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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +18
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 140 132 114
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.05% 5.61% 4.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.11% 14.18% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 85 77
10th Percentile £320 £405 £343
25th Percentile £391 £465 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £738 £792 £757
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.25 £30.59 £26.24
% change year-on-year -14.19% +16.58% -25.03%

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 818 931 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.17% 39.57% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 603 812
10th Percentile £329 £395 £353
25th Percentile £428 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £18.87 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £34.44
90th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £36.57
% change year-on-year -24.86% -4.28% +19.89%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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 +4 126 £510 -11.30% 27
West End of London +10 3 £488 +21.88% 3
City of Westminster +2 2 £575 +21.05% 1
Camden - 1 £400 - 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 20 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.86%) Confluence
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (20.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.57%) Azure
2 35 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 34 (24.29%) Power Automate
4 21 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (9.29%) AWS
8 11 (7.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
8 11 (7.86%) GCP
9 10 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.71%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.71%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (5.00%) GitHub
12 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.57%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) DHCP
2 1 (0.71%) DKIM
2 1 (0.71%) DMARC
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.71%) PSTN
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (77.86%) Power BI
2 28 (20.00%) Tableau
3 12 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.86%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.00%) Power Query
6 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.57%) Metadata
8 4 (2.86%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.86%) Looker
8 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.43%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.43%) MySQL
10 2 (1.43%) Spotfire
10 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.71%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 6 (4.29%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 56 (40.00%) Finance
2 43 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 37 (26.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.43%) Banking
5 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.43%) Front Office
7 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.57%) Back Office
8 5 (3.57%) Legal
8 5 (3.57%) Marketing
8 5 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (17.86%) Analyst
2 21 (15.00%) Developer
3 19 (13.57%) Senior
4 17 (12.14%) Lead
5 14 (10.00%) Architect
6 12 (8.57%) Consultant
7 10 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Data Scientist
8 9 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Business Analyst
8 9 (6.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Data Architect
10 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (2.86%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.14%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.29%) PySpark
4 5 (3.57%) .NET
4 5 (3.57%) NumPy
4 5 (3.57%) Pandas
5 4 (2.86%) JSON
6 3 (2.14%) LangChain
6 3 (2.14%) Matplotlib
6 3 (2.14%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.14%) XML
7 2 (1.43%) CSS
7 2 (1.43%) HTML
7 2 (1.43%) Kafka
7 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.43%) REST
7 2 (1.43%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.43%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.71%) ADO
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) AI Agents
2 5 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.57%) Low-Code
2 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.86%) Derivative
4 3 (2.14%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.43%) Equities
5 2 (1.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.43%) Swaptions
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Unix
1 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (74.29%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (33.57%) Analytics
3 39 (27.86%) Visualisation
4 36 (25.71%) Data Modelling
5 33 (23.57%) Agile
6 29 (20.71%) Data Governance
7 28 (20.00%) AI
8 24 (17.14%) DevOps
9 23 (16.43%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (16.43%) Data Visualisation
9 23 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (15.00%) ETL
12 20 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 19 (13.57%) Data Engineering
13 19 (13.57%) Data Science
13 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (12.86%) Generative AI
14 18 (12.86%) Migration
15 17 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.14%) SQL
2 44 (31.43%) Python
3 11 (7.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.29%) C#
4 6 (4.29%) Scala
5 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.86%) R
7 3 (2.14%) Korn
7 3 (2.14%) VBA
8 2 (1.43%) IronPython
8 2 (1.43%) Java
8 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) LookML
9 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Degree
4 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.43%) CFA
7 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.43%) PMP
8 1 (0.71%) ACCA
8 1 (0.71%) CISA
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) CRISC
8 1 (0.71%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.71%) IIBA
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) MBA
8 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.43%) GDPR
3 7 (5.00%) PMO
4 6 (4.29%) QA
5 3 (2.14%) NIST
6 2 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.43%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.43%) Databricks
3 7 (5.00%) Google
4 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.57%) SAP
4 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.86%) Foundry
6 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.14%) Planview
7 2 (1.43%) Adobe
7 2 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.43%) Cognos
7 2 (1.43%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.43%) IBM
7 2 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.43%) Sage
7 2 (1.43%) UiPath
8 1 (0.71%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.71%) Dataiku