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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 52 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +14
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 247 114 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.07% 3.77% 3.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.98% 12.17% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 73 113
10th Percentile £273 £280 £286
25th Percentile £378 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £635 £628
England median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
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 £30.00 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.18% +36.29% -40.09%

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 1,649 937 1,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.17% 31.03% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 623 912
10th Percentile £280 £250 £268
25th Percentile £406 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £655 £675
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 39 57
10th Percentile £17.55 £15.25 £17.69
25th Percentile £27.97 £16.95 £18.50
Median hourly rate £51.25 £27.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -7.47% -7.12%
75th Percentile £82.59 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £104.00 £74.00 £61.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -10 103 £475 - 51
Berkshire -6 73 £505 +12.22% 25
Hampshire +13 60 £500 -4.76% 28
West Sussex -1 33 £380 -5.00% 13
Surrey -11 30 £500 +36.05% 14
Buckinghamshire -23 21 £425 -19.43% 13
East Sussex +3 10 £480 -13.80% 3
Oxfordshire -24 9 £500 +40.35% 14
Kent - 4 £600 - 10
Home Counties - 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 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 56 (22.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.29%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.40%) InDesign
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.24%) iTrent
3 4 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.81%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 83 (33.60%) Azure
2 34 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (11.34%) Power Automate
4 24 (9.72%) PowerApps
5 21 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.88%) AWS
6 17 (6.88%) Serverless
7 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (4.86%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.45%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.24%) GCP
12 8 (3.24%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.83%) dbt
13 7 (2.83%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.83%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.43%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Network Security
1 2 (0.81%) VPN
1 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.40%) DHCP
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (88.66%) Power BI
2 25 (10.12%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.31%) Tableau
4 18 (7.29%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.02%) Metadata
7 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.62%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.62%) MySQL
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.21%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.81%) Power Query
10 2 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 24 (9.72%) JIRA
2 9 (3.64%) Git
3 4 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.62%) JUnit
4 2 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) Hudson
5 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 70 (28.34%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (27.13%) Social Skills
3 60 (24.29%) Finance
4 20 (8.10%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (8.10%) Retail
5 17 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.02%) Banking
8 5 (2.02%) Marketing
8 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Billing
10 3 (1.21%) Military
10 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.81%) Advertising
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (29.96%) Analyst
2 35 (14.17%) Data Analyst
3 31 (12.55%) Architect
4 26 (10.53%) Senior
5 24 (9.72%) Developer
6 20 (8.10%) Lead
7 19 (7.69%) PMO Analyst
8 17 (6.88%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.48%) Consultant
10 13 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.86%) Platform Architect
11 12 (4.86%) Power Platform Architect
12 11 (4.45%) Microsoft Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) Power Platform Consultant
13 9 (3.64%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.83%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.86%) REST
2 7 (2.83%) .NET
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (2.02%) JSON
3 5 (2.02%) Middleware
4 4 (1.62%) CSS
4 4 (1.62%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.62%) HTML
4 4 (1.62%) JPA
4 4 (1.62%) jQuery
4 4 (1.62%) Spring
4 4 (1.62%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.62%) Spring MVC
4 4 (1.62%) Web Services
5 3 (1.21%) ADO
5 3 (1.21%) EDI
5 3 (1.21%) Node.js
6 2 (0.81%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.81%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.05%) CMDB
1 10 (4.05%) Data Structures
1 10 (4.05%) PKI
2 7 (2.83%) Clustering
2 7 (2.83%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.02%) FMCG
4 5 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Wiki
8 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.40%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.26%) Windows
2 10 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (83.00%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (27.53%) Agile
3 51 (20.65%) Analytics
3 51 (20.65%) DevOps
4 49 (19.84%) Data Modelling
4 49 (19.84%) Decision-Making
5 45 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (12.96%) ERP
7 32 (12.96%) ETL
7 32 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (12.96%) Visualisation
8 27 (10.93%) Data Analysis
8 27 (10.93%) Process Improvement
9 26 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
9 26 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
10 25 (10.12%) Dashboard Development
10 25 (10.12%) Data Visualisation
10 25 (10.12%) Validation
11 24 (9.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (34.01%) SQL
2 21 (8.50%) Python
3 18 (7.29%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.88%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.07%) T-SQL
6 13 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.45%) C#
8 7 (2.83%) R
8 7 (2.83%) X++
9 5 (2.02%) Java
10 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.21%) Bicep
11 3 (1.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.88%) Degree
4 10 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.02%) ACCA
5 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.02%) PMP
6 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.62%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.21%) CIMA
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.50%) GDPR
3 20 (8.10%) PMO
4 16 (6.48%) QA
5 9 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.43%) SLA
7 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.81%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.62%) SCCM
2 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.91%) SAP
3 20 (8.10%) Oracle
4 18 (7.29%) Databricks
5 17 (6.88%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.26%) IFS
7 12 (4.86%) Remedy
8 10 (4.05%) BMC
8 10 (4.05%) Foundry
9 8 (3.24%) Workday
10 7 (2.83%) OpenAI
11 5 (2.02%) Palantir
12 4 (1.62%) Google
12 4 (1.62%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.21%) Baan
14 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
14 2 (0.81%) Cognos
15 1 (0.40%) Apple
15 1 (0.40%) Cisco
15 1 (0.40%) Informatica