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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +35
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 144 105 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.07% 5.88% 5.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.00% 13.93% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 66 75
10th Percentile £337 £413 £368
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% -7.72% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £706
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £566 £575
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.52% +6.98%

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 847 754 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.58% 42.19% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 495 635
10th Percentile £340 £400 £359
25th Percentile £438 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
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% -56.57%
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% -36.67%

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

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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 12 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 12 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 14 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.47%) Confluence
4 4 (2.78%) Apache
4 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.08%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (39.58%) Azure
2 23 (15.97%) AWS
2 23 (15.97%) Power Automate
3 21 (14.58%) PowerApps
4 19 (13.19%) GCP
5 14 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (9.72%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.25%) dbt
7 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (5.56%) GitHub
9 7 (4.86%) Copilot Studio
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.17%) Serverless
11 5 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.47%) Azure AI
11 5 (3.47%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) DHCP
1 2 (1.39%) DNS
1 2 (1.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (76.39%) Power BI
2 41 (28.47%) Tableau
3 20 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.94%) Looker
5 8 (5.56%) Metadata
6 7 (4.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.17%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.08%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.08%) Mixpanel
10 3 (2.08%) OLAP
10 3 (2.08%) Power Query
10 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Git
1 8 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.69%) ERwin
2 1 (0.69%) GitLab
2 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 57 (39.58%) Finance
2 41 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (24.31%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.81%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.94%) Front Office
7 7 (4.86%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.17%) Back Office
9 4 (2.78%) Legal
9 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.39%) Automotive
11 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.39%) Retail
12 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) Analyst
2 26 (18.06%) Developer
3 21 (14.58%) Data Engineer
4 20 (13.89%) Senior
5 14 (9.72%) Data Analyst
5 14 (9.72%) Data Scientist
6 12 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.64%) Consultant
8 10 (6.94%) Architect
9 9 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Lead
11 5 (3.47%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.47%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Consultant
12 4 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Power Platform Developer
12 4 (2.78%) Power Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.86%) PySpark
3 6 (4.17%) NumPy
3 6 (4.17%) Pandas
4 4 (2.78%) .NET
4 4 (2.78%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.78%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.78%) Seaborn
4 4 (2.78%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.08%) JSON
5 3 (2.08%) REST
6 2 (1.39%) CSS
6 2 (1.39%) HTML
6 2 (1.39%) Kafka
6 2 (1.39%) LangChain
6 2 (1.39%) Playwright
6 2 (1.39%) XML
6 2 (1.39%) YAML
7 1 (0.69%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.78%) Clustering
4 4 (2.78%) Equities
4 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.08%) Derivative
5 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Android
2 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.69%) Unix
2 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (71.53%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (38.89%) Analytics
3 40 (27.78%) AI
3 40 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 40 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 30 (20.83%) Data Engineering
5 29 (20.14%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (19.44%) Data Science
6 28 (19.44%) ETL
7 27 (18.75%) Agile
8 26 (18.06%) Data Visualisation
8 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.97%) Machine Learning
10 21 (14.58%) Data Governance
10 21 (14.58%) Decision-Making
11 20 (13.89%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (13.19%) Generative AI
13 18 (12.50%) DevOps
13 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.36%) SQL
2 51 (35.42%) Python
3 8 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.17%) R
5 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.47%) Scala
6 4 (2.78%) C#
7 3 (2.08%) Java
8 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.39%) Korn
8 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) Degree
3 12 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.78%) PMP
6 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.39%) CFA
7 2 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) IIBA
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) MBA
8 1 (0.69%) PhD
8 1 (0.69%) RIBA
8 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.94%) QA
3 7 (4.86%) GDPR
4 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.78%) PMO
5 2 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.39%) Basel III
5 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) GAAP
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.47%) Terraform
2 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.69%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.69%) SCCM
3 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (36.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.81%) Databricks
3 10 (6.94%) Google
4 7 (4.86%) Foundry
5 5 (3.47%) Informatica
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle
5 5 (3.47%) SAP
6 4 (2.78%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.78%) Workday
7 3 (2.08%) Cognos
7 3 (2.08%) IBM
7 3 (2.08%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.08%) Palantir
7 3 (2.08%) Sage
7 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.39%) Planview
8 2 (1.39%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere