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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 41 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 80 62 49
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.50% 4.49% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.54% 12.47% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 39
10th Percentile £293 £340 £263
25th Percentile £313 £420 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +14.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £538
90th Percentile £538 £589 £603
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% -23.57% +12.14%

All Cloud 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 693 497 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.98% 36.01% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 334 453
10th Percentile £213 £300 £225
25th Percentile £359 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.50% -0.45%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -13 40 £425 -5.56% 51
South Yorkshire -15 40 £360 -31.43% 23
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 13 (16.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Pig
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 36 (45.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.50%) Maple
4 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 16 (20.00%) Azure
3 15 (18.75%) Power Automate
4 10 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (12.50%) GCP
5 7 (8.75%) AWS
6 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.75%) dbt
9 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.50%) Collibra
10 2 (2.50%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.25%) Contentsquare
11 1 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (1.25%) GitHub
11 1 (1.25%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (90.00%) Power BI
2 19 (23.75%) Tableau
3 17 (21.25%) Power Query
4 10 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (11.25%) Data Mining
6 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 7 (8.75%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.25%) Apache Hive
8 5 (6.25%) Hadoop
8 5 (6.25%) Looker
9 4 (5.00%) PowerPivot
9 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.50%) Metadata
11 2 (2.50%) QlikView
12 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (1.25%) DB2
12 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (31.25%) Finance
4 15 (18.75%) Banking
5 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Billing
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Local Government
9 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (46.25%) Analyst
2 25 (31.25%) Data Analyst
3 15 (18.75%) Developer
4 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Report Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Customer Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Customer Experience Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Strategy Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Engineering Specialist
9 2 (2.50%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) .NET
1 3 (3.75%) PySpark
2 2 (2.50%) CSS
2 2 (2.50%) HTML
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) EDI
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Swagger
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.50%) Low-Code
4 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (68.75%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 29 (36.25%) Analytics
3 29 (36.25%) Data Visualisation
4 26 (32.50%) Decision-Making
5 21 (26.25%) Data Modelling
5 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (22.50%) Data Analysis
7 17 (21.25%) Actionable Insight
8 16 (20.00%) Agile
8 16 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 12 (15.00%) Data Management
10 11 (13.75%) Budgeting
10 11 (13.75%) Data Analytics
10 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.50%) Cost Management
11 10 (12.50%) ITIL
11 10 (12.50%) Service Management
11 10 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
12 9 (11.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) SQL
2 27 (33.75%) Python
3 7 (8.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (8.75%) Java
3 7 (8.75%) VBA
4 5 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Groovy
5 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) PMO
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) COSHH
4 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Google
2 6 (7.50%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) Brio
4 2 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (1.25%) Cognos
5 1 (1.25%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.25%) IFS
5 1 (1.25%) Informatica
5 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow