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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +33
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 136 106 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.68% 5.84% 5.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.06% 13.97% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 66 75
10th Percentile £331 £413 £363
25th Percentile £421 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% -2.62% +4.55%
75th Percentile £662 £639 £694
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

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 847 759 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 41.84% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 488 636
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £535 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -5.35% +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 5 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 (10.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.94%) Apache
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.94%) Confluence
4 3 (2.21%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (13.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (39.71%) Azure
2 22 (16.18%) Power Automate
3 21 (15.44%) PowerApps
4 20 (14.71%) AWS
5 16 (11.76%) GCP
6 15 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (8.82%) Snowflake
8 10 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.88%) GitHub
11 7 (5.15%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (5.15%) dbt
12 6 (4.41%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (4.41%) Serverless
13 5 (3.68%) Azure AI
14 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
15 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) DHCP
1 2 (1.47%) DNS
1 2 (1.47%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (77.21%) Power BI
2 36 (26.47%) Tableau
3 18 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.62%) Looker
5 7 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.15%) Metadata
6 5 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.21%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.21%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.21%) OLAP
8 3 (2.21%) Power Query
8 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Git
1 8 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.74%) ERwin
2 1 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 53 (38.97%) Finance
2 41 (30.15%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (24.26%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.29%) Banking
5 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.62%) Front Office
7 6 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.68%) Back Office
9 4 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.21%) Legal
11 2 (1.47%) Automotive
11 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Retail
11 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.74%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Analyst
2 26 (19.12%) Developer
3 20 (14.71%) Data Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Senior
4 13 (9.56%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.56%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.09%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Consultant
7 9 (6.62%) Architect
7 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Lead
9 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Power Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.15%) PySpark
3 6 (4.41%) NumPy
3 6 (4.41%) Pandas
4 4 (2.94%) .NET
4 4 (2.94%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.94%) Seaborn
4 4 (2.94%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.21%) JSON
5 3 (2.21%) REST
6 2 (1.47%) CSS
6 2 (1.47%) HTML
6 2 (1.47%) LangChain
6 2 (1.47%) Playwright
6 2 (1.47%) XML
6 2 (1.47%) YAML
7 1 (0.74%) Altair
7 1 (0.74%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.15%) AI Agents
1 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.21%) Clustering
4 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.21%) Equities
4 3 (2.21%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.47%) Derivative
5 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.74%) FMCG
6 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Android
2 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (72.79%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (39.71%) Analytics
3 40 (29.41%) Visualisation
4 38 (27.94%) Data Modelling
5 37 (27.21%) AI
6 28 (20.59%) Data Engineering
7 27 (19.85%) Data Science
8 26 (19.12%) Agile
8 26 (19.12%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (19.12%) Data Visualisation
8 26 (19.12%) ETL
8 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.18%) Machine Learning
10 20 (14.71%) Actionable Insight
10 20 (14.71%) Decision-Making
11 19 (13.97%) Data Governance
12 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (12.50%) DevOps
13 17 (12.50%) Generative AI
13 17 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.91%) SQL
2 48 (35.29%) Python
3 8 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.41%) R
5 4 (2.94%) C#
5 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.94%) Scala
6 3 (2.21%) Java
7 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.47%) Korn
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.74%) Bicep
8 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.56%) Degree
3 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.94%) PMP
6 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CFA
7 2 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) IIBA
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) MBA
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
8 1 (0.74%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
4 5 (3.68%) PMO
5 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.47%) Basel III
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.74%) GAAP
7 1 (0.74%) GRC
7 1 (0.74%) IFRS
7 1 (0.74%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Terraform
2 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.76%) Databricks
3 9 (6.62%) Google
4 7 (5.15%) Foundry
5 6 (4.41%) SAP
6 5 (3.68%) Oracle
7 4 (2.94%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.94%) Informatica
7 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.21%) Cognos
8 3 (2.21%) IBM
8 3 (2.21%) Palantir
8 3 (2.21%) Sage
8 3 (2.21%) Workday
9 2 (1.47%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) Planview
9 2 (1.47%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere