.96%) Data Analysis
5 30 (17.96%) Decision-Making
6 27 (16.17%) Data Modelling
7 26 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (14.97%) Visualisation
9 23 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (13.17%) Waterfall
11 17 (10.18%) Data Governance
11 17 (10.18%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (9.58%) AI
13 15 (8.98%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.98%) Project Management
13 15 (8.98%) Roadmaps
14 14 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (8.38%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.16%) SQL
2 20 (11.98%) Python
3 16 (9.58%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.79%) C#
4 8 (4.79%) R
5 4 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.80%) Bicep
6 3 (1.80%) VBA
7 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.18%) Degree
4 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.80%) PMP
5 3 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) ACCA
7 1 (0.60%) CIMA
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.37%) PMO
2 17 (10.18%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.39%) QA
4 5 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (2.40%) GDPR
6 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.99%) SCCM
3 2 (1.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (40.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.18%) Databricks
3 16 (9.58%) Oracle
4 14 (8.38%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.19%) Foundry
6 7 (4.19%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.40%) Remedy
8 3 (1.80%) Cognos
8 3 (1.80%) Palantir
9 2 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.20%) Blue Prism
9 2 (1.20%) BMC
9 2 (1.20%) Informatica
9 2 (1.20%) SAP
9 2 (1.20%) Talend
10 1 (0.60%) Arqiva
10 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.60%) IFS
10 1 (0.60%) NEC