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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 157 121 128
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.49% 6.15% 5.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.56% 14.19% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 73 75
10th Percentile £350 £408 £400
25th Percentile £433 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £694
90th Percentile £740 £775 £765
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.58% -2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £33.27 -
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -5.40% -56.12% +65.63%

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 948 853 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.21% 43.32% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 547 683
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £748 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +9 145 £525 -4.55% 87
West End of London +8 7 £506 +1.25% 3
City of Westminster +4 7 £506 +12.50% 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 20 (12.74%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.91%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.18%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.22%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) Power Automate
3 23 (14.65%) PowerApps
4 19 (12.10%) AWS
5 18 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (10.83%) Snowflake
7 15 (9.55%) GCP
8 14 (8.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (7.64%) GitHub
11 11 (7.01%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (6.37%) dbt
13 9 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (4.46%) Prefect
15 6 (3.82%) Azure AI
15 6 (3.82%) SaaS
16 5 (3.18%) Copilot Studio
16 5 (3.18%) Dagster
16 5 (3.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) DNS
1 3 (1.91%) VPN
2 2 (1.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (74.52%) Power BI
2 34 (21.66%) Tableau
3 25 (15.92%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.01%) Looker
4 11 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (5.10%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.46%) Metadata
6 7 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.55%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (2.55%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.91%) Mixpanel
9 3 (1.91%) MySQL
9 3 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Git
2 7 (4.46%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.64%) ERwin
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (39.49%) Finance
2 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.83%) Banking
5 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.46%) Back Office
7 6 (3.82%) Front Office
8 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.18%) Legal
9 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.64%) Law
12 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (23.57%) Analyst
2 31 (19.75%) Developer
3 22 (14.01%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) Senior
5 16 (10.19%) Data Analyst
6 12 (7.64%) Architect
7 9 (5.73%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.73%) Consultant
8 7 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.46%) Data Scientist
8 7 (4.46%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Lead
10 5 (3.18%) Power Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) PySpark
2 9 (5.73%) .NET
3 8 (5.10%) Kafka
4 6 (3.82%) REST
5 5 (3.18%) CSS
5 5 (3.18%) HTML
6 4 (2.55%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.91%) JSON
7 3 (1.91%) NumPy
7 3 (1.91%) Pandas
7 3 (1.91%) React
7 3 (1.91%) RESTful
8 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (1.27%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.27%) Redux
8 2 (1.27%) Seaborn
8 2 (1.27%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.82%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.55%) Clustering
4 4 (2.55%) Equities
4 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.91%) Derivative
5 3 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Windows
2 2 (1.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.52%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (38.22%) Analytics
3 46 (29.30%) Data Modelling
4 39 (24.84%) AI
5 35 (22.29%) Data Engineering
6 30 (19.11%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (17.83%) Agile
7 28 (17.83%) ETL
8 27 (17.20%) DevOps
8 27 (17.20%) Visualisation
9 23 (14.65%) Decision-Making
10 21 (13.38%) CI/CD
10 21 (13.38%) Data Governance
11 20 (12.74%) Data Science
11 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (10.83%) Migration
13 17 (10.83%) Validation
14 16 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
14 16 (10.19%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.94%) SQL
2 44 (28.03%) Python
3 11 (7.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.82%) C#
7 5 (3.18%) Scala
8 4 (2.55%) Java
8 4 (2.55%) R
9 2 (1.27%) Bicep
9 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.64%) Bash
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
10 1 (0.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.91%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.91%) PMP
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.27%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.64%) CFA
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) MBA
7 1 (0.64%) PhD
7 1 (0.64%) RIBA
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (24.84%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) QA
3 8 (5.10%) GDPR
4 7 (4.46%) PMO
5 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.91%) SLA
7 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.27%) Basel III
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.64%) GAAP
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.64%) P3O
8 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.18%) Docker
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.46%) Terraform
2 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.64%) SCCM
4 1 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (38.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.74%) Databricks
3 9 (5.73%) Oracle
3 9 (5.73%) Workday
4 7 (4.46%) Google
5 6 (3.82%) Foundry
5 6 (3.82%) Informatica
5 6 (3.82%) SAP
6 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.55%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.91%) Palantir
8 3 (1.91%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.27%) Cognos
9 2 (1.27%) IBM
9 2 (1.27%) Planview
9 2 (1.27%) Sage
10 1 (0.64%) Adobe
10 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.64%) Yardi