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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 28 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 164 126 113
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.72% 6.55% 4.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.24% 16.47% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 83 75
10th Percentile £363 £340 £391
25th Percentile £425 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £833 £738
London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.38 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.15 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.00 £42.80
% change year-on-year -16.49% -20.55% +5.67%

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 1,010 765 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.39% 39.78% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 543 610
10th Percentile £330 £332 £384
25th Percentile £455 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £753 £762 £768
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year -2.39% -5.65% -23.46%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -3 147 £525 -4.55% 147
West End of London -5 6 £475 -11.63% 8
City of Westminster -9 3 £538 +4.88% 23
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £563 -
Southwark - 2 £513 - 5
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 24 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.88%) Confluence
3 5 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.22%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.22%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.61%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 91 (55.49%) Azure
2 33 (20.12%) Power Automate
3 32 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (18.29%) PowerApps
5 25 (15.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (13.41%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (7.93%) Serverless
10 12 (7.32%) AWS
10 12 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (6.71%) GitHub
11 11 (6.71%) Snowflake
12 9 (5.49%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.27%) SaaS
15 6 (3.66%) Azure AI
15 6 (3.66%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) DNS
1 3 (1.83%) Firewall
1 3 (1.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (75.61%) Power BI
2 28 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (13.41%) SQL Server
4 14 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 12 (7.32%) Metadata
5 12 (7.32%) Star Schema
5 12 (7.32%) Tableau
6 10 (6.10%) Power Query
7 9 (5.49%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.44%) Data Hub
12 4 (2.44%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.44%) Looker
12 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.15%) JIRA
2 11 (6.71%) Git
3 7 (4.27%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.61%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (35.98%) Finance
2 46 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 32 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.59%) Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.32%) Retail
7 11 (6.71%) Marketing
8 7 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.05%) Legal
10 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Front Office
10 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.83%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Military
11 2 (1.22%) Back Office
11 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.61%) Advertising
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (21.34%) Analyst
2 32 (19.51%) Developer
3 25 (15.24%) Architect
4 19 (11.59%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.98%) Consultant
6 17 (10.37%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Senior
8 10 (6.10%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.49%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Lead
12 5 (3.05%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.44%) Functional Consultant
13 4 (2.44%) Project Manager
13 4 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.59%) .NET
2 16 (9.76%) PySpark
3 8 (4.88%) REST
4 7 (4.27%) Kafka
5 6 (3.66%) Terraform
6 5 (3.05%) .NET Framework
6 5 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (3.05%) JSON
7 4 (2.44%) HTML
7 4 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (2.44%) RESTful
8 3 (1.83%) CSS
8 3 (1.83%) XML
9 2 (1.22%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.22%) Middleware
9 2 (1.22%) React
9 2 (1.22%) Redux
9 2 (1.22%) SOAP
9 2 (1.22%) WCF
9 2 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.93%) Cloud Native
1 13 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.49%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.27%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.66%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.44%) Clustering
6 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.83%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.22%) CMDB
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.22%) FMCG
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (70.12%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (35.98%) Analytics
3 53 (32.32%) Data Modelling
4 48 (29.27%) DevOps
5 43 (26.22%) Agile
5 43 (26.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 36 (21.95%) AI
7 36 (21.95%) Data Governance
8 32 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (15.85%) Decision-Making
9 26 (15.85%) Migration
10 24 (14.63%) Data Engineering
10 24 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (12.80%) ETL
13 17 (10.37%) Roadmaps
14 16 (9.76%) Integration Patterns
15 15 (9.15%) Data Architecture
15 15 (9.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.90%) SQL
2 34 (20.73%) Python
3 26 (15.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (11.59%) C#
5 12 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.88%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.83%) Bicep
10 2 (1.22%) Java
10 2 (1.22%) R
10 2 (1.22%) XMLA
11 1 (0.61%) Bash
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
11 1 (0.61%) VBA
11 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) DBS Check
4 13 (7.93%) Degree
5 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.83%) PMP
8 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.32%) QA
3 8 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) PMO
5 2 (1.22%) P3O
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.61%) COBIT
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.83%) Grafana
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.83%) SCCM
2 3 (1.83%) SCOM
3 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (49.39%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.90%) Databricks
3 7 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.05%) Oracle
4 5 (3.05%) SAP
5 4 (2.44%) VMware
6 3 (1.83%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.83%) BMC
6 3 (1.83%) Commvault
6 3 (1.83%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.83%) Foundry
6 3 (1.83%) Informatica
6 3 (1.83%) Remedy
6 3 (1.83%) Splunk
6 3 (1.83%) Workday
7 2 (1.22%) Adobe
7 2 (1.22%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.22%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.22%) Planview
7 2 (1.22%) UiPath