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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 25 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 157 127 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.55% 6.72% 4.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.54% 16.10% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 78 62
10th Percentile £361 £363 £387
25th Percentile £450 £438 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £623 £664 £684
90th Percentile £738 £794 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
% change year-on-year -38.16% - -

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 949 789 848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.59% 41.77% 41.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 515 594
10th Percentile £359 £363 £375
25th Percentile £457 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -
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 20 (12.74%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 3 (1.91%) Apache
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.64%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.96%) Azure
2 30 (19.11%) Power Automate
3 24 (15.29%) PowerApps
4 21 (13.38%) AWS
5 20 (12.74%) Snowflake
6 18 (11.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (7.64%) GitHub
7 12 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (7.01%) GCP
8 11 (7.01%) Serverless
9 10 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (5.73%) dbt
11 8 (5.10%) SaaS
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.46%) Prefect
13 6 (3.82%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) DNS
1 3 (1.91%) Firewall
1 3 (1.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (78.98%) Power BI
2 29 (18.47%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (15.29%) Tableau
4 16 (10.19%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.01%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.37%) Looker
6 10 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.73%) Metadata
8 8 (5.10%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.10%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.46%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.18%) Power Query
12 4 (2.55%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.55%) Mixpanel
12 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Git
2 8 (5.10%) JIRA
3 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (42.04%) Finance
2 41 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 32 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.01%) Banking
5 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.46%) Legal
6 7 (4.46%) Retail
7 6 (3.82%) Marketing
8 4 (2.55%) Back Office
8 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.91%) Front Office
9 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Military
10 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.93%) Analyst
2 25 (15.92%) Developer
3 23 (14.65%) Data Engineer
4 21 (13.38%) Data Analyst
5 20 (12.74%) Architect
6 11 (7.01%) Consultant
6 11 (7.01%) Senior
7 10 (6.37%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.10%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.10%) Lead
8 8 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.46%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.55%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.55%) .NET
2 13 (8.28%) PySpark
3 8 (5.10%) Kafka
3 8 (5.10%) REST
4 4 (2.55%) HTML
4 4 (2.55%) RESTful
5 3 (1.91%) CSS
5 3 (1.91%) JSON
5 3 (1.91%) React
6 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.27%) Middleware
6 2 (1.27%) Redux
7 1 (0.64%) jQuery
7 1 (0.64%) Keras
7 1 (0.64%) OAuth
7 1 (0.64%) XML
7 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.82%) Clustering
4 6 (3.82%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.55%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.55%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.55%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.91%) CMDB
6 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Derivative
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Equities
7 2 (1.27%) FMCG
7 2 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Android
2 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (71.97%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (40.76%) Analytics
3 52 (33.12%) Data Modelling
4 41 (26.11%) AI
5 37 (23.57%) DevOps
6 35 (22.29%) CI/CD
7 34 (21.66%) ETL
8 33 (21.02%) Data Engineering
9 32 (20.38%) Agile
10 30 (19.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (18.47%) Data Governance
12 28 (17.83%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (15.92%) Decision-Making
15 24 (15.29%) Migration
16 21 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (10.83%) Validation
17 17 (10.83%) Visualisation
18 16 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 14 (8.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 69 (43.95%) SQL
2 40 (25.48%) Python
3 17 (10.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (8.28%) C#
5 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.55%) R
8 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.91%) Bicep
9 3 (1.91%) Java
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (1.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.64%) Bash
11 1 (0.64%) Korn
11 1 (0.64%) X++
11 1 (0.64%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 26 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.28%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.91%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.64%) PhD
8 1 (0.64%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.01%) QA
3 6 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
3 6 (3.82%) PMO
4 2 (1.27%) P3O
5 1 (0.64%) COBIT
5 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.10%) Terraform
2 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.91%) Grafana
3 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.91%) SCCM
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.27%) SCOM
5 1 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (41.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.56%) Databricks
3 8 (5.10%) Informatica
3 8 (5.10%) SAP
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle
4 6 (3.82%) Workday
5 5 (3.18%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.55%) Foundry
6 4 (2.55%) Google
7 3 (1.91%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.91%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.91%) Splunk
7 3 (1.91%) VMware
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) BMC
8 2 (1.27%) Commvault
8 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.27%) Palantir