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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 127 108 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.77% 5.73% 4.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.39% 14.44% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 69 78
10th Percentile £321 £410 £363
25th Percentile £400 £465 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +3.37% +1.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £693
90th Percentile £749 £801 £775
Central London median daily rate £521 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £38.00

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 775 748 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.31% 39.66% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 474 696
10th Percentile £340 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 25 January 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 17 (13.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.94%) Confluence
3 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.09%) Azure
2 25 (19.69%) Power Automate
2 25 (19.69%) PowerApps
3 16 (12.60%) AWS
3 16 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.24%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (10.24%) GCP
6 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (6.30%) Azure AI
7 8 (6.30%) Copilot Studio
8 7 (5.51%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (5.51%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.51%) GitHub
9 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.15%) dbt
11 4 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) DHCP
1 2 (1.57%) DNS
1 2 (1.57%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (78.74%) Power BI
2 31 (24.41%) Tableau
3 11 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.94%) Looker
5 5 (3.94%) Metadata
6 4 (3.15%) Power Query
6 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.57%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.57%) OLAP
8 2 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.57%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.87%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) ERwin
4 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 49 (38.58%) Finance
2 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 35 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.39%) Banking
5 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.66%) Front Office
7 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.94%) Back Office
8 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.15%) Legal
10 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Automotive
11 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Marketing
11 2 (1.57%) Retail
11 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (20.47%) Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Developer
3 18 (14.17%) Senior
4 12 (9.45%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.45%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.66%) Consultant
6 10 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (7.87%) Lead
7 9 (7.09%) Architect
7 9 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (3.15%) Programme Manager
11 3 (2.36%) Data Architect
11 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.36%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (4.72%) NumPy
3 6 (4.72%) Pandas
4 5 (3.94%) .NET
4 5 (3.94%) PySpark
5 4 (3.15%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.15%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.36%) CSS
6 3 (2.36%) HTML
6 3 (2.36%) LangChain
6 3 (2.36%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.36%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.57%) JSON
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.57%) REST
7 2 (1.57%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.79%) HTML5
8 1 (0.79%) Node.js
8 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
4 4 (3.15%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
6 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.57%) Clustering
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.57%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (74.80%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (34.65%) Analytics
3 38 (29.92%) Visualisation
4 34 (26.77%) AI
5 30 (23.62%) Agile
5 30 (23.62%) Data Modelling
6 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.90%) Data Visualisation
8 23 (18.11%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (17.32%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.32%) Data Science
10 20 (15.75%) Generative AI
10 20 (15.75%) Machine Learning
11 19 (14.96%) Decision-Making
12 18 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (14.17%) DevOps
13 17 (13.39%) Data Analysis
13 17 (13.39%) Data Engineering
13 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.01%) SQL
2 40 (31.50%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.15%) Scala
6 3 (2.36%) C#
6 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.36%) R
7 2 (1.57%) Java
7 2 (1.57%) Korn
7 2 (1.57%) VBA
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) C++
8 1 (0.79%) LookML
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) Degree
3 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) PMP
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CFA
6 2 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.30%) GDPR
3 7 (5.51%) PMO
4 6 (4.72%) QA
5 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.57%) Basel III
6 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.57%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.79%) GAAP
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Terraform
2 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (41.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.02%) Databricks
3 9 (7.09%) Google
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle
5 6 (4.72%) Foundry
5 6 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.36%) Cognos
7 3 (2.36%) IBM
7 3 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.36%) Planview
7 3 (2.36%) Sage
8 2 (1.57%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.57%) Informatica
8 2 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.57%) Palantir
8 2 (1.57%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Murex
9 1 (0.79%) Progress