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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 199 120 170
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.56% 4.02% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.51% 12.94% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 87 111
10th Percentile £306 £313 £281
25th Percentile £400 £365 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -9.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £517
90th Percentile £650 £619 £630
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 6
10th Percentile £12.29 - £22.61
25th Percentile £30.38 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 - £42.72
75th Percentile £82.25 - £63.75
90th Percentile £97.00 - £72.14
England median hourly rate £31.13 £29.07 £22.86
% change year-on-year +7.07% +27.18% -58.96%

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 1,591 927 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.50% 31.07% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 645 967
10th Percentile £281 £267 £250
25th Percentile £400 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £676 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 26 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £16.83
25th Percentile £18.69 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +79.25% -8.66% +6.22%
75th Percentile £80.10 £46.30 £59.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.25 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £20.97
% change year-on-year +60.38% +26.37% -20.08%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -6 104 £500 +11.11% 56
Berkshire +2 73 £505 +16.43% 29
Hampshire -4 53 £469 -12.79% 31
Buckinghamshire -13 23 £450 -18.18% 21
Surrey -16 16 £550 +15.79% 15
West Sussex -12 10 £475 +12.35% 7
Oxfordshire -11 8 £500 +25.00% 7
Kent - 5 £650 - 26
East Sussex 0 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 29 (14.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.51%) Confluence
4 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 58 (29.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) InDesign
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (3.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (2.01%) iTrent
4 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.15%) Azure
2 41 (20.60%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.56%) Power Automate
3 25 (12.56%) PowerApps
4 16 (8.04%) AWS
5 14 (7.04%) SaaS
6 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 12 (6.03%) Copilot Studio
7 12 (6.03%) Serverless
8 10 (5.03%) Azure Functions
8 10 (5.03%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.52%) GCP
10 8 (4.02%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.02%) GitHub
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) 2G
1 2 (1.01%) 5G
1 2 (1.01%) DNS
1 2 (1.01%) LTE
1 2 (1.01%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.01%) Network Security
1 2 (1.01%) VoIP
1 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) DHCP
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) Intranet
2 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (90.45%) Power BI
2 20 (10.05%) Tableau
3 19 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (8.04%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.53%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (5.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 8 (4.02%) Metadata
8 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.01%) Big Data
10 4 (2.01%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.01%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.51%) QlikView
11 3 (1.51%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.01%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (14.07%) JIRA
2 8 (4.02%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) GitLab
3 1 (0.50%) Hudson
3 1 (0.50%) Postman
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 69 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 68 (34.17%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (25.13%) Finance
4 16 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.54%) Retail
6 14 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.53%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.51%) Marketing
10 3 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.01%) Advertising
11 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.01%) Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (34.17%) Analyst
2 30 (15.08%) Data Analyst
3 26 (13.07%) Architect
4 22 (11.06%) PMO Analyst
5 20 (10.05%) Senior
6 18 (9.05%) Developer
7 17 (8.54%) Lead
8 15 (7.54%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.03%) Platform Architect
9 12 (6.03%) Power Platform Architect
10 10 (5.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.52%) Consultant
11 7 (3.52%) Integration Manager
11 7 (3.52%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.02%) ITSM Architect
12 6 (3.02%) Resource Manager
12 6 (3.02%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.51%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.03%) REST
2 6 (3.02%) ADO
3 4 (2.01%) JSON
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.51%) Node.js
5 2 (1.01%) .NET
5 2 (1.01%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.01%) Middleware
5 2 (1.01%) Plotly
5 2 (1.01%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.01%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.01%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.01%) Web Services
5 2 (1.01%) XML
5 2 (1.01%) YAML
6 1 (0.50%) MDX
6 1 (0.50%) NumPy
6 1 (0.50%) OAuth
6 1 (0.50%) PySpark
6 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.03%) CMDB
2 9 (4.52%) PKI
3 7 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.51%) Clustering
6 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) FMCG
7 2 (1.01%) IoT
7 2 (1.01%) Wiki
8 1 (0.50%) AS400
8 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Replication
8 1 (0.50%) State Machine
8 1 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.02%) Windows
2 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (84.42%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.61%) Agile
4 40 (20.10%) Analytics
4 40 (20.10%) DevOps
5 36 (18.09%) Data Analysis
5 36 (18.09%) Data Modelling
5 36 (18.09%) Decision-Making
6 33 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (15.58%) Visualisation
8 24 (12.06%) Data Governance
9 23 (11.56%) Service Management
10 22 (11.06%) Data Visualisation
11 21 (10.55%) Process Improvement
11 21 (10.55%) Waterfall
12 20 (10.05%) ITSM
12 20 (10.05%) Validation
13 19 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (9.05%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.13%) SQL
2 23 (11.56%) Python
3 14 (7.04%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.03%) C#
4 10 (5.03%) R
5 8 (4.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.51%) Bicep
7 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.51%) VBA
8 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 47 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.05%) Degree
4 6 (3.02%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.51%) PMP
5 3 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.01%) ACCA
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CIMA
7 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.56%) PMO
3 13 (6.53%) GDPR
3 13 (6.53%) QA
4 9 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.51%) SLA
6 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (2.01%) SCCM
2 2 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (31.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.05%) Oracle
3 18 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 16 (8.04%) Databricks
5 8 (4.02%) Foundry
5 8 (4.02%) IFS
5 8 (4.02%) Remedy
5 8 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.02%) SAP
6 7 (3.52%) OpenAI
7 6 (3.02%) BMC
8 4 (2.01%) Palantir
8 4 (2.01%) Workday
9 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.01%) Cognos
9 2 (1.01%) Informatica
9 2 (1.01%) Talend
10 1 (0.50%) Adobe
10 1 (0.50%) Arqiva
10 1 (0.50%) NEC