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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 51 70
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 131 151 158
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.03% 4.01% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.78% 13.02% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 99 97
10th Percentile £294 £323 £223
25th Percentile £363 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £571 £550 £588
90th Percentile £670 £638 £638
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 13
10th Percentile £88.00 - £21.01
25th Percentile £92.50 £41.25 £23.24
Median hourly rate £100.00 £63.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.35% +40.33% +86.10%
75th Percentile £102.75 £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £104.40 - £76.72
England median hourly rate £24.02 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -19.95% -7.18% -20.20%

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 1,339 1,160 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 30.82% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 787 1,034
10th Percentile £214 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 18 35
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.45 £17.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.47 £19.87
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +6.48% +35.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.25 £52.67
90th Percentile £91.40 £64.73 £76.67
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
% change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -11 80 £494 -3.19% 45
Berkshire -25 49 £555 +5.71% 20
Hampshire +1 27 £515 +28.75% 32
Buckinghamshire +4 17 £475 +5.56% 21
Oxfordshire -1 14 £350 -9.68% 5
Surrey -10 12 £475 - 17
West Sussex -5 7 £250 -40.87% 10
East Sussex +5 3 £600 +9.09% 2
Kent +3 3 £481 -6.10% 12
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
Sussex - 1 £525 -
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 32 (24.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (26.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.05%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.29%) Primavera
6 1 (0.76%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.76%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.82%) Azure
2 40 (30.53%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.21%) PowerApps
5 15 (11.45%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (11.45%) SaaS
6 14 (10.69%) AWS
7 13 (9.92%) GCP
8 8 (6.11%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (4.58%) Miro
10 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.05%) dbt
11 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (1.53%) Collibra
13 2 (1.53%) Contentsquare
13 2 (1.53%) Lucidchart
13 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) 2G
1 2 (1.53%) 5G
1 2 (1.53%) DNS
1 2 (1.53%) LTE
1 2 (1.53%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.53%) VoIP
1 2 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (83.97%) Power BI
2 22 (16.79%) Tableau
3 10 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 7 (5.34%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (2.29%) Metadata
8 2 (1.53%) Big Data
8 2 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.53%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.53%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Looker
9 1 (0.76%) QlikView
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 63 (48.09%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.53%) Finance
3 38 (29.01%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.69%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (9.16%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.82%) Marketing
8 4 (3.05%) Local Government
8 4 (3.05%) Retail
9 3 (2.29%) Billing
10 2 (1.53%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Electronics
10 2 (1.53%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Analyst
2 20 (15.27%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.69%) Senior
4 11 (8.40%) Developer
5 10 (7.63%) Accountant
5 10 (7.63%) Delivery Manager
5 10 (7.63%) Project Manager
5 10 (7.63%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (6.87%) Administrator
7 8 (6.11%) Lead
7 8 (6.11%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.34%) Oracle Project Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) IFS Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.58%) Resource Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Consultant
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) ADO
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.53%) .NET
3 2 (1.53%) CSS
3 2 (1.53%) HTML
3 2 (1.53%) Pandas
3 2 (1.53%) Plotly
3 2 (1.53%) REST
3 2 (1.53%) SPFx
3 2 (1.53%) Web Services
4 1 (0.76%) ATL
4 1 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.76%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.76%) MDX
4 1 (0.76%) NumPy
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.29%) PKI
5 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.53%) IoT
5 2 (1.53%) Life Science
5 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.76%) AS400
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) PMI
6 1 (0.76%) SCADA
6 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
1 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (70.99%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (34.35%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (29.01%) Agile
4 28 (21.37%) Analytics
5 26 (19.85%) Visualisation
6 25 (19.08%) Decision-Making
7 23 (17.56%) DevOps
8 21 (16.03%) Project Management
8 21 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (16.03%) Waterfall
9 20 (15.27%) ERP
9 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (14.50%) Data Analysis
11 18 (13.74%) CRM
11 18 (13.74%) Data Modelling
12 17 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
13 16 (12.21%) Matrix Organization
14 15 (11.45%) PRINCE2
14 15 (11.45%) Validation
15 14 (10.69%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.64%) SQL
2 24 (18.32%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) R
4 7 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.29%) C#
5 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.53%) X++
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (16.79%) Degree
2 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.05%) CCAB
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.53%) ACCA
7 2 (1.53%) CIMA
7 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) PMO
3 6 (4.58%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (35.88%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.14%) Oracle
3 12 (9.16%) SAP
4 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.87%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Databricks
5 6 (4.58%) IFS
6 3 (2.29%) Adobe
6 3 (2.29%) Foundry
6 3 (2.29%) Google
6 3 (2.29%) Palantir
7 2 (1.53%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.53%) Cognos
7 2 (1.53%) Informatica
7 2 (1.53%) Talend
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) Arqiva
8 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) TikTok