Power Platform Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Power Platform
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 35 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 119 131 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.96% 5.36% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.85% 13.72% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 79 99
10th Percentile £406 £397 £325
25th Percentile £463 £475 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £680 £694 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
London median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.63 - -
25th Percentile £30.46 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £52.50
75th Percentile £33.27 - £53.75
90th Percentile £34.11 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £55.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.15% +36.65% +15.00%

All Cloud 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 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Central London

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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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Central London

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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 May 2025. 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 -1 101 £548 -4.78% 57
City of Westminster -1 4 £463 - 3
West End of London -6 2 £475 - 6
Kensington and Chelsea -1 1 - -
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London

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (18.49%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (5.04%) Apache
5 5 (4.20%) Confluence
6 4 (3.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.84%) Revit
5 1 (0.84%) SPSS
5 1 (0.84%) Stata
Business Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (43.70%) Azure
2 23 (19.33%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (17.65%) Power Automate
3 21 (17.65%) PowerApps
4 15 (12.61%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.40%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.88%) AWS
7 7 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.04%) dbt
8 6 (5.04%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.20%) GCP
9 5 (4.20%) SaaS
9 5 (4.20%) Serverless
10 4 (3.36%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Network Security
1 4 (3.36%) SSH
2 1 (0.84%) DHCP
2 1 (0.84%) DNS
2 1 (0.84%) Intranet
2 1 (0.84%) WebEx
2 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (69.75%) Power BI
2 24 (20.17%) Tableau
3 21 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.04%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.20%) Apache Hive
8 5 (4.20%) Big Data
8 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.20%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.36%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.36%) Power Query
9 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) JIRA
2 8 (6.72%) Git
3 4 (3.36%) RStudio
4 2 (1.68%) NUnit
4 2 (1.68%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.84%) ERwin
5 1 (0.84%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.84%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.84%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) Selenium
5 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.84%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Finance
3 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Banking
4 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.72%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.04%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Back Office
7 4 (3.36%) Marketing
7 4 (3.36%) Police
7 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Local Government
9 2 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 36 (30.25%) Developer
2 26 (21.85%) Analyst
3 14 (11.76%) Lead
4 12 (10.08%) Data Analyst
4 12 (10.08%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Power BI Developer
5 11 (9.24%) Business Analyst
6 10 (8.40%) Architect
6 10 (8.40%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Senior
8 6 (5.04%) Analyst Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (4.20%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Snowflake Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) .NET
2 7 (5.88%) PySpark
3 6 (5.04%) HTML
3 6 (5.04%) JSON
3 6 (5.04%) REST
4 5 (4.20%) YAML
5 4 (3.36%) CSS
5 4 (3.36%) pydantic
6 3 (2.52%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (2.52%) Middleware
6 3 (2.52%) Pandas
6 3 (2.52%) SOAP
6 3 (2.52%) XML
7 2 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (1.68%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.68%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.68%) Kafka
7 2 (1.68%) LINQ to SQL
7 2 (1.68%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Data Structures
1 8 (6.72%) Low-Code
2 4 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.36%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.52%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.68%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Licensing
4 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.84%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Android
3 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (27.73%) Agile
2 33 (27.73%) Visualisation
3 25 (21.01%) Analytics
3 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.49%) Data Modelling
5 21 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 17 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
7 16 (13.45%) Data Analysis
7 16 (13.45%) DevOps
8 15 (12.61%) Data Governance
9 14 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
10 13 (10.92%) User Experience
11 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (10.08%) CRM
11 12 (10.08%) Data Integration
11 12 (10.08%) ETL
11 12 (10.08%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (9.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (52.94%) SQL
2 27 (22.69%) Python
3 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.24%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.88%) C#
6 5 (4.20%) Scala
7 4 (3.36%) Bash
7 4 (3.36%) R
8 2 (1.68%) Bicep
8 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.68%) Groovy
8 2 (1.68%) Java
9 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) Degree
3 11 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.68%) PMP
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.84%) CBAP
7 1 (0.84%) CFA
7 1 (0.84%) HNC
7 1 (0.84%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.40%) GDPR
3 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.04%) QA
4 3 (2.52%) Basel II
5 2 (1.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.84%) MiFID
6 1 (0.84%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.84%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.84%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (36.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) Databricks
3 9 (7.56%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.04%) SAP
5 5 (4.20%) Google
5 5 (4.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.68%) HP
6 2 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.68%) Remedy
7 1 (0.84%) BMC
7 1 (0.84%) Cegedim Rx
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco
7 1 (0.84%) Citrix
7 1 (0.84%) dotdigital
7 1 (0.84%) Informatica
7 1 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) Sparx