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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +36
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 140 83 69
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.81% 5.30% 4.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.40% 14.16% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 53 50
10th Percentile £355 £295 £346
25th Percentile £400 £313 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -16.04% +0.05%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £564
90th Percentile £575 £523 £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 £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%

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 1,045 586 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.90% 37.40% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 392 366
10th Percentile £306 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £610 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +809.09% +3.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £26.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 83 £431 -1.60% 84
South Yorkshire -32 35 £413 +16.20% 28
North Yorkshire +4 11 £459 +14.69% 44
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 20 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.71%) Confluence
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.29%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.57%) AutoCAD
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.57%) Navisworks
3 5 (3.57%) ProjectWise
3 5 (3.57%) Revit
4 2 (1.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 3 (2.14%) Maximo
3 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.29%) Azure
2 32 (22.86%) PowerApps
3 26 (18.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 19 (13.57%) AWS
4 19 (13.57%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.14%) Power Automate
7 16 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (10.71%) Copilot Studio
9 12 (8.57%) Azure AI
10 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
11 10 (7.14%) GitHub
12 8 (5.71%) GCP
12 8 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.71%) Serverless
13 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) LAN
1 1 (0.71%) PSTN
1 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.71%) WAN
1 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (66.43%) Power BI
2 14 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (9.29%) Tableau
4 7 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (5.00%) Metadata
5 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.86%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.43%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.43%) Power Query
8 2 (1.43%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.43%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.71%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.71%) Applitools
3 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.71%) JMeter
3 1 (0.71%) Newman
3 1 (0.71%) Postman
3 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.57%) Finance
3 32 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.43%) Banking
7 8 (5.71%) Law
8 6 (4.29%) Social Science
9 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.86%) Retail
11 3 (2.14%) Legal
11 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Military
13 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.71%) Local Government
13 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.71%) Police
13 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Analyst
2 24 (17.14%) Developer
3 23 (16.43%) Data Engineer
4 14 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.43%) Consultant
6 7 (5.00%) Architect
6 7 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 7 (5.00%) Lead
6 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Developer
6 7 (5.00%) Senior
7 6 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (4.29%) Report Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.86%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) Terraform
2 8 (5.71%) REST
3 5 (3.57%) YAML
4 3 (2.14%) JSON
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.14%) PySpark
5 2 (1.43%) Kafka
5 2 (1.43%) React
5 2 (1.43%) SPFx
6 1 (0.71%) Pandas
6 1 (0.71%) Playwright
6 1 (0.71%) pytest
6 1 (0.71%) SOAP
6 1 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.71%) AI Agents
2 8 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.29%) NHS
4 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.14%) Blog
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.71%) IoT
9 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.71%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
1 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (32.86%) Analytics
3 40 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 38 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (24.29%) Agile
6 32 (22.86%) AI
7 31 (22.14%) DevOps
8 30 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 28 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 26 (18.57%) Validation
11 25 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (17.14%) Data Engineering
13 22 (15.71%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (15.71%) Migration
13 22 (15.71%) Visualisation
14 20 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (12.14%) ETL
17 16 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.43%) SQL
2 30 (21.43%) Python
3 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.00%) C#
4 7 (5.00%) R
5 5 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.86%) Java
6 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.43%) VBA
9 1 (0.71%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CAPM
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) PMP
6 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (4.29%) PMO
4 5 (3.57%) GDPR
4 5 (3.57%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.14%) GxP
6 2 (1.43%) GRC
6 2 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.29%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.43%) Control-M
5 1 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.14%) Databricks
3 13 (9.29%) Foundry
4 7 (5.00%) Google
5 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.57%) Autodesk
6 5 (3.57%) Splunk
7 4 (2.86%) SAP
8 3 (2.14%) Adobe
8 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.43%) BMC
9 2 (1.43%) Brio
9 2 (1.43%) Palantir
9 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.71%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.71%) Siemens