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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 132 77 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.62% 5.06% 3.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.66% 14.00% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 43
10th Percentile £350 £276 £273
25th Percentile £400 £322 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -18.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £488 £478 £554
90th Percentile £599 £500 £590
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £17.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -
75th Percentile - £34.46 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.30
% change year-on-year -5.31% +4.44% -9.72%

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 1,043 550 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.48% 36.16% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 384 343
10th Percentile £306 £263 £283
25th Percentile £407 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £600 £655
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £51.88 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -2 75 £425 - 30
South Yorkshire -16 37 £425 +19.72% 19
North Yorkshire +2 11 £460 +15.00% 12
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 20 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.30%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.27%) AutoCAD
4 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.27%) Navisworks
4 3 (2.27%) ProjectWise
4 3 (2.27%) Revit
5 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (2.27%) Maximo
2 1 (0.76%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.48%) Azure
2 35 (26.52%) PowerApps
3 23 (17.42%) Microsoft Copilot
4 19 (14.39%) AWS
5 18 (13.64%) Power Automate
6 17 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (11.36%) Copilot Studio
9 14 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (9.09%) Azure AI
11 10 (7.58%) Entra ID
11 10 (7.58%) GCP
12 9 (6.82%) GitHub
13 8 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (4.55%) Serverless
15 5 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (3.79%) OneDrive
16 4 (3.03%) Azure Functions
16 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) LAN
1 2 (1.52%) PSTN
1 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.52%) WAN
1 2 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (66.67%) Power BI
2 17 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (12.88%) Tableau
3 7 (5.30%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.30%) Metadata
4 6 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (3.03%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.27%) Big Data
7 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.27%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.52%) Looker
8 2 (1.52%) Power Query
9 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.03%) Finance
3 28 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.82%) Banking
6 8 (6.06%) Law
6 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.55%) Social Science
8 4 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Military
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.76%) Police
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.48%) Analyst
2 24 (18.18%) Developer
3 17 (12.88%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 8 (6.06%) Architect
5 8 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 8 (6.06%) Senior
6 7 (5.30%) Lead
6 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
7 6 (4.55%) Report Analyst
7 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.79%) Consultant
8 5 (3.79%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (3.03%) Designer
9 4 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) REST
1 9 (6.82%) Terraform
2 5 (3.79%) YAML
3 4 (3.03%) JSON
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (3.03%) PySpark
4 2 (1.52%) Pandas
4 2 (1.52%) React
4 2 (1.52%) SOAP
4 2 (1.52%) SPFx
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
5 1 (0.76%) NumPy
5 1 (0.76%) Plotly
5 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.79%) NHS
6 4 (3.03%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.27%) Blog
7 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.52%) IoT
8 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (65.15%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (29.55%) Analytics
2 39 (29.55%) Data Modelling
3 33 (25.00%) Agile
4 32 (24.24%) DevOps
5 31 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (22.73%) AI
6 30 (22.73%) Decision-Making
7 28 (21.21%) CI/CD
8 26 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (18.18%) Visualisation
10 23 (17.42%) Validation
11 22 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
12 21 (15.91%) Data Engineering
12 21 (15.91%) Migration
13 20 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (15.15%) ETL
14 18 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (12.12%) Dashboard Development
15 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.33%) SQL
2 30 (22.73%) Python
3 9 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.06%) R
5 7 (5.30%) C#
6 5 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.03%) Java
8 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.52%) VBA
10 1 (0.76%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.79%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CAPM
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.97%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 5 (3.79%) GDPR
3 5 (3.79%) PMO
4 4 (3.03%) QA
5 3 (2.27%) GxP
5 3 (2.27%) ISO 19650
6 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) GRC
7 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Jamf Pro
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.36%) Databricks
3 12 (9.09%) Foundry
4 10 (7.58%) Google
5 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.79%) Splunk
6 3 (2.27%) Adobe
6 3 (2.27%) Autodesk
6 3 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.52%) Brio
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.52%) SAP
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.76%) Siemens