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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 32 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 137 118 118
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.08% 5.00% 3.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.25% 12.65% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 77 80
10th Percentile £340 £400 £348
25th Percentile £407 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +1.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £662
90th Percentile £750 £788 £745
London median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
London median hourly rate £25.01 £30.59 £39.25
% change year-on-year -18.26% -22.06% +12.14%

All Cloud 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 794 933 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 39.52% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 613 838
10th Percentile £347 £400 £348
25th Percentile £431 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 11
10th Percentile £18.61 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.93 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
% change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%

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 14 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in Central London over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in Central London

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 14 November 2025. 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 +7 124 £525 -9.09% 266
West End of London +9 3 £488 +21.88% 6
City of Westminster +1 2 £575 +21.05% 2
Camden - 2 £400 - 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 21 (15.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 5 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.19%) Apache
5 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (22.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (47.45%) Azure
2 33 (24.09%) Power Automate
3 31 (22.63%) PowerApps
4 18 (13.14%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.41%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.76%) AWS
7 12 (8.76%) Entra ID
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (7.30%) GCP
9 8 (5.84%) GitHub
9 8 (5.84%) Snowflake
10 7 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (4.38%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.65%) SaaS
13 4 (2.92%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) DKIM
2 1 (0.73%) DMARC
2 1 (0.73%) Firewall
2 1 (0.73%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.73%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (78.83%) Power BI
2 26 (18.98%) Tableau
3 15 (10.95%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.84%) Power Query
6 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.92%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.92%) Metadata
9 3 (2.19%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.19%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.19%) Looker
9 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.46%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) Postman
4 1 (0.73%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (40.15%) Finance
2 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
3 35 (25.55%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.14%) Banking
5 8 (5.84%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.11%) Front Office
7 5 (3.65%) Legal
7 5 (3.65%) Marketing
7 5 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Back Office
10 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.46%) Retail
10 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.06%) Analyst
2 21 (15.33%) Developer
2 21 (15.33%) Lead
3 19 (13.87%) Senior
4 15 (10.95%) Architect
4 15 (10.95%) Consultant
5 10 (7.30%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (5.84%) Data Analyst
6 8 (5.84%) Data Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.38%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.92%) Applications Developer
9 4 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (2.92%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (5.11%) .NET
3 5 (3.65%) CSS
3 5 (3.65%) HTML
3 5 (3.65%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.92%) JSON
4 4 (2.92%) PySpark
4 4 (2.92%) REST
5 3 (2.19%) LangChain
5 3 (2.19%) NumPy
5 3 (2.19%) Pandas
5 3 (2.19%) XML
6 2 (1.46%) ADO
6 2 (1.46%) HTML5
6 2 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.46%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.46%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.46%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.46%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.38%) Low-Code
2 5 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.19%) Derivative
4 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.19%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.46%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.46%) Swaptions
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.73%) Unix
1 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (75.18%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (33.58%) Analytics
3 39 (28.47%) Agile
4 35 (25.55%) Visualisation
5 33 (24.09%) Data Modelling
6 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (18.98%) AI
8 25 (18.25%) Data Governance
9 23 (16.79%) DevOps
10 22 (16.06%) Decision-Making
11 21 (15.33%) Migration
12 20 (14.60%) Data Visualisation
12 20 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (13.14%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (13.14%) Data Analysis
14 18 (13.14%) ETL
15 16 (11.68%) CI/CD
16 15 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (10.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.42%) SQL
2 42 (30.66%) Python
3 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.11%) C#
5 7 (5.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.92%) Java
6 4 (2.92%) Scala
7 3 (2.19%) Korn
7 3 (2.19%) R
7 3 (2.19%) VBA
8 2 (1.46%) Bicep
8 2 (1.46%) IronPython
9 1 (0.73%) Bash
9 1 (0.73%) C++
9 1 (0.73%) Groovy
9 1 (0.73%) LookML
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.68%) Degree
3 15 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) ACCA
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.46%) CFA
7 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) CIMA
8 1 (0.73%) CISA
8 1 (0.73%) CISSP
8 1 (0.73%) CRISC
8 1 (0.73%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.73%) IIBA
8 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PMP
8 1 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.57%) GDPR
3 5 (3.65%) PMO
3 5 (3.65%) QA
4 4 (2.92%) NIST
5 3 (2.19%) Basel II
6 2 (1.46%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.73%) GRC
7 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (8.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.92%) Terraform
2 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Istio
3 1 (0.73%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.73%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (45.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.95%) Databricks
3 6 (4.38%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.65%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle
5 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.19%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.19%) UiPath
7 2 (1.46%) Adobe
7 2 (1.46%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.46%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.46%) Foundry
7 2 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.46%) Planview
8 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco
8 1 (0.73%) IBM
8 1 (0.73%) Qualys