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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 162 128 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.09% 6.22% 5.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.64% 14.87% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 81 80
10th Percentile £375 £405 £383
25th Percentile £436 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.77%
75th Percentile £623 £669 £678
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -0.05% -4.26% -0.48%
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 1,036 861 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.98% 41.84% 41.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 556 699
10th Percentile £334 £361 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £654
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 5
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £12.75
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 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £40.95
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
% change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -52.05%

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 11 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 11 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 +1 152 £550 - 70
West End of London -1 4 £560 +12.00% 4
City of Westminster -4 4 £560 +24.44% 2
Southwark - 3 £575 - 2
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 22 (13.58%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.09%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.09%) 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
Cloud Services
1 87 (53.70%) Azure
2 31 (19.14%) Power Automate
3 25 (15.43%) PowerApps
4 21 (12.96%) AWS
5 19 (11.73%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (9.26%) GCP
8 15 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.02%) GitHub
10 11 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (6.79%) dbt
11 10 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (6.17%) Serverless
12 8 (4.94%) SaaS
13 7 (4.32%) Prefect
14 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
14 6 (3.70%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) DNS
1 4 (2.47%) VPN
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (75.31%) Power BI
2 28 (17.28%) 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 9 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.56%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.94%) Metadata
9 7 (4.32%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.70%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.47%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.47%) Power Query
12 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Git
2 7 (4.32%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (38.27%) Finance
2 41 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.35%) Banking
5 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.70%) Legal
7 4 (2.47%) Back Office
7 4 (2.47%) Retail
7 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Front Office
8 3 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (19.75%) Analyst
2 26 (16.05%) Developer
3 25 (15.43%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.58%) Architect
5 17 (10.49%) Data Analyst
6 13 (8.02%) Senior
7 11 (6.79%) Consultant
8 10 (6.17%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.94%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.94%) Lead
9 8 (4.94%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.26%) .NET
2 14 (8.64%) PySpark
3 8 (4.94%) Kafka
4 7 (4.32%) REST
5 5 (3.09%) HTML
6 4 (2.47%) CSS
6 4 (2.47%) RESTful
7 3 (1.85%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.85%) JSON
7 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.85%) React
8 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.23%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.23%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.23%) Redux
8 2 (1.23%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.62%) Next.js
9 1 (0.62%) Playwright
9 1 (0.62%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.70%) AI Agents
2 6 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.09%) Clustering
3 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.09%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.85%) CMDB
5 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Derivative
6 2 (1.23%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.23%) PMI
6 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) 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 (68.52%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (41.36%) Analytics
3 54 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 46 (28.40%) AI
5 38 (23.46%) Data Engineering
6 37 (22.84%) DevOps
7 34 (20.99%) CI/CD
7 34 (20.99%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (17.90%) Agile
8 29 (17.90%) ETL
9 27 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 27 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (14.20%) Migration
12 21 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (12.96%) Visualisation
13 20 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (10.49%) Validation
15 16 (9.88%) Data Architecture
15 16 (9.88%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.89%) SQL
2 46 (28.40%) Python
3 17 (10.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.41%) C#
5 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.47%) R
8 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.85%) Java
10 2 (1.23%) Bicep
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
10 2 (1.23%) VBA
11 1 (0.62%) Bash
11 1 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) DBS Check
4 11 (6.79%) Degree
5 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.85%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) 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%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) RIBA
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.17%) QA
3 6 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.70%) GDPR
3 6 (3.70%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) P3O
5 1 (0.62%) COBIT
5 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.56%) Terraform
2 5 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.85%) Grafana
3 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.81%) Databricks
3 7 (4.32%) Oracle
4 6 (3.70%) Foundry
4 6 (3.70%) Google
4 6 (3.70%) Informatica
4 6 (3.70%) Workday
5 5 (3.09%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.09%) SAP
6 4 (2.47%) Palantir
6 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.85%) Splunk
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe
8 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.23%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.62%) IBM