Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Power Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +38
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 149 109 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.13% 6.29% 5.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.95% 14.67% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 69 73
10th Percentile £374 £411 £371
25th Percentile £442 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £611 £690 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £565
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.77% +8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.31 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.03 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.83 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £30.38 -
90th Percentile - £32.96 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year -32.92% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 934 743 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.44% 42.90% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 476 615
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £658
90th Percentile £750 £751 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +71.44% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -57.14%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the City of London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
London Bridge - 1 £650 - 1
Power Platform
Central London

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.68%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.36%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.67%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) Azure
2 26 (17.45%) Power Automate
3 20 (13.42%) AWS
4 19 (12.75%) PowerApps
4 19 (12.75%) Snowflake
5 14 (9.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.40%) GCP
6 13 (8.72%) GitHub
7 12 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.71%) dbt
8 10 (6.71%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (6.71%) Serverless
9 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.70%) Prefect
11 7 (4.70%) SaaS
12 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) DNS
1 4 (2.68%) VPN
2 3 (2.01%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (75.84%) Power BI
2 26 (17.45%) Tableau
3 25 (16.78%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.38%) Looker
6 10 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.37%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.70%) Metadata
8 7 (4.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.36%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.68%) Mixpanel
11 4 (2.68%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.01%) Power Query
13 2 (1.34%) OLAP
13 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Git
2 7 (4.70%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.67%) ERwin
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (39.60%) Finance
2 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Banking
5 5 (3.36%) Legal
6 4 (2.68%) Back Office
6 4 (2.68%) Retail
6 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.01%) Front Office
7 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
8 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.67%) International Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (18.79%) Analyst
2 25 (16.78%) Developer
3 24 (16.11%) Data Engineer
4 19 (12.75%) Architect
5 15 (10.07%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.71%) Consultant
6 10 (6.71%) Senior
7 9 (6.04%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.37%) Lead
8 8 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.70%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Data Scientist
11 5 (3.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 4 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.40%) .NET
2 13 (8.72%) PySpark
3 7 (4.70%) Kafka
3 7 (4.70%) REST
4 5 (3.36%) HTML
5 4 (2.68%) CSS
5 4 (2.68%) RESTful
6 3 (2.01%) JSON
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.01%) React
7 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.34%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.34%) Redux
7 2 (1.34%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.67%) LangChain
8 1 (0.67%) Playwright
8 1 (0.67%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.36%) Clustering
3 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.68%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.01%) CMDB
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.01%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.34%) Derivative
6 2 (1.34%) Equities
6 2 (1.34%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.34%) PMI
6 2 (1.34%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Android
2 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (67.79%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (40.94%) Analytics
3 47 (31.54%) Data Modelling
4 42 (28.19%) AI
5 36 (24.16%) Data Engineering
6 35 (23.49%) DevOps
7 31 (20.81%) CI/CD
7 31 (20.81%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (20.13%) Agile
8 30 (20.13%) ETL
9 23 (15.44%) Data Governance
9 23 (15.44%) Decision-Making
10 22 (14.77%) Migration
11 20 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (13.42%) Visualisation
12 16 (10.74%) Data Science
12 16 (10.74%) Machine Learning
12 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (10.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.27%) SQL
2 44 (29.53%) Python
3 14 (9.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (7.38%) C#
5 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.36%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.68%) R
9 3 (2.01%) Java
9 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.34%) Bicep
10 2 (1.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) VBA
11 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) DBS Check
4 8 (5.37%) Degree
5 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.01%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) PMP
8 1 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.37%) QA
3 7 (4.70%) GDPR
4 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.36%) PMO
5 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.67%) Basel III
6 1 (0.67%) COBIT
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) GAAP
6 1 (0.67%) IFRS
6 1 (0.67%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) P3O
6 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.04%) Terraform
2 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.01%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (40.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.44%) Databricks
3 8 (5.37%) Oracle
4 7 (4.70%) Informatica
5 6 (4.03%) Google
5 6 (4.03%) SAP
5 6 (4.03%) Workday
6 5 (3.36%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.36%) Foundry
7 4 (2.68%) Palantir
7 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.01%) Splunk
9 2 (1.34%) Adobe
9 2 (1.34%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.34%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.34%) Salesforce