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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 239 133 164
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.57% 3.79% 3.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.41% 12.73% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 82 114
10th Percentile £291 £263 £268
25th Percentile £400 £352 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £568
90th Percentile £627 £648 £642
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile £28.00 - £26.93
25th Percentile £37.12 - £36.19
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -39.81% +76.15%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.18 £71.19
90th Percentile £100.85 £32.26 £80.98
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -10.60%

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 1,782 1,045 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.63% 29.76% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 678 839
10th Percentile £263 £220 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 48 34
10th Percentile £21.11 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.31 £15.50 £17.98
Median hourly rate £67.61 £18.82 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +259.23% -42.09% +27.58%
75th Percentile £82.34 £32.12 £53.56
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.55 £61.44
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
% change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -26 96 £475 - 98
Berkshire -18 60 £500 -4.76% 41
Hampshire -10 58 £525 +1.94% 48
West Sussex +1 39 £380 -5.00% 13
Surrey -9 28 £461 +53.67% 32
Buckinghamshire -22 23 £475 -13.64% 42
Oxfordshire -24 13 £400 +14.29% 16
East Sussex +9 9 £500 -21.57% 9
Kent - 4 £550 - 13
Middlesex - 2 - - 5
Home Counties 0 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 24 (10.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 46 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.42%) InDesign
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (5.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.35%) iTrent
3 4 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.84%) Primavera
5 2 (0.84%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.42%) Maximo
6 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.73%) Azure
2 31 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.04%) Power Automate
4 19 (7.95%) AWS
5 18 (7.53%) PowerApps
6 16 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (5.86%) Serverless
9 10 (4.18%) GCP
10 9 (3.77%) Azure Functions
10 9 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.35%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.51%) dbt
13 6 (2.51%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (2.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Intranet
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
2 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (86.19%) Power BI
2 26 (10.88%) Tableau
3 25 (10.46%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.35%) Metadata
7 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.67%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
7 4 (1.67%) Power Query
7 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.26%) Big Data
8 3 (1.26%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.26%) PowerPivot
8 3 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.60%) JIRA
2 7 (2.93%) Git
3 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) JUnit
4 2 (0.84%) GitLab
5 1 (0.42%) ERwin
5 1 (0.42%) Hudson
5 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 70 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 67 (28.03%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (20.50%) Finance
4 21 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.11%) Retail
7 12 (5.02%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.09%) Banking
10 5 (2.09%) Billing
10 5 (2.09%) Marketing
11 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.26%) Military
11 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Advertising
12 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.45%) Analyst
2 42 (17.57%) Data Analyst
3 30 (12.55%) Developer
4 29 (12.13%) Senior
5 24 (10.04%) Lead
6 18 (7.53%) Architect
6 18 (7.53%) Consultant
7 12 (5.02%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Engineer
8 11 (4.60%) Power Platform Consultant
9 10 (4.18%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.35%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.93%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) HR Data Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.86%) REST
2 10 (4.18%) .NET
3 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (2.93%) Middleware
5 6 (2.51%) EDI
6 5 (2.09%) Web Services
7 4 (1.67%) CSS
7 4 (1.67%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.67%) HTML
7 4 (1.67%) JPA
7 4 (1.67%) jQuery
7 4 (1.67%) Spring
7 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.67%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.84%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.84%) PySpark
8 2 (0.84%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.84%) React
8 2 (0.84%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.86%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.02%) PKI
3 10 (4.18%) Clustering
4 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.51%) FMCG
7 5 (2.09%) CMDB
8 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.26%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Social Media
11 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.86%) Windows
2 12 (5.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (83.26%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (27.62%) Agile
3 64 (26.78%) Analytics
3 64 (26.78%) Decision-Making
4 56 (23.43%) Data Modelling
5 52 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (19.67%) DevOps
7 43 (17.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 40 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (15.48%) Visualisation
10 36 (15.06%) ERP
11 33 (13.81%) ETL
12 32 (13.39%) Actionable Insight
12 32 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (13.39%) Dashboard Development
12 32 (13.39%) Validation
13 30 (12.55%) Data Governance
14 28 (11.72%) Migration
15 27 (11.30%) CI/CD
16 26 (10.88%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 105 (43.93%) SQL
2 23 (9.62%) JavaScript
2 23 (9.62%) Python
3 16 (6.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (5.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.44%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.77%) X++
7 8 (3.35%) C#
8 7 (2.93%) R
9 5 (2.09%) Java
9 5 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.62%) Degree
4 16 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.51%) ACCA
6 6 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.09%) PMP
8 4 (1.67%) CIMA
8 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CISA
10 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.41%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.21%) GDPR
3 18 (7.53%) QA
4 10 (4.18%) PMO
5 6 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 2 (0.84%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.09%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.09%) Terraform
2 2 (0.84%) Grafana
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.64%) SAP
3 20 (8.37%) ServiceNow
4 19 (7.95%) Oracle
5 17 (7.11%) Databricks
6 13 (5.44%) IFS
7 12 (5.02%) BMC
7 12 (5.02%) Remedy
8 8 (3.35%) Workday
9 6 (2.51%) Baan
9 6 (2.51%) Foundry
9 6 (2.51%) Google
10 5 (2.09%) Palantir
11 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.84%) Informatica
13 1 (0.42%) Adobe
13 1 (0.42%) Apple
13 1 (0.42%) Ariba
13 1 (0.42%) Cisco
13 1 (0.42%) IBM