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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +32
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 148 98 127
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.90% 5.66% 5.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.69% 13.14% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 59 78
10th Percentile £356 £410 £382
25th Percentile £436 £461 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -14.29% +15.57%
75th Percentile £655 £645 £700
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £31.86 -

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 887 746 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.37% 43.12% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 488 633
10th Percentile £350 £392 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £656
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £31.88 - £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £132.00 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%

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 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

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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 28 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 15 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) Confluence
4 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.03%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.03%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.89%) Azure
2 23 (15.54%) AWS
3 21 (14.19%) Power Automate
4 20 (13.51%) GCP
5 19 (12.84%) PowerApps
6 15 (10.14%) Snowflake
7 14 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (6.76%) dbt
10 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (5.41%) GitHub
12 7 (4.73%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (4.05%) Prefect
13 6 (4.05%) Serverless
14 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) DHCP
1 2 (1.35%) DNS
1 2 (1.35%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (75.00%) Power BI
2 40 (27.03%) Tableau
3 23 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.76%) Looker
5 8 (5.41%) Metadata
6 7 (4.73%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.05%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.38%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.70%) Power Query
10 3 (2.03%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.03%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.03%) OLAP
10 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) JIRA
2 7 (4.73%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.68%) ERwin
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 58 (39.19%) Finance
2 41 (27.70%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (23.65%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.51%) Banking
5 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.08%) Front Office
7 7 (4.73%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.05%) Back Office
9 4 (2.70%) Legal
9 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.35%) Automotive
11 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (22.97%) Analyst
2 26 (17.57%) Developer
3 22 (14.86%) Data Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) Senior
5 14 (9.46%) Data Scientist
6 13 (8.78%) Data Analyst
7 11 (7.43%) Architect
7 11 (7.43%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.76%) Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (5.41%) Lead
11 7 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Power Platform Developer
13 4 (2.70%) Power Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.08%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.73%) PySpark
3 6 (4.05%) NumPy
3 6 (4.05%) Pandas
4 5 (3.38%) .NET
5 4 (2.70%) CSS
5 4 (2.70%) HTML
5 4 (2.70%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.70%) REST
5 4 (2.70%) Seaborn
5 4 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.03%) Kafka
7 2 (1.35%) JSON
7 2 (1.35%) LangChain
7 2 (1.35%) Playwright
7 2 (1.35%) SPFx
7 2 (1.35%) XML
7 2 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.73%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.73%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.38%) Clustering
3 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.70%) Equities
4 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
5 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.35%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Linux
1 2 (1.35%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.59%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (39.86%) Analytics
3 45 (30.41%) AI
4 41 (27.70%) Data Modelling
5 38 (25.68%) Visualisation
6 33 (22.30%) Data Engineering
7 31 (20.95%) ETL
8 30 (20.27%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (19.59%) Data Science
10 26 (17.57%) Agile
10 26 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (15.54%) Data Governance
11 23 (15.54%) Data Visualisation
11 23 (15.54%) Machine Learning
12 22 (14.86%) Decision-Making
13 21 (14.19%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (13.51%) DevOps
14 20 (13.51%) Generative AI
15 18 (12.16%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.24%) SQL
2 50 (33.78%) Python
3 10 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.05%) R
5 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.38%) Scala
6 4 (2.70%) C#
7 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.35%) Java
8 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.46%) Degree
3 12 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.70%) PMP
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.35%) CFA
7 2 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.35%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.68%) IIBA
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) QA
3 7 (4.73%) GDPR
4 5 (3.38%) PMO
5 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.35%) Basel III
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) GAAP
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Terraform
2 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.16%) Databricks
3 11 (7.43%) Google
4 7 (4.73%) Foundry
4 7 (4.73%) Informatica
5 6 (4.05%) Oracle
5 6 (4.05%) SAP
6 4 (2.70%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.70%) Workday
7 3 (2.03%) Cognos
7 3 (2.03%) IBM
7 3 (2.03%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.03%) Palantir
7 3 (2.03%) Planview
7 3 (2.03%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.03%) Sage
7 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.68%) Adobe