Power Platform Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Power Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 44 59
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 132 94 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.06% 4.56% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.05% 11.20% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 80
10th Percentile £363 £388 £325
25th Percentile £423 £487 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -1.64%
75th Percentile £654 £681 £651
90th Percentile £781 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £501
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.89% -7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.60 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £35.34 - -
90th Percentile £35.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.54 - £38.00

All Cloud 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 774 839 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.37% 40.71% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 584 901
10th Percentile £356 £383 £325
25th Percentile £445 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £754 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile £23.93 - £15.85
25th Percentile £24.66 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -28.95% -0.65%
75th Percentile £65.57 £59.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £97.75 £79.40 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% -28.95% +11.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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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 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.30%) Confluence
3 5 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 60 (45.45%) Azure
2 25 (18.94%) Power Automate
2 25 (18.94%) PowerApps
3 20 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.88%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (7.58%) SaaS
7 10 (7.58%) Snowflake
8 8 (6.06%) AWS
9 7 (5.30%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.30%) GCP
10 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.79%) GitHub
12 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.03%) ShareGate
13 3 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) SSH
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (81.82%) Power BI
2 20 (15.15%) Tableau
3 16 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (10.61%) Data Lake
5 13 (9.85%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (6.06%) Data Mining
6 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (5.30%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.55%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.55%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (4.55%) Power Query
9 4 (3.03%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.27%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.27%) Looker
10 3 (2.27%) Parquet
10 3 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) JIRA
2 6 (4.55%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) NUnit
3 2 (1.52%) Postman
3 2 (1.52%) RStudio
3 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 49 (37.12%) Finance
3 29 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.42%) Banking
5 12 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (5.30%) Marketing
9 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.55%) Police
9 6 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.79%) Back Office
11 4 (3.03%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.27%) Law
12 3 (2.27%) Retail
13 2 (1.52%) Front Office
13 2 (1.52%) Legal
13 2 (1.52%) Military
13 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (24.24%) Analyst
2 25 (18.94%) Developer
3 18 (13.64%) Senior
4 16 (12.12%) Lead
5 15 (11.36%) Data Analyst
6 14 (10.61%) Business Analyst
7 12 (9.09%) Consultant
7 12 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Architect
9 8 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (5.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Risk Consultant
11 6 (4.55%) Analyst Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.03%) Data Scientist
13 4 (3.03%) Project Manager
14 3 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) .NET
2 6 (4.55%) HTML
2 6 (4.55%) PySpark
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (3.79%) Pandas
4 4 (3.03%) CSS
4 4 (3.03%) REST
4 4 (3.03%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.03%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.27%) ADO
5 3 (2.27%) JSON
6 2 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.52%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.52%) jQuery
6 2 (1.52%) LINQ
6 2 (1.52%) LINQ to SQL
6 2 (1.52%) Middleware
6 2 (1.52%) XML
6 2 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Market Risk
2 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.03%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.27%) Derivative
5 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.27%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.52%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.27%) Windows
2 2 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (70.45%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (39.39%) Agile
3 43 (32.58%) Analytics
4 37 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 30 (22.73%) Decision-Making
7 24 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 24 (18.18%) DevOps
8 21 (15.91%) Data Analysis
8 21 (15.91%) Data Governance
9 19 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (13.64%) Migration
10 18 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (12.88%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.12%) CRM
13 15 (11.36%) Scrum
14 13 (9.85%) ETL
15 12 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.03%) SQL
2 35 (26.52%) Python
3 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.55%) C#
7 5 (3.79%) R
8 4 (3.03%) Java
8 4 (3.03%) Scala
9 3 (2.27%) Bash
10 2 (1.52%) VBA
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.09%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.52%) ACCA
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.52%) PMP
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) CBAP
7 1 (0.76%) CFA
7 1 (0.76%) CIMA
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) CRISC
7 1 (0.76%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.33%) GDPR
3 8 (6.06%) Basel II
4 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.03%) PMO
5 4 (3.03%) QA
6 2 (1.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.52%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Istio
3 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.76%) SCCM
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Databricks
3 6 (4.55%) SAP
3 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.79%) Google
5 4 (3.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.27%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.52%) Adobe
7 2 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.52%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.52%) HP
7 2 (1.52%) Progress
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.52%) UiPath
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) Qualys
8 1 (0.76%) Tagetik