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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 142 124 129
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.92% 5.83% 4.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.92% 14.12% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 80 86
10th Percentile £325 £411 £363
25th Percentile £413 £464 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £749 £782 £760
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.60 £39.25
% change year-on-year -15.53% -24.60% +3.29%

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 839 878 1,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.87% 41.28% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 573 740
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.75 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £34.44
90th Percentile £47.50 - £49.80
London median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +5 125 £523 -9.09% 91
West End of London +13 5 £475 +18.75% 2
City of Westminster +6 4 £475 - 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 15 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.52%) Confluence
4 3 (2.11%) Apache
4 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 28 (19.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (42.96%) Azure
2 27 (19.01%) Power Automate
3 26 (18.31%) PowerApps
4 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (11.27%) AWS
5 16 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.27%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (9.15%) GCP
7 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.04%) Copilot Studio
9 8 (5.63%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.63%) GitHub
10 7 (4.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (4.23%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.52%) Serverless
12 5 (3.52%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) DHCP
1 2 (1.41%) DNS
1 2 (1.41%) HTTP
1 2 (1.41%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (77.46%) Power BI
2 34 (23.94%) Tableau
3 13 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.52%) Looker
5 5 (3.52%) Metadata
6 4 (2.82%) MySQL
6 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Power Query
6 4 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.11%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.41%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) OLAP
8 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.41%) Spotfire
8 2 (1.41%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (8.45%) JIRA
2 8 (5.63%) Git
3 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) ERwin
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 49 (34.51%) Finance
2 39 (27.46%) Social Skills
3 38 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.68%) Banking
5 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.75%) Front Office
7 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.52%) Back Office
8 5 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Automotive
10 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 2 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (20.42%) Analyst
2 27 (19.01%) Developer
3 19 (13.38%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Lead
5 12 (8.45%) Consultant
5 12 (8.45%) Data Scientist
6 11 (7.75%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (6.34%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.63%) Architect
8 8 (5.63%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) Programme Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Service Analyst
11 3 (2.11%) Data Architect
11 3 (2.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.34%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.63%) PySpark
3 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (4.23%) .NET
4 6 (4.23%) NumPy
4 6 (4.23%) Pandas
5 4 (2.82%) CSS
5 4 (2.82%) HTML
5 4 (2.82%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.82%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.11%) JSON
6 3 (2.11%) Kafka
6 3 (2.11%) LangChain
6 3 (2.11%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.11%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.41%) REST
7 2 (1.41%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.41%) XML
8 1 (0.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.34%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.52%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.52%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.82%) Derivative
5 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.11%) Equities
5 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.41%) Clustering
6 2 (1.41%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Swaptions
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.94%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (33.80%) Analytics
3 40 (28.17%) Visualisation
4 37 (26.06%) AI
5 35 (24.65%) Agile
5 35 (24.65%) Data Modelling
6 28 (19.72%) Data Visualisation
7 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (16.90%) Data Engineering
8 24 (16.90%) DevOps
9 23 (16.20%) Data Governance
10 21 (14.79%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (14.79%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (14.79%) Data Science
11 20 (14.08%) Generative AI
11 20 (14.08%) Machine Learning
12 19 (13.38%) Decision-Making
12 19 (13.38%) ETL
13 18 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (11.97%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.92%) SQL
2 40 (28.17%) Python
3 8 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.93%) Scala
5 6 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.82%) C#
7 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.11%) R
8 2 (1.41%) IronPython
8 2 (1.41%) Java
8 2 (1.41%) Korn
8 2 (1.41%) VBA
9 1 (0.70%) Bicep
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) LookML
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.56%) Degree
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.82%) PMP
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.41%) CFA
8 2 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) IIBA
9 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.70%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.93%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) PMO
2 7 (4.93%) QA
3 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.11%) SLA
4 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.41%) Basel III
4 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.41%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) GAAP
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.82%) Terraform
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (38.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.68%) Databricks
3 9 (6.34%) Google
4 7 (4.93%) Oracle
4 7 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.23%) Foundry
5 6 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.23%) SAP
6 4 (2.82%) Workday
7 3 (2.11%) Cognos
7 3 (2.11%) IBM
7 3 (2.11%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.11%) Planview
7 3 (2.11%) Sage
8 2 (1.41%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.41%) Informatica
8 2 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.41%) Palantir
8 2 (1.41%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.41%) UiPath