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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 136 83 69
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.71% 5.38% 4.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.96% 14.36% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 54 51
10th Percentile £335 £296 £350
25th Percentile £390 £325 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -15.08% +0.10%
75th Percentile £480 £488 £567
90th Percentile £585 £522 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
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 £30.38 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -5.23% +5.79% -12.93%

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 1,049 578 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.30% 37.46% 35.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 390 365
10th Percentile £306 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 6
10th Percentile £13.45 - £16.88
25th Percentile £14.97 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £22.00
90th Percentile £38.38 - £25.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 80 £423 -6.11% 62
South Yorkshire -30 36 £413 +9.27% 25
North Yorkshire -1 9 £459 +14.69% 42
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 21 (15.44%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.62%) Confluence
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.41%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.94%) AutoCAD
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.94%) Navisworks
4 4 (2.94%) ProjectWise
4 4 (2.94%) Revit
5 2 (1.47%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 3 (2.21%) Maximo
3 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.74%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 63 (46.32%) Azure
2 33 (24.26%) PowerApps
3 24 (17.65%) Microsoft Copilot
4 19 (13.97%) AWS
5 18 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.50%) Power Automate
7 16 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (11.03%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (8.82%) Azure AI
10 11 (8.09%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.62%) GitHub
12 8 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.88%) Serverless
13 7 (5.15%) GCP
14 5 (3.68%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) LAN
1 2 (1.47%) PSTN
1 2 (1.47%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.47%) WAN
1 2 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (66.18%) Power BI
2 16 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (10.29%) Tableau
4 7 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (5.15%) Metadata
5 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (2.94%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.47%) Big Data
9 2 (1.47%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.47%) Power Query
9 2 (1.47%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.47%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.74%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) Git
2 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.68%) Finance
3 31 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.62%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.88%) Law
7 6 (4.41%) Social Science
8 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Retail
10 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Military
12 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.74%) Local Government
12 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.74%) Police
12 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (23.53%) Analyst
2 24 (17.65%) Developer
3 18 (13.24%) Data Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Data Analyst
5 8 (5.88%) Consultant
5 8 (5.88%) Senior
6 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Architect
7 6 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Report Analyst
8 5 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.68%) Lead
8 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (3.68%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) Terraform
2 8 (5.88%) REST
3 5 (3.68%) YAML
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.21%) JSON
5 3 (2.21%) PySpark
6 2 (1.47%) Kafka
6 2 (1.47%) React
6 2 (1.47%) SPFx
7 1 (0.74%) Pandas
7 1 (0.74%) SOAP
7 1 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.15%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.41%) NHS
5 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.21%) Blog
8 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.47%) IoT
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.74%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (64.71%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (32.35%) Analytics
3 39 (28.68%) Data Modelling
4 37 (27.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (24.26%) Agile
6 31 (22.79%) AI
7 30 (22.06%) Decision-Making
7 30 (22.06%) DevOps
8 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
9 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (17.65%) Validation
11 23 (16.91%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (16.91%) Data Engineering
12 22 (16.18%) Migration
12 22 (16.18%) Visualisation
13 19 (13.97%) ETL
14 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.35%) SQL
2 29 (21.32%) Python
3 10 (7.35%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.15%) R
5 6 (4.41%) C#
6 5 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.94%) Java
8 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.47%) VBA
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.68%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CAPM
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
3 6 (4.41%) PMO
4 4 (2.94%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.21%) GxP
6 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.47%) GRC
6 2 (1.47%) QA
7 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.15%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.47%) Control-M
5 1 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.03%) Databricks
3 13 (9.56%) Foundry
4 7 (5.15%) Google
5 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.68%) Splunk
7 4 (2.94%) Autodesk
7 4 (2.94%) SAP
8 3 (2.21%) Adobe
8 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.47%) BMC
9 2 (1.47%) Brio
9 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.74%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.74%) Palantir
10 1 (0.74%) Siemens