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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 33 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +33
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 125 107 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.68% 5.72% 4.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.28% 14.17% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 68 78
10th Percentile £324 £409 £363
25th Percentile £409 £482 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £682
90th Percentile £749 £802 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%
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 768 755 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.05% 40.37% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 481 684
10th Percentile £343 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738
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 12
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.18
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £40.69
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%

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 1 February 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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.00%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Apache
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.40%) Azure
2 25 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 24 (19.20%) PowerApps
4 16 (12.80%) AWS
4 16 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.40%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (10.40%) GCP
6 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
9 8 (6.40%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.80%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.80%) GitHub
12 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.20%) dbt
13 4 (3.20%) Serverless
14 3 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (2.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) DHCP
1 2 (1.60%) DNS
1 2 (1.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (77.60%) Power BI
2 31 (24.80%) Tableau
3 10 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.00%) Looker
4 5 (4.00%) Metadata
5 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.20%) Power Query
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) OLAP
7 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.60%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.80%) MySQL
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 5 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.80%) ERwin
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 48 (38.40%) Finance
2 36 (28.80%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Banking
4 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.80%) Front Office
6 7 (5.60%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Back Office
7 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Legal
8 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Automotive
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.80%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (20.80%) Analyst
2 23 (18.40%) Developer
3 18 (14.40%) Senior
4 12 (9.60%) Consultant
4 12 (9.60%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.80%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (7.20%) Data Analyst
6 9 (7.20%) Lead
7 8 (6.40%) Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.40%) Banking Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (4.80%) NumPy
3 6 (4.80%) Pandas
4 5 (4.00%) .NET
4 5 (4.00%) PySpark
5 4 (3.20%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.20%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.40%) CSS
6 3 (2.40%) HTML
6 3 (2.40%) LangChain
6 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.60%) JSON
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.60%) REST
7 2 (1.60%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.80%) HTML5
8 1 (0.80%) Node.js
8 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.20%) Derivative
4 4 (3.20%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Equities
5 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.60%) Clustering
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Linux
1 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (73.60%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (33.60%) Analytics
3 37 (29.60%) Visualisation
4 36 (28.80%) AI
5 30 (24.00%) Agile
6 29 (23.20%) Data Modelling
7 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.20%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (16.80%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (16.80%) Data Science
10 20 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 20 (16.00%) Generative AI
10 20 (16.00%) Machine Learning
11 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
12 18 (14.40%) Data Engineering
12 18 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (13.60%) Data Analysis
14 16 (12.80%) DevOps
14 16 (12.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 44 (35.20%) SQL
2 38 (30.40%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.20%) Scala
6 3 (2.40%) C#
6 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.40%) R
7 2 (1.60%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) Korn
7 2 (1.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.80%) Bicep
8 1 (0.80%) C++
8 1 (0.80%) LookML
8 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) PMP
6 2 (1.60%) CFA
6 2 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) IIBA
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) GDPR
2 7 (5.60%) PMO
2 7 (5.60%) QA
3 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.60%) Basel III
4 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.60%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) GAAP
5 1 (0.80%) GRC
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.80%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 51 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) Databricks
3 9 (7.20%) Google
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Foundry
5 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.00%) SAP
7 3 (2.40%) Cognos
7 3 (2.40%) IBM
7 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.40%) Planview
7 3 (2.40%) Sage
8 2 (1.60%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.60%) Informatica
8 2 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.60%) Palantir
8 2 (1.60%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.80%) Murex
9 1 (0.80%) Progress