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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 242 111 173
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.11% 3.74% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.79% 12.51% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 75 110
10th Percentile £285 £308 £312
25th Percentile £380 £384 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -6.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £633 £641
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 4
10th Percentile £12.66 - -
25th Percentile £30.66 - £22.61
Median hourly rate £57.53 £32.05 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year +79.49% +34.54% -26.25%
75th Percentile £83.38 - £33.70
90th Percentile £100.76 - £50.38
England median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -1.79% +25.22% -53.17%

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 1,636 887 1,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.77% 29.90% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 600 904
10th Percentile £281 £263 £250
25th Percentile £401 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 33 51
10th Percentile £15.96 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.27 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.75 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +68.10% +24.92% +0.28%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.50 £54.75
90th Percentile £101.01 £74.75 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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

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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 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South East

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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

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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 May 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 May 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 -5 112 £500 +1.52% 61
Berkshire -1 78 £505 +12.22% 38
Hampshire +12 57 £500 -4.76% 19
West Sussex 0 26 £380 -10.59% 6
Surrey -12 26 £500 +22.32% 22
Buckinghamshire -20 24 £475 -13.64% 15
East Sussex +5 10 £480 +0.95% 5
Oxfordshire -13 10 £500 +40.35% 10
Kent - 5 £650 - 10
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 32 (13.22%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.48%) Confluence
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 59 (24.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) InDesign
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.31%) iTrent
3 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.83%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 82 (33.88%) Azure
2 37 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
2 37 (15.29%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.98%) Power Automate
4 24 (9.92%) PowerApps
5 18 (7.44%) AWS
6 15 (6.20%) Serverless
7 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 14 (5.79%) SaaS
8 13 (5.37%) Copilot Studio
9 10 (4.13%) Azure Functions
9 10 (4.13%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.72%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.31%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.89%) GitHub
12 7 (2.89%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Network Security
1 2 (0.83%) VPN
1 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.41%) DHCP
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (87.60%) Power BI
2 24 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (8.68%) Tableau
4 16 (6.61%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 8 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.89%) Metadata
7 7 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.24%) Big Data
11 3 (1.24%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.83%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 29 (11.98%) JIRA
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) ERwin
4 1 (0.41%) Hudson
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 73 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
2 69 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 62 (25.62%) Finance
4 20 (8.26%) Retail
5 18 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.07%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.65%) Marketing
11 3 (1.24%) Military
11 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Legal
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.41%) Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (28.51%) Analyst
2 31 (12.81%) Architect
2 31 (12.81%) Data Analyst
3 22 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
3 22 (9.09%) Senior
4 20 (8.26%) Developer
5 19 (7.85%) Lead
6 18 (7.44%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.20%) Consultant
8 12 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (4.96%) Platform Architect
8 12 (4.96%) Power Platform Architect
9 9 (3.72%) Power Platform Consultant
9 9 (3.72%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) HR Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.96%) REST
2 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (2.48%) ADO
4 5 (2.07%) JSON
5 3 (1.24%) .NET
5 3 (1.24%) EDI
5 3 (1.24%) Middleware
5 3 (1.24%) Node.js
6 2 (0.83%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.83%) PySpark
6 2 (0.83%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.83%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.83%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.83%) Web Services
6 2 (0.83%) XML
6 2 (0.83%) YAML
7 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.96%) PKI
2 10 (4.13%) CMDB
3 8 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.48%) Clustering
4 6 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.07%) FMCG
5 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.83%) Wiki
8 1 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.55%) Windows
2 9 (3.72%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (82.23%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (26.45%) Agile
3 54 (22.31%) DevOps
4 53 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.01%) Decision-Making
6 43 (17.77%) Data Modelling
7 42 (17.36%) Analytics
8 37 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (12.40%) ERP
11 29 (11.98%) Visualisation
12 26 (10.74%) Data Analysis
12 26 (10.74%) Data Governance
12 26 (10.74%) ETL
12 26 (10.74%) Process Improvement
13 25 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (10.33%) Validation
14 24 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (9.92%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.69%) SQL
2 20 (8.26%) Python
3 17 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.72%) C#
8 7 (2.89%) R
9 3 (1.24%) Bicep
9 3 (1.24%) VBA
9 3 (1.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 62 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.61%) Degree
4 9 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.07%) ACCA
5 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.07%) PMP
6 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.24%) CIMA
7 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.05%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.92%) PMO
3 20 (8.26%) GDPR
4 15 (6.20%) QA
5 9 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.48%) SLA
7 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.65%) SCCM
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.68%) Oracle
3 20 (8.26%) Databricks
3 20 (8.26%) SAP
4 17 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.37%) IFS
6 11 (4.55%) Remedy
7 9 (3.72%) BMC
8 8 (3.31%) Foundry
8 8 (3.31%) Workday
9 7 (2.89%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.24%) Baan
10 3 (1.24%) Informatica
10 3 (1.24%) Palantir
11 2 (0.83%) Cognos
11 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.83%) Talend
12 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.41%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.41%) CyberArk