Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Power Platform
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 32 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 151 127 114
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.46% 5.51% 4.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.95% 13.93% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 81 77
10th Percentile £321 £413 £343
25th Percentile £401 £465 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £647 £675 £695
90th Percentile £749 £780 £775
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £26.25 £30.59 £26.24
% change year-on-year -14.19% +16.58% -34.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 841 912 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.57% 39.60% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 596 772
10th Percentile £329 £391 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £34.44
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
% change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Central London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Central London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Central London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
City of London +2 133 £510 -11.30% 131
West End of London +12 6 £475 +18.75% 3
City of Westminster +7 5 £475 -
Camden - 1 £400 - 1
Power Platform
London

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 19 (12.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.99%) Apache
5 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (21.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (43.71%) Azure
2 33 (21.85%) Power Automate
2 33 (21.85%) PowerApps
3 20 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (10.60%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (9.27%) AWS
7 11 (7.28%) Entra ID
7 11 (7.28%) GCP
8 10 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.30%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.30%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (5.30%) GitHub
11 7 (4.64%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.31%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.65%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) DHCP
2 1 (0.66%) DKIM
2 1 (0.66%) DMARC
2 1 (0.66%) DNS
2 1 (0.66%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.66%) PSTN
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (80.13%) Power BI
2 31 (20.53%) Tableau
3 14 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.62%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.97%) Power Query
7 4 (2.65%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.65%) Looker
7 4 (2.65%) Metadata
7 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.99%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.99%) MySQL
8 3 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.32%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) JIRA
2 7 (4.64%) Git
3 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 57 (37.75%) Finance
2 43 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 37 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.92%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.28%) Front Office
7 7 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.97%) Back Office
9 5 (3.31%) Legal
9 5 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.65%) Marketing
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
11 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Law
12 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (20.53%) Analyst
2 25 (16.56%) Developer
3 18 (11.92%) Lead
3 18 (11.92%) Senior
4 12 (7.95%) Consultant
5 11 (7.28%) Architect
5 11 (7.28%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.62%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.62%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (5.96%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 4 (2.65%) Data Architect
9 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (2.65%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (2.65%) Programme Manager
9 4 (2.65%) Service Analyst
9 4 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (4.64%) PySpark
2 7 (4.64%) scikit-learn
3 6 (3.97%) .NET
4 5 (3.31%) NumPy
4 5 (3.31%) Pandas
5 4 (2.65%) CSS
5 4 (2.65%) HTML
5 4 (2.65%) JSON
6 3 (1.99%) Kafka
6 3 (1.99%) LangChain
6 3 (1.99%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.99%) Seaborn
6 3 (1.99%) XML
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.32%) REST
7 2 (1.32%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.66%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.30%) AI Agents
1 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.31%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.31%) Low-Code
2 5 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.65%) Derivative
4 3 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.99%) Equities
4 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.32%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.32%) Swaptions
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
1 1 (0.66%) Unix
1 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (76.82%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (34.44%) Analytics
3 42 (27.81%) Visualisation
4 37 (24.50%) Agile
4 37 (24.50%) Data Modelling
5 29 (19.21%) AI
5 29 (19.21%) Data Governance
6 27 (17.88%) Data Visualisation
7 24 (15.89%) DevOps
7 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.23%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (14.57%) ETL
10 21 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (13.25%) Data Engineering
12 19 (12.58%) Data Science
12 19 (12.58%) Decision-Making
12 19 (12.58%) Migration
12 19 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (11.92%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.09%) SQL
2 44 (29.14%) Python
3 11 (7.28%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (4.64%) Scala
6 6 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.31%) C#
8 4 (2.65%) R
9 3 (1.99%) Java
9 3 (1.99%) Korn
9 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.99%) VBA
10 2 (1.32%) IronPython
10 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.66%) Bicep
11 1 (0.66%) C++
11 1 (0.66%) LookML
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) Degree
4 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) PMP
6 3 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.99%) CFA
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) ACCA
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) CISA
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) CRISC
8 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) MBA
8 1 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.28%) GDPR
3 7 (4.64%) PMO
3 7 (4.64%) QA
4 3 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
4 3 (1.99%) SLA
5 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.32%) Basel III
5 2 (1.32%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) GAAP
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) IFRS
6 1 (0.66%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.32%) Terraform
4 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) Databricks
3 8 (5.30%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.64%) Google
4 7 (4.64%) Oracle
5 6 (3.97%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.65%) Foundry
7 4 (2.65%) Workday
8 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.99%) Planview
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe
9 2 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.32%) Cognos
9 2 (1.32%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.32%) Informatica
9 2 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.32%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.32%) Sage
9 2 (1.32%) UiPath