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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 29 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 160 119 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.25% 6.26% 5.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.39% 14.46% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 72 78
10th Percentile £377 £407 £380
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.77%
75th Percentile £608 £686 £688
90th Percentile £747 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £501 £520
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.75% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 -
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £27.03 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -7.03% -56.12% +42.47%

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 976 823 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.15% 43.32% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 530 689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £96.63 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 £550 - 86
West End of London +3 7 £506 +1.25% 3
City of Westminster +1 7 £506 +12.50% 1
Southwark - 2 £613 -
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 (13.13%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 3 (1.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (47.50%) Azure
2 24 (15.00%) Power Automate
3 21 (13.13%) AWS
4 20 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 17 (10.63%) Snowflake
6 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (9.38%) GCP
8 13 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.13%) GitHub
9 11 (6.88%) dbt
10 10 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (5.00%) Serverless
12 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.38%) Prefect
12 7 (4.38%) SaaS
13 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.13%) Dagster
14 5 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) DNS
1 3 (1.88%) VPN
2 2 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (77.50%) Power BI
2 31 (19.38%) Tableau
3 26 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.50%) Looker
6 10 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.00%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.38%) Metadata
9 6 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.50%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.50%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.88%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.25%) MySQL
13 2 (1.25%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (1.88%) GitLab
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.63%) ERwin
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (37.50%) Finance
2 34 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.88%) Banking
5 7 (4.38%) Back Office
5 7 (4.38%) Front Office
6 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.13%) Legal
7 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.25%) Automotive
9 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.25%) Marketing
9 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Aviation
10 1 (0.63%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (21.25%) Analyst
2 31 (19.38%) Developer
3 27 (16.88%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.25%) Architect
5 13 (8.13%) Data Analyst
5 13 (8.13%) Senior
6 8 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.00%) Lead
7 7 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (4.38%) Consultant
7 7 (4.38%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.13%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (3.13%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.75%) PySpark
2 11 (6.88%) .NET
3 9 (5.63%) Kafka
4 7 (4.38%) REST
5 5 (3.13%) CSS
5 5 (3.13%) HTML
6 3 (1.88%) JSON
6 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.88%) React
6 3 (1.88%) RESTful
7 2 (1.25%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.25%) Redux
7 2 (1.25%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.25%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.63%) LangChain
8 1 (0.63%) Playwright
8 1 (0.63%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.50%) Clustering
5 4 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.50%) Equities
5 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.88%) CMDB
6 3 (1.88%) Derivative
6 3 (1.88%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.25%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.25%) PMI
7 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (40.63%) Analytics
3 50 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 41 (25.63%) Data Engineering
5 40 (25.00%) AI
6 34 (21.25%) DevOps
7 32 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.75%) ETL
9 29 (18.13%) CI/CD
10 26 (16.25%) Agile
11 25 (15.63%) Data Governance
12 23 (14.38%) Visualisation
13 22 (13.75%) Decision-Making
13 22 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.13%) Migration
14 21 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (10.00%) Validation
16 15 (9.38%) Data Science
16 15 (9.38%) Machine Learning
16 15 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.13%) SQL
2 47 (29.38%) Python
3 12 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.75%) C#
7 5 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.50%) Java
8 4 (2.50%) R
8 4 (2.50%) Scala
9 2 (1.25%) Bicep
9 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.13%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.63%) Degree
5 4 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.25%) PMP
7 2 (1.25%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) CFA
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PhD
8 1 (0.63%) RIBA
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (23.75%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.00%) QA
3 7 (4.38%) GDPR
4 6 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.13%) PMO
6 3 (1.88%) SLA
7 2 (1.25%) Basel III
8 1 (0.63%) COBIT
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) GAAP
8 1 (0.63%) IFRS
8 1 (0.63%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.63%) P3O
8 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.00%) Terraform
2 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) SCCM
4 2 (1.25%) Grafana
4 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.63%) Databricks
3 9 (5.63%) Workday
4 8 (5.00%) Oracle
5 7 (4.38%) Informatica
6 6 (3.75%) Google
6 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.13%) Amplitude
7 5 (3.13%) Foundry
7 5 (3.13%) SAP
8 4 (2.50%) Palantir
9 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.88%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.25%) Adobe
10 2 (1.25%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.25%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.25%) Splunk
11 1 (0.63%) IBM
11 1 (0.63%) Sage