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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +34
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 151 98 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.85% 5.61% 5.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.82% 13.03% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 57 73
10th Percentile £361 £408 £388
25th Percentile £436 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £621 £640 £700
90th Percentile £739 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £31.86 -

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 898 752 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.76% 43.07% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 484 609
10th Percentile £350 £376 £361
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £667
90th Percentile £750 £738 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £15.94
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +104.82% -74.85%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £30.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.70% +67.83% -60.48%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 18 (11.92%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.65%) Confluence
4 3 (1.99%) Apache
4 3 (1.99%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (41.72%) Azure
2 25 (16.56%) Power Automate
3 22 (14.57%) AWS
4 21 (13.91%) PowerApps
5 19 (12.58%) GCP
6 17 (11.26%) Snowflake
7 16 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (7.95%) dbt
9 11 (7.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (6.62%) GitHub
11 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (5.30%) Azure AI
12 8 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (5.30%) Prefect
13 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (4.64%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (3.97%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (3.97%) Dagster
15 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) DHCP
1 2 (1.32%) DNS
1 2 (1.32%) VPN
2 1 (0.66%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (73.51%) Power BI
2 38 (25.17%) Tableau
3 25 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.28%) Looker
5 9 (5.96%) Metadata
6 8 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.64%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.31%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.65%) Power Query
11 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.99%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.99%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.99%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Git
2 6 (3.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.66%) ERwin
3 1 (0.66%) GitLab
3 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 60 (39.74%) Finance
2 38 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (23.18%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.58%) Banking
5 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.30%) Front Office
7 7 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.97%) Back Office
8 6 (3.97%) Legal
9 4 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
11 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Retail
12 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.66%) International Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Law
12 1 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (21.19%) Analyst
2 26 (17.22%) Developer
3 22 (14.57%) Data Engineer
4 19 (12.58%) Senior
5 14 (9.27%) Data Scientist
6 13 (8.61%) Data Analyst
7 12 (7.95%) Architect
8 11 (7.28%) Consultant
9 10 (6.62%) Business Analyst
10 9 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Lead
12 6 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 5 (3.31%) Power BI Developer
13 5 (3.31%) Power Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Snowflake Engineer
14 4 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.96%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.64%) PySpark
3 6 (3.97%) NumPy
3 6 (3.97%) Pandas
4 5 (3.31%) .NET
4 5 (3.31%) REST
5 4 (2.65%) CSS
5 4 (2.65%) HTML
5 4 (2.65%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.65%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.65%) Seaborn
5 4 (2.65%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.99%) Kafka
7 2 (1.32%) JSON
7 2 (1.32%) LangChain
7 2 (1.32%) Playwright
7 2 (1.32%) SPFx
7 2 (1.32%) XML
7 2 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.64%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.64%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.31%) Clustering
3 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.65%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.65%) Equities
4 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.99%) Derivative
5 3 (1.99%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.32%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.32%) PMI
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (67.55%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (39.07%) Analytics
3 47 (31.13%) AI
4 43 (28.48%) Data Modelling
5 37 (24.50%) Visualisation
6 35 (23.18%) Data Engineering
7 33 (21.85%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (21.85%) ETL
8 28 (18.54%) Data Science
9 27 (17.88%) Agile
10 24 (15.89%) Decision-Making
10 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (15.23%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (15.23%) Data Visualisation
11 23 (15.23%) Machine Learning
12 22 (14.57%) Data Governance
13 19 (12.58%) DevOps
13 19 (12.58%) Generative AI
14 18 (11.92%) Data Analysis
14 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.72%) SQL
2 52 (34.44%) Python
3 10 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.97%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.97%) R
5 5 (3.31%) Scala
6 3 (1.99%) C#
6 3 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) Java
7 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) Bicep
8 1 (0.66%) C++
8 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.61%) Degree
3 12 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.99%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.99%) PMP
7 2 (1.32%) CFA
7 2 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.32%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) MBA
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
8 1 (0.66%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.19%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.28%) QA
3 9 (5.96%) GDPR
4 6 (3.97%) PMO
5 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.32%) Basel III
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.66%) GAAP
7 1 (0.66%) IFRS
7 1 (0.66%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.99%) Docker
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Terraform
2 3 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.66%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 56 (37.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.58%) Databricks
3 10 (6.62%) Google
4 7 (4.64%) Foundry
4 7 (4.64%) Informatica
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle
5 6 (3.97%) Workday
6 5 (3.31%) SAP
7 4 (2.65%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.99%) Cognos
8 3 (1.99%) IBM
8 3 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.99%) Palantir
8 3 (1.99%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.99%) Sage
9 2 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.32%) Planview
9 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.66%) Alteryx