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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 123 110 117
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.53% 5.93% 4.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.89% 14.61% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 70 75
10th Percentile £324 £411 £363
25th Percentile £413 £482 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £686
90th Percentile £749 £801 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +7.48%
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 774 753 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 40.59% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 471 659
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £27.83 - £13.18
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +128.92% -17.00%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% -17.00%

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 8 February 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 (11.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.07%) Confluence
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.44%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (41.46%) Azure
2 25 (20.33%) Power Automate
3 24 (19.51%) PowerApps
4 16 (13.01%) AWS
5 14 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.57%) GCP
7 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.94%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (8.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (8.13%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (6.50%) Azure AI
11 7 (5.69%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.88%) GitHub
13 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
13 5 (4.07%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.25%) dbt
14 4 (3.25%) Serverless
15 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) DHCP
1 2 (1.63%) DNS
1 2 (1.63%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (78.86%) Power BI
2 31 (25.20%) Tableau
3 10 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.07%) Looker
4 5 (4.07%) Metadata
5 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.44%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.44%) Power Query
7 2 (1.63%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.63%) OLAP
7 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.63%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.81%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) JIRA
2 5 (4.07%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 49 (39.84%) Finance
2 36 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Banking
4 11 (8.94%) Front Office
4 11 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.69%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.07%) Back Office
7 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Legal
8 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Automotive
9 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Analyst
2 23 (18.70%) Developer
3 18 (14.63%) Senior
4 12 (9.76%) Data Scientist
5 11 (8.94%) Consultant
5 11 (8.94%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.50%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 5 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (3.25%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.44%) Banking Analyst
10 3 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 3 (2.44%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (4.88%) NumPy
2 6 (4.88%) Pandas
3 5 (4.07%) PySpark
4 4 (3.25%) .NET
4 4 (3.25%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.25%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.44%) LangChain
5 3 (2.44%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.44%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.63%) CSS
6 2 (1.63%) HTML
6 2 (1.63%) JSON
6 2 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.63%) REST
6 2 (1.63%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.81%) ADO
7 1 (0.81%) XML
7 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.25%) Derivative
4 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.44%) Equities
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Clustering
6 2 (1.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Linux
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (74.80%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (34.15%) Analytics
3 37 (30.08%) Visualisation
4 36 (29.27%) AI
5 30 (24.39%) Agile
6 29 (23.58%) Data Modelling
7 24 (19.51%) Data Visualisation
7 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.07%) Data Science
9 20 (16.26%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (16.26%) Data Governance
9 20 (16.26%) Generative AI
9 20 (16.26%) Machine Learning
10 18 (14.63%) Data Engineering
10 18 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (13.82%) Decision-Making
12 16 (13.01%) Data Analysis
12 16 (13.01%) DevOps
12 16 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.15%) SQL
2 38 (30.89%) Python
3 7 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.25%) Scala
6 3 (2.44%) C#
6 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.44%) R
7 2 (1.63%) Java
7 2 (1.63%) Korn
7 2 (1.63%) VBA
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) LookML
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.38%) Degree
3 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) PMP
6 2 (1.63%) CFA
6 2 (1.63%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) IIBA
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.69%) GDPR
2 7 (5.69%) PMO
2 7 (5.69%) QA
3 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.63%) Basel III
4 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.63%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) GAAP
5 1 (0.81%) GRC
5 1 (0.81%) IFRS
5 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Terraform
2 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.81%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (39.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.57%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) Google
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle
5 6 (4.88%) Foundry
5 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.07%) SAP
7 3 (2.44%) Cognos
7 3 (2.44%) IBM
7 3 (2.44%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.44%) Planview
7 3 (2.44%) Sage
8 2 (1.63%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.63%) Informatica
8 2 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.63%) Palantir
8 2 (1.63%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.81%) Marketo
9 1 (0.81%) UiPath