Power Platform Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Power Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 110 117 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.24% 5.53% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.69% 13.42% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 74 71
10th Percentile £411 £373 £363
25th Percentile £475 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £690 £688 £653
90th Percentile £838 £750 £730
Central London median daily rate £556 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -3.27% +12.63% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.60 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £35.34 - £53.75
90th Percentile £35.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.54 - £52.50

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 749 872 1,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.48% 41.21% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 610 907
10th Percentile £363 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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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 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.73%) Apache
4 2 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (23.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.82%) Azure
2 15 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 15 (13.64%) PowerApps
3 13 (11.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.91%) Power Automate
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (9.09%) SaaS
5 10 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (5.45%) AWS
7 6 (5.45%) GCP
8 4 (3.64%) Boomi
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.82%) Serverless
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) SSH
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (78.18%) Power BI
2 23 (20.91%) Tableau
3 17 (15.45%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 8 (7.27%) Data Mining
7 7 (6.36%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (5.45%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.45%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (5.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.64%) Big Data
10 4 (3.64%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.64%) Power Query
11 3 (2.73%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.73%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.73%) Looker
11 3 (2.73%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) JIRA
2 5 (4.55%) Git
3 3 (2.73%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (1.82%) NUnit
4 2 (1.82%) RStudio
4 2 (1.82%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.91%) ERwin
5 1 (0.91%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.91%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.91%) Postman
5 1 (0.91%) Selenium
5 1 (0.91%) Terragrunt
General
1 49 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.64%) Finance
3 25 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (19.09%) Banking
5 11 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.45%) Police
8 6 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.55%) Marketing
9 5 (4.55%) Retail
10 3 (2.73%) Back Office
10 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.82%) Law
11 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.91%) Advertising
12 1 (0.91%) Electronics
12 1 (0.91%) Military
12 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (28.18%) Analyst
2 26 (23.64%) Developer
3 18 (16.36%) Senior
4 15 (13.64%) Data Analyst
5 13 (11.82%) Business Analyst
6 10 (9.09%) Consultant
6 10 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Lead
8 8 (7.27%) Architect
9 7 (6.36%) Analyst Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Risk Consultant
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (5.45%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
12 4 (3.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) .NET
2 6 (5.45%) HTML
3 5 (4.55%) Pandas
3 5 (4.55%) PySpark
3 5 (4.55%) REST
4 4 (3.64%) CSS
4 4 (3.64%) Middleware
4 4 (3.64%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.64%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.73%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.82%) ADO
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (1.82%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.82%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.82%) HTML5
6 2 (1.82%) LINQ to SQL
6 2 (1.82%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Market Risk
2 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.64%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.91%) BYOD
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (67.27%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (40.91%) Agile
3 34 (30.91%) Analytics
3 34 (30.91%) Visualisation
4 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.73%) Decision-Making
6 24 (21.82%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.27%) DevOps
8 18 (16.36%) Data Visualisation
9 16 (14.55%) Data Analysis
10 15 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (13.64%) Scrum
10 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (12.73%) Migration
12 13 (11.82%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (11.82%) Data Governance
13 12 (10.91%) Data Engineering
13 12 (10.91%) SDLC
14 11 (10.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 64 (58.18%) SQL
2 27 (24.55%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.45%) C#
4 6 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.64%) Java
5 4 (3.64%) R
6 3 (2.73%) Bash
6 3 (2.73%) Groovy
6 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.73%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (12.73%) Degree
2 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.91%) ACCA
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CBAP
7 1 (0.91%) CFA
7 1 (0.91%) CIMA
7 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.27%) Basel II
3 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.45%) GDPR
4 4 (3.64%) QA
5 2 (1.82%) PMO
6 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.91%) MiFID
6 1 (0.91%) NIST
6 1 (0.91%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.82%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.91%) Grafana
3 1 (0.91%) Istio
3 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.91%) SCCM
3 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.73%) Databricks
3 6 (5.45%) Google
3 6 (5.45%) SAP
3 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.73%) Dataiku
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 2 (1.82%) HP
5 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.91%) Advent
6 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.91%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.91%) Informatica
6 1 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.91%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.91%) Progress
6 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.91%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.91%) UiPath