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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 26 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 161 135 114
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.21% 6.57% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.71% 16.01% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 79 70
10th Percentile £377 £378 £384
25th Percentile £450 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.77%
75th Percentile £623 £674 £675
90th Percentile £738 £838 £739
London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 -
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -16.03% -48.68% +70.97%

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 1,025 843 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.56% 41.04% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 545 669
10th Percentile £338 £359 £367
25th Percentile £463 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £669 £653
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
London median daily rate £535 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -2 151 £550 - 41
West End of London -4 4 £560 +12.00% 2
City of Westminster -9 4 £560 +24.44% 4
Southwark - 3 £575 -
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 -
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 24 (14.91%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.48%) Confluence
4 3 (1.86%) Apache
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (15.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (52.80%) Azure
2 32 (19.88%) Power Automate
3 25 (15.53%) PowerApps
4 20 (12.42%) AWS
5 19 (11.80%) Snowflake
6 18 (11.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (7.45%) GCP
10 12 (7.45%) GitHub
11 11 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (6.21%) dbt
12 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (6.21%) Serverless
13 8 (4.97%) SaaS
14 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 7 (4.35%) Prefect
15 6 (3.73%) Azure AI
15 6 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) DNS
1 3 (1.86%) Firewall
1 3 (1.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (77.64%) Power BI
2 29 (18.01%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (14.91%) Tableau
4 18 (11.18%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.83%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.21%) Looker
7 9 (5.59%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.97%) Metadata
8 8 (4.97%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.73%) Power Query
10 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.48%) Mixpanel
12 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Git
1 8 (4.97%) JIRA
2 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.86%) GitLab
3 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (40.37%) Finance
2 43 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.42%) Banking
5 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.35%) Legal
6 7 (4.35%) Retail
7 6 (3.73%) Marketing
8 4 (2.48%) Back Office
8 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Front Office
9 3 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.86%) Law
10 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Military
10 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.36%) Analyst
2 28 (17.39%) Developer
3 23 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.66%) Data Analyst
5 21 (13.04%) Architect
6 13 (8.07%) Senior
7 10 (6.21%) Consultant
7 10 (6.21%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.59%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.97%) Lead
9 8 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.48%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.32%) .NET
2 12 (7.45%) PySpark
3 8 (4.97%) Kafka
4 7 (4.35%) REST
5 5 (3.11%) HTML
6 4 (2.48%) CSS
6 4 (2.48%) RESTful
7 3 (1.86%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.86%) JSON
7 3 (1.86%) React
8 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.24%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.24%) Redux
9 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.62%) Backbone.js
9 1 (0.62%) Ember.js
9 1 (0.62%) Keras
9 1 (0.62%) Next.js
9 1 (0.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.73%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.73%) Clustering
3 6 (3.73%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.48%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.86%) CMDB
6 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.24%) Derivative
7 2 (1.24%) FMCG
7 2 (1.24%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.24%) PMI
7 2 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Android
2 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (70.81%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (39.75%) Analytics
3 57 (35.40%) Data Modelling
4 40 (24.84%) AI
5 36 (22.36%) DevOps
6 35 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 34 (21.12%) Data Engineering
8 33 (20.50%) ETL
9 30 (18.63%) Agile
10 29 (18.01%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (17.39%) Data Governance
11 28 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (16.77%) Decision-Making
13 24 (14.91%) Migration
13 24 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.18%) Validation
16 17 (10.56%) Visualisation
17 15 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (9.32%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (40.99%) SQL
2 40 (24.84%) Python
3 18 (11.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.45%) C#
5 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.59%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.48%) R
7 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.86%) Java
9 2 (1.24%) Bicep
9 2 (1.24%) Scala
9 2 (1.24%) VBA
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) Korn
10 1 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.21%) Degree
5 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.86%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) PhD
7 1 (0.62%) RIBA
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.07%) QA
3 7 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.73%) GDPR
4 6 (3.73%) PMO
5 2 (1.24%) P3O
6 1 (0.62%) COBIT
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.24%) Docker
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.35%) Terraform
2 5 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
3 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.86%) SCCM
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.24%) SCOM
5 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (42.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.15%) Databricks
3 8 (4.97%) Informatica
3 8 (4.97%) SAP
4 6 (3.73%) Oracle
4 6 (3.73%) Workday
5 5 (3.11%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.48%) Foundry
6 4 (2.48%) Google
7 3 (1.86%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.86%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.86%) Splunk
7 3 (1.86%) VMware
8 2 (1.24%) Adobe
8 2 (1.24%) BMC
8 2 (1.24%) Commvault
8 2 (1.24%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.24%) Palantir