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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 170 119 131
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.02% 5.89% 5.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.49% 13.79% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 70 80
10th Percentile £363 £412 £367
25th Percentile £448 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -3.71% +9.52%
75th Percentile £618 £672 £688
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £33.27 -
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £27.71 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.68% -47.15% +42.86%

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 972 863 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.15% 42.74% 38.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 560 687
10th Percentile £350 £365 £350
25th Percentile £450 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 10
10th Percentile £19.56 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £52.16 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £71.94 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +14 157 £525 -4.55% 37
West End of London +9 6 £475 - 3
City of Westminster +4 6 £475 +2.70% 4
Southwark - 1 £650 - 2
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 21 (12.35%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.76%) Confluence
4 3 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.94%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (44.12%) Azure
2 29 (17.06%) Power Automate
3 24 (14.12%) PowerApps
4 21 (12.35%) AWS
5 19 (11.18%) GCP
6 18 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 15 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (7.06%) dbt
11 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (5.88%) GitHub
11 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (4.71%) Azure AI
12 8 (4.71%) Prefect
13 6 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (3.53%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (3.53%) Dagster
14 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) DHCP
1 2 (1.18%) DNS
1 2 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (73.53%) Power BI
2 41 (24.12%) Tableau
3 27 (15.88%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.47%) Looker
6 9 (5.29%) Metadata
7 8 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.94%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.35%) Power Query
12 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.76%) Mixpanel
12 3 (1.76%) OLAP
12 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.59%) ERwin
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Selenium
4 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (37.65%) Finance
2 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 37 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.00%) Banking
5 12 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.12%) Back Office
6 7 (4.12%) Front Office
7 6 (3.53%) Legal
8 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Law
12 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (21.18%) Analyst
2 33 (19.41%) Developer
3 24 (14.12%) Data Engineer
4 20 (11.76%) Senior
5 15 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 14 (8.24%) Data Scientist
7 11 (6.47%) Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Consultant
9 9 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Lead
11 7 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
13 5 (2.94%) Power Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 5 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
14 4 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.29%) scikit-learn
2 8 (4.71%) PySpark
3 6 (3.53%) .NET
3 6 (3.53%) Kafka
3 6 (3.53%) NumPy
3 6 (3.53%) Pandas
4 5 (2.94%) CSS
4 5 (2.94%) HTML
5 4 (2.35%) JSON
5 4 (2.35%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.35%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.35%) REST
5 4 (2.35%) Seaborn
5 4 (2.35%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.18%) Playwright
6 2 (1.18%) XML
6 2 (1.18%) YAML
7 1 (0.59%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.12%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.94%) Clustering
5 5 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.35%) Equities
6 4 (2.35%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.76%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.18%) PMI
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (67.65%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (40.00%) Analytics
3 50 (29.41%) AI
4 46 (27.06%) Data Modelling
5 38 (22.35%) Data Engineering
6 37 (21.76%) Visualisation
7 35 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (19.41%) ETL
9 31 (18.24%) Agile
10 30 (17.65%) Data Science
11 27 (15.88%) Data Governance
12 26 (15.29%) DevOps
13 25 (14.71%) Decision-Making
13 25 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
14 22 (12.94%) Machine Learning
15 19 (11.18%) Validation
16 18 (10.59%) CI/CD
16 18 (10.59%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.82%) SQL
2 52 (30.59%) Python
3 10 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.53%) R
5 6 (3.53%) Scala
6 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.35%) C#
7 4 (2.35%) Java
8 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) VBA
9 1 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.24%) Degree
3 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.76%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.76%) PMP
7 2 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.59%) CFA
8 1 (0.59%) IIBA
8 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) MBA
8 1 (0.59%) RIBA
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.94%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.88%) QA
3 9 (5.29%) GDPR
4 7 (4.12%) PMO
5 5 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.76%) SLA
7 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.18%) Basel III
7 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.59%) GAAP
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.59%) P3O
8 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.94%) Docker
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Terraform
2 5 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) SCCM
4 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (37.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.35%) Databricks
3 10 (5.88%) Google
4 9 (5.29%) Oracle
4 9 (5.29%) Workday
5 8 (4.71%) Foundry
6 7 (4.12%) Informatica
6 7 (4.12%) SAP
7 6 (3.53%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.35%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.76%) Cognos
9 3 (1.76%) IBM
9 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.76%) Palantir
9 3 (1.76%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.76%) Sage
10 2 (1.18%) Planview
10 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.59%) Talend
11 1 (0.59%) Yardi