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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +33
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 148 105 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.24% 6.18% 5.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.35% 14.38% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 65 71
10th Percentile £364 £409 £368
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.05%
75th Percentile £615 £680 £694
90th Percentile £749 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.31 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.03 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.83 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £30.38 -
90th Percentile - £32.96 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year -32.92% - -

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 905 730 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.17% 42.99% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 465 602
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £460 £455 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year - +0.69% -8.96%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £535
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 18 (12.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.03%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.62%) Azure
2 21 (14.19%) AWS
2 21 (14.19%) Power Automate
3 18 (12.16%) Snowflake
4 16 (10.81%) PowerApps
5 14 (9.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (9.46%) GCP
5 14 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (8.78%) GitHub
7 12 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.76%) dbt
9 8 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.41%) Serverless
10 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (4.73%) Prefect
10 7 (4.73%) SaaS
11 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.38%) Dagster
12 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
1 3 (2.03%) VPN
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (77.70%) Power BI
2 30 (20.27%) Tableau
3 24 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.11%) Looker
5 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.73%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.73%) Metadata
8 6 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.70%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.70%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.03%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Git
1 8 (5.41%) JIRA
2 3 (2.03%) GitLab
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (39.86%) Finance
2 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.84%) Banking
5 7 (4.73%) Back Office
5 7 (4.73%) Front Office
6 5 (3.38%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Legal
7 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Automotive
9 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Analyst
2 28 (18.92%) Developer
3 25 (16.89%) Data Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Architect
5 14 (9.46%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.76%) Senior
7 8 (5.41%) Lead
8 7 (4.73%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.73%) Consultant
8 7 (4.73%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 4 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.43%) .NET
1 11 (7.43%) PySpark
2 7 (4.73%) Kafka
2 7 (4.73%) REST
3 4 (2.70%) CSS
3 4 (2.70%) HTML
4 3 (2.03%) JSON
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.03%) React
4 3 (2.03%) RESTful
5 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.35%) Playwright
5 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.35%) Redux
5 2 (1.35%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.35%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.68%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.68%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.68%) LangChain
6 1 (0.68%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.70%) Clustering
4 4 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (2.70%) Equities
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.03%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.03%) CMDB
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
5 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.03%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.35%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.35%) PMI
6 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.59%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (39.19%) Analytics
3 45 (30.41%) Data Modelling
4 38 (25.68%) AI
5 36 (24.32%) Data Engineering
6 32 (21.62%) DevOps
7 29 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (19.59%) ETL
8 27 (18.24%) CI/CD
9 24 (16.22%) Agile
10 22 (14.86%) Data Governance
10 22 (14.86%) Migration
11 21 (14.19%) Visualisation
12 20 (13.51%) Decision-Making
13 19 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (10.81%) Validation
15 15 (10.14%) Dashboard Development
15 15 (10.14%) Data Science
15 15 (10.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.51%) SQL
2 44 (29.73%) Python
3 10 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.05%) C#
6 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.70%) Java
7 4 (2.70%) R
8 3 (2.03%) Scala
8 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.35%) Bicep
9 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.68%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) DBS Check
4 8 (5.41%) Degree
5 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) PMP
7 2 (1.35%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CFA
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.62%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.08%) QA
3 7 (4.73%) GDPR
4 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.38%) PMO
5 2 (1.35%) Basel III
6 1 (0.68%) COBIT
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) GAAP
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) P3O
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.41%) Terraform
2 5 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.03%) SCCM
4 2 (1.35%) Grafana
4 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 56 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.19%) Databricks
3 8 (5.41%) Oracle
4 7 (4.73%) Informatica
5 6 (4.05%) Google
5 6 (4.05%) Workday
6 5 (3.38%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.38%) SAP
7 4 (2.70%) Foundry
8 3 (2.03%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.03%) Palantir
8 3 (2.03%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.35%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.35%) Splunk
10 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.68%) Talend