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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 89 60 59
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.35% 5.53% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.78% 15.67% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 43 45
10th Percentile £335 £257 £330
25th Percentile £363 £344 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £488 £525
90th Percentile £600 £524 £588
England median daily rate £500 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +3.09% -1.02% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £19.80 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £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 £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -51.94%

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 1,014 383 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.18% 35.30% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 269 342
10th Percentile £313 £260 £251
25th Percentile £413 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £638 £644
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 8
10th Percentile £15.83 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.28 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +56.40% +18.18% -38.94%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -13 53 £440 +3.53% 29
South Yorkshire -39 30 £438 -0.68% 14
North Yorkshire -4 4 £450 +12.50% 12
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 8
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 (22.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) SystmOne
2 1 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 43 (48.31%) Azure
2 31 (34.83%) PowerApps
3 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (21.35%) Power Automate
5 17 (19.10%) Microsoft Copilot
6 14 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (15.73%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (14.61%) AWS
8 11 (12.36%) Entra ID
9 10 (11.24%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (8.99%) Azure AI
10 8 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (8.99%) GCP
10 8 (8.99%) GitHub
11 7 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (7.87%) Serverless
12 6 (6.74%) Azure Functions
13 5 (5.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (5.62%) OneDrive
14 4 (4.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) LAN
1 3 (3.37%) PSTN
1 3 (3.37%) Unified Communications
1 3 (3.37%) WAN
1 3 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (61.80%) Power BI
2 14 (15.73%) Tableau
3 11 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.87%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.49%) Power Query
8 3 (3.37%) Big Data
8 3 (3.37%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.25%) Metadata
9 2 (2.25%) PowerPivot
10 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.12%) Looker
10 1 (1.12%) Parquet
10 1 (1.12%) QlikView
10 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 4 (4.49%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Finance
3 19 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Law
6 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Banking
7 5 (5.62%) Legal
7 5 (5.62%) Social Science
8 4 (4.49%) Retail
9 2 (2.25%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.12%) Local Government
10 1 (1.12%) Military
10 1 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Analyst
2 18 (20.22%) Developer
3 11 (12.36%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) Architect
4 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Senior
6 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Performance Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Lead
7 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (4.49%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Power BI Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Graph
1 5 (5.62%) REST
2 4 (4.49%) JSON
2 4 (4.49%) PySpark
2 4 (4.49%) YAML
3 2 (2.25%) Pandas
3 2 (2.25%) React
3 2 (2.25%) SOAP
3 2 (2.25%) SPFx
3 2 (2.25%) XML
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) NumPy
4 1 (1.12%) Plotly
4 1 (1.12%) PyArrow
4 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Low-Code
3 4 (4.49%) NHS
4 3 (3.37%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.37%) IoT
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Blog
6 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (59.55%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (31.46%) Agile
3 27 (30.34%) DevOps
4 22 (24.72%) Decision-Making
4 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (22.47%) AI
5 20 (22.47%) Data Modelling
5 20 (22.47%) Visualisation
6 19 (21.35%) Actionable Insight
7 16 (17.98%) Analytics
7 16 (17.98%) CI/CD
8 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.48%) Validation
10 11 (12.36%) ETL
11 10 (11.24%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (8.99%) Analytical Thinking
13 8 (8.99%) Data Collection
13 8 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (8.99%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) SQL
2 25 (28.09%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.99%) R
5 6 (6.74%) C#
6 5 (5.62%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.25%) VBA
9 1 (1.12%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) CAPM
5 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (3.37%) GDPR
3 3 (3.37%) PMO
3 3 (3.37%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Jamf Pro
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (7.87%) Terraform
2 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (52.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.24%) Databricks
3 8 (8.99%) Foundry
4 7 (7.87%) Google
5 5 (5.62%) Splunk
6 4 (4.49%) Brio
7 3 (3.37%) Adobe
7 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.12%) SAP