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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 147 132 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.45% 7.40% 4.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.84% 18.16% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 78 68
10th Percentile £385 £359 £396
25th Percentile £446 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +15.27%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £691
90th Percentile £738 £785 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.65% - -

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 928 727 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.72% 40.75% 40.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 493 567
10th Percentile £368 £334 £383
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 19 (12.93%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.40%) Confluence
4 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (16.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.04%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.36%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.68%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.42%) Azure
2 30 (20.41%) Power Automate
3 25 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (17.01%) PowerApps
4 21 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (12.93%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (10.20%) AWS
7 14 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 12 (8.16%) Serverless
9 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (6.12%) GitHub
10 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.44%) Azure Functions
11 8 (5.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (5.44%) SaaS
12 6 (4.08%) Azure AI
12 6 (4.08%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (4.08%) Azure Stack
12 6 (4.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) DNS
1 3 (2.04%) Firewall
1 3 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (76.19%) Power BI
2 24 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.61%) SQL Server
4 17 (11.56%) Tableau
5 11 (7.48%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.48%) Metadata
6 10 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.80%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
8 8 (5.44%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.08%) Power Query
10 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.40%) Looker
10 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.04%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) JIRA
2 9 (6.12%) Git
3 7 (4.76%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.68%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (37.41%) Finance
2 42 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.29%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.12%) Marketing
7 8 (5.44%) Retail
8 6 (4.08%) Legal
9 5 (3.40%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.04%) Back Office
11 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.04%) Law
11 3 (2.04%) Military
12 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.36%) Front Office
12 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.68%) Aviation
13 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.45%) Analyst
2 26 (17.69%) Developer
3 21 (14.29%) Architect
4 19 (12.93%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.88%) Consultant
6 15 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Senior
8 9 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Lead
12 5 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Power BI Analyst
14 3 (2.04%) Functional Consultant
14 3 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.93%) .NET
2 14 (9.52%) PySpark
3 9 (6.12%) REST
4 7 (4.76%) Kafka
4 7 (4.76%) Terraform
5 6 (4.08%) HTML
6 5 (3.40%) .NET Framework
6 5 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (3.40%) CSS
7 4 (2.72%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (2.72%) JSON
7 4 (2.72%) RESTful
8 2 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.36%) Middleware
8 2 (1.36%) React
8 2 (1.36%) Redux
8 2 (1.36%) WCF
8 2 (1.36%) XML
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) AI Agents
2 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.08%) Clustering
3 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.08%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) CMDB
5 3 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.36%) Derivative
6 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.36%) FMCG
6 2 (1.36%) PMI
6 2 (1.36%) Replication
6 2 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Windows
2 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (68.71%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (37.41%) Analytics
3 46 (31.29%) Data Modelling
4 40 (27.21%) DevOps
5 37 (25.17%) Agile
5 37 (25.17%) AI
6 35 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 31 (21.09%) Data Governance
8 30 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (17.01%) Data Engineering
11 24 (16.33%) ETL
12 23 (15.65%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (15.65%) Migration
13 22 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (13.61%) Decision-Making
15 15 (10.20%) Data Architecture
16 13 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (8.84%) Translating Business Requirements
16 13 (8.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (44.22%) SQL
2 31 (21.09%) Python
3 21 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (11.56%) C#
5 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.36%) Bicep
9 2 (1.36%) Java
9 2 (1.36%) R
9 2 (1.36%) VBA
9 2 (1.36%) XMLA
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) Korn
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.52%) DBS Check
4 9 (6.12%) Degree
5 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.04%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.80%) QA
3 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.40%) PMO
5 4 (2.72%) GDPR
6 2 (1.36%) P3O
7 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Grafana
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.04%) SCCM
2 3 (2.04%) SCOM
3 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (45.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.01%) Databricks
3 6 (4.08%) Informatica
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
3 6 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.40%) Oracle
5 4 (2.72%) VMware
5 4 (2.72%) Workday
6 3 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.04%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.04%) BMC
6 3 (2.04%) Commvault
6 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.04%) Foundry
6 3 (2.04%) Google
6 3 (2.04%) Remedy
6 3 (2.04%) Splunk
7 2 (1.36%) Adobe
7 2 (1.36%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.36%) Nexthink