Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Power Platform
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 100 64 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.65% 5.28% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.58% 14.78% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 46 55
10th Percentile £344 £258 £330
25th Percentile £376 £334 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -12.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £509 £488 £538
90th Percentile £605 £522 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £16.88 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £22.06 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% - -
75th Percentile - £34.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.31% +36.29% -40.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,044 433 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.14% 35.76% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 293 366
10th Percentile £313 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £676 £624 £643
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile £72.43 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Yorkshire

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in Yorkshire

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
West Yorkshire -5 57 £458 +7.65% 27
South Yorkshire -34 32 £438 -1.69% 14
North Yorkshire -4 6 £450 +12.50% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 23 (23.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.00%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.00%) Maximo
3 1 (1.00%) SystmOne
3 1 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) Azure
2 35 (35.00%) PowerApps
3 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 20 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 19 (19.00%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (15.00%) AWS
8 14 (14.00%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (12.00%) Entra ID
10 11 (11.00%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (9.00%) Azure AI
11 9 (9.00%) GCP
11 9 (9.00%) GitHub
12 8 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (8.00%) Serverless
13 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
14 5 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (5.00%) OneDrive
15 4 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) LAN
1 3 (3.00%) PSTN
1 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (3.00%) WAN
1 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (62.00%) Power BI
2 14 (14.00%) Tableau
3 13 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.00%) Power Query
6 3 (3.00%) Big Data
6 3 (3.00%) Metadata
6 3 (3.00%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.00%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.00%) Looker
8 1 (1.00%) Parquet
8 1 (1.00%) QlikView
8 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 4 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.00%) Finance
3 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.00%) Law
6 6 (6.00%) Social Science
7 5 (5.00%) Banking
7 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.00%) Legal
8 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.00%) Retail
10 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Digital Health
11 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.00%) Local Government
11 1 (1.00%) Military
11 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.00%) Police
11 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Analyst
2 22 (22.00%) Developer
3 12 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (8.00%) Architect
4 8 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Power Platform Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Report Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Senior
8 4 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Lead
8 4 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.00%) Administrator
9 3 (3.00%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.00%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) REST
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (5.00%) PySpark
2 5 (5.00%) YAML
3 4 (4.00%) JSON
4 2 (2.00%) Pandas
4 2 (2.00%) React
4 2 (2.00%) SOAP
4 2 (2.00%) SPFx
4 2 (2.00%) XML
5 1 (1.00%) .NET
5 1 (1.00%) NumPy
5 1 (1.00%) Plotly
5 1 (1.00%) PyArrow
5 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 5 (5.00%) NHS
3 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.00%) Blog
4 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.00%) IoT
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (31.00%) DevOps
3 27 (27.00%) Agile
4 23 (23.00%) Decision-Making
4 23 (23.00%) Visualisation
5 22 (22.00%) AI
5 22 (22.00%) Data Modelling
5 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (21.00%) Actionable Insight
6 21 (21.00%) Analytics
7 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.00%) Validation
10 12 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (12.00%) Data Analysis
11 11 (11.00%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (11.00%) ETL
12 10 (10.00%) Data Engineering
13 9 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (9.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.00%) SQL
2 28 (28.00%) Python
3 11 (11.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.00%) C#
4 8 (8.00%) R
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.00%) Java
6 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.00%) VBA
8 1 (1.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) CAPM
4 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (3.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) PMO
3 3 (3.00%) QA
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.00%) GRC
4 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Terraform
2 8 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.00%) Databricks
2 9 (9.00%) Foundry
3 8 (8.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) Splunk
5 4 (4.00%) Brio
6 3 (3.00%) Adobe
6 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Siemens