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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 115 169 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.83% 3.07% 3.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.79% 12.86% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 106 129
10th Percentile £309 £309 £231
25th Percentile £366 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £588
90th Percentile £628 £656 £645
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile - - £18.61
25th Percentile - £22.61 £22.47
Median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £34.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -30.24% +64.58%
75th Percentile - £33.70 £63.00
90th Percentile - £50.38 £79.19
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £51.75
% change year-on-year +25.22% -55.14% +130.00%

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 899 1,314 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.93% 23.87% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 902 1,242
10th Percentile £281 £251 £253
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -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 31 51 56
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.15 £54.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 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 9 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 0 56 £484 +7.50% 109
Berkshire +9 43 £450 -2.17% 51
Hampshire +34 21 £525 -2.78% 67
Surrey +1 21 £409 -11.62% 37
West Sussex +12 10 £423 -0.52% 14
Buckinghamshire 0 8 £550 +22.22% 41
Oxfordshire -2 5 £356 -20.83% 31
East Sussex - 5 £475 - 16
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England

Power Platform
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 27 (23.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.74%) Maximo
2 2 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.87%) Azure
2 30 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (13.04%) PowerApps
4 14 (12.17%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (11.30%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.09%) AWS
7 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.22%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.48%) GCP
11 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Table
11 3 (2.61%) SaaS
12 2 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.74%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) Firewall
1 7 (6.09%) Internet
1 7 (6.09%) VPN
2 6 (5.22%) Network Security
3 5 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.87%) 2G
4 1 (0.87%) 3G
4 1 (0.87%) 4G
4 1 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (78.26%) Power BI
2 21 (18.26%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.52%) Tableau
4 8 (6.96%) Qlik Sense
4 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (6.09%) Power Query
6 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.74%) Big Data
8 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.74%) Impala
8 2 (1.74%) Looker
8 2 (1.74%) Metadata
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.87%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) ERwin
2 3 (2.61%) Postman
3 2 (1.74%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Marketing
5 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.96%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.61%) Military
8 3 (2.61%) Publishing
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Electronics
9 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Automotive
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) French Language
10 1 (0.87%) Games
10 1 (0.87%) Legal
10 1 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (30.43%) Analyst
2 20 (17.39%) Developer
3 18 (15.65%) Data Analyst
4 14 (12.17%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.96%) Data Business Analyst
6 8 (6.96%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Architect
7 7 (6.09%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.09%) IT Services Manager
7 7 (6.09%) Service Manager
8 6 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior IT Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) .NET
2 4 (3.48%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.48%) Web Services
3 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.61%) ADO
4 2 (1.74%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.87%) MDX
5 1 (0.87%) PySpark
5 1 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
1 7 (6.09%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (5.22%) Low-Code
3 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) IoT
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Life Science
5 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.87%) FMCG
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (74.78%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (39.13%) Analytics
3 27 (23.48%) Data Modelling
4 21 (18.26%) Data Analysis
5 18 (15.65%) Agile
6 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.17%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (11.30%) ETL
8 13 (11.30%) Migration
8 13 (11.30%) Validation
9 12 (10.43%) Decision-Making
9 12 (10.43%) DevOps
10 11 (9.57%) Visualisation
11 9 (7.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (7.83%) Data Analytics
11 9 (7.83%) Data Management
11 9 (7.83%) ERP
11 9 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) SQL
2 19 (16.52%) Python
3 6 (5.22%) C#
4 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.35%) R
5 4 (3.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.48%) VBA
6 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 3 (2.61%) Bicep
6 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.87%) ABAP
8 1 (0.87%) Perl
8 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.87%) X++
8 1 (0.87%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) Degree
4 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) MBA
6 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) PMO
4 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.61%) Grafana
2 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 54 (46.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.57%) Databricks
3 6 (5.22%) Adobe
3 6 (5.22%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.48%) Google
5 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.48%) SAP
6 3 (2.61%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.74%) Sparx
7 2 (1.74%) TikTok
7 2 (1.74%) Workday
8 1 (0.87%) Capita
8 1 (0.87%) Cognos
8 1 (0.87%) Cramer
8 1 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) Splunk
8 1 (0.87%) StreamSets