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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 30 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 146 122 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.98% 5.90% 5.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.70% 14.24% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 78 87
10th Percentile £323 £409 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +8.49%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £675
90th Percentile £743 £786 £757
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

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 874 857 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.76% 41.44% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 554 722
10th Percentile £338 £366 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £746 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £28.13 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £44.72 - £23.75
90th Percentile £52.16 £41.88 £49.95
London median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +5.56% +3.28% -10.29%

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 February 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 February 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 +8 128 £525 -8.70% 27
West End of London +11 6 £475 +18.75% 1
City of Westminster +7 5 £475 - 1
Camden - 1 £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 15 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.05%) Confluence
3 3 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (17.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.47%) Azure
2 25 (17.12%) Power Automate
3 24 (16.44%) PowerApps
4 18 (12.33%) AWS
5 15 (10.27%) GCP
6 14 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (7.53%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (6.85%) GitHub
11 7 (4.79%) Azure AI
11 7 (4.79%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.11%) Serverless
13 5 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.74%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DHCP
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (78.77%) Power BI
2 36 (24.66%) Tableau
3 16 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.16%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.79%) Looker
6 6 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.11%) Metadata
7 5 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.74%) MySQL
8 4 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.05%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.05%) Power Query
10 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.37%) Mixpanel
10 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.37%) Spotfire
10 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Git
2 9 (6.16%) JIRA
3 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 54 (36.99%) Finance
2 44 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.96%) Banking
5 11 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.85%) Front Office
7 6 (4.11%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.42%) Back Office
9 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Automotive
11 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Marketing
11 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (21.92%) Analyst
2 28 (19.18%) Developer
3 21 (14.38%) Senior
4 14 (9.59%) Data Engineer
4 14 (9.59%) Data Scientist
5 12 (8.22%) Data Analyst
5 12 (8.22%) Lead
6 11 (7.53%) Consultant
7 10 (6.85%) Business Analyst
8 9 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Consultant
11 4 (2.74%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (2.74%) Service Analyst
12 3 (2.05%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 3 (2.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) PySpark
1 9 (6.16%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.11%) NumPy
2 6 (4.11%) Pandas
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.74%) CSS
4 4 (2.74%) HTML
4 4 (2.74%) JSON
4 4 (2.74%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.74%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.74%) Seaborn
4 4 (2.74%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.05%) .NET
5 3 (2.05%) Kafka
5 3 (2.05%) LangChain
5 3 (2.05%) XML
6 2 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.37%) REST
6 2 (1.37%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.74%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.05%) Derivative
5 3 (2.05%) Equities
6 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.37%) Clustering
6 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (76.03%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (38.36%) Analytics
3 43 (29.45%) Visualisation
4 42 (28.77%) Data Modelling
5 38 (26.03%) AI
6 30 (20.55%) Agile
6 30 (20.55%) Data Visualisation
7 28 (19.18%) Data Engineering
8 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (17.81%) Data Science
10 24 (16.44%) Data Governance
10 24 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (15.75%) DevOps
12 22 (15.07%) Machine Learning
13 21 (14.38%) ETL
14 20 (13.70%) Actionable Insight
14 20 (13.70%) Generative AI
15 19 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (12.33%) Decision-Making
17 16 (10.96%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (38.36%) SQL
2 45 (30.82%) Python
3 8 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.79%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.79%) Scala
5 5 (3.42%) C#
5 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.42%) R
6 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.37%) Bicep
7 2 (1.37%) IronPython
7 2 (1.37%) Java
7 2 (1.37%) Korn
7 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) LookML
8 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.96%) Degree
3 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.74%) PMP
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.37%) CFA
7 2 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) IIBA
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.49%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.79%) GDPR
2 7 (4.79%) QA
3 6 (4.11%) PMO
4 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.37%) Basel III
5 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.37%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) GAAP
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.74%) Docker
3 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (36.30%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Databricks
3 9 (6.16%) Google
4 7 (4.79%) Foundry
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
4 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.11%) SAP
6 4 (2.74%) Workday
7 3 (2.05%) Cognos
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.05%) Palantir
7 3 (2.05%) Planview
7 3 (2.05%) Sage
8 2 (1.37%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.37%) Informatica
8 2 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.37%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere