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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 163 133 108
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.58% 6.89% 4.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.86% 17.34% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 80 72
10th Percentile £371 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £668 £688
90th Percentile £741 £838 £750
London median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% -4.76% -2.78%
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 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -37.00% +20.88%

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 1,028 767 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.47% 39.74% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 525 630
10th Percentile £348 £332 £395
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £754 £763
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -30.01%

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 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 15 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 -5 149 £525 -4.55% 160
West End of London -6 6 £475 -11.63% 6
City of Westminster -9 3 £538 +4.88% 22
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £563 -
Southwark - 2 £513 -
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 (14.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (15.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.23%) 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%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (56.44%) Azure
2 30 (18.40%) Power Automate
3 29 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (17.18%) PowerApps
5 26 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (12.88%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (11.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (7.98%) AWS
9 13 (7.98%) Serverless
10 12 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.36%) Snowflake
11 9 (5.52%) Azure Functions
11 9 (5.52%) GitHub
12 8 (4.91%) Azure Databricks
12 8 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.91%) SaaS
13 7 (4.29%) Azure Stack
14 6 (3.68%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.68%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) DNS
1 3 (1.84%) Firewall
1 3 (1.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (76.07%) Power BI
2 28 (17.18%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (14.11%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (8.59%) Data Lake
6 13 (7.98%) Star Schema
6 13 (7.98%) Tableau
7 12 (7.36%) Metadata
8 10 (6.13%) Power Query
9 9 (5.52%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (5.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.91%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.45%) Data Hub
13 4 (2.45%) Delta Lake
13 4 (2.45%) Looker
13 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.75%) JIRA
2 10 (6.13%) Git
3 7 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.23%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.61%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (36.20%) Finance
2 45 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.50%) Banking
5 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.75%) Retail
7 10 (6.13%) Marketing
8 5 (3.07%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.07%) Legal
9 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.84%) Law
9 3 (1.84%) Military
10 2 (1.23%) Back Office
10 2 (1.23%) Front Office
10 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (20.86%) Analyst
2 30 (18.40%) Developer
3 25 (15.34%) Architect
4 19 (11.66%) Data Analyst
5 18 (11.04%) Consultant
6 17 (10.43%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.98%) Senior
8 10 (6.13%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.91%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Lead
13 5 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
14 4 (2.45%) Functional Consultant
14 4 (2.45%) Project Manager
14 4 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.27%) .NET
2 15 (9.20%) PySpark
3 8 (4.91%) REST
4 7 (4.29%) Kafka
4 7 (4.29%) Terraform
5 5 (3.07%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.07%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (3.07%) HTML
6 4 (2.45%) CSS
6 4 (2.45%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (2.45%) JSON
6 4 (2.45%) RESTful
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) Middleware
7 2 (1.23%) React
7 2 (1.23%) Redux
7 2 (1.23%) WCF
7 2 (1.23%) XML
8 1 (0.61%) HTML5
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.52%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.68%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) Clustering
7 3 (1.84%) CMDB
7 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.84%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.23%) FMCG
8 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.33%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (36.20%) Analytics
3 52 (31.90%) Data Modelling
4 46 (28.22%) DevOps
5 41 (25.15%) CI/CD
6 40 (24.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (23.31%) Agile
7 38 (23.31%) AI
8 36 (22.09%) Data Governance
9 31 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (16.56%) Data Engineering
11 25 (15.34%) ETL
11 25 (15.34%) Migration
12 24 (14.72%) Decision-Making
13 23 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.43%) Data Architecture
16 16 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
16 16 (9.82%) Translating Business Requirements
17 15 (9.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.56%) SQL
2 32 (19.63%) Python
3 26 (15.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (11.04%) C#
5 12 (7.36%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.91%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.23%) Bicep
9 2 (1.23%) Java
9 2 (1.23%) R
9 2 (1.23%) XMLA
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) Korn
10 1 (0.61%) VBA
10 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.59%) DBS Check
4 12 (7.36%) Degree
5 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (19.02%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.75%) QA
3 8 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.07%) PMO
5 3 (1.84%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) P3O
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) COBIT
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.84%) Grafana
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.84%) SCCM
2 3 (1.84%) SCOM
3 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 79 (48.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.40%) Databricks
3 8 (4.91%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 6 (3.68%) SAP
5 5 (3.07%) Informatica
6 4 (2.45%) VMware
7 3 (1.84%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.84%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.84%) BMC
7 3 (1.84%) Commvault
7 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.84%) Foundry
7 3 (1.84%) Remedy
7 3 (1.84%) Splunk
7 3 (1.84%) Workday
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe
8 2 (1.23%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.23%) Google
8 2 (1.23%) Nexthink