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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 159 119 131
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.09% 6.19% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.82% 14.49% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 73 79
10th Percentile £381 £408 £382
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +10.68%
75th Percentile £615 £690 £681
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -2.67%
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 £25.50 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -12.28% -56.12% +26.19%

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 1,005 821 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.49% 42.72% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 527 695
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £460 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £758
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 7
10th Percentile £21.06 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.54 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.51 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.49
% change year-on-year +10.08% +21.77% -49.55%

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 19 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 19 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 +6 148 £550 - 35
West End of London +1 7 £506 +1.25% 5
City of Westminster -1 7 £506 +12.50% 1
Southwark - 2 £613 - 2
Kensington and Chelsea -3 1 £375 -
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 20 (12.58%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.52%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.89%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (13.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
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 79 (49.69%) Azure
2 26 (16.35%) Power Automate
3 20 (12.58%) AWS
3 20 (12.58%) PowerApps
4 19 (11.95%) Snowflake
5 15 (9.43%) GCP
6 14 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.55%) GitHub
8 11 (6.92%) dbt
8 11 (6.92%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.03%) Serverless
11 7 (4.40%) Prefect
11 7 (4.40%) SaaS
12 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.14%) Dagster
13 5 (3.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) DNS
1 3 (1.89%) VPN
2 2 (1.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (76.10%) Power BI
2 27 (16.98%) Tableau
3 25 (15.72%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.92%) Looker
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.66%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.40%) Metadata
8 7 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.77%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.14%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.52%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.52%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.89%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.89%) GIS
12 3 (1.89%) Power Query
13 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Git
2 7 (4.40%) JIRA
3 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.89%) GitLab
4 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.63%) ERwin
General
1 59 (37.11%) Finance
2 37 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.58%) Banking
5 5 (3.14%) Legal
6 4 (2.52%) Back Office
6 4 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.52%) Retail
6 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.89%) Front Office
7 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.26%) Automotive
8 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.26%) Marketing
8 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Aviation
9 1 (0.63%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (21.38%) Analyst
2 27 (16.98%) Developer
3 25 (15.72%) Data Engineer
4 20 (12.58%) Architect
5 16 (10.06%) Data Analyst
6 13 (8.18%) Senior
7 9 (5.66%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.03%) Consultant
8 8 (5.03%) Lead
8 8 (5.03%) Power Platform Developer
8 8 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.40%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) PySpark
2 12 (7.55%) .NET
3 8 (5.03%) Kafka
4 7 (4.40%) REST
5 6 (3.77%) HTML
6 5 (3.14%) CSS
7 3 (1.89%) JSON
7 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.89%) React
7 3 (1.89%) RESTful
8 2 (1.26%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (1.26%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.26%) Redux
8 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.26%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.63%) LangChain
9 1 (0.63%) Next.js
9 1 (0.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.14%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.14%) Clustering
3 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.52%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.89%) CMDB
5 3 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.26%) Derivative
6 2 (1.26%) Equities
6 2 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.26%) PMI
6 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (68.55%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (41.51%) Analytics
3 50 (31.45%) Data Modelling
4 42 (26.42%) AI
5 37 (23.27%) Data Engineering
6 33 (20.75%) DevOps
7 32 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.87%) CI/CD
8 30 (18.87%) ETL
9 29 (18.24%) Agile
10 25 (15.72%) Data Governance
11 24 (15.09%) Decision-Making
12 23 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.84%) Migration
13 22 (13.84%) Visualisation
14 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (10.69%) Validation
16 16 (10.06%) Data Science
16 16 (10.06%) Machine Learning
17 15 (9.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.36%) SQL
2 45 (28.30%) Python
3 14 (8.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.66%) C#
5 8 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.03%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.14%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.52%) R
8 3 (1.89%) Java
9 2 (1.26%) Bicep
9 2 (1.26%) Scala
9 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.18%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.66%) Degree
5 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.89%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PhD
8 1 (0.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) RIBA
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (23.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.66%) QA
3 8 (5.03%) GDPR
4 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.14%) PMO
6 3 (1.89%) SLA
7 2 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.63%) 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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.03%) Terraform
2 4 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.89%) SCCM
4 2 (1.26%) Grafana
4 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (38.99%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.72%) Databricks
3 9 (5.66%) Workday
4 8 (5.03%) Oracle
5 7 (4.40%) Informatica
5 7 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.77%) Google
6 6 (3.77%) SAP
7 5 (3.14%) Amplitude
7 5 (3.14%) Foundry
8 4 (2.52%) Palantir
9 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.89%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.26%) Adobe
10 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.26%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.26%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.26%) Splunk