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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 250 117 159
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.77% 3.39% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.94% 10.93% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 71 105
10th Percentile £252 £222 £282
25th Percentile £375 £305 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £575
90th Percentile £623 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £28.00 - £33.00
25th Percentile - - £51.37
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -49.25% +95.51%
75th Percentile £85.25 £32.18 £70.42
90th Percentile £101.75 £32.26 £80.67
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%

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 1,794 1,070 1,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.08% 30.98% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 700 804
10th Percentile £263 £204 £290
25th Percentile £413 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -6.83% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £668
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 43 21
10th Percentile £15.65 £13.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £14.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.24% -55.72% +57.41%
75th Percentile £82.25 £29.00 £60.60
90th Percentile £103.85 £46.13 £64.73
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -16 105 £475 +2.70% 171
Berkshire -11 66 £525 -1.04% 100
Hampshire -10 48 £525 +1.94% 67
Surrey +11 43 £450 +50.00% 57
West Sussex -1 34 £371 +115.07% 28
Buckinghamshire -9 29 £475 +5.56% 50
Oxfordshire -31 10 £375 +7.14% 21
East Sussex +6 8 £500 -16.67% 16
Middlesex - 5 - - 3
Kent 0 4 £550 +76.00% 15
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 23 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.80%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 50 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.20%) iTrent
3 4 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.20%) Maximo
5 2 (0.80%) Primavera
5 2 (0.80%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.00%) Azure
2 30 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (10.80%) Power Automate
4 20 (8.00%) PowerApps
5 18 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (6.40%) AWS
6 16 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.20%) Serverless
8 11 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (2.40%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.40%) GCP
12 6 (2.40%) SaaS
12 6 (2.40%) Smartsheet
12 6 (2.40%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.00%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.40%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.40%) VPN
2 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (84.80%) Power BI
2 24 (9.60%) Tableau
3 20 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.80%) Power Query
7 6 (2.40%) Metadata
8 4 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.60%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.60%) GIS
8 4 (1.60%) MySQL
8 4 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.80%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.20%) JIRA
2 5 (2.00%) Git
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.60%) JUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.40%) ERwin
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Hudson
4 1 (0.40%) JMeter
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 85 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.80%) Finance
4 18 (7.20%) Aerospace
5 15 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.20%) Retail
7 9 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.40%) Marketing
10 5 (2.00%) Banking
10 5 (2.00%) Billing
10 5 (2.00%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.80%) Military
12 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (25.60%) Analyst
2 38 (15.20%) Data Analyst
3 37 (14.80%) Developer
4 33 (13.20%) Senior
5 19 (7.60%) Consultant
5 19 (7.60%) Lead
6 16 (6.40%) Architect
7 15 (6.00%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Engineer
9 10 (4.00%) Power Platform Consultant
9 10 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.80%) HR Data Analyst
12 7 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.40%) .NET
1 11 (4.40%) REST
2 9 (3.60%) Middleware
3 6 (2.40%) EDI
3 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (2.00%) Terraform
5 4 (1.60%) CSS
5 4 (1.60%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.60%) HTML
5 4 (1.60%) JPA
5 4 (1.60%) jQuery
5 4 (1.60%) Spring
5 4 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.60%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.60%) Web Services
6 2 (0.80%) PySpark
6 2 (0.80%) React
6 2 (0.80%) SPFx
7 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.40%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.20%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.60%) Clustering
3 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.60%) PKI
3 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.40%) FMCG
5 5 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.00%) Social Media
6 4 (1.60%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.20%) CMDB
7 3 (1.20%) PMI
8 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.40%) Windows
2 9 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (83.20%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (28.40%) Analytics
3 66 (26.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (25.60%) Agile
5 62 (24.80%) Decision-Making
6 58 (23.20%) Data Modelling
7 42 (16.80%) DevOps
8 40 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 38 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (15.20%) Visualisation
10 36 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (14.40%) ETL
11 31 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
11 31 (12.40%) Data Governance
11 31 (12.40%) ERP
12 30 (12.00%) AI
12 30 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
13 29 (11.60%) CI/CD
14 28 (11.20%) Data Visualisation
15 26 (10.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.00%) SQL
2 23 (9.20%) Python
3 22 (8.80%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (4.80%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.80%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.60%) X++
7 6 (2.40%) C#
7 6 (2.40%) Java
8 5 (2.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.60%) R
9 4 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.80%) VBA
11 1 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 71 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.00%) Degree
4 14 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.00%) ACCA
7 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.00%) PMP
8 4 (1.60%) CIMA
9 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.80%) CAPM
10 2 (0.80%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) CIPD
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.20%) QA
3 13 (5.20%) GDPR
4 11 (4.40%) PMO
5 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.20%) GMP
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.80%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 125 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.60%) SAP
3 25 (10.00%) Databricks
4 20 (8.00%) Oracle
5 19 (7.60%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.00%) Workday
7 9 (3.60%) BMC
7 9 (3.60%) Remedy
8 7 (2.80%) Google
8 7 (2.80%) IFS
9 6 (2.40%) Baan
9 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.60%) Ariba
10 4 (1.60%) Foundry
10 4 (1.60%) IBM
11 3 (1.20%) ESRI
11 3 (1.20%) Informatica
11 3 (1.20%) Palantir
11 3 (1.20%) Teradata
12 1 (0.40%) Apple