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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 157 128 129
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.16% 6.25% 4.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.18% 14.87% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 79 79
10th Percentile £336 £413 £363
25th Percentile £428 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% +7.23%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £694
90th Percentile £743 £775 £775
London median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.07 -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year -5.40% -28.22% +5.19%

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 914 861 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.68% 42.02% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 565 710
10th Percentile £343 £375 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £557 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +3.21% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
% change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +6 138 £525 -5.80% 44
West End of London +13 7 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +7 6 £475 - 2
Camden - 1 £400 -
Southwark - 1 £650 - 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 16 (10.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.18%) Confluence
5 4 (2.55%) Apache
6 3 (1.91%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (12.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.91%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.40%) Azure
2 25 (15.92%) Power Automate
2 25 (15.92%) PowerApps
3 21 (13.38%) AWS
4 17 (10.83%) GCP
5 16 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (8.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (8.28%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (8.28%) Snowflake
8 12 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.37%) GitHub
10 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (5.10%) dbt
12 7 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (4.46%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (4.46%) Serverless
13 6 (3.82%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (3.18%) Azure AI
15 4 (2.55%) Dagster
15 4 (2.55%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DHCP
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
1 2 (1.27%) VPN
2 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (76.43%) Power BI
2 41 (26.11%) Tableau
3 22 (14.01%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.37%) Looker
5 8 (5.10%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.46%) Metadata
7 6 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.55%) MySQL
9 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.91%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.91%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.91%) Mixpanel
10 3 (1.91%) OLAP
10 3 (1.91%) Power Query
10 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) Git
2 10 (6.37%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.64%) ERwin
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 56 (35.67%) Finance
2 43 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.19%) Banking
5 11 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Front Office
7 6 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.18%) Back Office
9 4 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Retail
12 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (22.29%) Analyst
2 32 (20.38%) Developer
3 22 (14.01%) Senior
4 20 (12.74%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.28%) Data Analyst
5 13 (8.28%) Data Scientist
6 12 (7.64%) Business Analyst
6 12 (7.64%) Lead
7 10 (6.37%) Architect
7 10 (6.37%) Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.18%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Consultant
12 4 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.55%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (2.55%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) PySpark
2 9 (5.73%) scikit-learn
3 6 (3.82%) NumPy
3 6 (3.82%) Pandas
4 5 (3.18%) .NET
5 4 (2.55%) CSS
5 4 (2.55%) HTML
5 4 (2.55%) JSON
5 4 (2.55%) Kafka
5 4 (2.55%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.55%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.55%) Seaborn
5 4 (2.55%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.91%) REST
6 3 (1.91%) XML
7 2 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.27%) LangChain
7 2 (1.27%) Playwright
7 2 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.46%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
3 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.91%) Clustering
4 3 (1.91%) Equities
5 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.27%) Derivative
5 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Android
2 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (72.61%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (38.85%) Analytics
3 48 (30.57%) Data Modelling
4 43 (27.39%) Visualisation
5 39 (24.84%) AI
6 35 (22.29%) Data Engineering
7 31 (19.75%) Agile
7 31 (19.75%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (19.11%) Data Visualisation
8 30 (19.11%) ETL
9 28 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (17.20%) Data Science
11 25 (15.92%) DevOps
12 23 (14.65%) Machine Learning
13 22 (14.01%) Data Governance
14 21 (13.38%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.74%) Actionable Insight
16 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 18 (11.46%) Generative AI
17 18 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (41.40%) SQL
2 51 (32.48%) Python
3 8 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.46%) Scala
5 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.82%) R
6 5 (3.18%) C#
7 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.91%) Java
9 2 (1.27%) IronPython
9 2 (1.27%) Korn
9 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.64%) Bicep
10 1 (0.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) Degree
4 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.55%) PMP
6 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) CFA
7 2 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) IIBA
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) MBA
8 1 (0.64%) PhD
8 1 (0.64%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.38%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.37%) QA
3 7 (4.46%) GDPR
4 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.55%) PMO
5 3 (1.91%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.27%) Basel III
6 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.64%) GAAP
7 1 (0.64%) GRC
7 1 (0.64%) IFRS
7 1 (0.64%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.18%) Terraform
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (36.31%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.01%) Databricks
3 9 (5.73%) Google
4 7 (4.46%) Foundry
4 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.46%) Workday
5 6 (3.82%) SAP
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle
7 4 (2.55%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.55%) Informatica
8 3 (1.91%) Cognos
8 3 (1.91%) IBM
8 3 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.91%) Palantir
8 3 (1.91%) Sage
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.27%) Planview
9 2 (1.27%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.64%) Yardi