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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 143 124 114
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.08% 5.77% 4.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.23% 14.35% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 80 77
10th Percentile £321 £411 £363
25th Percentile £400 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £680 £695
90th Percentile £749 £782 £757
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.59 £38.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% -19.50% -5.00%

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 830 864 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.09% 40.19% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 559 743
10th Percentile £343 £390 £363
25th Percentile £429 £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 £749 £740 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +40.00%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +6 126 £515 -10.39% 46
West End of London +10 5 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +5 4 £475 -
Camden - 1 £400 -
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 (12.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.50%) Confluence
4 3 (2.10%) Apache
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (20.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (42.66%) Azure
2 29 (20.28%) PowerApps
3 28 (19.58%) Power Automate
4 18 (12.59%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.19%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (9.79%) AWS
8 11 (7.69%) GCP
9 9 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.59%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.59%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (5.59%) GitHub
11 7 (4.90%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (4.90%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.80%) Serverless
13 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DHCP
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) HTTP
1 2 (1.40%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (78.32%) Power BI
2 32 (22.38%) Tableau
3 14 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.59%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.80%) Looker
7 4 (2.80%) Metadata
7 4 (2.80%) MySQL
7 4 (2.80%) Power Query
7 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.10%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.40%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.40%) OLAP
9 2 (1.40%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.40%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) JIRA
2 7 (4.90%) Git
3 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) ERwin
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 49 (34.27%) Finance
2 39 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 37 (25.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.89%) Banking
5 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.69%) Front Office
7 7 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.50%) Back Office
8 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Legal
10 3 (2.10%) Marketing
10 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Automotive
11 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Retail
11 2 (1.40%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (20.28%) Analyst
2 27 (18.88%) Developer
3 19 (13.29%) Senior
4 16 (11.19%) Lead
5 11 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.69%) Data Scientist
6 10 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (6.99%) Consultant
6 10 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.29%) Architect
7 9 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.50%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Programme Manager
10 4 (2.80%) Service Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.10%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.90%) PySpark
3 6 (4.20%) .NET
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (3.50%) NumPy
4 5 (3.50%) Pandas
5 4 (2.80%) CSS
5 4 (2.80%) HTML
6 3 (2.10%) JSON
6 3 (2.10%) Kafka
6 3 (2.10%) LangChain
6 3 (2.10%) Matplotlib
6 3 (2.10%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.10%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.10%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.40%) REST
7 2 (1.40%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.40%) XML
8 1 (0.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.59%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.20%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.50%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.80%) Derivative
6 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.10%) Equities
6 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.40%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.40%) Swaptions
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.70%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (74.83%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (32.87%) Analytics
3 41 (28.67%) Visualisation
4 35 (24.48%) Data Modelling
5 34 (23.78%) Agile
6 30 (20.98%) AI
7 27 (18.88%) Data Visualisation
8 26 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (17.48%) Data Governance
10 24 (16.78%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (16.78%) DevOps
11 23 (16.08%) Data Engineering
12 21 (14.69%) Data Science
13 20 (13.99%) ETL
14 19 (13.29%) Decision-Making
14 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (12.59%) Generative AI
15 18 (12.59%) Machine Learning
16 16 (11.19%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.36%) SQL
2 42 (29.37%) Python
3 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (4.90%) Scala
6 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.80%) C#
7 4 (2.80%) R
8 3 (2.10%) Korn
8 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.40%) IronPython
9 2 (1.40%) Java
9 2 (1.40%) VBA
10 1 (0.70%) Bicep
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) LookML
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.80%) PMP
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) CFA
8 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) IIBA
9 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.70%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.29%) GDPR
3 7 (4.90%) PMO
4 6 (4.20%) QA
5 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.10%) SLA
6 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.40%) Basel III
6 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.40%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.70%) GAAP
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (40.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.59%) Databricks
3 8 (5.59%) Google
3 8 (5.59%) Oracle
4 7 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.20%) SAP
6 5 (3.50%) Foundry
6 5 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.80%) Workday
8 3 (2.10%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.10%) Planview
9 2 (1.40%) Cognos
9 2 (1.40%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.40%) IBM
9 2 (1.40%) Informatica
9 2 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.40%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.40%) Sage
9 2 (1.40%) UiPath
10 1 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere