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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 162 117 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.27% 6.13% 5.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.36% 14.32% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 71 78
10th Percentile £385 £406 £380
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.77%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £688
90th Percentile £749 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 -
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £27.03 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -7.03% -56.12% +26.19%

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 990 817 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.33% 42.80% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 528 692
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £28.46 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.68% +27.93% -66.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £76.75 £96.63 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% +23.08% -51.63%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +8 151 £550 - 92
West End of London +2 7 £506 +1.25% 5
City of Westminster -2 7 £506 +12.50% 1
Southwark - 2 £613 -
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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 (11.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.09%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.38%) Azure
2 25 (15.43%) Power Automate
3 20 (12.35%) AWS
4 19 (11.73%) PowerApps
4 19 (11.73%) Snowflake
5 15 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.64%) GCP
6 14 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.02%) GitHub
8 11 (6.79%) dbt
8 11 (6.79%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (4.94%) Serverless
10 7 (4.32%) Prefect
10 7 (4.32%) SaaS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.09%) Dagster
12 5 (3.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) DNS
1 3 (1.85%) VPN
2 2 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (77.16%) Power BI
2 29 (17.90%) Tableau
3 27 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (9.26%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.79%) Looker
6 10 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.94%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.32%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.32%) Metadata
8 7 (4.32%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.09%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.47%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.47%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Git
2 8 (4.94%) JIRA
3 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.85%) GitLab
4 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.62%) ERwin
5 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (37.04%) Finance
2 36 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.35%) Banking
5 6 (3.70%) Back Office
5 6 (3.70%) Front Office
6 5 (3.09%) Legal
7 4 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Aviation
10 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (20.99%) Analyst
2 29 (17.90%) Developer
3 27 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 20 (12.35%) Architect
5 14 (8.64%) Data Analyst
6 13 (8.02%) Senior
7 9 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.94%) Lead
8 8 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.32%) Consultant
9 7 (4.32%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 4 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) PySpark
2 13 (8.02%) .NET
3 9 (5.56%) Kafka
4 7 (4.32%) REST
5 5 (3.09%) CSS
5 5 (3.09%) HTML
6 3 (1.85%) JSON
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.85%) React
6 3 (1.85%) RESTful
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.23%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.23%) Redux
7 2 (1.23%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.62%) Backbone.js
8 1 (0.62%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.62%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.09%) Clustering
4 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.47%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.85%) CMDB
6 3 (1.85%) Equities
6 3 (1.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.23%) Derivative
7 2 (1.23%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.23%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.75%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (40.74%) Analytics
3 51 (31.48%) Data Modelling
4 42 (25.93%) AI
5 40 (24.69%) Data Engineering
6 34 (20.99%) DevOps
7 33 (20.37%) Data Pipeline
8 31 (19.14%) CI/CD
9 30 (18.52%) Agile
9 30 (18.52%) ETL
10 25 (15.43%) Data Governance
11 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.58%) Decision-Making
12 22 (13.58%) Migration
12 22 (13.58%) Visualisation
13 21 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.88%) Data Science
14 16 (9.88%) Machine Learning
14 16 (9.88%) Validation
15 15 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.27%) SQL
2 46 (28.40%) Python
3 13 (8.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.94%) C#
4 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.09%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.47%) Java
7 4 (2.47%) R
8 3 (1.85%) Scala
9 2 (1.23%) Bicep
9 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
10 1 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 4 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.85%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PMP
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) CFA
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) RIBA
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (23.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.94%) GDPR
2 8 (4.94%) QA
3 6 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.09%) PMO
5 3 (1.85%) SLA
6 2 (1.23%) Basel III
6 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.62%) COBIT
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.62%) GAAP
7 1 (0.62%) IFRS
7 1 (0.62%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.62%) P3O
7 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.47%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.94%) Terraform
2 6 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.85%) SCCM
4 2 (1.23%) Grafana
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (37.65%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.05%) Databricks
3 9 (5.56%) Oracle
3 9 (5.56%) Workday
4 7 (4.32%) Informatica
4 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.70%) Google
5 6 (3.70%) SAP
6 5 (3.09%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.09%) Foundry
7 4 (2.47%) Palantir
8 3 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.85%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe
9 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.23%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.23%) Splunk