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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +34
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 163 115 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.13% 5.83% 5.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.19% 13.56% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 69 83
10th Percentile £367 £410 £377
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £641 £679 £700
90th Percentile £749 £755 £775
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year -5.04% +10.79% -31.84%

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 948 848 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.45% 43.00% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 555 712
10th Percentile £350 £375 £344
25th Percentile £453 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £735 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%

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 27 March 2026.

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 27 March 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
City of London +12 146 £538 +2.38% 82
West End of London +11 7 £475 +18.75% 4
City of Westminster +5 6 £475 - 3
Camden - 1 £400 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 18 (11.04%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.29%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.07%) Confluence
5 4 (2.45%) Apache
6 3 (1.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (14.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.84%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.94%) Azure
2 25 (15.34%) Power Automate
3 23 (14.11%) AWS
3 23 (14.11%) PowerApps
4 20 (12.27%) GCP
5 16 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (9.20%) Snowflake
7 12 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.36%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (6.13%) dbt
8 10 (6.13%) GitHub
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (4.29%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (4.29%) Serverless
11 6 (3.68%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (3.68%) Prefect
12 5 (3.07%) Azure AI
12 5 (3.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) DHCP
1 2 (1.23%) DNS
1 2 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (74.85%) Power BI
2 43 (26.38%) Tableau
3 26 (15.95%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.13%) Looker
5 9 (5.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (5.52%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.91%) Metadata
7 6 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.68%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.07%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.45%) MySQL
9 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.45%) Power Query
10 3 (1.84%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.84%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.84%) OLAP
10 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Git
1 10 (6.13%) JIRA
2 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.61%) ERwin
3 1 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 58 (35.58%) Finance
2 42 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (23.93%) Social Skills
4 20 (12.27%) Banking
5 11 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.52%) Front Office
7 7 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.68%) Back Office
9 4 (2.45%) Legal
9 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Automotive
11 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (22.70%) Analyst
2 31 (19.02%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Data Engineer
3 22 (13.50%) Senior
4 14 (8.59%) Data Scientist
5 13 (7.98%) Data Analyst
5 13 (7.98%) Lead
6 11 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.13%) Architect
7 10 (6.13%) Consultant
8 9 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.07%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.07%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.07%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.07%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.45%) Power Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.45%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.13%) PySpark
2 9 (5.52%) scikit-learn
3 6 (3.68%) Kafka
3 6 (3.68%) NumPy
3 6 (3.68%) Pandas
4 5 (3.07%) .NET
4 5 (3.07%) CSS
4 5 (3.07%) HTML
5 4 (2.45%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.45%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.45%) REST
5 4 (2.45%) Seaborn
5 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.23%) JSON
6 2 (1.23%) LangChain
6 2 (1.23%) Playwright
6 2 (1.23%) SPFx
6 2 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.29%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.07%) Clustering
3 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.45%) Equities
4 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.84%) Derivative
5 3 (1.84%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.23%) Linux
1 2 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (70.55%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (39.26%) Analytics
3 48 (29.45%) Data Modelling
4 46 (28.22%) AI
5 40 (24.54%) Visualisation
6 39 (23.93%) Data Engineering
7 33 (20.25%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (20.25%) ETL
8 30 (18.40%) Agile
9 29 (17.79%) Data Science
10 28 (17.18%) DevOps
10 28 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (16.56%) Data Visualisation
12 25 (15.34%) Data Governance
13 23 (14.11%) Machine Learning
14 22 (13.50%) Decision-Making
15 21 (12.88%) Actionable Insight
16 20 (12.27%) Generative AI
16 20 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (11.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 70 (42.94%) SQL
2 52 (31.90%) Python
3 9 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.91%) Scala
5 6 (3.68%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.68%) R
6 5 (3.07%) C#
6 5 (3.07%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.23%) IronPython
7 2 (1.23%) Java
7 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.61%) Bicep
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) Korn
8 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.20%) Degree
2 15 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.45%) PMP
5 3 (1.84%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.84%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.23%) CFA
6 2 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.61%) IIBA
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) MBA
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.13%) QA
3 7 (4.29%) GDPR
4 5 (3.07%) PMO
5 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.84%) SLA
7 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.23%) Basel III
7 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.61%) GAAP
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) IFRS
8 1 (0.61%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.68%) Terraform
2 5 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (34.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.50%) Databricks
3 11 (6.75%) Google
4 8 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.29%) Foundry
5 7 (4.29%) Informatica
5 7 (4.29%) Workday
6 6 (3.68%) Oracle
6 6 (3.68%) SAP
7 4 (2.45%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.84%) Cognos
8 3 (1.84%) IBM
8 3 (1.84%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.84%) Palantir
8 3 (1.84%) Planview
8 3 (1.84%) Sage
8 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.23%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.61%) Adobe