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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 146 126 124
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.04% 5.89% 4.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.16% 14.57% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 82 84
10th Percentile £321 £413 £363
25th Percentile £402 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £678 £689
90th Percentile £749 £777 £766
London median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.60 £39.25
% change year-on-year -12.59% -27.13% -1.88%

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 851 865 1,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.05% 40.46% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 564 756
10th Percentile £343 £366 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.75 -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £38.00
90th Percentile £47.50 - £49.95
London median hourly rate £28.30 £29.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.03% -8.32% +25.75%

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 24 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 24 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 +5 129 £521 -9.48% 52
West End of London +11 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 (12.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.42%) Confluence
4 3 (2.05%) Apache
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (45.21%) Azure
2 28 (19.18%) Power Automate
2 28 (19.18%) PowerApps
3 19 (13.01%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.64%) AWS
6 16 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (8.90%) GCP
8 10 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.16%) GitHub
9 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.48%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.48%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (4.79%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (4.79%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.42%) Serverless
13 5 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.74%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DHCP
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (77.40%) Power BI
2 34 (23.29%) Tableau
3 14 (9.59%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.48%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.42%) Looker
6 5 (3.42%) Metadata
7 4 (2.74%) MySQL
7 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.74%) Power Query
7 4 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.05%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.05%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.37%) OLAP
9 2 (1.37%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.37%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) JIRA
2 9 (6.16%) Git
3 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) ERwin
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 50 (34.25%) Finance
2 40 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 37 (25.34%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Banking
5 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.53%) Front Office
7 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.42%) Back Office
8 5 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Legal
10 3 (2.05%) Marketing
10 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Automotive
11 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
11 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (19.86%) Analyst
2 27 (18.49%) Developer
3 19 (13.01%) Senior
4 16 (10.96%) Lead
5 12 (8.22%) Data Engineer
5 12 (8.22%) Data Scientist
6 11 (7.53%) Consultant
7 10 (6.85%) Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Consultant
11 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Programme Manager
11 4 (2.74%) Service Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Technical Leader
12 3 (2.05%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.48%) PySpark
3 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (4.11%) .NET
4 6 (4.11%) NumPy
4 6 (4.11%) Pandas
5 4 (2.74%) CSS
5 4 (2.74%) HTML
5 4 (2.74%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.74%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.05%) JSON
6 3 (2.05%) Kafka
6 3 (2.05%) LangChain
6 3 (2.05%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.05%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.37%) REST
7 2 (1.37%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.37%) XML
8 1 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.42%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.74%) Derivative
5 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.05%) Equities
6 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.37%) Clustering
6 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.37%) Swaptions
6 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (73.97%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (34.25%) Analytics
3 41 (28.08%) Visualisation
4 37 (25.34%) Agile
5 36 (24.66%) Data Modelling
6 35 (23.97%) AI
7 28 (19.18%) Data Visualisation
8 26 (17.81%) DevOps
8 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (17.12%) Data Governance
10 23 (15.75%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (15.75%) Data Engineering
11 22 (15.07%) Data Science
12 21 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (13.70%) ETL
13 20 (13.70%) Generative AI
13 20 (13.70%) Machine Learning
14 19 (13.01%) Decision-Making
15 17 (11.64%) Data Analysis
15 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.99%) SQL
2 42 (28.77%) Python
3 8 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (5.48%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.79%) Scala
5 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.74%) C#
7 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.05%) R
8 2 (1.37%) IronPython
8 2 (1.37%) Java
8 2 (1.37%) Korn
8 2 (1.37%) VBA
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) LookML
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.27%) Degree
4 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.74%) PMP
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.37%) CFA
8 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) IIBA
9 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.48%) GDPR
3 7 (4.79%) PMO
4 6 (4.11%) QA
5 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.05%) SLA
6 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.37%) Basel III
6 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.37%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) GAAP
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.74%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Databricks
3 9 (6.16%) Google
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
4 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.11%) Foundry
5 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.11%) SAP
6 4 (2.74%) Workday
7 3 (2.05%) Cognos
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.05%) Planview
7 3 (2.05%) Sage
8 2 (1.37%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.37%) Informatica
8 2 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.37%) Palantir
8 2 (1.37%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.37%) UiPath