Power Platform Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Power Platform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 35 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 898 777 785
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.29% 5.16% 4.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.28% 12.54% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 539 578
10th Percentile £344 £328 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 11
10th Percentile - £24.60 £16.63
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.75 £19.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.59 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +16.58% -25.03%
75th Percentile £36.00 £60.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £54.15 £72.30 £53.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -20.20%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,290 6,197 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.03% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,300 4,194 5,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in London

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Central London +7 142 £515 -10.39% 41
West London -8 22 £575 +21.05% 20
South London -15 5 £475 - 15
East London +5 3 £473 +1.61% 9
North London - 3 £505 - 1
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 108 (12.03%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.23%) Confluence
4 18 (2.00%) HCL Notes
5 15 (1.67%) Apache
5 15 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.56%) Mendix
8 4 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Kentico
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 143 (15.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.45%) Notion
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.45%) Trello
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.22%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 72 (8.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.33%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.22%) Actimize
6 2 (0.22%) Endur
6 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.11%) iTrent
7 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 384 (42.76%) Azure
2 209 (23.27%) Power Automate
3 199 (22.16%) PowerApps
4 135 (15.03%) Dynamics 365
5 113 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (10.91%) AWS
8 65 (7.24%) Snowflake
9 62 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 57 (6.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 51 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 51 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 47 (5.23%) GitHub
13 46 (5.12%) GCP
14 44 (4.90%) Serverless
15 39 (4.34%) Entra ID
16 37 (4.12%) Azure Functions
17 35 (3.90%) Copilot Studio
18 31 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
19 29 (3.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.00%) HTTP
2 3 (0.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) DHCP
3 1 (0.11%) DKIM
3 1 (0.11%) DMARC
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) LAN
3 1 (0.11%) NAS
3 1 (0.11%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) PSTN
3 1 (0.11%) SAN
3 1 (0.11%) Skype
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.11%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.11%) WAN
3 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (76.73%) Power BI
2 128 (14.25%) Tableau
3 78 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 57 (6.35%) SQL Server
6 51 (5.68%) Power Query
7 40 (4.45%) Metadata
8 31 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 25 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 18 (2.00%) Looker
15 14 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.45%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.34%) Spark SQL
17 12 (1.34%) Star Schema
18 11 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (6.90%) JIRA
2 41 (4.57%) Git
3 9 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.78%) GitLab
4 7 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.45%) Selenium
6 3 (0.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.33%) ERwin
6 3 (0.33%) JMeter
6 3 (0.33%) MSTest
7 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.22%) Postman
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.11%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 320 (35.63%) Finance
2 297 (33.07%) Social Skills
3 179 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 90 (10.02%) Banking
6 46 (5.12%) Marketing
7 25 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 25 (2.78%) Retail
8 24 (2.67%) Front Office
9 23 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.56%) Legal
10 21 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (1.78%) Local Government
12 15 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.34%) Publishing
15 10 (1.11%) Back Office
16 9 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 196 (21.83%) Analyst
2 195 (21.71%) Developer
3 87 (9.69%) Senior
4 86 (9.58%) Data Engineer
5 80 (8.91%) Architect
6 76 (8.46%) Data Analyst
7 75 (8.35%) Business Analyst
8 73 (8.13%) Lead
9 63 (7.02%) Consultant
10 50 (5.57%) Power Platform Developer
11 37 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 32 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
13 29 (3.23%) Data Architect
14 28 (3.12%) Project Manager
15 27 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
16 25 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 24 (2.67%) Data Scientist
18 23 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
19 20 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
20 19 (2.12%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (6.90%) .NET
2 42 (4.68%) PySpark
3 31 (3.45%) REST
4 27 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
5 22 (2.45%) Kafka
6 21 (2.34%) JSON
7 19 (2.12%) HTML
8 17 (1.89%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (1.78%) Pandas
10 13 (1.45%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.45%) XML
11 12 (1.34%) NumPy
11 12 (1.34%) OAuth
12 11 (1.22%) LangChain
12 11 (1.22%) React
13 9 (1.00%) CSS
14 8 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (0.89%) Plotly
14 8 (0.89%) Web Services
15 7 (0.78%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.01%) Low-Code
2 33 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (3.01%) Data Structures
4 25 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 22 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.67%) Derivative
9 14 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.56%) Reinsurance
10 13 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.00%) PMI
14 8 (0.89%) Equities
14 8 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.67%) Windows
2 6 (0.67%) Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (71.83%) Business Intelligence
2 248 (27.62%) Analytics
3 231 (25.72%) Agile
4 230 (25.61%) Data Modelling
5 202 (22.49%) Visualisation
6 171 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (18.49%) DevOps
8 151 (16.82%) Data Governance
9 142 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 141 (15.70%) Decision-Making
11 130 (14.48%) AI
12 125 (13.92%) ETL
13 114 (12.69%) Data Visualisation
14 111 (12.36%) CI/CD
15 108 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 105 (11.69%) Data Analysis
17 104 (11.58%) Migration
18 98 (10.91%) Data Engineering
19 95 (10.58%) CRM
20 88 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 361 (40.20%) SQL
2 226 (25.17%) Python
3 94 (10.47%) C#
4 69 (7.68%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.23%) R
8 22 (2.45%) Java
9 17 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.78%) VBA
11 13 (1.45%) Scala
12 12 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 9 (1.00%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.78%) Bicep
14 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.56%) Bash
15 5 (0.56%) Korn
15 5 (0.56%) X++
16 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 152 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.68%) Degree
4 28 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.11%) PMP
10 9 (1.00%) CFA
10 9 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.78%) CBAP
12 6 (0.67%) ACCA
12 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.56%) CIMA
13 5 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.45%) IIBA
14 4 (0.45%) MCP
15 3 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (15.37%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.68%) GDPR
3 37 (4.12%) QA
4 36 (4.01%) PMO
5 27 (3.01%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.67%) GRC
9 5 (0.56%) IFRS
9 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.56%) NIST
10 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.45%) P3O
10 4 (0.45%) WCAG
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) Basel III
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.22%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.78%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (3.90%) Terraform
2 22 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.45%) SCCM
5 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCOM
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 388 (43.21%) Microsoft
2 96 (10.69%) Databricks
3 47 (5.23%) Oracle
4 41 (4.57%) SAP
5 34 (3.79%) Google
6 27 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.00%) Lotus
9 14 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.45%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.45%) Foundry
11 11 (1.22%) Planview
12 10 (1.11%) Adobe
13 9 (1.00%) Informatica
14 8 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.67%) Cognos
15 6 (0.67%) DocuSign
15 6 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
16 5 (0.56%) Dataiku
16 5 (0.56%) Intapp