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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 41 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 84 52 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.27% 4.96% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.39% 13.83% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 41
10th Percentile £335 £291 £325
25th Percentile £383 £369 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £505 £488 £500
90th Percentile £600 £520 £554
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.96 -
England median hourly rate £28.13 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -3.23% +25.22% -48.45%

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 1,001 376 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.93% 35.84% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 264 330
10th Percentile £325 £257 £257
25th Percentile £413 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £623 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £70.85 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%

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 21 May 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
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 21 May 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 -1 52 £450 +5.88% 26
South Yorkshire -43 27 £438 -12.40% 16
North Yorkshire -5 3 £450 +12.50% 5
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 7
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 19 (22.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) SystmOne
2 1 (1.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) Azure
2 26 (30.95%) PowerApps
3 25 (29.76%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (19.05%) Power Automate
5 15 (17.86%) AWS
6 14 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.71%) Entra ID
9 9 (10.71%) GCP
10 8 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (9.52%) GitHub
11 7 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (7.14%) Serverless
13 5 (5.95%) Azure Functions
13 5 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (5.95%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (4.76%) Azure AI
14 4 (4.76%) OneDrive
14 4 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) LAN
1 3 (3.57%) PSTN
1 3 (3.57%) Unified Communications
1 3 (3.57%) WAN
1 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (65.48%) Power BI
2 14 (16.67%) Tableau
3 9 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.57%) Power Query
7 2 (2.38%) Big Data
7 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.38%) Metadata
7 2 (2.38%) PowerPivot
7 2 (2.38%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.19%) DB2
8 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.19%) Looker
8 1 (1.19%) Parquet
8 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.38%) Finance
3 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.33%) Banking
5 7 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.95%) Retail
7 4 (4.76%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.76%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Law
9 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Social Science
10 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.19%) Police
10 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (42.86%) Analyst
2 16 (19.05%) Developer
3 11 (13.10%) Business Analyst
4 10 (11.90%) Data Analyst
5 9 (10.71%) Senior
6 7 (8.33%) Architect
7 6 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Lead
10 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) PMO Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) JSON
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (4.76%) REST
1 4 (4.76%) YAML
2 3 (3.57%) PySpark
3 2 (2.38%) Pandas
3 2 (2.38%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) XML
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) NumPy
4 1 (1.19%) Plotly
4 1 (1.19%) PyArrow
4 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.19%) React
4 1 (1.19%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.19%) SPFx
4 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 4 (4.76%) NHS
3 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (36.90%) Agile
3 23 (27.38%) Decision-Making
4 22 (26.19%) DevOps
4 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 17 (20.24%) Visualisation
7 16 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (17.86%) AI
9 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 14 (16.67%) Migration
10 13 (15.48%) Analytics
10 13 (15.48%) Data Governance
10 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (13.10%) ETL
11 11 (13.10%) Validation
11 11 (13.10%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (10.71%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 9 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) SQL
2 22 (26.19%) Python
3 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.52%) R
5 5 (5.95%) C#
5 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.38%) VBA
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.19%) Java
8 1 (1.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.19%) CAPM
4 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.57%) PMO
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.19%) GRC
4 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (48.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Databricks
3 7 (8.33%) Google
4 5 (5.95%) Splunk
5 4 (4.76%) Brio
5 4 (4.76%) Foundry
6 3 (3.57%) Adobe
7 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle
7 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.19%) Informatica
8 1 (1.19%) SAP