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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 144 115 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.66% 6.69% 5.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.11% 16.64% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 70
10th Percentile £350 £340 £399
25th Percentile £425 £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +14.89%
75th Percentile £634 £668 £675
90th Percentile £749 £825 £753
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.38 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.53% - -

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 894 691 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.37% 40.22% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 491 537
10th Percentile £350 £340 £393
25th Percentile £456 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.50%
75th Percentile £660 £666 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 6 October 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
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 15 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.39%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.39%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.69%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.69%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.69%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.69%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.86%) Azure
2 30 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (17.36%) Power Automate
4 24 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 22 (15.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (13.19%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (9.03%) AWS
10 12 (8.33%) Serverless
11 10 (6.94%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.25%) GitHub
13 8 (5.56%) Azure Functions
13 8 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.86%) SaaS
15 6 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
16 5 (3.47%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) DNS
1 3 (2.08%) Firewall
1 3 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (78.47%) Power BI
2 21 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.89%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.03%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.33%) Metadata
6 11 (7.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (6.94%) Tableau
8 9 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
8 9 (6.25%) Star Schema
9 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.17%) Power Query
12 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.78%) Data Hub
14 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 3 (2.08%) Looker
14 3 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.03%) JIRA
2 12 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (4.86%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.69%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.69%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.69%) MLflow
7 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (35.42%) Finance
2 40 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.19%) Banking
5 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.25%) Marketing
6 9 (6.25%) Retail
7 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Legal
9 3 (2.08%) Front Office
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Law
9 3 (2.08%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
10 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (22.92%) Analyst
2 28 (19.44%) Developer
3 22 (15.28%) Architect
4 18 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 16 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Consultant
7 11 (7.64%) Senior
8 10 (6.94%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) Power Platform Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Lead
12 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 4 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 4 (2.78%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.78%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.50%) .NET
2 16 (11.11%) PySpark
3 8 (5.56%) REST
4 6 (4.17%) JSON
4 6 (4.17%) Kafka
4 6 (4.17%) Terraform
5 5 (3.47%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.47%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (2.78%) HTML
6 4 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (2.78%) RESTful
7 3 (2.08%) CSS
7 3 (2.08%) XML
8 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.39%) Middleware
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth
8 2 (1.39%) React
8 2 (1.39%) Redux
8 2 (1.39%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.86%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.17%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.78%) Clustering
8 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.39%) CMDB
9 2 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.39%) FMCG
9 2 (1.39%) NHS
9 2 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Windows
2 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (72.22%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (36.81%) Analytics
3 46 (31.94%) Data Modelling
4 44 (30.56%) DevOps
5 39 (27.08%) Agile
6 36 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 35 (24.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (22.22%) AI
9 31 (21.53%) Data Governance
10 29 (20.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (15.97%) Migration
11 23 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (15.28%) Decision-Making
13 21 (14.58%) Data Engineering
14 19 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (11.11%) ETL
16 15 (10.42%) Integration Patterns
17 14 (9.72%) Data Architecture
18 13 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (9.03%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.83%) SQL
2 32 (22.22%) Python
3 22 (15.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (12.50%) C#
5 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.78%) Bicep
10 2 (1.39%) Java
10 2 (1.39%) R
10 2 (1.39%) XMLA
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Korn
11 1 (0.69%) VBA
11 1 (0.69%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.94%) Degree
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) PMP
7 1 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.06%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.64%) QA
3 7 (4.86%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.78%) PMO
5 3 (2.08%) GDPR
6 2 (1.39%) P3O
7 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.69%) COBIT
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Grafana
1 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.08%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.08%) SCCM
1 3 (2.08%) SCOM
2 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (48.61%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.36%) Databricks
3 7 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.47%) Oracle
4 5 (3.47%) SAP
5 4 (2.78%) Informatica
5 4 (2.78%) VMware
6 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.08%) BMC
6 3 (2.08%) Commvault
6 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.08%) Foundry
6 3 (2.08%) Remedy
6 3 (2.08%) Splunk
7 2 (1.39%) Adobe
7 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.39%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.39%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.39%) Workday
8 1 (0.69%) Braze