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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 109 66 72
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.91% 5.24% 4.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.29% 14.57% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 57
10th Percentile £350 £259 £320
25th Percentile £390 £319 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £538
90th Percentile £600 £527 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
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 £23.82
% change year-on-year -5.31% +32.82% -35.61%

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 1,059 453 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.98% 35.95% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 308 368
10th Percentile £313 £259 £259
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £576
90th Percentile £688 £618 £639
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £45.75 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.80% +119.73% -54.21%
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% -31.89%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -12 64 £445 +4.71% 28
South Yorkshire -34 31 £437 -1.80% 16
North Yorkshire -2 8 £450 +12.50% 7
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 23 (21.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.50%) Confluence
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.92%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.67%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.83%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.75%) Maximo
3 1 (0.92%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 53 (48.62%) Azure
2 40 (36.70%) PowerApps
3 25 (22.94%) Microsoft Copilot
4 21 (19.27%) Power Automate
5 19 (17.43%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.68%) AWS
8 15 (13.76%) Copilot Studio
8 15 (13.76%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (11.93%) Azure AI
10 12 (11.01%) Entra ID
11 9 (8.26%) GCP
11 9 (8.26%) GitHub
12 8 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (7.34%) Serverless
13 6 (5.50%) Azure Functions
14 5 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (4.59%) OneDrive
15 4 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) LAN
1 3 (2.75%) PSTN
1 3 (2.75%) Unified Communications
1 3 (2.75%) WAN
1 3 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (59.63%) Power BI
2 15 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (13.76%) Tableau
3 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.50%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.75%) Big Data
5 3 (2.75%) Metadata
5 3 (2.75%) Power Query
5 3 (2.75%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.83%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.92%) Looker
7 1 (0.92%) Parquet
7 1 (0.92%) QlikView
7 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.52%) Finance
3 21 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.60%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.34%) Law
6 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.50%) Social Science
7 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Legal
8 4 (3.67%) Banking
9 3 (2.75%) Retail
10 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Military
11 1 (0.92%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.92%) Local Government
11 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.92%) Police
11 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.28%) Analyst
2 26 (23.85%) Developer
3 12 (11.01%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 8 (7.34%) Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Power Platform Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Report Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Senior
7 6 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Lead
8 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Designer
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.75%) Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) REST
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (4.59%) PySpark
2 5 (4.59%) YAML
3 4 (3.67%) JSON
4 2 (1.83%) Pandas
4 2 (1.83%) React
4 2 (1.83%) SOAP
4 2 (1.83%) SPFx
4 2 (1.83%) XML
5 1 (0.92%) .NET
5 1 (0.92%) NumPy
5 1 (0.92%) Plotly
5 1 (0.92%) PyArrow
5 1 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.92%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.42%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.59%) NHS
5 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.75%) Blog
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) IoT
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (57.80%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (30.28%) DevOps
3 28 (25.69%) Agile
4 26 (23.85%) AI
5 24 (22.02%) Data Modelling
5 24 (22.02%) Decision-Making
5 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (21.10%) Visualisation
7 22 (20.18%) Analytics
7 22 (20.18%) CI/CD
8 21 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (11.93%) Dashboard Development
10 13 (11.93%) Data Analysis
10 13 (11.93%) User Experience
10 13 (11.93%) Validation
11 12 (11.01%) Data Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) ETL
11 12 (11.01%) LLM
12 11 (10.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) SQL
2 27 (24.77%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.34%) C#
4 8 (7.34%) R
5 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.75%) Java
7 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) VBA
9 1 (0.92%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.67%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) CAPM
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) QA
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.83%) PMO
5 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.92%) GRC
5 1 (0.92%) GxP
5 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Terraform
2 8 (7.34%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (52.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Foundry
3 9 (8.26%) Databricks
4 8 (7.34%) Google
5 5 (4.59%) Splunk
6 4 (3.67%) Brio
7 3 (2.75%) Adobe
7 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.83%) SAP
9 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.92%) Siemens