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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 39 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 81 47 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.28% 4.30% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.47% 11.38% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 36
10th Percentile £311 £352 £291
25th Percentile £345 £375 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £528
90th Percentile £538 £573 £588
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £24.02 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -19.95% -7.18% -41.77%

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 774 413 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.93% 37.79% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 273 418
10th Percentile £219 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £618 £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% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.33% +4.33%

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 1 January 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
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 1 January 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 -7 41 £475 +5.56% 19
South Yorkshire -17 38 £369 -19.78% 10
North Yorkshire -3 2 - - 3
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 (19.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.17%) Apache Pig
3 3 (3.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 39 (48.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Cloudability
1 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.69%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) PowerApps
3 12 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.58%) Power Automate
5 10 (12.35%) AWS
6 7 (8.64%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.17%) GCP
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.70%) Collibra
9 3 (3.70%) GitHub
10 2 (2.47%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) VPN
1 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (93.83%) Power BI
2 17 (20.99%) Power Query
3 10 (12.35%) Tableau
4 9 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 8 (9.88%) PowerPivot
5 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (6.17%) Apache Hive
7 5 (6.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.70%) Metadata
9 2 (2.47%) DataStage
9 2 (2.47%) DB2
9 2 (2.47%) MS Access
9 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.23%) QlikView
10 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
2 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (50.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (49.38%) Finance
3 28 (34.57%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (32.10%) Banking
5 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
6 11 (13.58%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.94%) Billing
8 4 (4.94%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.47%) Military
10 2 (2.47%) Retail
11 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.23%) Law
11 1 (1.23%) Legal
11 1 (1.23%) Local Government
11 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (56.79%) Analyst
2 22 (27.16%) Data Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) Developer
4 13 (16.05%) Business Analyst
5 12 (14.81%) Senior
6 11 (13.58%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Report Analyst
7 7 (8.64%) Strategy Analyst
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Data Scientist
10 4 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Customer Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Customer Experience Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) PMO Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Lead
12 2 (2.47%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) .NET
2 3 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) Middleware
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.88%) Mainframe
3 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.47%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Windows
1 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (76.54%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (35.80%) Decision-Making
2 29 (35.80%) Visualisation
3 25 (30.86%) Analytics
4 23 (28.40%) Data Analysis
4 23 (28.40%) Data Governance
5 21 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
5 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.69%) Data Modelling
7 18 (22.22%) Agile
7 18 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (20.99%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (20.99%) Migration
9 13 (16.05%) Budgeting
9 13 (16.05%) Cost Management
10 12 (14.81%) ITIL
10 12 (14.81%) Service Management
11 11 (13.58%) Data Management
12 10 (12.35%) Data Extraction
12 10 (12.35%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.09%) SQL
2 23 (28.40%) Python
3 11 (13.58%) VBA
4 8 (9.88%) Java
5 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (6.17%) Scala
6 4 (4.94%) C#
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
7 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Degree
2 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.17%) PMO
3 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Splunk
3 3 (3.70%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) SAP
4 2 (2.47%) Brio
4 2 (2.47%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) Informatica
4 2 (2.47%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) IFS
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow