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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 153 131 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.53% 7.05% 4.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.40% 17.08% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 79 63
10th Percentile £379 £363 £388
25th Percentile £446 £422 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £659 £681
90th Percentile £738 £788 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
% change year-on-year -38.16% - -

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 933 767 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.82% 41.30% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 511 584
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £756 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +27.13% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £31.54 £27.00
% change year-on-year +14.95% +16.80% -28.95%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 22 (14.38%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.92%) Confluence
4 3 (1.96%) Apache
4 3 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.27%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.31%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.65%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (51.63%) Azure
2 31 (20.26%) Power Automate
3 25 (16.34%) PowerApps
4 21 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (11.76%) AWS
6 18 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 15 (9.80%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (7.19%) Serverless
12 10 (6.54%) GitHub
13 9 (5.88%) dbt
14 8 (5.23%) GCP
14 8 (5.23%) SaaS
15 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
15 7 (4.58%) Prefect
16 6 (3.92%) Azure AI
16 6 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) DNS
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
1 3 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (76.47%) Power BI
2 29 (18.95%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.07%) Tableau
4 19 (12.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.84%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.54%) Metadata
6 10 (6.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (5.88%) Star Schema
8 8 (5.23%) Looker
9 7 (4.58%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.58%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.92%) Power Query
10 6 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.61%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.54%) JIRA
2 9 (5.88%) Git
3 6 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.31%) GitLab
5 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.65%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.65%) MLflow
6 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (38.56%) Finance
2 43 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.73%) Banking
5 8 (5.23%) Legal
5 8 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.23%) Retail
6 7 (4.58%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.96%) Back Office
8 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Front Office
9 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Military
9 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Analyst
2 28 (18.30%) Developer
3 21 (13.73%) Architect
4 20 (13.07%) Data Engineer
5 17 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 14 (9.15%) Consultant
7 11 (7.19%) Senior
8 10 (6.54%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.23%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.58%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Lead
12 5 (3.27%) Power Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 4 (2.61%) Power BI Analyst
13 4 (2.61%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.76%) .NET
2 14 (9.15%) PySpark
3 9 (5.88%) REST
4 8 (5.23%) Kafka
5 5 (3.27%) HTML
6 4 (2.61%) CSS
6 4 (2.61%) RESTful
7 3 (1.96%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.96%) JSON
8 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.31%) React
8 2 (1.31%) Redux
9 1 (0.65%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.65%) HTML5
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.65%) OAuth
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 1 (0.65%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.58%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.58%) Clustering
2 7 (4.58%) Low-Code
2 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.96%) CMDB
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.31%) FMCG
7 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.31%) PMI
7 2 (1.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Windows
2 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) VMS
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (68.63%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (39.22%) Analytics
3 49 (32.03%) Data Modelling
4 39 (25.49%) AI
5 38 (24.84%) DevOps
6 37 (24.18%) CI/CD
7 33 (21.57%) Agile
8 32 (20.92%) ETL
9 29 (18.95%) Data Engineering
10 28 (18.30%) Data Governance
11 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (16.99%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (16.34%) Migration
13 25 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (15.69%) Decision-Making
15 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (9.80%) Data Architecture
17 14 (9.15%) Validation
17 14 (9.15%) Visualisation
18 13 (8.50%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (45.10%) SQL
2 35 (22.88%) Python
3 19 (12.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (9.80%) C#
5 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.27%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.96%) Java
10 2 (1.31%) Bicep
10 2 (1.31%) VBA
10 2 (1.31%) XMLA
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) Korn
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.50%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.58%) Degree
5 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.96%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.19%) QA
3 6 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.92%) GDPR
4 5 (3.27%) PMO
5 2 (1.31%) P3O
6 1 (0.65%) COBIT
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.31%) Docker
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (4.58%) Terraform
2 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.96%) Grafana
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.96%) SCCM
3 3 (1.96%) SCOM
4 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (45.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.99%) Databricks
3 8 (5.23%) Informatica
3 8 (5.23%) SAP
4 6 (3.92%) Oracle
4 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.92%) Workday
5 5 (3.27%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) VMware
7 3 (1.96%) Adobe
7 3 (1.96%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.96%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.96%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.96%) BMC
7 3 (1.96%) Commvault
7 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.96%) Foundry
7 3 (1.96%) Remedy
7 3 (1.96%) Splunk
8 2 (1.31%) Nexthink