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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 34 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 115 110 106
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.80% 5.28% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.27% 13.29% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 67
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £406 £484 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +1.89%
75th Percentile £644 £688 £655
90th Percentile £752 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00

All Cloud 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 707 828 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.81% 39.77% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 531 788
10th Percentile £340 £400 £354
25th Percentile £441 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £768 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 28 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of 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 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (26.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) Azure
2 28 (24.35%) Power Automate
3 26 (22.61%) PowerApps
4 16 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (12.17%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
7 10 (8.70%) AWS
7 10 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.96%) GCP
10 7 (6.09%) SaaS
11 6 (5.22%) GitHub
11 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.35%) Azure AI
12 5 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (3.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Firewall
1 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (83.48%) Power BI
2 21 (18.26%) Tableau
3 14 (12.17%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.35%) Data Mining
5 5 (4.35%) Power Query
5 5 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.61%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.61%) Looker
7 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.74%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.74%) Metadata
8 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.87%) OLAP
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
4 1 (0.87%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (42.61%) Finance
2 41 (35.65%) Social Skills
3 30 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.78%) Banking
5 10 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Front Office
6 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Marketing
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Legal
9 3 (2.61%) Back Office
9 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Police
9 3 (2.61%) Retail
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.74%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (17.39%) Analyst
2 16 (13.91%) Lead
2 16 (13.91%) Senior
3 15 (13.04%) Consultant
3 15 (13.04%) Developer
4 13 (11.30%) Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.96%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Risk Consultant
10 4 (3.48%) Applications Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Data Scientist
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (5.22%) .NET
3 4 (3.48%) CSS
3 4 (3.48%) HTML
3 4 (3.48%) REST
4 3 (2.61%) PySpark
5 2 (1.74%) ADO
5 2 (1.74%) HTML5
5 2 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.74%) JSON
5 2 (1.74%) LangChain
5 2 (1.74%) Pandas
5 2 (1.74%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.74%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (1.74%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.87%) Node.js
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.87%) SPFx
6 1 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.35%) Market Risk
1 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.48%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.61%) Derivative
3 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.74%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.74%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.74%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (79.13%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (32.17%) Analytics
3 36 (31.30%) Agile
4 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (23.48%) Data Modelling
6 25 (21.74%) Visualisation
7 24 (20.87%) Decision-Making
8 21 (18.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 18 (15.65%) Migration
11 17 (14.78%) DevOps
11 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (13.91%) AI
13 15 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
13 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
13 15 (13.04%) Data Analysis
14 14 (12.17%) Data Visualisation
15 13 (11.30%) ETL
16 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (10.43%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) SQL
2 32 (27.83%) Python
3 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.22%) C#
6 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.48%) Java
8 3 (2.61%) Korn
8 3 (2.61%) R
8 3 (2.61%) VBA
9 2 (1.74%) Bicep
9 2 (1.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) Bash
10 1 (0.87%) Groovy
10 1 (0.87%) LookML
10 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) Degree
2 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) ACCA
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) CFA
7 1 (0.87%) CIMA
7 1 (0.87%) CISA
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) CRISC
7 1 (0.87%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) IIBA
7 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.96%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) Basel II
3 5 (4.35%) PMO
4 4 (3.48%) NIST
5 3 (2.61%) QA
6 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.74%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.87%) GRC
7 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) Istio
3 1 (0.87%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.87%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Databricks
3 5 (4.35%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) Google
4 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.74%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.74%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.74%) Planview
6 2 (1.74%) UiPath
7 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.87%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.87%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.87%) Progress
7 1 (0.87%) Qualys
7 1 (0.87%) Tagetik