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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 241 121 167
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.64% 3.43% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.57% 11.69% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 75 115
10th Percentile £267 £233 £282
25th Percentile £380 £318 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.63%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £575
90th Percentile £624 £650 £641
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £27.04 - £28.92
25th Percentile £34.88 - £41.16
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -49.25% +95.51%
75th Percentile £82.93 £32.18 £76.11
90th Percentile £101.03 £32.26 £82.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.31 £30.00
% change year-on-year -7.15% +7.70% -7.18%

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 1,776 1,035 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.79% 29.32% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 677 816
10th Percentile £263 £208 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 45 29
10th Percentile £17.30 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +245.38% -33.96% +1.21%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £59.57
90th Percentile £104.00 £49.60 £62.23
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -12 98 £475 -2.56% 80
Berkshire -13 63 £500 -5.75% 35
Hampshire -2 54 £525 +1.94% 49
West Sussex +3 36 £380 +80.95% 16
Surrey -2 34 £461 +53.67% 28
Buckinghamshire -17 24 £475 - 29
Oxfordshire -27 11 £375 +7.14% 18
East Sussex +6 9 £500 -19.19% 12
Kent +3 4 £550 +76.00% 14
Middlesex - 3 - - 8
Home Counties -1 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 21 (8.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 48 (19.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.32%) iTrent
3 4 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.83%) Maximo
4 2 (0.83%) Primavera
4 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.83%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.85%) Azure
2 31 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.79%) Power Automate
4 19 (7.88%) AWS
4 19 (7.88%) PowerApps
5 16 (6.64%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.39%) Serverless
8 9 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.73%) GCP
9 8 (3.32%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.32%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.49%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.07%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.66%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Broadband
2 1 (0.41%) Intranet
2 1 (0.41%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
2 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (86.31%) Power BI
2 27 (11.20%) Tableau
3 22 (9.13%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.05%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.32%) Metadata
7 6 (2.49%) Power Query
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.66%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.66%) MySQL
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.24%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.24%) GIS
9 3 (1.24%) PowerPivot
9 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (4.98%) JIRA
2 7 (2.90%) Git
3 4 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.66%) JUnit
4 2 (0.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) Hudson
5 1 (0.41%) JMeter
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 80 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (20.75%) Finance
4 19 (7.88%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.64%) Retail
6 15 (6.22%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.49%) Marketing
9 5 (2.07%) Banking
9 5 (2.07%) Billing
10 4 (1.66%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.24%) Military
11 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (29.05%) Analyst
2 43 (17.84%) Data Analyst
3 32 (13.28%) Developer
4 28 (11.62%) Senior
5 22 (9.13%) Lead
6 18 (7.47%) Consultant
7 15 (6.22%) Architect
8 12 (4.98%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Power Platform Consultant
10 10 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.90%) HR Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) HR Data Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.98%) REST
2 11 (4.56%) .NET
3 8 (3.32%) Middleware
4 6 (2.49%) EDI
4 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (2.07%) Terraform
6 4 (1.66%) CSS
6 4 (1.66%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.66%) HTML
6 4 (1.66%) JPA
6 4 (1.66%) jQuery
6 4 (1.66%) Spring
6 4 (1.66%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.66%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.66%) Web Services
7 2 (0.83%) PySpark
7 2 (0.83%) React
7 2 (0.83%) SPFx
8 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.41%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.64%) Data Structures
2 10 (4.15%) PKI
3 9 (3.73%) Clustering
3 9 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.90%) FMCG
4 7 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.07%) CMDB
7 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.24%) Social Media
9 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) PMI
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.98%) Windows
2 10 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.66%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (84.23%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (26.56%) Analytics
3 62 (25.73%) Agile
4 61 (25.31%) Decision-Making
5 59 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (22.82%) Data Modelling
7 44 (18.26%) DevOps
8 42 (17.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 40 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (15.35%) Visualisation
11 35 (14.52%) ERP
11 35 (14.52%) ETL
12 33 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (13.69%) Data Governance
13 32 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
14 29 (12.03%) Dashboard Development
14 29 (12.03%) Validation
15 28 (11.62%) CI/CD
16 26 (10.79%) Migration
16 26 (10.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 102 (42.32%) SQL
2 23 (9.54%) JavaScript
3 22 (9.13%) Python
4 17 (7.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (5.39%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.39%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.73%) X++
7 7 (2.90%) C#
8 6 (2.49%) Java
8 6 (2.49%) R
9 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.96%) Degree
4 14 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.49%) ACCA
6 6 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.07%) PMP
8 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.66%) CIMA
9 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CAPM
11 1 (0.41%) CISA
11 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (19.92%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.88%) GDPR
3 18 (7.47%) QA
4 10 (4.15%) PMO
5 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.83%) GRC
7 2 (0.83%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Grafana
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (43.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.35%) SAP
3 20 (8.30%) Databricks
4 19 (7.88%) Oracle
5 18 (7.47%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.56%) IFS
7 10 (4.15%) BMC
7 10 (4.15%) Remedy
8 8 (3.32%) Workday
9 7 (2.90%) Google
10 6 (2.49%) Baan
10 6 (2.49%) Foundry
11 5 (2.07%) Palantir
12 4 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.83%) Ariba
13 2 (0.83%) ESRI
13 2 (0.83%) IBM
13 2 (0.83%) Informatica
13 2 (0.83%) Teradata
14 1 (0.41%) Planview