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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 83 48 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.38% 4.30% 2.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.61% 11.32% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 35
10th Percentile £303 £353 £289
25th Percentile £344 £390 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £531
90th Percentile £538 £573 £590
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -30.87%

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 782 424 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.27% 37.96% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 281 415
10th Percentile £216 £275 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £615 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +71.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £23.43
% change year-on-year -6.17% +23.80% +4.11%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -12 43 £475 +5.56% 69
South Yorkshire -21 38 £369 -19.78% 48
North Yorkshire -2 2 - - 17
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 16 (19.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.02%) Apache Pig
3 3 (3.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 40 (48.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.61%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.61%) Cloudability
3 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.10%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) PowerApps
3 12 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.46%) Power Automate
4 10 (12.05%) AWS
5 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) GCP
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.61%) Collibra
8 3 (3.61%) GitHub
8 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.20%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) VPN
1 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (93.98%) Power BI
2 17 (20.48%) Power Query
3 10 (12.05%) Tableau
4 9 (10.84%) Data Mining
5 8 (9.64%) PowerPivot
5 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (6.02%) Apache Hive
7 5 (6.02%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.61%) Metadata
9 2 (2.41%) DataStage
9 2 (2.41%) DB2
9 2 (2.41%) MS Access
9 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.20%) QlikView
10 1 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) Postman
2 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (50.60%) Social Skills
2 40 (48.19%) Finance
3 29 (34.94%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (31.33%) Banking
5 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
6 11 (13.25%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.82%) Billing
8 4 (4.82%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.41%) Military
10 2 (2.41%) Retail
11 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.20%) Law
11 1 (1.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (56.63%) Analyst
2 23 (27.71%) Data Analyst
3 14 (16.87%) Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Business Analyst
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Report Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Strategy Analyst
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Customer Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Customer Experience Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) PMO Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Data Analyst
11 2 (2.41%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) REST
3 2 (2.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.20%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) OAuth
4 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.64%) Mainframe
3 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Windows
1 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (77.11%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (37.35%) Visualisation
3 29 (34.94%) Decision-Making
4 26 (31.33%) Analytics
5 24 (28.92%) Data Governance
6 23 (27.71%) Data Analysis
6 23 (27.71%) Data Visualisation
7 22 (26.51%) Data Modelling
8 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (21.69%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (21.69%) Agile
11 17 (20.48%) Migration
12 13 (15.66%) Budgeting
12 13 (15.66%) Cost Management
13 12 (14.46%) ITIL
13 12 (14.46%) Service Management
14 11 (13.25%) Data Management
15 10 (12.05%) Dashboard Development
15 10 (12.05%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.81%) SQL
2 23 (27.71%) Python
3 11 (13.25%) VBA
4 8 (9.64%) Java
5 5 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (6.02%) Scala
6 4 (4.82%) C#
7 2 (2.41%) Groovy
7 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) PMO
3 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Splunk
3 4 (4.82%) SAP
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) Brio
5 2 (2.41%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) Informatica
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) IFS
6 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow