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 3 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 29 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 77 62 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.44% 7.05% 4.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.01% 17.61% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 35
10th Percentile £400 £339 £420
25th Percentile £452 £406 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £644 £641 £688
90th Percentile £738 £700 £768
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £590
% change year-on-year - -11.02% +18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.00 -

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 481 352 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.47% 40.00% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 253 277
10th Percentile £363 £333 £400
25th Percentile £456 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £762 £748 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £20.40 £32.20 £32.05
25th Percentile £21.75 £32.50 £39.63
Median hourly rate £23.25 £54.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.34% -2.68% +85.12%
75th Percentile £25.75 £65.57 £76.13
90th Percentile £28.90 £79.48 £85.95
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £51.44 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.68% +46.97% +15.70%

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 3 months to 5 September 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 20 (13.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.34%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (54.36%) Azure
2 30 (20.13%) Power Automate
3 25 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (16.78%) PowerApps
4 21 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (12.75%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (9.40%) AWS
6 14 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (8.72%) Snowflake
8 12 (8.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (8.05%) Serverless
9 10 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (6.04%) GitHub
11 8 (5.37%) Azure Functions
11 8 (5.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.70%) SaaS
13 6 (4.03%) Azure AI
13 6 (4.03%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (4.03%) Azure Stack
13 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) DNS
1 3 (2.01%) Firewall
1 3 (2.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (76.51%) Power BI
2 24 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
4 15 (10.07%) Tableau
5 12 (8.05%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.05%) Metadata
6 10 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.71%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
8 8 (5.37%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.03%) Power Query
10 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.68%) Looker
11 4 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Git
2 9 (6.04%) JIRA
3 7 (4.70%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.67%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.67%) MLflow
7 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (36.91%) Finance
2 43 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.09%) Banking
5 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.04%) Marketing
7 8 (5.37%) Retail
8 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.36%) Legal
9 4 (2.68%) Law
10 3 (2.01%) Back Office
10 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.01%) Military
11 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Front Office
11 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Analyst
2 26 (17.45%) Developer
3 21 (14.09%) Architect
4 19 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.74%) Consultant
5 16 (10.74%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Senior
7 9 (6.04%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.70%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 6 (4.03%) Lead
11 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Power BI Analyst
13 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 3 (2.01%) Power Platform Consultant
13 3 (2.01%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) .NET
2 14 (9.40%) PySpark
3 9 (6.04%) REST
4 7 (4.70%) Kafka
4 7 (4.70%) Terraform
5 6 (4.03%) HTML
6 5 (3.36%) .NET Framework
6 5 (3.36%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (3.36%) CSS
7 4 (2.68%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (2.68%) JSON
7 4 (2.68%) RESTful
8 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.34%) Middleware
8 2 (1.34%) React
8 2 (1.34%) Redux
8 2 (1.34%) WCF
8 2 (1.34%) XML
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.37%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.03%) Clustering
5 6 (4.03%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.01%) CMDB
7 3 (2.01%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) Derivative
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.34%) FMCG
8 2 (1.34%) PMI
8 2 (1.34%) Replication
8 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.36%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.13%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (36.91%) Analytics
3 47 (31.54%) Data Modelling
4 40 (26.85%) DevOps
5 38 (25.50%) AI
6 36 (24.16%) Agile
7 35 (23.49%) CI/CD
8 31 (20.81%) Data Governance
8 31 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (17.45%) Data Engineering
11 24 (16.11%) Migration
12 23 (15.44%) ETL
13 22 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
16 16 (10.74%) Data Architecture
17 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (9.40%) Visualisation
18 13 (8.72%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.30%) SQL
2 30 (20.13%) Python
3 21 (14.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (11.41%) C#
5 11 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.38%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.36%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.34%) Bicep
8 2 (1.34%) Java
8 2 (1.34%) R
8 2 (1.34%) VBA
8 2 (1.34%) XMLA
9 1 (0.67%) Bash
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.40%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.71%) Degree
5 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.01%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
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%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.71%) QA
3 7 (4.70%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.36%) PMO
5 3 (2.01%) GDPR
6 2 (1.34%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.01%) Grafana
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.01%) SCCM
2 3 (2.01%) SCOM
3 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (46.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.11%) Databricks
3 8 (5.37%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.03%) Informatica
4 6 (4.03%) SAP
5 5 (3.36%) Oracle
6 4 (2.68%) VMware
7 3 (2.01%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.01%) BMC
7 3 (2.01%) Commvault
7 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.01%) Foundry
7 3 (2.01%) Google
7 3 (2.01%) Remedy
7 3 (2.01%) Splunk
7 3 (2.01%) Workday
8 2 (1.34%) Adobe
8 2 (1.34%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.34%) Nexthink