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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 165 146 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.48% 7.24% 4.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.07% 17.87% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 84 66
10th Percentile £375 £363 £393
25th Percentile £425 £418 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £668 £675
90th Percentile £738 £819 £738
London median daily rate £513 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.31% -1.42%
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% +15.18%

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 1,027 817 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.35% 40.53% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 540 652
10th Percentile £363 £332 £376
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £656 £657 £664
90th Percentile £750 £760 £750
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £21.31 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £67.50 £53.31 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.16 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%

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 22 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 22 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 -2 155 £538 -2.27% 90
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 26 (15.76%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.64%) Confluence
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.03%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.21%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (52.73%) Azure
2 34 (20.61%) Power Automate
3 30 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 25 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (13.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (10.91%) Snowflake
7 17 (10.30%) AWS
7 17 (10.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (7.27%) Serverless
10 10 (6.06%) dbt
10 10 (6.06%) GitHub
11 9 (5.45%) SaaS
12 8 (4.85%) GCP
13 7 (4.24%) Amazon S3
13 7 (4.24%) Azure Functions
13 7 (4.24%) Azure Stack
13 7 (4.24%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) DNS
1 3 (1.82%) Firewall
1 3 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (76.97%) Power BI
2 31 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (13.94%) Tableau
4 21 (12.73%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (7.88%) Data Lake
6 12 (7.27%) Star Schema
7 11 (6.67%) Metadata
8 10 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.45%) Power Query
10 8 (4.85%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.85%) Looker
10 8 (4.85%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.85%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (6.67%) JIRA
2 9 (5.45%) Git
3 7 (4.24%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.21%) 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 62 (37.58%) Finance
2 45 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.73%) Banking
5 10 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.06%) Retail
6 9 (5.45%) Marketing
7 8 (4.85%) Legal
8 4 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.82%) Back Office
9 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Law
9 3 (1.82%) Military
10 2 (1.21%) Front Office
10 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.82%) Analyst
2 33 (20.00%) Developer
3 23 (13.94%) Architect
4 20 (12.12%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.91%) Data Engineer
6 15 (9.09%) Consultant
7 13 (7.88%) Senior
8 10 (6.06%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.45%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.85%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.24%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Lead
13 5 (3.03%) Power Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.12%) .NET
2 15 (9.09%) PySpark
3 10 (6.06%) REST
4 9 (5.45%) Kafka
5 7 (4.24%) Terraform
6 5 (3.03%) HTML
7 4 (2.42%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (2.42%) CSS
7 4 (2.42%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (2.42%) RESTful
8 3 (1.82%) JSON
9 2 (1.21%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.21%) Middleware
9 2 (1.21%) React
9 2 (1.21%) Redux
10 1 (0.61%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.61%) HTML5
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.61%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.85%) AI Agents
2 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.24%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.64%) Clustering
4 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.82%) CMDB
7 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.82%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.21%) Derivative
8 2 (1.21%) FMCG
8 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.21%) PMI
8 2 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (69.09%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (37.58%) Analytics
3 53 (32.12%) Data Modelling
4 43 (26.06%) DevOps
5 40 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.42%) AI
7 36 (21.82%) Agile
8 34 (20.61%) Data Governance
9 31 (18.79%) ETL
10 29 (17.58%) Data Engineering
10 29 (17.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (15.15%) Decision-Making
14 24 (14.55%) Migration
15 22 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (9.70%) Data Architecture
16 16 (9.70%) Visualisation
17 15 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
17 15 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 73 (44.24%) SQL
2 37 (22.42%) Python
3 23 (13.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (9.70%) C#
5 11 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.21%) Java
9 2 (1.21%) R
9 2 (1.21%) VBA
9 2 (1.21%) XMLA
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) Korn
10 1 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.45%) Degree
5 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
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%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.27%) QA
3 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.64%) GDPR
5 5 (3.03%) PMO
6 2 (1.21%) P3O
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) COBIT
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.21%) Docker
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.82%) Grafana
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.82%) SCCM
2 3 (1.82%) SCOM
3 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.58%) Databricks
3 7 (4.24%) Informatica
3 7 (4.24%) SAP
4 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.64%) Workday
5 5 (3.03%) Oracle
6 4 (2.42%) Google
6 4 (2.42%) VMware
7 3 (1.82%) Adobe
7 3 (1.82%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.82%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.82%) BMC
7 3 (1.82%) Commvault
7 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.82%) Foundry
7 3 (1.82%) Remedy
7 3 (1.82%) Splunk
8 2 (1.21%) Nexthink