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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +29
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 170 116 136
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.18% 5.84% 5.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.49% 13.52% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 70 79
10th Percentile £363 £411 £381
25th Percentile £448 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £707 £775
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £28.13 £29.07 £40.62
% change year-on-year -3.23% -28.43% +1.55%

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 972 858 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.06% 43.22% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 559 683
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £732 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +18 152 £525 - 82
West End of London +11 7 £475 - 4
City of Westminster +3 6 £475 +2.70% 3
Camden - 1 £400 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 22 (12.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.94%) Confluence
5 3 (1.76%) Apache
5 3 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.94%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (42.94%) Azure
2 29 (17.06%) Power Automate
3 25 (14.71%) PowerApps
4 22 (12.94%) AWS
5 20 (11.76%) GCP
6 18 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 15 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.65%) dbt
10 12 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (7.06%) GitHub
11 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (4.71%) Prefect
14 7 (4.12%) Azure AI
14 7 (4.12%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (3.53%) Dagster
15 6 (3.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) DHCP
1 2 (1.18%) DNS
1 2 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (74.12%) Power BI
2 43 (25.29%) Tableau
3 28 (16.47%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.47%) Looker
5 9 (5.29%) Metadata
5 9 (5.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.94%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.35%) MySQL
9 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.35%) Power Query
10 3 (1.76%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.76%) OLAP
10 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Git
2 9 (5.29%) JIRA
3 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.59%) ERwin
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 60 (35.29%) Finance
2 41 (24.12%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (24.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.35%) Banking
4 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.29%) Front Office
6 7 (4.12%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.53%) Back Office
7 6 (3.53%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Automotive
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.59%) International Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (20.59%) Analyst
2 31 (18.24%) Developer
3 24 (14.12%) Data Engineer
4 22 (12.94%) Senior
5 14 (8.24%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.65%) Data Analyst
7 11 (6.47%) Architect
7 11 (6.47%) Consultant
7 11 (6.47%) Lead
8 10 (5.88%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Power Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.88%) PySpark
2 9 (5.29%) scikit-learn
3 7 (4.12%) Kafka
4 6 (3.53%) .NET
4 6 (3.53%) NumPy
4 6 (3.53%) Pandas
5 5 (2.94%) CSS
5 5 (2.94%) HTML
5 5 (2.94%) REST
6 4 (2.35%) Matplotlib
6 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.35%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.35%) Seaborn
6 4 (2.35%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.18%) JSON
7 2 (1.18%) LangChain
7 2 (1.18%) Playwright
7 2 (1.18%) SPFx
7 2 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.12%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.94%) Clustering
3 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.35%) Equities
4 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.76%) Derivative
5 3 (1.76%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.18%) PMI
6 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Linux
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Android
2 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
2 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (68.82%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (38.82%) Analytics
3 51 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 47 (27.65%) AI
5 42 (24.71%) Data Engineering
6 40 (23.53%) Visualisation
7 37 (21.76%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (21.18%) ETL
9 31 (18.24%) Agile
10 28 (16.47%) Data Science
11 27 (15.88%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (15.88%) DevOps
11 27 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (14.71%) Data Governance
13 24 (14.12%) Decision-Making
14 22 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (12.94%) Machine Learning
15 20 (11.76%) CI/CD
16 19 (11.18%) Generative AI
17 18 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (41.76%) SQL
2 54 (31.76%) Python
3 10 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.71%) Scala
5 6 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.53%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.53%) R
6 4 (2.35%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) IronPython
7 2 (1.18%) Java
7 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.59%) Bash
8 1 (0.59%) Bicep
8 1 (0.59%) C++
8 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Degree
4 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.76%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.76%) PMP
7 2 (1.18%) CFA
7 2 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.59%) IIBA
8 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) MBA
8 1 (0.59%) PhD
8 1 (0.59%) RIBA
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.35%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 9 (5.29%) GDPR
4 6 (3.53%) PMO
5 4 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.76%) SLA
7 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.18%) Basel III
7 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.59%) GAAP
8 1 (0.59%) GRC
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.53%) Terraform
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.59%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.59%) SCCM
3 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (35.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.12%) Databricks
3 10 (5.88%) Google
4 9 (5.29%) Workday
5 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.12%) Foundry
6 7 (4.12%) Informatica
7 6 (3.53%) Oracle
7 6 (3.53%) SAP
8 4 (2.35%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.76%) Cognos
9 3 (1.76%) IBM
9 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.76%) Palantir
9 3 (1.76%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.76%) Sage
10 2 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.18%) Planview
10 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.59%) Adobe