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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 33 55
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 62 50 53
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.99% 5.51% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.04% 14.66% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 45
10th Percentile £313 £266 £300
25th Percentile £369 £368 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £408
Median % change year-on-year - +10.43% -25.91%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £500
90th Percentile £538 £567 £570
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £23.03 £28.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -19.48% +23.20% -61.31%

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 881 341 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.52% 37.60% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 230 405
10th Percentile £290 £263 £225
25th Percentile £403 £381 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £543 £567 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -22 33 £500 +17.65% 19
South Yorkshire -46 26 £419 -10.85% 6
North Yorkshire -4 3 £300 -25.00% 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 16 (25.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Pig
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (37.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.84%) Cloudability
3 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (24.19%) PowerApps
4 10 (16.13%) Power Automate
5 9 (14.52%) AWS
6 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.06%) GCP
8 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.84%) Collibra
9 3 (4.84%) GitHub
10 2 (3.23%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.23%) SaaS
10 2 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.61%) LAN
2 1 (1.61%) PSTN
2 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
2 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (87.10%) Power BI
2 9 (14.52%) Power Query
3 8 (12.90%) PowerPivot
4 4 (6.45%) Data Mining
4 4 (6.45%) Tableau
5 3 (4.84%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.23%) DataStage
6 2 (3.23%) DB2
6 2 (3.23%) MS Access
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Postman
3 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (45.16%) Finance
3 22 (35.48%) Banking
4 18 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 6 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.45%) General Ledger
8 3 (4.84%) Retail
9 2 (3.23%) Legal
9 2 (3.23%) Military
10 1 (1.61%) Billing
10 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (53.23%) Analyst
2 14 (22.58%) Business Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Data Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Developer
4 9 (14.52%) Senior
5 8 (12.90%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (12.90%) Strategy Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Report Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Banking Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Banking Business Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) REST
2 2 (3.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (1.61%) JSON
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.61%) Middleware
3 1 (1.61%) OAuth
3 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.61%) Pandas
3 1 (1.61%) PyArrow
3 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (74.19%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (33.87%) Data Governance
3 20 (32.26%) Analytics
3 20 (32.26%) Decision-Making
4 19 (30.65%) Agile
4 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (29.03%) Visualisation
6 17 (27.42%) Data Analysis
7 16 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
9 14 (22.58%) Migration
10 12 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (19.35%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (16.13%) Business Analysis
12 9 (14.52%) Dashboard Development
12 9 (14.52%) Data Management
13 8 (12.90%) Data Extraction
13 8 (12.90%) Risk Analytics
13 8 (12.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) SQL
2 18 (29.03%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) VBA
4 5 (8.06%) Java
5 4 (6.45%) C#
5 4 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.84%) Scala
7 2 (3.23%) Groovy
7 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) PMO
3 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) Brio
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Splunk
4 2 (3.23%) Informatica
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow