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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 33 34
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 154 101 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.88% 5.70% 5.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.21% 13.29% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 60 73
10th Percentile £354 £412 £371
25th Percentile £436 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £641 £643 £700
90th Percentile £749 £781 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.66% -3.71% +9.52%
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 895 760 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.99% 42.89% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 489 606
10th Percentile £350 £379 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +0.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -0.09% +2.32% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%

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

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 18 (11.69%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.60%) Confluence
4 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.95%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (42.21%) Azure
2 26 (16.88%) Power Automate
3 21 (13.64%) AWS
4 20 (12.99%) PowerApps
5 18 (11.69%) GCP
6 17 (11.04%) Snowflake
7 15 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.14%) dbt
8 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (6.49%) GitHub
10 8 (5.19%) Azure AI
10 8 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.19%) Prefect
11 7 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.90%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (3.90%) Dagster
13 5 (3.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) DHCP
1 2 (1.30%) DNS
1 2 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.65%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (74.03%) Power BI
2 38 (24.68%) Tableau
3 23 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.14%) Looker
5 9 (5.84%) Metadata
6 8 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.25%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.60%) Power Query
11 3 (1.95%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.95%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.95%) OLAP
11 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Git
2 6 (3.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.65%) ERwin
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 62 (40.26%) Finance
2 37 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.34%) Banking
5 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.19%) Back Office
6 8 (5.19%) Front Office
7 7 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.90%) Legal
9 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.30%) Automotive
11 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.65%) Law
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (21.43%) Analyst
2 28 (18.18%) Developer
3 22 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 19 (12.34%) Senior
5 14 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 14 (9.09%) Data Scientist
6 10 (6.49%) Architect
6 10 (6.49%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.49%) Consultant
7 9 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Lead
9 6 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.25%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.25%) Power Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.60%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.84%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.55%) PySpark
3 6 (3.90%) .NET
3 6 (3.90%) NumPy
3 6 (3.90%) Pandas
4 4 (2.60%) CSS
4 4 (2.60%) HTML
4 4 (2.60%) JSON
4 4 (2.60%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.60%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.60%) REST
4 4 (2.60%) Seaborn
4 4 (2.60%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.95%) Kafka
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.30%) LangChain
6 2 (1.30%) Playwright
6 2 (1.30%) XML
6 2 (1.30%) YAML
7 1 (0.65%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.55%) AI Agents
1 7 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.25%) Clustering
3 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.60%) Equities
4 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.95%) Derivative
5 3 (1.95%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.30%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.30%) PMI
6 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) Linux
1 2 (1.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Android
2 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (67.53%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (39.61%) Analytics
3 46 (29.87%) AI
4 42 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 35 (22.73%) Data Engineering
5 35 (22.73%) Visualisation
6 33 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 33 (21.43%) ETL
7 30 (19.48%) Data Science
8 27 (17.53%) Agile
9 24 (15.58%) Decision-Making
9 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (14.94%) Data Governance
11 22 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
12 21 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (13.64%) Machine Learning
13 20 (12.99%) DevOps
14 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (11.04%) Data Analysis
15 17 (11.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.26%) SQL
2 52 (33.77%) Python
3 10 (6.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.90%) R
6 5 (3.25%) Scala
7 4 (2.60%) C#
7 4 (2.60%) Java
8 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
10 1 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.44%) Degree
3 10 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.95%) PMP
7 2 (1.30%) CFA
7 2 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.30%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) IIBA
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) MBA
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.14%) QA
3 9 (5.84%) GDPR
4 6 (3.90%) PMO
5 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.30%) Basel III
6 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) GAAP
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.95%) Docker
3 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.90%) Terraform
2 3 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (37.01%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.34%) Databricks
3 10 (6.49%) Google
4 8 (5.19%) Oracle
5 7 (4.55%) Foundry
5 7 (4.55%) Informatica
6 6 (3.90%) SAP
6 6 (3.90%) Workday
7 4 (2.60%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.95%) Cognos
8 3 (1.95%) IBM
8 3 (1.95%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.95%) Palantir
8 3 (1.95%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.95%) Sage
9 2 (1.30%) Planview
9 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.65%) Adobe
10 1 (0.65%) Yardi