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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 146 105 121
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.91% 5.91% 5.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.65% 13.94% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 63 76
10th Percentile £347 £413 £380
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -10.20% +14.49%
75th Percentile £647 £633 £700
90th Percentile £749 £770 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £31.86 -

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 877 753 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.52% 42.40% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 489 635
10th Percentile £343 £399 £359
25th Percentile £438 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £27.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £32.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.94 £83.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £145.88 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -48.57%

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

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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 22 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the City of London region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £650 -
Power Platform
Central 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 15 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.42%) Confluence
4 4 (2.74%) Apache
4 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (13.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.05%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.10%) Azure
2 24 (16.44%) AWS
3 22 (15.07%) Power Automate
4 20 (13.70%) GCP
4 20 (13.70%) PowerApps
5 16 (10.96%) Snowflake
6 14 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.85%) dbt
9 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.48%) GitHub
11 7 (4.79%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (4.79%) Serverless
12 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.11%) Prefect
13 5 (3.42%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DHCP
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (75.34%) Power BI
2 41 (28.08%) Tableau
3 23 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.85%) Looker
5 8 (5.48%) Metadata
6 7 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.79%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (4.11%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.11%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.42%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.74%) Power Query
10 3 (2.05%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.05%) OLAP
10 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Git
1 8 (5.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.68%) ERwin
2 1 (0.68%) GitLab
2 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 58 (39.73%) Finance
2 41 (28.08%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (23.29%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Banking
5 11 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.16%) Front Office
7 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.11%) Back Office
9 4 (2.74%) Legal
9 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.37%) Automotive
11 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.60%) Analyst
2 27 (18.49%) Developer
3 22 (15.07%) Data Engineer
4 20 (13.70%) Senior
5 14 (9.59%) Data Scientist
6 13 (8.90%) Data Analyst
7 11 (7.53%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.85%) Architect
8 10 (6.85%) Consultant
9 9 (6.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Lead
11 5 (3.42%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Consultant
12 4 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.79%) PySpark
3 6 (4.11%) NumPy
3 6 (4.11%) Pandas
4 4 (2.74%) .NET
4 4 (2.74%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.74%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.74%) REST
4 4 (2.74%) Seaborn
4 4 (2.74%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.05%) CSS
5 3 (2.05%) HTML
5 3 (2.05%) Kafka
6 2 (1.37%) JSON
6 2 (1.37%) LangChain
6 2 (1.37%) Playwright
6 2 (1.37%) SPFx
6 2 (1.37%) XML
6 2 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.42%) Clustering
3 5 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.74%) Equities
4 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.05%) Derivative
5 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.37%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) Linux
1 2 (1.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (70.55%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (39.73%) Analytics
3 44 (30.14%) AI
4 42 (28.77%) Data Modelling
5 38 (26.03%) Visualisation
6 33 (22.60%) Data Engineering
7 31 (21.23%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (21.23%) ETL
8 29 (19.86%) Data Science
9 27 (18.49%) Agile
9 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.44%) Data Visualisation
11 23 (15.75%) Machine Learning
12 22 (15.07%) Data Governance
12 22 (15.07%) Decision-Making
13 21 (14.38%) Actionable Insight
14 20 (13.70%) DevOps
14 20 (13.70%) Generative AI
14 20 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (12.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (43.15%) SQL
2 51 (34.93%) Python
3 9 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.11%) R
5 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.42%) Scala
6 4 (2.74%) C#
7 3 (2.05%) Java
7 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.59%) Degree
3 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.74%) PMP
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.37%) CFA
7 2 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.37%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) IIBA
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.85%) QA
3 7 (4.79%) GDPR
4 5 (3.42%) PMO
5 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.37%) Basel III
6 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) GAAP
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Terraform
2 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (36.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.64%) Databricks
3 11 (7.53%) Google
4 7 (4.79%) Foundry
4 7 (4.79%) Informatica
5 6 (4.11%) Oracle
6 5 (3.42%) SAP
7 4 (2.74%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.74%) Workday
8 3 (2.05%) Cognos
8 3 (2.05%) IBM
8 3 (2.05%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.05%) Palantir
8 3 (2.05%) Planview
8 3 (2.05%) Sage
8 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.37%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere