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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 158 132 117
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.07% 6.39% 5.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.32% 15.60% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 79 72
10th Percentile £375 £384 £387
25th Percentile £450 £446 £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 £738
London median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -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 £28.55 £34.33 £66.25
% change year-on-year -16.82% -48.19% +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 1,031 846 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.58% 40.97% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 546 673
10th Percentile £338 £361 £369
25th Percentile £463 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £758 £750
London median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 4
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £17.03
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £23.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -47.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £43.38
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £72.85
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%

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 26 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 26 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 -2 148 £550 - 40
West End of London -4 4 £560 +12.00% 3
City of Westminster -9 4 £560 +24.44% 5
Southwark - 3 £575 -
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 - 1
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 (13.29%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.90%) Apache
3 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (13.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.63%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (51.90%) Azure
2 31 (19.62%) Power Automate
3 24 (15.19%) PowerApps
4 19 (12.03%) AWS
4 19 (12.03%) Snowflake
5 16 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (7.59%) GCP
8 11 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (6.96%) GitHub
8 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (6.33%) dbt
10 8 (5.06%) Serverless
11 7 (4.43%) Prefect
11 7 (4.43%) SaaS
12 6 (3.80%) Azure AI
12 6 (3.80%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) DNS
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
1 3 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (75.95%) Power BI
2 27 (17.09%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (15.19%) Tableau
4 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.96%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.33%) Looker
7 9 (5.70%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (5.06%) Metadata
8 8 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.43%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.80%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.53%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.53%) Power Query
11 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.90%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Git
2 7 (4.43%) JIRA
3 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (38.61%) Finance
2 40 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.66%) Banking
5 7 (4.43%) Legal
5 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.16%) Marketing
6 5 (3.16%) Retail
7 4 (2.53%) Back Office
7 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Front Office
8 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Military
9 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 35 (22.15%) Analyst
2 27 (17.09%) Developer
3 23 (14.56%) Data Engineer
4 21 (13.29%) Architect
4 21 (13.29%) Data Analyst
5 11 (6.96%) Senior
6 10 (6.33%) Consultant
6 10 (6.33%) Data Architect
7 9 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.06%) Lead
8 8 (5.06%) Power Platform Developer
8 8 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.16%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Power BI Analyst
11 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.49%) .NET
2 12 (7.59%) PySpark
3 8 (5.06%) Kafka
4 7 (4.43%) REST
5 5 (3.16%) HTML
6 4 (2.53%) CSS
6 4 (2.53%) RESTful
7 3 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.90%) JSON
7 3 (1.90%) React
8 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.27%) Redux
9 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.63%) Backbone.js
9 1 (0.63%) Ember.js
9 1 (0.63%) Keras
9 1 (0.63%) Next.js
9 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.43%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.43%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.16%) Clustering
3 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.16%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.53%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.90%) CMDB
5 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Derivative
6 2 (1.27%) FMCG
6 2 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.27%) PMI
6 2 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (69.62%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (38.61%) Analytics
3 54 (34.18%) Data Modelling
4 41 (25.95%) AI
5 34 (21.52%) Data Engineering
6 33 (20.89%) CI/CD
6 33 (20.89%) DevOps
7 31 (19.62%) ETL
8 29 (18.35%) Agile
8 29 (18.35%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (17.72%) Data Governance
10 26 (16.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (15.82%) Decision-Making
12 23 (14.56%) Migration
12 23 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (11.39%) Validation
15 17 (10.76%) Visualisation
16 15 (9.49%) Data Architecture
17 14 (8.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.24%) SQL
2 40 (25.32%) Python
3 16 (10.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.59%) C#
5 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.06%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.80%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.53%) R
8 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.90%) Java
10 2 (1.27%) Bicep
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (1.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.63%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.23%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.33%) Degree
5 4 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.90%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.63%) PhD
8 1 (0.63%) RIBA
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.96%) QA
3 6 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.80%) GDPR
3 6 (3.80%) PMO
4 2 (1.27%) P3O
5 1 (0.63%) COBIT
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (4.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.43%) Terraform
2 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.90%) Grafana
3 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.90%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.63%) SCOM
4 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (41.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.19%) Databricks
3 8 (5.06%) Informatica
3 8 (5.06%) SAP
4 6 (3.80%) Oracle
4 6 (3.80%) Workday
5 5 (3.16%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.53%) Foundry
6 4 (2.53%) Google
6 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.90%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.90%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.90%) Splunk
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.27%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.27%) Palantir
8 2 (1.27%) VMware
9 1 (0.63%) OpenAI