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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 35 36
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 130 103 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.61% 5.68% 5.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.85% 13.62% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 65 75
10th Percentile £329 £413 £363
25th Percentile £420 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £671 £640 £694
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +5.75%

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 820 756 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.71% 41.72% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 484 638
10th Percentile £336 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

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 2 March 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 14 (10.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.08%) Apache
2 4 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.08%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.77%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) Power Automate
3 20 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 19 (14.62%) AWS
5 15 (11.54%) GCP
6 14 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (6.15%) GitHub
8 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (6.15%) Snowflake
9 7 (5.38%) Copilot Studio
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.85%) Azure AI
11 5 (3.85%) Serverless
12 4 (3.08%) dbt
13 3 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.31%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) DHCP
1 2 (1.54%) DNS
1 2 (1.54%) VPN
2 1 (0.77%) HTTP
2 1 (0.77%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (76.15%) Power BI
2 32 (24.62%) Tableau
3 16 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.38%) Looker
5 6 (4.62%) Metadata
6 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.31%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.31%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.31%) OLAP
7 3 (2.31%) Power Query
7 3 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.54%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Git
1 8 (6.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.77%) ERwin
2 1 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 50 (38.46%) Finance
2 40 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (25.38%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.00%) Banking
5 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.92%) Front Office
7 5 (3.85%) Back Office
7 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Automotive
10 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Retail
11 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Analyst
2 25 (19.23%) Developer
3 20 (15.38%) Senior
4 18 (13.85%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 13 (10.00%) Data Scientist
6 10 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.69%) Consultant
7 9 (6.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (6.15%) Architect
9 7 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Lead
10 5 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Consultant
11 4 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Power Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (2.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.62%) NumPy
2 6 (4.62%) Pandas
2 6 (4.62%) PySpark
3 4 (3.08%) Matplotlib
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (3.08%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.08%) Seaborn
3 4 (3.08%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.31%) JSON
4 3 (2.31%) REST
5 2 (1.54%) .NET
5 2 (1.54%) CSS
5 2 (1.54%) HTML
5 2 (1.54%) LangChain
5 2 (1.54%) Playwright
5 2 (1.54%) XML
5 2 (1.54%) YAML
6 1 (0.77%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.38%) AI Agents
1 7 (5.38%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.31%) Clustering
4 3 (2.31%) Equities
5 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.54%) Derivative
5 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.54%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.77%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Android
2 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.77%) Unix
2 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (72.31%) Business Intelligence
2 51 (39.23%) Analytics
3 40 (30.77%) Visualisation
4 37 (28.46%) AI
5 36 (27.69%) Data Modelling
6 27 (20.77%) Data Science
7 26 (20.00%) Agile
7 26 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (18.46%) Data Engineering
9 23 (17.69%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (17.69%) ETL
10 22 (16.92%) Machine Learning
11 20 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (14.62%) Data Governance
13 18 (13.85%) Decision-Making
13 18 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (13.08%) Generative AI
15 16 (12.31%) DevOps
15 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (40.77%) SQL
2 45 (34.62%) Python
3 8 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.62%) R
5 4 (3.08%) C#
5 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.08%) Scala
6 3 (2.31%) Java
7 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.54%) Korn
7 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.77%) Bicep
8 1 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.00%) Degree
3 12 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.08%) PMP
6 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.54%) CFA
7 2 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) IIBA
8 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.77%) MBA
8 1 (0.77%) PhD
8 1 (0.77%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.92%) QA
3 5 (3.85%) PMO
4 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.54%) Basel III
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) GAAP
6 1 (0.77%) GRC
6 1 (0.77%) IFRS
6 1 (0.77%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.77%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 50 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Databricks
3 9 (6.92%) Google
4 7 (5.38%) Foundry
5 6 (4.62%) SAP
6 5 (3.85%) Oracle
7 4 (3.08%) Amplitude
7 4 (3.08%) Informatica
7 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.31%) Cognos
8 3 (2.31%) IBM
8 3 (2.31%) Palantir
8 3 (2.31%) Sage
9 2 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.54%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.54%) Planview
9 2 (1.54%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.77%) Workday