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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 208 116 172
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.66% 3.87% 3.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.07% 12.73% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 80 110
10th Percentile £288 £324 £281
25th Percentile £397 £365 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £518
90th Percentile £650 £616 £665
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £12.29 - -
25th Percentile £28.58 - £22.61
Median hourly rate £37.69 £32.05 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% +31.19% -50.40%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £61.50
90th Percentile £95.50 - £72.47
England median hourly rate £33.25 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +14.38% +25.22% -57.79%

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 1,591 911 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.98% 30.40% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 622 952
10th Percentile £283 £275 £250
25th Percentile £400 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £677 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 29 54
10th Percentile £14.11 £16.61 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.63 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% +20.61% +0.93%
75th Percentile £81.00 £46.30 £58.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.10 £61.60
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -24.47%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -11 106 £500 +11.11% 36
Berkshire -5 75 £505 +12.22% 21
Hampshire +5 56 £469 -6.25% 24
Buckinghamshire -9 21 £475 -13.64% 8
West Sussex -6 15 £450 +6.44% 8
Surrey -19 15 £550 +15.79% 32
Oxfordshire -12 10 £500 +25.00% 9
East Sussex +4 5 £375 -21.05% 7
Kent - 5 £650 - 20
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £525 - 5
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 27 (12.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.40%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 60 (28.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (8.65%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.48%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.48%) InDesign
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (3.37%) iTrent
3 3 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.48%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.48%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.21%) Azure
2 37 (17.79%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 24 (11.54%) PowerApps
5 17 (8.17%) AWS
6 14 (6.73%) SaaS
7 13 (6.25%) Serverless
8 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (5.29%) Copilot Studio
10 10 (4.81%) Azure Functions
10 10 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.33%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.85%) GCP
13 7 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.37%) SuccessFactors
14 6 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.88%) GitHub
15 5 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Network Security
1 2 (0.96%) VPN
1 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.48%) 2G
2 1 (0.48%) 5G
2 1 (0.48%) DHCP
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) Intranet
2 1 (0.48%) LTE
2 1 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (90.87%) Power BI
2 21 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (10.10%) Tableau
3 13 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 9 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (3.85%) Metadata
7 7 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.44%) Big Data
10 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.96%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.96%) QlikView
11 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (13.46%) JIRA
2 8 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) Hudson
3 1 (0.48%) Postman
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (34.13%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
3 56 (26.92%) Finance
4 18 (8.65%) Retail
5 15 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (31.73%) Analyst
2 29 (13.94%) Data Analyst
3 27 (12.98%) Architect
4 22 (10.58%) PMO Analyst
5 19 (9.13%) Developer
5 19 (9.13%) Senior
6 17 (8.17%) Lead
7 15 (7.21%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.77%) Platform Architect
8 12 (5.77%) Power Platform Architect
9 10 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.37%) Integration Manager
10 7 (3.37%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.88%) Consultant
11 6 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.88%) HR Data Analyst
11 6 (2.88%) Resource Manager
11 6 (2.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.81%) REST
2 6 (2.88%) ADO
3 4 (1.92%) JSON
4 3 (1.44%) .NET
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.44%) Node.js
4 3 (1.44%) Web Services
5 2 (0.96%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.96%) Middleware
5 2 (0.96%) Plotly
5 2 (0.96%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.96%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.96%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.96%) XML
5 2 (0.96%) YAML
6 1 (0.48%) MDX
6 1 (0.48%) NumPy
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.81%) CMDB
2 9 (4.33%) PKI
3 7 (3.37%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.44%) Clustering
6 3 (1.44%) FMCG
6 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.96%) Wiki
8 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.48%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.85%) Windows
2 6 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (85.10%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (23.08%) Agile
4 46 (22.12%) DevOps
5 38 (18.27%) Analytics
5 38 (18.27%) Decision-Making
6 36 (17.31%) Data Modelling
7 33 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (14.42%) Data Analysis
9 28 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (13.46%) Visualisation
10 25 (12.02%) Data Governance
10 25 (12.02%) Validation
11 24 (11.54%) Process Improvement
12 22 (10.58%) Data Visualisation
12 22 (10.58%) Service Management
13 21 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (10.10%) Waterfall
14 20 (9.62%) Dashboard Development
14 20 (9.62%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.48%) SQL
2 20 (9.62%) Python
3 14 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.81%) C#
5 8 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.37%) R
7 4 (1.92%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.44%) Bicep
8 3 (1.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.17%) Degree
4 6 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.40%) ACCA
6 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.44%) CIMA
7 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) PMP
7 3 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.54%) PMO
3 16 (7.69%) GDPR
4 15 (7.21%) QA
5 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.88%) SLA
7 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.92%) SCCM
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.96%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (31.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.65%) Oracle
3 16 (7.69%) Databricks
4 15 (7.21%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.29%) IFS
5 11 (5.29%) SAP
6 9 (4.33%) Foundry
7 8 (3.85%) Remedy
8 7 (3.37%) OpenAI
8 7 (3.37%) Workday
9 6 (2.88%) BMC
10 5 (2.40%) Palantir
11 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.96%) Cognos
12 2 (0.96%) Informatica
12 2 (0.96%) Talend
13 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
13 1 (0.48%) Cisco
13 1 (0.48%) CyberArk