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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 30 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 145 124 113
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.19% 5.75% 4.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.47% 14.39% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 80 76
10th Percentile £321 £411 £356
25th Percentile £400 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £680 £695
90th Percentile £749 £782 £760
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £26.25 £30.59 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.19% -4.76% -19.70%

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 830 862 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.17% 39.96% 38.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 561 738
10th Percentile £341 £400 £363
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.27% -12.01% +35.42%

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 15 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 15 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 +2 127 £521 -9.48% 45
West End of London +13 6 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +7 5 £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 (12.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.45%) Confluence
4 3 (2.07%) Apache
4 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 32 (22.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (42.07%) Azure
2 30 (20.69%) PowerApps
3 29 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 19 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.03%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (8.97%) AWS
8 10 (6.90%) GCP
9 9 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.52%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.52%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (5.52%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.52%) GitHub
11 7 (4.83%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.76%) Snowflake
15 3 (2.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) DHCP
1 2 (1.38%) DNS
1 2 (1.38%) HTTP
1 2 (1.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) DKIM
2 1 (0.69%) DMARC
2 1 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.69%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (77.24%) Power BI
2 32 (22.07%) Tableau
3 13 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.52%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.76%) Looker
7 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.76%) Power Query
7 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.07%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.07%) Metadata
8 3 (2.07%) MySQL
8 3 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.38%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.38%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.38%) Text Mining
10 1 (0.69%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (7.59%) JIRA
2 6 (4.14%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 51 (35.17%) Finance
2 40 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 37 (25.52%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.72%) Banking
5 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.59%) Front Office
7 7 (4.83%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.45%) Back Office
8 5 (3.45%) Legal
8 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.07%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Automotive
10 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (20.69%) Analyst
2 28 (19.31%) Developer
3 19 (13.10%) Senior
4 16 (11.03%) Lead
5 11 (7.59%) Consultant
5 11 (7.59%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.59%) Data Scientist
6 10 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (6.90%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) Architect
7 9 (6.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Programme Manager
10 4 (2.76%) Service Analyst
10 4 (2.76%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.07%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.14%) .NET
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (4.14%) PySpark
3 5 (3.45%) NumPy
3 5 (3.45%) Pandas
4 4 (2.76%) CSS
4 4 (2.76%) HTML
5 3 (2.07%) JSON
5 3 (2.07%) Kafka
5 3 (2.07%) LangChain
5 3 (2.07%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.07%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.07%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.07%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.38%) REST
6 2 (1.38%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (1.38%) XML
7 1 (0.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.14%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.76%) Derivative
5 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.07%) Equities
6 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.38%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Swaptions
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
1 1 (0.69%) Unix
1 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (74.48%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (33.10%) Analytics
3 40 (27.59%) Visualisation
4 34 (23.45%) Agile
4 34 (23.45%) Data Modelling
5 30 (20.69%) AI
6 26 (17.93%) Data Governance
6 26 (17.93%) Data Visualisation
7 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (16.55%) DevOps
9 23 (15.86%) Actionable Insight
10 22 (15.17%) Data Engineering
11 20 (13.79%) Data Science
11 20 (13.79%) ETL
12 19 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (12.41%) Decision-Making
13 18 (12.41%) Generative AI
13 18 (12.41%) Machine Learning
13 18 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.17%) SQL
2 41 (28.28%) Python
3 10 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (4.83%) Scala
6 6 (4.14%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.45%) C#
8 4 (2.76%) R
9 3 (2.07%) Korn
9 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.38%) IronPython
10 2 (1.38%) Java
10 2 (1.38%) VBA
11 1 (0.69%) Bicep
11 1 (0.69%) C++
11 1 (0.69%) LookML
11 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.66%) Degree
4 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.76%) PMP
6 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CFA
7 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.69%) IIBA
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.21%) GDPR
3 7 (4.83%) PMO
4 6 (4.14%) QA
5 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.07%) SLA
6 2 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.38%) Basel III
6 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.38%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) GAAP
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) IFRS
7 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.69%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (40.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.72%) Databricks
3 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.83%) Google
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle
5 6 (4.14%) SAP
6 5 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.76%) Foundry
7 4 (2.76%) Workday
8 3 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.07%) Planview
9 2 (1.38%) Cognos
9 2 (1.38%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.38%) IBM
9 2 (1.38%) Informatica
9 2 (1.38%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.38%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.38%) Sage
9 2 (1.38%) UiPath
10 1 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere