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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 152 120 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.27% 6.45% 5.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.08% 15.25% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 77 76
10th Percentile £374 £406 £376
25th Percentile £446 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
% change year-on-year -38.16% - -

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 945 787 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.00% 42.29% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 511 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -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

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 - 1
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 17 (11.18%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.97%) Apache
4 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.66%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.66%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.29%) Azure
2 29 (19.08%) Power Automate
3 22 (14.47%) AWS
4 20 (13.16%) PowerApps
5 19 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 16 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.21%) GCP
9 13 (8.55%) GitHub
9 13 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (6.58%) dbt
11 10 (6.58%) Serverless
12 8 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (5.26%) SaaS
13 7 (4.61%) Prefect
14 6 (3.95%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.95%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) DNS
1 3 (1.97%) Firewall
1 3 (1.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (76.32%) Power BI
2 26 (17.11%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (17.11%) Tableau
3 13 (8.55%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.24%) Looker
5 10 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.92%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.92%) Metadata
7 8 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.61%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.95%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.63%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.97%) OLAP
11 3 (1.97%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (7.24%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) JIRA
3 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.97%) GitLab
4 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.66%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.66%) ERwin
5 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (39.47%) Finance
2 38 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.16%) Banking
5 6 (3.95%) Legal
5 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.29%) Retail
7 4 (2.63%) Back Office
7 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.97%) Front Office
8 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.97%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (21.05%) Analyst
2 23 (15.13%) Data Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) Developer
4 21 (13.82%) Architect
5 18 (11.84%) Data Analyst
6 11 (7.24%) Consultant
7 10 (6.58%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Lead
8 8 (5.26%) Senior
8 8 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.61%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (3.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Power BI Analyst
13 3 (1.97%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.21%) .NET
1 14 (9.21%) PySpark
2 7 (4.61%) Kafka
2 7 (4.61%) REST
3 4 (2.63%) HTML
3 4 (2.63%) RESTful
4 3 (1.97%) CSS
4 3 (1.97%) JSON
4 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.97%) React
5 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.32%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.32%) Redux
6 1 (0.66%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.66%) Keras
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.66%) Pandas
6 1 (0.66%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.66%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.61%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.95%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) Clustering
4 5 (3.29%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.97%) CMDB
6 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.97%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.32%) Derivative
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) PMI
7 2 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (69.08%) Business Intelligence
2 63 (41.45%) Analytics
3 50 (32.89%) Data Modelling
4 46 (30.26%) AI
5 35 (23.03%) Data Engineering
5 35 (23.03%) DevOps
6 32 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 31 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (19.74%) ETL
9 29 (19.08%) Agile
10 26 (17.11%) Data Governance
11 25 (16.45%) Decision-Making
11 25 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (15.13%) Migration
13 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.84%) Visualisation
16 16 (10.53%) Validation
17 15 (9.87%) Data Architecture
17 15 (9.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.79%) SQL
2 44 (28.95%) Python
3 16 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (7.24%) C#
5 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.95%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.63%) R
8 3 (1.97%) Java
8 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.32%) Bicep
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
9 2 (1.32%) VBA
10 1 (0.66%) Bash
10 1 (0.66%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.55%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.58%) Degree
5 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.97%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
8 1 (0.66%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.03%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.92%) QA
3 6 (3.95%) GDPR
3 6 (3.95%) PMO
4 5 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.32%) P3O
6 1 (0.66%) COBIT
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Terraform
2 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.97%) Grafana
3 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.97%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (40.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.79%) Databricks
3 7 (4.61%) Informatica
3 7 (4.61%) Oracle
4 6 (3.95%) Foundry
4 6 (3.95%) Google
4 6 (3.95%) SAP
4 6 (3.95%) Workday
5 5 (3.29%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.63%) Palantir
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.97%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.97%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.97%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe
8 2 (1.32%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) VMware