Power Platform Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 61 72
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 118 171 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.92% 3.08% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.95% 12.45% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 107 128
10th Percentile £313 £315 £246
25th Percentile £365 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -6.57% -3.18%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £588
90th Percentile £622 £668 £646
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile - - £22.41
25th Percentile - £22.61 £27.64
Median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -40.07% +76.67%
75th Percentile - £33.70 £71.50
90th Percentile - £50.38 £79.19
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

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 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the South East

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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 1 May 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 +8 58 £450 - 124
Berkshire +16 45 £450 -4.26% 57
Surrey +3 22 £450 -2.70% 42
Hampshire +28 21 £525 -2.78% 76
West Sussex +13 10 £423 -0.52% 12
Buckinghamshire -1 8 £550 +22.22% 44
Oxfordshire -1 5 £356 -20.83% 37
East Sussex - 5 £475 - 20
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (21.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.69%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.69%) Maximo
2 2 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.85%) FastStats
3 1 (0.85%) FastStats PeopleStage
3 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.68%) Azure
2 29 (24.58%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.56%) PowerApps
4 14 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (10.17%) Power Automate
6 11 (9.32%) Snowflake
7 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.08%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (5.08%) AWS
9 4 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.39%) GCP
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Table
11 2 (1.69%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.69%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) Firewall
1 7 (5.93%) Internet
1 7 (5.93%) VPN
2 6 (5.08%) Network Security
3 5 (4.24%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.85%) 2G
4 1 (0.85%) 3G
4 1 (0.85%) 4G
4 1 (0.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (77.97%) Power BI
2 20 (16.95%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.10%) Tableau
4 8 (6.78%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (5.08%) Power Query
5 6 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.69%) Big Data
9 2 (1.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.69%) Impala
9 2 (1.69%) Looker
9 2 (1.69%) Metadata
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.85%) HBase
10 1 (0.85%) QlikView
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) ERwin
2 3 (2.54%) Postman
3 2 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Finance
3 11 (9.32%) Marketing
4 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.78%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.54%) Military
7 3 (2.54%) Publishing
8 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Electronics
8 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Automotive
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Analyst
2 20 (16.95%) Developer
3 15 (12.71%) Data Analyst
4 13 (11.02%) Senior
5 8 (6.78%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.93%) Architect
6 7 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (5.93%) Data Business Analyst
6 7 (5.93%) Data Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) IT Manager
6 7 (5.93%) IT Services Manager
6 7 (5.93%) Service Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Power BI Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior IT Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) ADO
2 4 (3.39%) Web Services
3 3 (2.54%) .NET
3 3 (2.54%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.69%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (0.85%) PySpark
5 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
1 7 (5.93%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (5.08%) Low-Code
2 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.54%) IoT
3 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.69%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.69%) Life Science
4 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.85%) FMCG
5 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.03%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (38.98%) Analytics
3 25 (21.19%) Data Modelling
4 21 (17.80%) Agile
5 20 (16.95%) Data Analysis
6 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.71%) Actionable Insight
7 15 (12.71%) DevOps
8 14 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (11.86%) Validation
8 14 (11.86%) Visualisation
9 13 (11.02%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.02%) ETL
9 13 (11.02%) Migration
10 10 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (8.47%) Project Management
11 9 (7.63%) Data Management
11 9 (7.63%) ERP
11 9 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.53%) SQL
2 19 (16.10%) Python
3 5 (4.24%) C#
4 4 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.39%) R
4 4 (3.39%) VBA
5 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.69%) Bash
6 2 (1.69%) Bicep
6 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) ABAP
7 1 (0.85%) Perl
7 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.85%) X++
7 1 (0.85%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) Degree
4 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.69%) PMP
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) MBA
6 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) PMO
3 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.69%) Grafana
2 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 54 (45.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.32%) Databricks
3 6 (5.08%) Adobe
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle
4 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.39%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.39%) Google
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.39%) SAP
6 2 (1.69%) Sparx
6 2 (1.69%) TikTok
6 2 (1.69%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) Apteco
7 1 (0.85%) Capita
7 1 (0.85%) Cognos
7 1 (0.85%) Cramer
7 1 (0.85%) Genesys
7 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk
7 1 (0.85%) StreamSets