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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 161 130 128
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.11% 6.34% 5.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.63% 15.20% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 81 78
10th Percentile £375 £405 £380
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £669 £684
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
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 £25.50 £31.54 £66.25
% change year-on-year -19.14% -52.40% +42.47%

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 1,030 855 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.12% 41.73% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 556 693
10th Percentile £338 £359 £363
25th Percentile £460 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £656
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
London median daily rate £531 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 6
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £16.31
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £44.44
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £71.38
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -53.04%

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 17 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 17 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 0 151 £550 - 30
West End of London -3 4 £560 +12.00% 4
City of Westminster -7 4 £560 +24.44% 2
Southwark - 3 £575 - 1
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 21 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.62%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (53.42%) Azure
2 32 (19.88%) Power Automate
3 24 (14.91%) PowerApps
4 22 (13.66%) AWS
5 20 (12.42%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.70%) GCP
9 12 (7.45%) GitHub
10 11 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (6.83%) dbt
10 11 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (5.59%) Serverless
12 8 (4.97%) SaaS
13 7 (4.35%) Prefect
14 6 (3.73%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.73%) Copilot Studio
14 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
1 121 (75.16%) Power BI
2 27 (16.77%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (16.15%) Tableau
4 14 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.83%) Looker
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.21%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.59%) BigQuery
8 8 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.97%) Metadata
9 7 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.73%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.48%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.48%) Power Query
12 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.86%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Git
2 7 (4.35%) JIRA
3 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.86%) GitLab
4 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (37.89%) Finance
2 41 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.04%) Banking
5 7 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.73%) Legal
7 4 (2.48%) Back Office
7 4 (2.48%) Marketing
7 4 (2.48%) Retail
7 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Front Office
8 3 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (1.24%) Military
9 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (21.74%) Analyst
2 27 (16.77%) Developer
3 24 (14.91%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.66%) Architect
5 20 (12.42%) Data Analyst
6 11 (6.83%) Consultant
6 11 (6.83%) Senior
7 10 (6.21%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.59%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.97%) Lead
9 8 (4.97%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.48%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (2.48%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.48%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.32%) .NET
2 13 (8.07%) 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%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.86%) React
8 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.24%) Bootstrap
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%) HTML5
9 1 (0.62%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.62%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.73%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.11%) Clustering
4 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.11%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.48%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.86%) CMDB
6 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.86%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.24%) Derivative
7 2 (1.24%) Equities
7 2 (1.24%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.24%) PMI
7 2 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (68.94%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (40.37%) Analytics
3 55 (34.16%) Data Modelling
4 46 (28.57%) AI
5 35 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 35 (21.74%) DevOps
6 34 (21.12%) CI/CD
7 32 (19.88%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.63%) Agile
8 30 (18.63%) ETL
9 28 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 27 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (16.15%) Decision-Making
12 22 (13.66%) Migration
12 22 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (11.18%) Visualisation
15 17 (10.56%) Validation
16 15 (9.32%) Data Architecture
16 15 (9.32%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 63 (39.13%) SQL
2 43 (26.71%) Python
3 17 (10.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.45%) C#
5 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.48%) R
8 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.86%) Java
10 2 (1.24%) Bicep
10 2 (1.24%) Scala
10 2 (1.24%) VBA
11 1 (0.62%) Bash
11 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 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.86%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.24%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) RIBA
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.21%) QA
3 6 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) GDPR
3 6 (3.73%) PMO
4 2 (1.24%) P3O
5 1 (0.62%) COBIT
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Terraform
2 5 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
3 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.86%) SCCM
4 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.91%) Databricks
3 7 (4.35%) Informatica
4 6 (3.73%) Oracle
4 6 (3.73%) SAP
4 6 (3.73%) Workday
5 5 (3.11%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.11%) Foundry
5 5 (3.11%) Google
6 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.86%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.86%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.86%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.86%) Palantir
7 3 (1.86%) Splunk
8 2 (1.24%) Adobe
8 2 (1.24%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.62%) OpenAI