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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 62 45 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.79% 4.84% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.61% 12.93% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 44
10th Percentile £313 £242 £287
25th Percentile £369 £359 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £500
90th Percentile £538 £525 £555
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £32.81 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -59.24%

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 938 348 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.18% 37.46% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 247 336
10th Percentile £304 £263 £241
25th Percentile £404 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 7
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £13.40
25th Percentile £31.86 £27.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 £15.38
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £34.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.86% +27.68% -16.00%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -14 33 £478 +16.46% 46
South Yorkshire -46 24 £400 -14.89% 17
North Yorkshire -9 5 £450 +12.50% 8
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 15 (24.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
Applications
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.84%) Cloudability
3 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.61%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (22.58%) PowerApps
4 8 (12.90%) AWS
4 8 (12.90%) Power Automate
5 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (9.68%) GCP
7 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.84%) Collibra
9 3 (4.84%) OneDrive
9 3 (4.84%) SaaS
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.23%) PaaS
10 2 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.23%) LAN
2 2 (3.23%) PSTN
2 2 (3.23%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (83.87%) Power BI
2 8 (12.90%) Power Query
2 8 (12.90%) PowerPivot
3 7 (11.29%) Tableau
4 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) DataStage
6 2 (3.23%) DB2
6 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.23%) MS Access
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Big Data
7 1 (1.61%) Looker
7 1 (1.61%) Parquet
7 1 (1.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Postman
3 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (43.55%) Finance
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Banking
3 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) General Ledger
7 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Retail
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
8 2 (3.23%) Military
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (51.61%) Analyst
2 13 (20.97%) Business Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Developer
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Data Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Strategy Analyst
5 7 (11.29%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Lead
8 4 (6.45%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
10 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Architect
10 2 (3.23%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) REST
2 3 (4.84%) .NET
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.23%) Pandas
3 2 (3.23%) PySpark
3 2 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) NumPy
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.61%) Plotly
4 1 (1.61%) PyArrow
4 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.61%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) IoT
3 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (79.03%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (35.48%) Data Governance
3 18 (29.03%) Data Modelling
3 18 (29.03%) Decision-Making
4 17 (27.42%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) Analytics
4 17 (27.42%) Migration
4 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (25.81%) Data Analysis
6 12 (19.35%) Visualisation
6 12 (19.35%) Workshop Facilitation
7 11 (17.74%) Dashboard Development
8 10 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (16.13%) DevOps
9 9 (14.52%) Business Analysis
9 9 (14.52%) ETL
10 8 (12.90%) Data Extraction
10 8 (12.90%) Risk Analysis
10 8 (12.90%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) SQL
2 16 (25.81%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) VBA
4 5 (8.06%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.23%) Groovy
6 2 (3.23%) Java
7 1 (1.61%) R
7 1 (1.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) PMO
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) Google
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Brio
4 2 (3.23%) Informatica
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry