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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 117 110 109
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.79% 5.29% 3.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.14% 13.46% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 72 71
10th Percentile £339 £401 £363
25th Percentile £406 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% +3.77%
75th Percentile £654 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £798 £745
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.50% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00

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 725 817 1,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.05% 39.28% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 527 786
10th Percentile £348 £400 £350
25th Percentile £426 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £680
90th Percentile £752 £771 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%

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 11 November 2025.

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
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 11 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of 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 21 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.13%) Confluence
3 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (24.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.72%) Azure
2 29 (24.79%) Power Automate
3 27 (23.08%) PowerApps
4 16 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.97%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (10.26%) AWS
7 11 (9.40%) Entra ID
8 10 (8.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (8.55%) GCP
9 9 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (6.84%) Snowflake
11 7 (5.98%) Azure AI
11 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (5.13%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (5.13%) GitHub
12 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (4.27%) SaaS
14 4 (3.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Firewall
1 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (79.49%) Power BI
2 22 (18.80%) Tableau
3 14 (11.97%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.27%) Power Query
5 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.56%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.56%) Looker
7 3 (2.56%) Metadata
7 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.71%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) Git
3 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.85%) Postman
4 1 (0.85%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (41.88%) Finance
2 40 (34.19%) Social Skills
3 31 (26.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.68%) Banking
5 8 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
7 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.42%) Legal
8 4 (3.42%) Marketing
8 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Back Office
10 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.71%) Retail
10 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (17.95%) Analyst
2 17 (14.53%) Senior
3 16 (13.68%) Developer
3 16 (13.68%) Lead
4 14 (11.97%) Architect
5 13 (11.11%) Consultant
6 10 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.84%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Data Scientist
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.42%) Applications Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Data Architect
12 3 (2.56%) Risk Consultant
12 3 (2.56%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (5.13%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) CSS
3 4 (3.42%) HTML
3 4 (3.42%) REST
4 3 (2.56%) JSON
4 3 (2.56%) LangChain
4 3 (2.56%) PySpark
5 2 (1.71%) ADO
5 2 (1.71%) HTML5
5 2 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.71%) NumPy
5 2 (1.71%) Pandas
5 2 (1.71%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.71%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (1.71%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) Node.js
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.27%) Low-Code
1 5 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.42%) AI Agents
2 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.56%) Derivative
3 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.56%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.71%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.71%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (75.21%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (32.48%) Analytics
3 34 (29.06%) Agile
4 28 (23.93%) Visualisation
5 26 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 26 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.80%) Decision-Making
7 21 (17.95%) AI
7 21 (17.95%) Data Governance
8 19 (16.24%) Migration
8 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (14.53%) DevOps
11 16 (13.68%) Data Analysis
11 16 (13.68%) Data Visualisation
12 15 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (11.97%) ETL
14 13 (11.11%) CI/CD
15 12 (10.26%) CRM
15 12 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.03%) SQL
2 37 (31.62%) Python
3 11 (9.40%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.13%) C#
6 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.42%) Java
8 3 (2.56%) Korn
8 3 (2.56%) R
8 3 (2.56%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) VBA
9 2 (1.71%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) Bash
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) LookML
10 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) Degree
1 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) ACCA
6 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.71%) CFA
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) CIMA
7 1 (0.85%) CISA
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) CRISC
7 1 (0.85%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.85%) IIBA
7 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.98%) GDPR
3 5 (4.27%) PMO
4 4 (3.42%) NIST
4 4 (3.42%) QA
5 3 (2.56%) Basel II
6 2 (1.71%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (8.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Istio
3 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Databricks
3 6 (5.13%) Google
4 4 (3.42%) Oracle
4 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.42%) SAP
5 3 (2.56%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.71%) Adobe
6 2 (1.71%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.71%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.71%) Foundry
6 2 (1.71%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.71%) Planview
6 2 (1.71%) UiPath
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) Progress
7 1 (0.85%) Qualys
7 1 (0.85%) Sage