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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 149 117 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.18% 6.29% 5.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.68% 15.00% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 74 73
10th Percentile £380 £391 £371
25th Percentile £450 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £677 £688
90th Percentile £738 £819 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -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 950 780 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 41.91% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 507 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £462 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £758 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £75.60
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 17 (11.41%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.68%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.34%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) Azure
2 29 (19.46%) Power Automate
3 20 (13.42%) AWS
3 20 (13.42%) PowerApps
4 19 (12.75%) Snowflake
5 16 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (8.05%) GCP
9 11 (7.38%) GitHub
9 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (6.04%) dbt
12 8 (5.37%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (5.37%) SaaS
12 8 (5.37%) Serverless
13 7 (4.70%) Prefect
14 6 (4.03%) Azure AI
14 6 (4.03%) Copilot Studio
14 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
1 113 (75.84%) Power BI
2 26 (17.45%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (15.44%) Tableau
4 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.71%) Looker
6 9 (6.04%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.37%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.70%) Metadata
8 7 (4.70%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.03%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.68%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.01%) Power Query
12 2 (1.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Git
2 7 (4.70%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (40.27%) Finance
2 37 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Banking
5 7 (4.70%) Legal
6 6 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Back Office
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
7 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.01%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.01%) Law
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Military
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Analyst
2 22 (14.77%) Data Engineer
2 22 (14.77%) Developer
3 21 (14.09%) Architect
4 19 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 11 (7.38%) Consultant
6 10 (6.71%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.37%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.37%) Lead
7 8 (5.37%) Senior
7 8 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.70%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Power BI Analyst
11 3 (2.01%) Data Migration Engineer
11 3 (2.01%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.40%) .NET
2 12 (8.05%) PySpark
3 7 (4.70%) Kafka
3 7 (4.70%) REST
4 4 (2.68%) HTML
4 4 (2.68%) RESTful
5 3 (2.01%) CSS
5 3 (2.01%) JSON
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.01%) React
6 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.34%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.34%) Redux
7 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.67%) Backbone.js
7 1 (0.67%) Ember.js
7 1 (0.67%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.70%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.36%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.68%) Clustering
5 4 (2.68%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) CMDB
6 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.34%) Derivative
7 2 (1.34%) Equities
7 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.34%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.34%) PMI
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Android
2 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.13%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (39.60%) Analytics
3 49 (32.89%) Data Modelling
4 44 (29.53%) AI
5 34 (22.82%) Data Engineering
6 33 (22.15%) DevOps
7 31 (20.81%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.13%) Agile
8 30 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (20.13%) ETL
9 26 (17.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (16.78%) Data Governance
11 24 (16.11%) Decision-Making
12 22 (14.77%) Migration
12 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (10.74%) Validation
13 16 (10.74%) Visualisation
14 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (9.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.93%) SQL
2 39 (26.17%) Python
3 16 (10.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (7.38%) C#
5 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.03%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.68%) R
8 3 (2.01%) Java
8 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.34%) Bicep
9 2 (1.34%) Scala
9 2 (1.34%) VBA
10 1 (0.67%) Bash
10 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) DBS Check
4 9 (6.04%) Degree
5 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.01%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
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%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.15%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.04%) QA
3 6 (4.03%) GDPR
3 6 (4.03%) PMO
4 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.34%) P3O
6 1 (0.67%) COBIT
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Terraform
2 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.01%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (40.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.77%) Databricks
3 7 (4.70%) Informatica
3 7 (4.70%) SAP
4 6 (4.03%) Oracle
4 6 (4.03%) Workday
5 5 (3.36%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.68%) Foundry
6 4 (2.68%) Google
6 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.01%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.01%) Splunk
8 2 (1.34%) Adobe
8 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.34%) Palantir
8 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) OpenAI