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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 150 104 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.50% 5.97% 5.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.70% 13.74% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 63 68
10th Percentile £350 £408 £409
25th Percentile £425 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £700
90th Percentile £743 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
% change year-on-year -38.79% - -

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 898 757 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.93% 43.46% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 479 599
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 (11.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.33%) Azure
2 25 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 19 (12.67%) AWS
3 19 (12.67%) PowerApps
4 17 (11.33%) Snowflake
5 16 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.33%) GCP
7 13 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.00%) GitHub
9 11 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (6.00%) dbt
10 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (4.67%) Prefect
13 6 (4.00%) Azure AI
13 6 (4.00%) SaaS
14 5 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (3.33%) Dagster
14 5 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
1 3 (2.00%) VPN
2 2 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (75.33%) Power BI
2 32 (21.33%) Tableau
3 24 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.00%) Looker
5 9 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.33%) Metadata
7 7 (4.67%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.67%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (2.67%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.33%) OLAP
11 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.33%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Git
1 7 (4.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.00%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (41.33%) Finance
2 31 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Banking
5 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.67%) Back Office
7 6 (4.00%) Front Office
8 5 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.33%) Legal
9 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Retail
11 2 (1.33%) Automotive
11 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.67%) Aviation
12 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Law
12 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Analyst
2 27 (18.00%) Developer
3 23 (15.33%) Data Engineer
4 16 (10.67%) Data Analyst
5 15 (10.00%) Senior
6 14 (9.33%) Architect
7 9 (6.00%) Consultant
8 8 (5.33%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.67%) Data Scientist
10 6 (4.00%) Lead
10 6 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Power Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) .NET
1 9 (6.00%) PySpark
2 6 (4.00%) REST
3 5 (3.33%) Kafka
4 4 (2.67%) CSS
4 4 (2.67%) HTML
4 4 (2.67%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.00%) JSON
5 3 (2.00%) NumPy
5 3 (2.00%) Pandas
5 3 (2.00%) React
5 3 (2.00%) RESTful
6 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.33%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.33%) Redux
6 2 (1.33%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.33%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
2 6 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.67%) Clustering
4 4 (2.67%) Equities
4 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.00%) Derivative
5 3 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (68.00%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (40.00%) Analytics
3 45 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 40 (26.67%) AI
5 32 (21.33%) Data Engineering
6 28 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (18.67%) ETL
7 27 (18.00%) DevOps
8 26 (17.33%) Agile
9 25 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 22 (14.67%) CI/CD
10 22 (14.67%) Decision-Making
11 21 (14.00%) Data Governance
11 21 (14.00%) Data Science
11 21 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (13.33%) Migration
13 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.67%) Validation
15 15 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
15 15 (10.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.33%) SQL
2 46 (30.67%) Python
3 12 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.00%) C#
6 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.33%) R
7 4 (2.67%) Java
7 4 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.33%) Bicep
9 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) Bash
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
10 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) Degree
4 6 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.00%) PMP
7 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.33%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CFA
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) MBA
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.00%) QA
3 8 (5.33%) GDPR
4 7 (4.67%) PMO
5 5 (3.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.33%) Basel III
6 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) GAAP
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.67%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.67%) Terraform
2 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.67%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.67%) Databricks
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 6 (4.00%) Foundry
5 6 (4.00%) Informatica
5 6 (4.00%) Workday
6 5 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.00%) Palantir
7 3 (2.00%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.33%) Cognos
8 2 (1.33%) IBM
8 2 (1.33%) Planview
8 2 (1.33%) Sage
8 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.67%) Talend
9 1 (0.67%) Yardi