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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 150 105 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.51% 6.05% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.78% 13.96% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 64 68
10th Percentile £350 £408 £396
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £700
90th Percentile £743 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.35% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
% change year-on-year -38.79% - -

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 894 752 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.79% 43.32% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 477 601
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £451 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -72.73%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 17 (11.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.00%) Azure
2 25 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 19 (12.67%) AWS
3 19 (12.67%) PowerApps
4 17 (11.33%) Snowflake
5 16 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (9.33%) GCP
7 12 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.00%) GitHub
8 9 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (6.00%) dbt
9 8 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (4.67%) Prefect
11 6 (4.00%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.00%) SaaS
12 5 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (3.33%) Dagster
12 5 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
1 3 (2.00%) VPN
2 2 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (75.33%) Power BI
2 32 (21.33%) Tableau
3 24 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.00%) Looker
5 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.33%) Metadata
7 7 (4.67%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.67%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (2.67%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.33%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Git
2 7 (4.67%) JIRA
3 3 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) ERwin
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (41.33%) Finance
2 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Banking
5 7 (4.67%) Back Office
5 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Front Office
7 5 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.33%) Legal
8 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Retail
10 2 (1.33%) Automotive
10 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.67%) International Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (20.67%) Analyst
2 27 (18.00%) Developer
3 24 (16.00%) Data Engineer
4 16 (10.67%) Data Analyst
5 14 (9.33%) Architect
5 14 (9.33%) Senior
6 9 (6.00%) Consultant
7 7 (4.67%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (4.67%) Data Architect
7 7 (4.67%) Data Scientist
8 6 (4.00%) Lead
8 6 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Power Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.67%) PySpark
2 9 (6.00%) .NET
3 6 (4.00%) Kafka
3 6 (4.00%) REST
4 4 (2.67%) CSS
4 4 (2.67%) HTML
4 4 (2.67%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.00%) JSON
5 3 (2.00%) NumPy
5 3 (2.00%) Pandas
5 3 (2.00%) React
5 3 (2.00%) RESTful
6 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.33%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.33%) Redux
6 2 (1.33%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.33%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
2 6 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.67%) Clustering
4 4 (2.67%) Equities
4 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.00%) Derivative
5 3 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (68.67%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (40.67%) Analytics
3 46 (30.67%) Data Modelling
4 39 (26.00%) AI
5 33 (22.00%) Data Engineering
6 29 (19.33%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (19.33%) ETL
7 28 (18.67%) DevOps
8 25 (16.67%) Agile
9 24 (16.00%) Visualisation
10 23 (15.33%) CI/CD
11 22 (14.67%) Data Governance
11 22 (14.67%) Decision-Making
12 21 (14.00%) Data Science
12 21 (14.00%) Migration
13 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.67%) Validation
16 15 (10.00%) Data Analysis
16 15 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.00%) SQL
2 47 (31.33%) Python
3 12 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.00%) C#
6 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.33%) R
7 4 (2.67%) Java
7 4 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.33%) Bicep
9 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) Bash
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
10 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) Degree
4 7 (4.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.00%) PMP
7 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.33%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CFA
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) MBA
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.00%) QA
3 8 (5.33%) GDPR
4 7 (4.67%) PMO
5 5 (3.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.33%) Basel III
6 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) GAAP
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS
7 1 (0.67%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.67%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.67%) Terraform
2 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.67%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.33%) Databricks
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 6 (4.00%) Foundry
5 6 (4.00%) Informatica
5 6 (4.00%) Workday
6 5 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.00%) Palantir
7 3 (2.00%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.33%) Cognos
8 2 (1.33%) IBM
8 2 (1.33%) Planview
8 2 (1.33%) Sage
8 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.67%) Adobe
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Yardi