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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +35
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 166 116 137
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.16% 5.89% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.26% 13.62% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 69 80
10th Percentile £359 £410 £399
25th Percentile £448 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £741 £712 £775
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.58% -2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year -5.04% +10.79% -31.84%

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 962 852 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.47% 43.29% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 553 689
10th Percentile £345 £367 £349
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £729 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 3 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 3 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 +12 148 £525 - 82
West End of London +11 7 £475 +18.75% 4
City of Westminster +4 6 £475 - 3
Camden - 1 £400 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 19 (11.45%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.01%) Confluence
5 4 (2.41%) Apache
6 3 (1.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (14.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.61%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.81%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (43.98%) Azure
2 26 (15.66%) Power Automate
3 24 (14.46%) PowerApps
4 23 (13.86%) AWS
5 20 (12.05%) GCP
6 17 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (9.04%) Snowflake
9 13 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (6.63%) dbt
11 11 (6.63%) GitHub
12 9 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (4.22%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (4.22%) Serverless
14 6 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (3.61%) Prefect
15 5 (3.01%) Azure AI
15 5 (3.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) DHCP
1 2 (1.20%) DNS
1 2 (1.20%) VPN
2 1 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (74.10%) Power BI
2 43 (25.90%) Tableau
3 26 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.42%) Looker
4 9 (5.42%) Metadata
4 9 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.82%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.01%) Star Schema
8 4 (2.41%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.41%) MySQL
8 4 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.41%) Power Query
9 3 (1.81%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.81%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Git
2 9 (5.42%) JIRA
3 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.60%) ERwin
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 57 (34.34%) Finance
2 42 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (24.70%) Social Skills
4 21 (12.65%) Banking
5 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.42%) Front Office
7 7 (4.22%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.61%) Back Office
9 4 (2.41%) Legal
10 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.20%) Automotive
11 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) Analyst
2 31 (18.67%) Developer
3 23 (13.86%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.25%) Senior
5 14 (8.43%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.83%) Data Analyst
7 12 (7.23%) Lead
8 11 (6.63%) Architect
8 11 (6.63%) Business Analyst
9 10 (6.02%) Consultant
10 9 (5.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.41%) Service Analyst
13 4 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.02%) PySpark
2 9 (5.42%) scikit-learn
3 7 (4.22%) Kafka
4 6 (3.61%) .NET
4 6 (3.61%) NumPy
4 6 (3.61%) Pandas
5 5 (3.01%) CSS
5 5 (3.01%) HTML
6 4 (2.41%) Matplotlib
6 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.41%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.41%) REST
6 4 (2.41%) Seaborn
6 4 (2.41%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.20%) JSON
7 2 (1.20%) LangChain
7 2 (1.20%) Playwright
7 2 (1.20%) SPFx
7 2 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.22%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.22%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.01%) Clustering
3 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Equities
4 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.81%) Derivative
5 3 (1.81%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.28%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (39.16%) Analytics
3 49 (29.52%) Data Modelling
4 47 (28.31%) AI
5 41 (24.70%) Data Engineering
6 40 (24.10%) Visualisation
7 35 (21.08%) Data Pipeline
7 35 (21.08%) ETL
8 30 (18.07%) Agile
9 29 (17.47%) Data Science
9 29 (17.47%) DevOps
10 28 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (16.27%) Data Visualisation
12 26 (15.66%) Data Governance
13 23 (13.86%) Machine Learning
14 21 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (12.65%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.05%) CI/CD
15 20 (12.05%) Generative AI
15 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.77%) SQL
2 54 (32.53%) Python
3 10 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.82%) Scala
5 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.61%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.61%) R
6 5 (3.01%) C#
7 2 (1.20%) IronPython
7 2 (1.20%) Java
7 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Bash
8 1 (0.60%) Bicep
8 1 (0.60%) C++
8 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) Degree
4 5 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.81%) PMP
7 2 (1.20%) CFA
7 2 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.20%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.60%) IIBA
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MBA
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) RIBA
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.63%) QA
3 7 (4.22%) GDPR
4 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.41%) PMO
5 3 (1.81%) SLA
6 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.20%) Basel III
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) GAAP
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) IFRS
7 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.61%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.22%) Terraform
2 6 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.60%) SCCM
4 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.86%) Databricks
3 10 (6.02%) Google
4 8 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.22%) Foundry
5 7 (4.22%) Informatica
5 7 (4.22%) Workday
6 6 (3.61%) Oracle
6 6 (3.61%) SAP
7 4 (2.41%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.81%) Cognos
8 3 (1.81%) IBM
8 3 (1.81%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.81%) Palantir
8 3 (1.81%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.81%) Sage
8 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.20%) Planview
10 1 (0.60%) Yardi