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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 46
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 162 145 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.43% 7.25% 4.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.94% 17.92% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 84 67
10th Percentile £382 £363 £394
25th Percentile £425 £418 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £668 £681
90th Percentile £741 £819 £743
London median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £42.80
% change year-on-year -18.05% -19.03% +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 1,016 809 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.32% 40.47% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 535 648
10th Percentile £363 £336 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £750
London median daily rate £540 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +1.65% -3.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -46.19%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 £525 -4.55% 92
West End of London -7 4 £475 -11.63% 2
Southwark - 3 £575 -
City of Westminster -12 2 £538 +4.88% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 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 24 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (15.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.09%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (53.70%) Azure
2 34 (20.99%) Power Automate
3 30 (18.52%) PowerApps
4 25 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 17 (10.49%) AWS
7 17 (10.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (7.41%) Serverless
9 10 (6.17%) dbt
9 10 (6.17%) GitHub
10 9 (5.56%) SaaS
11 8 (4.94%) GCP
12 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.32%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.32%) Azure Stack
12 7 (4.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) DNS
1 3 (1.85%) Firewall
1 3 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (77.78%) Power BI
2 31 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (14.20%) Tableau
4 21 (12.96%) SQL Server
5 13 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (8.02%) Data Lake
6 12 (7.41%) Metadata
6 12 (7.41%) Star Schema
7 10 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (5.56%) Power Query
9 8 (4.94%) BigQuery
9 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.94%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.32%) Looker
11 5 (3.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (6.17%) JIRA
2 9 (5.56%) Git
3 7 (4.32%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.23%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.62%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.62%) MLflow
7 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (38.27%) Finance
2 45 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.58%) Banking
5 10 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.17%) Retail
6 9 (5.56%) Marketing
7 8 (4.94%) Legal
8 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.85%) Back Office
10 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.85%) Law
10 3 (1.85%) Military
11 2 (1.23%) Front Office
11 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.22%) Analyst
2 32 (19.75%) Developer
3 23 (14.20%) Architect
4 20 (12.35%) Data Analyst
5 18 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Consultant
7 12 (7.41%) Senior
8 10 (6.17%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.94%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 6 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Lead
12 5 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Power Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.35%) .NET
2 15 (9.26%) PySpark
3 10 (6.17%) REST
4 9 (5.56%) Kafka
5 7 (4.32%) Terraform
6 5 (3.09%) HTML
7 4 (2.47%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.47%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (2.47%) CSS
7 4 (2.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (2.47%) RESTful
8 3 (1.85%) JSON
9 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.23%) Middleware
9 2 (1.23%) React
9 2 (1.23%) Redux
10 1 (0.62%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.62%) HTML5
10 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.94%) AI Agents
2 8 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.32%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.70%) Clustering
4 6 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.85%) CMDB
7 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.85%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.23%) Derivative
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.23%) FMCG
8 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) PMI
8 2 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.62%) VMS
3 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (70.37%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (38.27%) Analytics
3 52 (32.10%) Data Modelling
4 42 (25.93%) DevOps
5 40 (24.69%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.84%) AI
7 36 (22.22%) Agile
8 35 (21.60%) Data Governance
9 31 (19.14%) ETL
10 30 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (17.90%) Data Engineering
11 29 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (14.81%) Decision-Making
13 24 (14.81%) Migration
14 22 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.88%) Data Architecture
16 15 (9.26%) Dimensional Modelling
16 15 (9.26%) Translating Business Requirements
16 15 (9.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (44.44%) SQL
2 35 (21.60%) Python
3 23 (14.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (9.88%) C#
5 11 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.17%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.32%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.23%) Bicep
9 2 (1.23%) Java
9 2 (1.23%) R
9 2 (1.23%) VBA
9 2 (1.23%) XMLA
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) Korn
10 1 (0.62%) Scala
10 1 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) SnowPro
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%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.75%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.41%) QA
3 7 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.70%) GDPR
5 5 (3.09%) PMO
6 2 (1.23%) P3O
7 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) COBIT
7 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) Docker
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.85%) Grafana
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.85%) SCCM
2 3 (1.85%) SCOM
3 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 73 (45.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.90%) Databricks
3 7 (4.32%) Informatica
3 7 (4.32%) SAP
4 6 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.70%) Workday
5 5 (3.09%) Oracle
6 4 (2.47%) VMware
7 3 (1.85%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.85%) BMC
7 3 (1.85%) Commvault
7 3 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.85%) Foundry
7 3 (1.85%) Google
7 3 (1.85%) Remedy
7 3 (1.85%) Splunk
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe
8 2 (1.23%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.23%) Nexthink