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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 52 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -15 +31
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 133 80 71
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.59% 4.77% 4.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.83% 12.21% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 50 51
10th Percentile £363 £293 £330
25th Percentile £400 £313 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £501
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.08% +0.10%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £567
90th Percentile £594 £538 £588
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £17.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -23.57%

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 1,037 655 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.77% 39.03% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 433 362
10th Percentile £316 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £573
90th Percentile £675 £635 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £43.63 £15.58
25th Percentile £14.41 £69.69 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £113.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -83.30% +441.67% -6.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 £157.19 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £182.88 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +10 76 £425 -2.86% 23
South Yorkshire -33 32 £400 +5.96% 5
North Yorkshire - 14 £460 - 4
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 18 (13.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.76%) AutoCAD
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.76%) Navisworks
2 5 (3.76%) ProjectWise
2 5 (3.76%) Revit
2 5 (3.76%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 3 (2.26%) Maximo
2 3 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.62%) Azure
2 27 (20.30%) PowerApps
3 25 (18.80%) Microsoft Copilot
4 20 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (15.04%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (11.28%) Copilot Studio
6 15 (11.28%) Power Automate
7 13 (9.77%) AWS
8 12 (9.02%) GitHub
9 11 (8.27%) Azure AI
9 11 (8.27%) GCP
10 10 (7.52%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (5.26%) Serverless
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (68.42%) Power BI
2 14 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.27%) Tableau
4 6 (4.51%) Metadata
4 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.01%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (3.01%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.26%) Power Query
6 3 (2.26%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.26%) ZAP BI
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.50%) Big Data
7 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.50%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) JIRA
2 3 (2.26%) Applitools
2 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.26%) JMeter
2 3 (2.26%) Newman
2 3 (2.26%) Postman
2 3 (2.26%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.50%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (30.83%) Finance
3 29 (21.80%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.52%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.77%) Banking
7 6 (4.51%) Law
8 4 (3.01%) Retail
8 4 (3.01%) Social Science
9 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Publishing
11 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.05%) Analyst
2 23 (17.29%) Data Engineer
3 20 (15.04%) Developer
4 13 (9.77%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.77%) Architect
5 9 (6.77%) Consultant
6 8 (6.02%) Lead
6 8 (6.02%) Senior
7 7 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Report Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.01%) Administrator
10 4 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.01%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.52%) REST
2 8 (6.02%) Terraform
3 5 (3.76%) YAML
4 4 (3.01%) pytest
5 3 (2.26%) Playwright
5 3 (2.26%) PySpark
6 2 (1.50%) .NET
6 2 (1.50%) JSON
6 2 (1.50%) Kafka
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.50%) React
6 2 (1.50%) SPFx
7 1 (0.75%) Pandas
7 1 (0.75%) SOAP
7 1 (0.75%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.02%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.01%) NHS
6 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.26%) Blog
8 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (66.92%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (33.08%) Analytics
3 41 (30.83%) Data Modelling
4 39 (29.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (24.81%) AI
6 31 (23.31%) Agile
6 31 (23.31%) DevOps
7 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
7 29 (21.80%) Decision-Making
8 28 (21.05%) Validation
9 27 (20.30%) Data Engineering
10 22 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (16.54%) Migration
11 20 (15.04%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.29%) Visualisation
13 17 (12.78%) ETL
13 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.08%) SQL
2 28 (21.05%) Python
3 10 (7.52%) C#
4 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.02%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.51%) R
6 4 (3.01%) Java
7 2 (1.50%) VBA
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) Degree
4 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.50%) PMP
6 1 (0.75%) CAPM
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.51%) PMO
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 5 (3.76%) ISO 19650
3 5 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (2.26%) GxP
4 3 (2.26%) QA
5 2 (1.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.76%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.50%) Control-M
3 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (48.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) Databricks
3 10 (7.52%) Foundry
4 7 (5.26%) Google
5 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.76%) Autodesk
6 5 (3.76%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.01%) OutSystems
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
8 2 (1.50%) BMC
8 2 (1.50%) Palantir
8 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.75%) Siemens