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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 169 119 129
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.05% 5.94% 5.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.51% 13.76% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 70 78
10th Percentile £369 £412 £366
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -3.71% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £688
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £27.71 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.68% -47.15% +42.86%

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 965 865 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.28% 43.14% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 561 682
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £555 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +3.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -27.78%

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 21 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 21 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 +8 153 £550 - 79
West End of London +7 6 £475 - 2
City of Westminster +3 6 £475 +2.70% 2
Southwark - 1 £650 - 2
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 (12.43%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.37%) Confluence
5 3 (1.78%) Apache
5 3 (1.78%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.96%) 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 ERP
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (43.79%) Azure
2 29 (17.16%) Power Automate
3 24 (14.20%) PowerApps
4 21 (12.43%) AWS
5 19 (11.24%) GCP
6 17 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (9.47%) Snowflake
8 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (7.10%) dbt
9 12 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (6.51%) GitHub
10 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (4.73%) Azure AI
13 8 (4.73%) Prefect
14 7 (4.14%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (3.55%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (3.55%) Dagster
16 5 (2.96%) SaaS
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
1 125 (73.96%) Power BI
2 42 (24.85%) Tableau
3 26 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.51%) Looker
5 9 (5.33%) Metadata
5 9 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.73%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.96%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.37%) MySQL
10 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.37%) Power Query
11 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.78%) OLAP
11 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Git
2 7 (4.14%) JIRA
3 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.59%) ERwin
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 61 (36.09%) Finance
2 39 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (22.49%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.24%) Banking
5 12 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Back Office
6 8 (4.73%) Front Office
7 7 (4.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Law
12 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Analyst
2 32 (18.93%) Developer
3 23 (13.61%) Data Engineer
4 21 (12.43%) Senior
5 14 (8.28%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) Architect
8 10 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.92%) Consultant
8 10 (5.92%) Lead
9 9 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Power Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 4 (2.37%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.92%) PySpark
2 9 (5.33%) scikit-learn
3 7 (4.14%) Kafka
4 6 (3.55%) .NET
4 6 (3.55%) NumPy
4 6 (3.55%) Pandas
5 5 (2.96%) CSS
5 5 (2.96%) HTML
6 4 (2.37%) JSON
6 4 (2.37%) Matplotlib
6 4 (2.37%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.37%) REST
6 4 (2.37%) Seaborn
6 4 (2.37%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (1.18%) LangChain
8 2 (1.18%) Playwright
8 2 (1.18%) XML
8 2 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.14%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.14%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.96%) Clustering
4 5 (2.96%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.37%) Equities
5 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.78%) Derivative
6 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.18%) PMI
7 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
7 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
1 116 (68.64%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (39.64%) Analytics
3 50 (29.59%) Data Modelling
4 46 (27.22%) AI
5 41 (24.26%) Data Engineering
6 38 (22.49%) Visualisation
7 37 (21.89%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (21.30%) ETL
9 31 (18.34%) Agile
10 30 (17.75%) Data Science
11 26 (15.38%) Data Governance
12 25 (14.79%) Data Visualisation
12 25 (14.79%) Decision-Making
12 25 (14.79%) DevOps
12 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.02%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (12.43%) Machine Learning
15 18 (10.65%) CI/CD
15 18 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (10.06%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.83%) SQL
2 55 (32.54%) Python
3 10 (5.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.73%) Scala
5 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.55%) R
7 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.37%) C#
8 4 (2.37%) Java
9 2 (1.18%) IronPython
9 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.69%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.78%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.78%) PMP
6 2 (1.18%) CFA
6 2 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) MBA
7 1 (0.59%) PhD
7 1 (0.59%) RIBA
7 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.67%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.51%) QA
3 9 (5.33%) GDPR
4 6 (3.55%) PMO
5 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.78%) 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%) IFRS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.55%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.59%) SCCM
3 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (36.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.61%) Databricks
3 10 (5.92%) Google
4 9 (5.33%) Workday
5 8 (4.73%) Oracle
6 7 (4.14%) Foundry
6 7 (4.14%) Informatica
6 7 (4.14%) SAP
7 6 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.37%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.78%) Cognos
9 3 (1.78%) IBM
9 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.78%) Palantir
9 3 (1.78%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.78%) Sage
10 2 (1.18%) Planview
10 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.59%) Adobe
11 1 (0.59%) Murex