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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 125 106 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.66% 5.64% 4.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.17% 14.10% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 68 73
10th Percentile £324 £409 £363
25th Percentile £408 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £749 £802 £769
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 773 752 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.20% 40.02% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 478 674
10th Percentile £347 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
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 - - -10.00%
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% -4.26%

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 29 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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.00%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Apache
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (19.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.20%) Azure
2 24 (19.20%) Power Automate
2 24 (19.20%) PowerApps
3 16 (12.80%) AWS
4 15 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.40%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (10.40%) GCP
6 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
8 8 (6.40%) Azure AI
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (5.60%) GitHub
10 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.80%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.20%) dbt
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) DHCP
1 2 (1.60%) DNS
1 2 (1.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (77.60%) Power BI
2 31 (24.80%) Tableau
3 10 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.00%) Looker
5 5 (4.00%) Metadata
6 4 (3.20%) Power Query
6 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.60%) OLAP
8 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.60%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.80%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.80%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 5 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.80%) ERwin
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 48 (38.40%) Finance
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 35 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.60%) Banking
5 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.80%) Front Office
7 7 (5.60%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.00%) Back Office
8 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Legal
9 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Automotive
10 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Retail
10 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Analyst
2 23 (18.40%) Developer
3 18 (14.40%) Senior
4 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.80%) Consultant
6 9 (7.20%) Architect
6 9 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (7.20%) Lead
7 8 (6.40%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.40%) Banking Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 3 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (4.80%) NumPy
2 6 (4.80%) Pandas
3 5 (4.00%) .NET
3 5 (4.00%) PySpark
4 4 (3.20%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.20%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.40%) CSS
5 3 (2.40%) HTML
5 3 (2.40%) LangChain
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.60%) JSON
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.60%) REST
6 2 (1.60%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.80%) HTML5
7 1 (0.80%) Node.js
7 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.20%) Derivative
4 4 (3.20%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.60%) Clustering
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Linux
1 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (73.60%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (33.60%) Analytics
3 37 (29.60%) Visualisation
4 35 (28.00%) AI
5 30 (24.00%) Agile
6 29 (23.20%) Data Modelling
7 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.20%) Data Visualisation
9 22 (17.60%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (17.60%) Data Science
10 21 (16.80%) Data Governance
11 20 (16.00%) Generative AI
11 20 (16.00%) Machine Learning
12 18 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (14.40%) Decision-Making
13 17 (13.60%) Data Engineering
13 17 (13.60%) DevOps
13 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (12.80%) Data Analysis
14 16 (12.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.00%) SQL
2 38 (30.40%) Python
3 7 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.20%) Scala
6 3 (2.40%) C#
6 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.40%) R
7 2 (1.60%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) Korn
7 2 (1.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.80%) Bicep
8 1 (0.80%) C++
8 1 (0.80%) LookML
8 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) PMP
6 2 (1.60%) CFA
6 2 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) IIBA
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) GDPR
2 7 (5.60%) PMO
3 6 (4.80%) QA
4 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.60%) Basel III
5 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.60%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) GAAP
6 1 (0.80%) GRC
6 1 (0.80%) IFRS
6 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.80%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (41.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) Databricks
3 9 (7.20%) Google
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Foundry
5 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.00%) SAP
7 3 (2.40%) Cognos
7 3 (2.40%) IBM
7 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.40%) Planview
7 3 (2.40%) Sage
8 2 (1.60%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.60%) Informatica
8 2 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.60%) Palantir
8 2 (1.60%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.80%) UiPath