Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Power Platform
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -47 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 22 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.04% 3.56% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.84% 12.04% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile £335 £135 -
25th Percentile £400 £166 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £474 £554
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -14.53% +10.80%
75th Percentile £500 £528 -
90th Percentile £531 £533 £574
South Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £441 £540
% change year-on-year -0.68% -18.26% +16.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 455 108 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.29% 29.59% 27.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 82 72
10th Percentile £368 £265 £250
25th Percentile £433 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Sheffield over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Sheffield

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (90.91%) Power BI
2 8 (36.36%) Tableau
3 4 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (13.64%) Spark SQL
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.09%) Big Data
5 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Power Query
5 2 (9.09%) PowerPivot
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Looker
6 1 (4.55%) Parquet
6 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 12 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Data Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Risk Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Strategy Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Looker Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) PySpark
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) JSON
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Blog
3 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 10 (45.45%) Validation
4 7 (31.82%) Analytical Thinking
4 7 (31.82%) Analytics
4 7 (31.82%) Data Collection
4 7 (31.82%) Mathematics
4 7 (31.82%) Statistical Analysis
5 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) Statistics
7 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) SQL
2 14 (63.64%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) R
4 2 (9.09%) VBA
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) PMO
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk