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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 33 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 127 110 110
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.78% 5.84% 4.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.43% 14.77% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 71 71
10th Percentile £321 £400 £363
25th Percentile £394 £464 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £695
90th Percentile £749 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.39% +4.55% -
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 773 745 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 39.52% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 475 685
10th Percentile £342 £402 £363
25th Percentile £415 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
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 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 23 January 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 18 (14.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.94%) Confluence
3 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.09%) Azure
2 26 (20.47%) Power Automate
2 26 (20.47%) PowerApps
3 18 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.60%) AWS
5 13 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.24%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (9.45%) GCP
7 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (6.30%) Azure AI
8 8 (6.30%) Copilot Studio
9 7 (5.51%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (5.51%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.51%) GitHub
10 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.15%) dbt
12 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) DHCP
1 2 (1.57%) DNS
1 2 (1.57%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (78.74%) Power BI
2 31 (24.41%) Tableau
3 11 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.94%) Looker
5 5 (3.94%) Metadata
6 4 (3.15%) Power Query
6 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.57%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.57%) OLAP
8 2 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.57%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.09%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) ERwin
4 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 49 (38.58%) Finance
2 35 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.39%) Banking
4 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.66%) Front Office
6 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.94%) Back Office
7 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Legal
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (19.69%) Analyst
2 23 (18.11%) Developer
3 18 (14.17%) Senior
4 12 (9.45%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.45%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.66%) Consultant
5 11 (8.66%) Lead
6 10 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.09%) Architect
7 9 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (3.15%) Programme Manager
11 3 (2.36%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 3 (2.36%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (4.72%) NumPy
3 6 (4.72%) Pandas
4 5 (3.94%) .NET
4 5 (3.94%) PySpark
5 4 (3.15%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.15%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.36%) CSS
6 3 (2.36%) HTML
6 3 (2.36%) LangChain
6 3 (2.36%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.36%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.57%) JSON
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.57%) REST
7 2 (1.57%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.79%) HTML5
8 1 (0.79%) Node.js
8 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
4 4 (3.15%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
6 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.57%) Clustering
6 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.57%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (74.80%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (34.65%) Analytics
3 38 (29.92%) Visualisation
4 32 (25.20%) AI
5 30 (23.62%) Agile
5 30 (23.62%) Data Modelling
6 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.90%) Data Visualisation
8 23 (18.11%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (17.32%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.32%) Data Science
10 19 (14.96%) Generative AI
10 19 (14.96%) Machine Learning
11 18 (14.17%) Decision-Making
12 17 (13.39%) Data Analysis
12 17 (13.39%) Data Engineering
12 17 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (13.39%) DevOps
12 17 (13.39%) ETL
12 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.01%) SQL
2 40 (31.50%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.15%) Scala
5 3 (2.36%) C#
5 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.36%) R
6 2 (1.57%) Java
6 2 (1.57%) Korn
6 2 (1.57%) VBA
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) LookML
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) Degree
3 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) PMP
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CFA
6 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.30%) GDPR
3 7 (5.51%) PMO
4 6 (4.72%) QA
5 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.57%) Basel III
6 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.57%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.79%) GAAP
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Terraform
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (42.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.02%) Databricks
3 9 (7.09%) Google
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle
5 6 (4.72%) Foundry
6 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.36%) Cognos
7 3 (2.36%) IBM
7 3 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.36%) Planview
7 3 (2.36%) Sage
8 2 (1.57%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.57%) Informatica
8 2 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.57%) Palantir
8 2 (1.57%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Murex
9 1 (0.79%) Progress