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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 261 113 170
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.20% 3.69% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.53% 11.89% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 68 108
10th Percentile £270 £275 £281
25th Percentile £375 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £543 £541 £517
90th Percentile £600 £641 £604
England median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 6
10th Percentile £12.66 - £21.68
25th Percentile £28.59 - £22.61
Median hourly rate £37.69 £32.05 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% +34.54% -26.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.18 £52.23
90th Percentile £83.60 £32.26 £74.50
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -5.31% +32.82% -38.52%

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 1,681 950 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.03% 31.04% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 614 890
10th Percentile £280 £250 £280
25th Percentile £408 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £656 £675
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 47 59
10th Percentile £19.16 £15.05 £17.69
25th Percentile £28.80 £16.26 £18.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +218.81% -37.27% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85.00 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £106.00 £72.25 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -9 107 £475 - 49
Berkshire -7 77 £505 +6.32% 24
Hampshire +10 65 £510 -2.86% 25
West Sussex +1 38 £380 -5.00% 18
Surrey -9 29 £500 +39.37% 13
Buckinghamshire -28 19 £450 -18.18% 12
Oxfordshire -22 11 £500 +60.00% 13
East Sussex +4 10 £480 -13.80%
Kent - 5 £550 - 10
Home Counties 0 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 24 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.30%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 61 (23.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (7.28%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.38%) InDesign
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (4.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.07%) iTrent
3 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.77%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.57%) Azure
2 34 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (11.49%) Power Automate
4 25 (9.58%) PowerApps
5 22 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.51%) AWS
7 16 (6.13%) Serverless
8 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (4.60%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.21%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.07%) GCP
13 8 (3.07%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.68%) dbt
14 7 (2.68%) OneDrive
14 7 (2.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Network Security
1 2 (0.77%) VPN
1 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.38%) DHCP
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (88.12%) Power BI
2 25 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (9.58%) Tableau
3 18 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.07%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.68%) Metadata
6 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.53%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.53%) MySQL
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.53%) Power Query
8 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (9.20%) JIRA
2 9 (3.45%) Git
3 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.53%) JUnit
4 2 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) TestRail
General
1 74 (28.35%) Analytical Skills
1 74 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.99%) Finance
3 20 (7.66%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (7.66%) Retail
4 18 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.68%) Aerospace
5 7 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.92%) Banking
6 5 (1.92%) Billing
6 5 (1.92%) Marketing
7 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.15%) Military
7 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.77%) Advertising
8 2 (0.77%) Legal
8 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (29.12%) Analyst
2 38 (14.56%) Data Analyst
3 32 (12.26%) Architect
4 27 (10.34%) Developer
5 26 (9.96%) Senior
6 22 (8.43%) Lead
7 17 (6.51%) Consultant
7 17 (6.51%) PMO Analyst
8 16 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.60%) Power Platform Consultant
11 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Platform Architect
11 11 (4.21%) Power Platform Architect
12 9 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.45%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.68%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.60%) REST
2 8 (3.07%) .NET
3 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.92%) EDI
4 5 (1.92%) JSON
4 5 (1.92%) Middleware
4 5 (1.92%) Web Services
5 4 (1.53%) CSS
5 4 (1.53%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.53%) HTML
5 4 (1.53%) JPA
5 4 (1.53%) jQuery
5 4 (1.53%) Spring
5 4 (1.53%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.53%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.15%) Node.js
6 3 (1.15%) PySpark
7 2 (0.77%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.77%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.60%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.83%) CMDB
2 10 (3.83%) PKI
3 8 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.68%) Clustering
5 6 (2.30%) FMCG
5 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Wiki
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.98%) Windows
2 10 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (82.76%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (27.20%) Agile
3 56 (21.46%) Decision-Making
4 55 (21.07%) Analytics
5 53 (20.31%) Data Modelling
6 52 (19.92%) DevOps
7 47 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (13.41%) ERP
10 35 (13.41%) Visualisation
11 31 (11.88%) ETL
12 28 (10.73%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.73%) Dashboard Development
12 28 (10.73%) Data Analysis
12 28 (10.73%) Process Improvement
12 28 (10.73%) Validation
13 26 (9.96%) Data Governance
13 26 (9.96%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (33.72%) SQL
2 22 (8.43%) Python
3 17 (6.51%) JavaScript
3 17 (6.51%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (5.75%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.21%) C#
6 8 (3.07%) X++
7 7 (2.68%) R
8 5 (1.92%) Java
9 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.53%) VBA
10 3 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 66 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.28%) Degree
4 12 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.92%) ACCA
6 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.92%) PMP
7 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.15%) CIMA
9 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.43%) GDPR
3 21 (8.05%) PMO
4 19 (7.28%) QA
5 9 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.30%) SLA
7 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.53%) SCCM
1 4 (1.53%) Terraform
2 3 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (35.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.58%) SAP
3 22 (8.43%) Oracle
4 19 (7.28%) Databricks
5 17 (6.51%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.98%) IFS
7 12 (4.60%) Remedy
8 10 (3.83%) BMC
8 10 (3.83%) Foundry
9 8 (3.07%) Workday
10 6 (2.30%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.92%) Baan
11 5 (1.92%) Palantir
12 4 (1.53%) Google
12 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.77%) Cognos
13 2 (0.77%) NEC
14 1 (0.38%) Adobe
14 1 (0.38%) Cisco