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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 249 114 168
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.76% 3.32% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.93% 11.09% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 68 111
10th Percentile £262 £222 £263
25th Percentile £378 £300 £400
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 20 3 4
10th Percentile £30.14 - £33.00
25th Percentile £38.25 - £51.37
Median hourly rate £59.88 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +86.82% -49.25% +95.51%
75th Percentile £87.06 £32.18 £70.42
90th Percentile £101.83 £32.26 £80.67
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.40% +5.79% -6.27%

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 1,788 1,028 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.00% 29.90% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 669 819
10th Percentile £263 £204 £306
25th Percentile £413 £354 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 41 22
10th Percentile £16.37 - £17.77
25th Percentile £29.07 £14.75 £19.66
Median hourly rate £61.74 £18.82 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +228.06% -53.53% +45.53%
75th Percentile £82.28 £30.00 £60.44
90th Percentile £104.00 £47.50 £64.73
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -10 105 £475 - 156
Berkshire -4 67 £500 -6.72% 83
Hampshire -17 50 £525 +1.94% 63
Surrey +14 41 £461 +53.67% 58
West Sussex -5 33 £371 +115.07% 28
Buckinghamshire -11 28 £475 +5.56% 53
Oxfordshire -29 10 £375 +7.14% 20
East Sussex +4 9 £500 -16.67% 26
Middlesex - 5 - - 11
Kent +3 4 £550 +76.00% 13
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 (9.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 50 (20.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.21%) iTrent
3 4 (1.61%) 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 (32.13%) Azure
2 30 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.44%) Power Automate
4 19 (7.63%) PowerApps
5 18 (7.23%) AWS
6 17 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.22%) Serverless
9 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.21%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.21%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.81%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (2.81%) GCP
14 6 (2.41%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.41%) SaaS
14 6 (2.41%) Smartsheet
14 6 (2.41%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) 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 (85.14%) Power BI
2 27 (10.84%) Tableau
3 20 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (6.83%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.02%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.81%) Metadata
7 5 (2.01%) Power Query
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.61%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.61%) GIS
8 4 (1.61%) MySQL
8 4 (1.61%) 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 12 (4.82%) JIRA
2 6 (2.41%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.61%) 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 84 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.90%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (21.29%) Finance
4 18 (7.23%) Aerospace
5 17 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.02%) Retail
8 8 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.41%) Marketing
11 5 (2.01%) Banking
11 5 (2.01%) Billing
11 5 (2.01%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.80%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Automotive
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (26.91%) Analyst
2 41 (16.47%) Data Analyst
3 37 (14.86%) Developer
4 32 (12.85%) Senior
5 20 (8.03%) Lead
6 18 (7.23%) Consultant
7 16 (6.43%) Architect
8 14 (5.62%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.02%) Power Platform Consultant
10 10 (4.02%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) HR Data Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.42%) .NET
1 11 (4.42%) REST
2 8 (3.21%) Middleware
3 6 (2.41%) EDI
3 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (2.01%) Terraform
5 4 (1.61%) CSS
5 4 (1.61%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.61%) HTML
5 4 (1.61%) JPA
5 4 (1.61%) jQuery
5 4 (1.61%) Spring
5 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.61%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.61%) 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 14 (5.62%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.61%) Clustering
3 9 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.61%) PKI
3 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.81%) FMCG
5 5 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.01%) Social Media
6 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.20%) CMDB
7 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
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%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.40%) Life Science
9 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.42%) Windows
2 9 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (83.53%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (28.51%) Analytics
3 67 (26.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (26.51%) Decision-Making
5 65 (26.10%) Agile
6 56 (22.49%) Data Modelling
7 42 (16.87%) DevOps
8 41 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 40 (16.06%) Visualisation
10 39 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (14.06%) ETL
12 34 (13.65%) ERP
13 33 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (12.85%) Data Governance
15 30 (12.05%) Dashboard Development
16 29 (11.65%) AI
16 29 (11.65%) CI/CD
17 28 (11.24%) Data Visualisation
18 27 (10.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (40.56%) SQL
2 25 (10.04%) Python
3 22 (8.84%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.61%) X++
7 6 (2.41%) C#
7 6 (2.41%) Java
8 5 (2.01%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.01%) R
9 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.43%) Degree
4 14 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.81%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.41%) ACCA
8 5 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.01%) PMP
9 4 (1.61%) CIMA
10 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.80%) CAPM
11 2 (0.80%) CISSP
11 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) MCSE
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.08%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.23%) QA
3 16 (6.43%) GDPR
4 11 (4.42%) PMO
5 4 (1.61%) 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%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 122 (49.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.26%) SAP
3 21 (8.43%) Databricks
4 20 (8.03%) Oracle
5 19 (7.63%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.02%) Workday
7 9 (3.61%) BMC
7 9 (3.61%) IFS
7 9 (3.61%) Remedy
8 7 (2.81%) Google
9 6 (2.41%) Baan
9 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.01%) Foundry
11 4 (1.61%) Ariba
11 4 (1.61%) Palantir
12 3 (1.20%) ESRI
12 3 (1.20%) IBM
12 3 (1.20%) Informatica
13 2 (0.80%) Teradata
14 1 (0.40%) Planview