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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 122 119 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.84% 5.59% 4.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.38% 14.25% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 76 77
10th Percentile £329 £400 £363
25th Percentile £408 £482 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £803 £757
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - £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 745 835 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.78% 39.22% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 541 784
10th Percentile £343 £400 £358
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%

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 December 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
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 20 (16.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.10%) Confluence
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.46%) Apache
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.00%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) Power Automate
3 31 (25.41%) PowerApps
4 18 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.66%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (9.02%) AWS
7 11 (9.02%) Entra ID
8 10 (8.20%) GCP
8 10 (8.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (7.38%) Azure AI
9 9 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (6.56%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (5.74%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.92%) Snowflake
13 5 (4.10%) GitHub
13 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (3.28%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) DHCP
1 1 (0.82%) DNS
1 1 (0.82%) Firewall
1 1 (0.82%) HTTP
1 1 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (78.69%) Power BI
2 22 (18.03%) Tableau
3 12 (9.84%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.74%) Power Query
6 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.28%) Metadata
6 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.46%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.46%) Looker
8 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.82%) Big Data
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.82%) Postman
4 1 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (44.26%) Finance
2 42 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 37 (30.33%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.74%) Front Office
7 6 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.10%) Legal
8 5 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.28%) Marketing
10 3 (2.46%) Back Office
11 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.82%) Law
12 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.82%) Military
12 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (17.21%) Analyst
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 15 (12.30%) Developer
4 14 (11.48%) Architect
4 14 (11.48%) Lead
5 13 (10.66%) Consultant
6 9 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.38%) Data Scientist
7 8 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Consultant
11 3 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (4.92%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.28%) .NET
3 4 (3.28%) NumPy
3 4 (3.28%) Pandas
4 3 (2.46%) JSON
4 3 (2.46%) LangChain
4 3 (2.46%) PySpark
5 2 (1.64%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.64%) REST
5 2 (1.64%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.64%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (1.64%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.64%) XML
6 1 (0.82%) ADO
6 1 (0.82%) CSS
6 1 (0.82%) HTML
6 1 (0.82%) HTML5
6 1 (0.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.28%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.28%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.46%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.46%) Derivative
4 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.64%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.64%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (74.59%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (33.61%) Analytics
3 35 (28.69%) Visualisation
4 34 (27.87%) Agile
5 30 (24.59%) Data Modelling
6 28 (22.95%) AI
7 24 (19.67%) Data Governance
7 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (16.39%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (16.39%) Decision-Making
10 19 (15.57%) Data Visualisation
10 19 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (13.93%) Data Science
11 17 (13.93%) DevOps
11 17 (13.93%) Generative AI
11 17 (13.93%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.30%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.30%) ETL
12 15 (12.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.61%) SQL
2 39 (31.97%) Python
3 11 (9.02%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (4.10%) C#
6 4 (3.28%) R
7 3 (2.46%) Java
7 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.46%) Korn
7 3 (2.46%) Scala
7 3 (2.46%) VBA
8 1 (0.82%) Bicep
8 1 (0.82%) C++
8 1 (0.82%) Groovy
8 1 (0.82%) LookML
8 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.48%) Degree
3 12 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.64%) CFA
6 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) PMP
7 1 (0.82%) ACCA
7 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.82%) CISA
7 1 (0.82%) CISSP
7 1 (0.82%) CRISC
7 1 (0.82%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.82%) IIBA
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.82%) MBA
7 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.56%) GDPR
3 6 (4.92%) PMO
4 5 (4.10%) QA
5 4 (3.28%) NIST
6 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.64%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.82%) Basel II
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.82%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.46%) Terraform
2 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.82%) Opsgenie
2 1 (0.82%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.84%) Databricks
3 6 (4.92%) Google
4 5 (4.10%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.28%) Foundry
5 4 (3.28%) SAP
6 3 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.46%) Planview
7 2 (1.64%) Adobe
7 2 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.64%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.64%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.64%) UiPath
8 1 (0.82%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.82%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.82%) Marketo
8 1 (0.82%) Rapid7