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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 32 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 149 123 132
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.92% 5.95% 5.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.52% 14.22% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 77 82
10th Percentile £332 £413 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% +5.81%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £775 £772
London median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.08% -0.71% -
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% +9.46%

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 902 865 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.91% 41.87% 37.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 559 701
10th Percentile £336 £375 £350
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 - £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.50 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.35 £29.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +5.47% -7.84%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Central London over the 6 months to 1 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

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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 1 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 +4 130 £525 -6.67% 72
West End of London +11 7 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +7 6 £475 - 1
Camden - 1 £400 -
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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 17 (11.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.68%) Apache
3 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 3 (2.01%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.28%) Azure
2 25 (16.78%) Power Automate
3 24 (16.11%) PowerApps
4 19 (12.75%) AWS
5 16 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.07%) GCP
7 14 (9.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.71%) GitHub
11 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (5.37%) Snowflake
12 7 (4.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (4.70%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (4.03%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (4.03%) Serverless
14 5 (3.36%) Azure AI
15 4 (2.68%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.68%) dbt
16 3 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DHCP
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) HTTP
1 2 (1.34%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (75.84%) Power BI
2 35 (23.49%) Tableau
3 19 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.37%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.70%) Looker
6 6 (4.03%) Metadata
7 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (2.68%) MySQL
8 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.01%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.01%) OLAP
9 3 (2.01%) Power Query
9 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.34%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Git
2 10 (6.71%) JIRA
3 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 51 (34.23%) Finance
2 42 (28.19%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.40%) Banking
5 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.04%) Front Office
7 5 (3.36%) Back Office
7 5 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Automotive
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Analyst
2 31 (20.81%) Developer
3 22 (14.77%) Senior
4 18 (12.08%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.72%) Data Analyst
5 13 (8.72%) Data Scientist
6 12 (8.05%) Lead
7 10 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.71%) Consultant
8 9 (6.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.37%) Architect
10 7 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Consultant
12 4 (2.68%) Power Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (2.68%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.04%) PySpark
1 9 (6.04%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.03%) NumPy
2 6 (4.03%) Pandas
3 4 (2.68%) CSS
3 4 (2.68%) HTML
3 4 (2.68%) JSON
3 4 (2.68%) Matplotlib
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (2.68%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.68%) Seaborn
3 4 (2.68%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.01%) .NET
4 3 (2.01%) Kafka
4 3 (2.01%) REST
4 3 (2.01%) XML
5 2 (1.34%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.34%) LangChain
5 2 (1.34%) Playwright
5 2 (1.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.70%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.01%) Clustering
4 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.01%) Equities
4 3 (2.01%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.34%) Derivative
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) FMCG
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Android
2 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
2 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (72.48%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (38.26%) Analytics
3 45 (30.20%) Data Modelling
4 43 (28.86%) Visualisation
5 38 (25.50%) AI
6 30 (20.13%) Agile
6 30 (20.13%) Data Engineering
6 30 (20.13%) Data Visualisation
7 28 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (18.12%) Data Science
9 26 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (17.45%) ETL
10 24 (16.11%) DevOps
11 22 (14.77%) Data Governance
11 22 (14.77%) Machine Learning
12 20 (13.42%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (12.08%) Decision-Making
13 18 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (11.41%) Generative AI
15 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.27%) SQL
2 47 (31.54%) Python
3 8 (5.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.70%) Scala
5 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.03%) R
6 5 (3.36%) C#
7 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.01%) Java
9 2 (1.34%) IronPython
9 2 (1.34%) Korn
9 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.40%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.68%) PMP
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) CFA
7 2 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) IIBA
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) MBA
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.04%) QA
3 5 (3.36%) PMO
4 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.68%) GDPR
5 3 (2.01%) SLA
6 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.34%) Basel III
6 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.67%) GAAP
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.36%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.08%) Databricks
3 9 (6.04%) Google
4 7 (4.70%) Foundry
4 7 (4.70%) SAP
4 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.36%) Oracle
6 4 (2.68%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.68%) Informatica
6 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.68%) Workday
7 3 (2.01%) Cognos
7 3 (2.01%) IBM
7 3 (2.01%) Palantir
7 3 (2.01%) Sage
8 2 (1.34%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.34%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.34%) Planview
8 2 (1.34%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere