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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 169 134 104
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.53% 6.52% 4.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.34% 15.91% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 78 65
10th Percentile £374 £363 £391
25th Percentile £449 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £623 £664 £675
90th Percentile £738 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.65%
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 £31.54 £66.25
% change year-on-year -9.47% -52.40% +63.58%

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 1,034 842 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.94% 40.97% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 547 669
10th Percentile £353 £358 £375
25th Percentile £463 £439 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £656
90th Percentile £750 £761 £751
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%

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 4 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 4 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 +1 157 £550 - 91
West End of London -5 6 £538 +7.50%
City of Westminster -7 4 £560 +24.44% 6
Southwark - 3 £575 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 -
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 26 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.37%) Confluence
4 3 (1.78%) Apache
4 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.96%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.59%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.66%) Azure
2 34 (20.12%) Power Automate
3 29 (17.16%) PowerApps
4 22 (13.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (12.43%) AWS
6 20 (11.83%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (7.10%) GCP
11 12 (7.10%) GitHub
12 11 (6.51%) Serverless
13 10 (5.92%) dbt
13 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (4.73%) SaaS
15 7 (4.14%) Amazon S3
15 7 (4.14%) Prefect
16 6 (3.55%) Azure AI
16 6 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) DNS
1 3 (1.78%) Firewall
1 3 (1.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (78.11%) Power BI
2 33 (19.53%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (14.79%) Tableau
4 21 (12.43%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (7.10%) Data Lake
7 10 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.92%) Looker
7 10 (5.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (5.92%) Star Schema
8 9 (5.33%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.33%) Metadata
8 9 (5.33%) Power Query
9 7 (4.14%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.37%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.37%) Mixpanel
12 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Git
2 8 (4.73%) JIRA
3 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.78%) GitLab
5 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (40.24%) Finance
2 47 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 33 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.02%) Banking
5 9 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.33%) Retail
6 7 (4.14%) Legal
6 7 (4.14%) Marketing
7 4 (2.37%) Back Office
7 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.78%) Front Office
8 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.78%) Law
9 2 (1.18%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (22.49%) Analyst
2 32 (18.93%) Developer
3 25 (14.79%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.02%) Data Analyst
5 21 (12.43%) Architect
6 14 (8.28%) Senior
7 11 (6.51%) Consultant
8 10 (5.92%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.73%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.14%) Lead
11 7 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
14 4 (2.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.47%) .NET
2 13 (7.69%) PySpark
3 9 (5.33%) Kafka
4 8 (4.73%) REST
5 5 (2.96%) HTML
6 4 (2.37%) CSS
6 4 (2.37%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (2.37%) RESTful
7 3 (1.78%) JSON
7 3 (1.78%) React
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.18%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.18%) Middleware
8 2 (1.18%) Redux
9 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.59%) Backbone.js
9 1 (0.59%) Ember.js
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.14%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.55%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.55%) Clustering
4 6 (3.55%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.37%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.78%) CMDB
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.18%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) FMCG
8 2 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.18%) PMI
8 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Android
2 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (71.60%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (40.24%) Analytics
3 60 (35.50%) Data Modelling
4 41 (24.26%) AI
5 39 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 39 (23.08%) DevOps
6 37 (21.89%) ETL
7 34 (20.12%) Data Engineering
8 33 (19.53%) Data Governance
8 33 (19.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (18.34%) Agile
10 29 (17.16%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (15.98%) Decision-Making
13 24 (14.20%) Migration
13 24 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (10.65%) Validation
14 18 (10.65%) Visualisation
15 15 (8.88%) Data Architecture
15 15 (8.88%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.79%) SQL
2 42 (24.85%) Python
3 21 (12.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (8.28%) C#
5 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.92%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.73%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.37%) R
9 3 (1.78%) Bicep
9 3 (1.78%) Java
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 2 (1.18%) VBA
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) Korn
11 1 (0.59%) X++
11 1 (0.59%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 27 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 10 (5.92%) Degree
5 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.78%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.59%) PhD
8 1 (0.59%) RIBA
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.30%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.10%) QA
3 7 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.55%) GDPR
4 6 (3.55%) PMO
5 2 (1.18%) P3O
6 1 (0.59%) COBIT
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Terraform
2 5 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.78%) Grafana
3 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.78%) SCCM
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.18%) SCOM
5 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (42.60%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.16%) Databricks
3 8 (4.73%) Informatica
3 8 (4.73%) SAP
4 6 (3.55%) Oracle
4 6 (3.55%) Workday
5 5 (2.96%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.37%) Foundry
6 4 (2.37%) Google
7 3 (1.78%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.78%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.78%) Splunk
7 3 (1.78%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Adobe
8 2 (1.18%) BMC
8 2 (1.18%) Commvault
8 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.18%) Palantir