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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 50 82
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 -24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 119 160 151
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.35% 3.75% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.42% 13.54% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 103 79
10th Percentile £222 £270 £223
25th Percentile £320 £385 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £638
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 18
10th Percentile - £33.05 £19.26
25th Percentile - £41.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £32.31 £63.15 £29.90
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +111.20% +47.47%
75th Percentile - £64.73 £43.71
90th Percentile - £73.84 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% -23.57% +61.12%

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 1,142 1,182 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.15% 27.69% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 799 1,120
10th Percentile £204 £262 £206
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £636
90th Percentile £663 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 22 49
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £47.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% +75.93% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.95 £51.58
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £72.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -15 69 £475 -5.00% 122
Berkshire -14 46 £536 +2.10% 77
Hampshire +14 23 £515 +21.18% 30
Oxfordshire +2 14 £350 -17.65% 20
Surrey -3 13 £300 -35.14% 27
Buckinghamshire -7 9 £450 +4.35% 29
West Sussex - 9 £173 - 11
East Sussex +3 3 £600 -4.00% 18
Kent -2 2 £313 -39.02% 9
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
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 24 (20.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.52%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.68%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (27.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.36%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.52%) Primavera
5 1 (0.84%) BPCS
5 1 (0.84%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.84%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (32.77%) Azure
2 21 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.13%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (13.45%) PowerApps
5 10 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.72%) AWS
6 8 (6.72%) GCP
7 7 (5.88%) SaaS
8 6 (5.04%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.04%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.20%) Miro
10 4 (3.36%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.36%) dbt
11 3 (2.52%) Contentsquare
11 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.68%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.68%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.68%) Azure Table
12 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (84.87%) Power BI
2 23 (19.33%) Tableau
3 11 (9.24%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.20%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.52%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (2.52%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.84%) Looker
8 1 (0.84%) Power Query
8 1 (0.84%) QlikView
8 1 (0.84%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.84%) Sisense
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.84%) ERwin
2 1 (0.84%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) NeoLoad
2 1 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 44 (36.97%) Finance
2 42 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 34 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.04%) Marketing
6 5 (4.20%) Local Government
6 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.20%) Retail
7 4 (3.36%) Billing
7 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Electronics
8 2 (1.68%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.84%) Automotive
9 1 (0.84%) French Language
9 1 (0.84%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (36.13%) Analyst
2 19 (15.97%) Data Analyst
3 11 (9.24%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.24%) Senior
4 10 (8.40%) Accountant
4 10 (8.40%) Developer
4 10 (8.40%) Systems Accountant
5 9 (7.56%) Administrator
6 8 (6.72%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.04%) IFS Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.20%) Lead
10 4 (3.36%) Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Consultant
10 4 (3.36%) Oracle Project Manager
10 4 (3.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) .NET
2 4 (3.36%) ADO
2 4 (3.36%) Web Services
3 3 (2.52%) CSS
3 3 (2.52%) HTML
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.68%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.68%) EDI
4 2 (1.68%) MDX
4 2 (1.68%) SPFx
5 1 (0.84%) ATL
5 1 (0.84%) ODBC
5 1 (0.84%) Pandas
5 1 (0.84%) Plotly
5 1 (0.84%) PySpark
5 1 (0.84%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.84%) React
5 1 (0.84%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.68%) IoT
3 2 (1.68%) Life Science
3 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.84%) AS400
4 1 (0.84%) PMI
4 1 (0.84%) SCADA
4 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.75%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (27.73%) Agile
3 28 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (21.85%) Analytics
5 25 (21.01%) Decision-Making
6 24 (20.17%) Actionable Insight
7 22 (18.49%) ERP
8 20 (16.81%) Data Modelling
9 19 (15.97%) Visualisation
10 18 (15.13%) Project Management
11 15 (12.61%) CRM
11 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (12.61%) Validation
12 14 (11.76%) Data Analysis
12 14 (11.76%) Process Improvement
12 14 (11.76%) Waterfall
13 13 (10.92%) Data Management
13 13 (10.92%) DevOps
14 12 (10.08%) Project Delivery
15 11 (9.24%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.38%) SQL
2 21 (17.65%) Python
3 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.20%) C#
4 5 (4.20%) R
5 3 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.52%) X++
6 2 (1.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.68%) Bicep
7 1 (0.84%) C++
7 1 (0.84%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (15.13%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.04%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.20%) ACCA
5 5 (4.20%) CIMA
5 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.36%) CCAB
6 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.04%) PMO
3 5 (4.20%) QA
4 2 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.68%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.68%) Grafana
2 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.68%) SCCM
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 39 (32.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.01%) Oracle
3 16 (13.45%) SAP
4 6 (5.04%) IFS
5 4 (3.36%) Adobe
5 4 (3.36%) Databricks
5 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.68%) Cognos
7 2 (1.68%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) Arqiva
8 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.84%) Palantir
8 1 (0.84%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.84%) Sparx
8 1 (0.84%) TikTok
8 1 (0.84%) Workday