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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 52 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 262 113 172
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.24% 3.71% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.65% 12.05% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 72 110
10th Percentile £272 £280 £281
25th Percentile £375 £373 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £523
90th Percentile £600 £636 £638
England median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
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 £29.96 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.31% +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 1,674 938 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.09% 30.83% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 612 888
10th Percentile £280 £250 £275
25th Percentile £406 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £656 £675
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 58
10th Percentile £18.70 £15.25 £17.69
25th Percentile £28.27 £16.95 £18.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £24.66 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.17% -17.80% +7.80%
75th Percentile £83.75 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £106.80 £72.75 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -10 108 £488 +2.63% 51
Berkshire -5 78 £505 +12.22% 25
Hampshire +7 64 £510 -2.86% 28
West Sussex +3 38 £380 -5.00% 19
Surrey -4 31 £500 +36.05% 12
Buckinghamshire -24 19 £450 -14.69% 12
Oxfordshire -23 11 £500 +40.35% 14
East Sussex +3 10 £480 -13.80% 2
Kent - 4 £600 - 9
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 (9.16%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.67%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 63 (24.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (8.02%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.38%) InDesign
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (4.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.05%) iTrent
3 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.76%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.44%) Azure
2 35 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (11.83%) Power Automate
4 26 (9.92%) PowerApps
5 23 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.49%) AWS
6 17 (6.49%) Serverless
7 14 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (4.96%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (4.58%) Azure Functions
9 12 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.20%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (3.05%) GCP
12 8 (3.05%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.67%) dbt
13 7 (2.67%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Network Security
1 2 (0.76%) VPN
1 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.38%) DHCP
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (88.17%) Power BI
2 25 (9.54%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (9.54%) Tableau
3 18 (6.87%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.67%) Metadata
6 6 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.53%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.53%) MySQL
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.53%) Power Query
8 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (10.31%) JIRA
2 9 (3.44%) Git
3 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.53%) JUnit
4 2 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) TestRail
General
1 76 (29.01%) Analytical Skills
2 74 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 62 (23.66%) Finance
4 20 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (7.63%) Retail
5 19 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.91%) Banking
7 5 (1.91%) Billing
7 5 (1.91%) Marketing
8 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.15%) Military
8 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.76%) Advertising
9 2 (0.76%) Legal
9 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 78 (29.77%) Analyst
2 38 (14.50%) Data Analyst
3 33 (12.60%) Architect
4 27 (10.31%) Developer
5 26 (9.92%) Senior
6 21 (8.02%) Lead
7 19 (7.25%) PMO Analyst
8 17 (6.49%) Consultant
9 16 (6.11%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.58%) Platform Architect
11 12 (4.58%) Power Platform Architect
11 12 (4.58%) Power Platform Consultant
12 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.44%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (2.67%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.58%) REST
2 8 (3.05%) .NET
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.91%) EDI
4 5 (1.91%) JSON
4 5 (1.91%) Middleware
4 5 (1.91%) Web Services
5 4 (1.53%) CSS
5 4 (1.53%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.53%) HTML
5 4 (1.53%) JPA
5 4 (1.53%) jQuery
5 4 (1.53%) Spring
5 4 (1.53%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.53%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.15%) ADO
6 3 (1.15%) Node.js
6 3 (1.15%) PySpark
7 2 (0.76%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.58%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.82%) CMDB
2 10 (3.82%) PKI
3 7 (2.67%) Clustering
3 7 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.29%) FMCG
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.76%) Wiki
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.96%) Windows
2 10 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (82.82%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (27.10%) Agile
3 56 (21.37%) Decision-Making
4 55 (20.99%) Analytics
5 53 (20.23%) Data Modelling
6 52 (19.85%) DevOps
7 49 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (13.36%) ERP
10 35 (13.36%) Visualisation
11 31 (11.83%) ETL
12 30 (11.45%) Data Analysis
13 28 (10.69%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (10.69%) Dashboard Development
13 28 (10.69%) Process Improvement
13 28 (10.69%) Validation
14 26 (9.92%) Data Visualisation
14 26 (9.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (33.21%) SQL
2 22 (8.40%) Python
3 18 (6.87%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.73%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.20%) C#
7 8 (3.05%) X++
8 7 (2.67%) R
9 5 (1.91%) Java
10 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.53%) VBA
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 67 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) Degree
4 12 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.91%) ACCA
6 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.91%) PMP
7 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.15%) CIMA
9 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.03%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.78%) PMO
3 22 (8.40%) GDPR
4 18 (6.87%) QA
5 9 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.29%) SLA
7 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.53%) SCCM
2 3 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (34.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.54%) SAP
3 22 (8.40%) Oracle
4 18 (6.87%) Databricks
5 17 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.96%) IFS
7 12 (4.58%) Remedy
8 10 (3.82%) BMC
8 10 (3.82%) Foundry
9 8 (3.05%) Workday
10 7 (2.67%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.91%) Baan
11 5 (1.91%) Palantir
12 4 (1.53%) Google
12 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.76%) Cognos
13 2 (0.76%) NEC
14 1 (0.38%) Adobe
14 1 (0.38%) Cisco