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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 113 69 71
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.00% 5.18% 4.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.50% 14.47% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 49 56
10th Percentile £350 £259 £319
25th Percentile £400 £325 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £538
90th Percentile £600 £529 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £17.05 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £26.38 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% - -
75th Percentile - £34.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -5.31% +29.51% -36.95%

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 1,076 477 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.08% 35.81% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 327 371
10th Percentile £313 £262 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £575
90th Percentile £688 £618 £638
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.48
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -33.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -33.33%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -7 66 £445 +4.71% 33
South Yorkshire -38 30 £431 -2.05% 17
North Yorkshire 0 10 £455 +13.75% 9
East Yorkshire - 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 22 (19.47%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.31%) Confluence
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.88%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.54%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.77%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.65%) Maximo
3 1 (0.88%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.44%) Azure
2 40 (35.40%) PowerApps
3 25 (22.12%) Microsoft Copilot
4 21 (18.58%) Power Automate
5 19 (16.81%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.16%) AWS
8 15 (13.27%) Copilot Studio
8 15 (13.27%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (11.50%) Azure AI
10 12 (10.62%) Entra ID
11 10 (8.85%) GCP
12 9 (7.96%) GitHub
13 8 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (7.08%) Serverless
14 6 (5.31%) Azure Functions
15 5 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (4.42%) OneDrive
16 4 (3.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) LAN
1 3 (2.65%) PSTN
1 3 (2.65%) Unified Communications
1 3 (2.65%) WAN
1 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (61.06%) Power BI
2 15 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (13.27%) Tableau
3 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.42%) Metadata
6 3 (2.65%) Big Data
6 3 (2.65%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.77%) Looker
7 2 (1.77%) Power Query
7 2 (1.77%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.88%) Parquet
8 1 (0.88%) QlikView
8 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) JIRA
2 4 (3.54%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.55%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.08%) Law
6 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.31%) Social Science
7 5 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Legal
8 3 (2.65%) Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.88%) Police
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (29.20%) Analyst
2 26 (23.01%) Developer
3 12 (10.62%) Data Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Architect
7 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Performance Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Report Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Senior
8 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Designer
10 4 (3.54%) SQL Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) REST
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (4.42%) PySpark
2 5 (4.42%) YAML
3 4 (3.54%) JSON
4 2 (1.77%) Pandas
4 2 (1.77%) React
4 2 (1.77%) SOAP
4 2 (1.77%) SPFx
4 2 (1.77%) XML
5 1 (0.88%) .NET
5 1 (0.88%) NumPy
5 1 (0.88%) Plotly
5 1 (0.88%) PyArrow
5 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.19%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.42%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.42%) NHS
5 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Blog
6 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.29%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (29.20%) DevOps
3 29 (25.66%) Agile
4 27 (23.89%) Data Modelling
5 26 (23.01%) AI
5 26 (23.01%) Analytics
5 26 (23.01%) CI/CD
6 24 (21.24%) Decision-Making
6 24 (21.24%) Visualisation
7 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (18.58%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (14.16%) ETL
10 16 (14.16%) Validation
11 15 (13.27%) Migration
12 14 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (11.50%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (11.50%) Data Engineering
13 13 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (11.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.63%) SQL
2 26 (23.01%) Python
3 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.08%) C#
4 8 (7.08%) R
5 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.65%) Java
7 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CAPM
6 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) QA
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) GxP
5 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) Terraform
2 8 (7.08%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (50.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) Databricks
2 13 (11.50%) Foundry
3 9 (7.96%) Google
4 5 (4.42%) Splunk
5 4 (3.54%) Brio
6 3 (2.65%) Adobe
6 3 (2.65%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.77%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.88%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.88%) Siemens