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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 30 58
Rank change year-on-year -47 +28 -19
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 62 52 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.08% 5.71% 3.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.29% 15.03% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 48
10th Percentile £313 £273 £300
25th Percentile £366 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £404
Median % change year-on-year - +11.46% -26.59%
75th Percentile £504 £529 £500
90th Percentile £538 £567 £566
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 £22.00 £28.30 £24.43
% change year-on-year -22.26% +15.84% -59.28%

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 851 346 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.28% 37.98% 31.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 239 414
10th Percentile £254 £263 £225
25th Percentile £400 £378 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.75 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +118.73% -70.00%
75th Percentile £60.69 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 16 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 16 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 -24 32 £500 +14.29% 23
South Yorkshire -45 27 £419 -8.91% 6
North Yorkshire -5 3 £300 -25.00% 9
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 4 (6.45%) Apache Pig
3 3 (4.84%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 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 3 (4.84%) Cloudability
1 3 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.65%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (22.58%) PowerApps
4 9 (14.52%) AWS
4 9 (14.52%) Power Automate
5 5 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.06%) GCP
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.84%) Collibra
7 3 (4.84%) GitHub
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.23%) SaaS
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
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 55 (88.71%) Power BI
2 10 (16.13%) Power Query
3 8 (12.90%) PowerPivot
4 5 (8.06%) Data Mining
4 5 (8.06%) Tableau
5 4 (6.45%) Apache Hive
5 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.23%) DataStage
7 2 (3.23%) DB2
7 2 (3.23%) MS Access
7 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 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 32 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 27 (43.55%) Finance
3 22 (35.48%) Banking
4 18 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.29%) 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 32 (51.61%) Analyst
2 13 (20.97%) 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%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.45%) PMO Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Banking Business Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Power BI 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%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 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 22 (35.48%) Data Governance
3 21 (33.87%) Decision-Making
4 20 (32.26%) Analytics
5 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (30.65%) Visualisation
6 18 (29.03%) Agile
7 17 (27.42%) Data Analysis
8 16 (25.81%) Data Modelling
8 16 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (22.58%) Migration
10 13 (20.97%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (17.74%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (14.52%) Business Analysis
13 9 (14.52%) Dashboard Development
13 9 (14.52%) Data Management
14 8 (12.90%) Data Extraction
14 8 (12.90%) Risk Analysis
14 8 (12.90%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) VBA
4 6 (9.68%) Java
5 5 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (6.45%) Scala
7 3 (4.84%) C#
8 2 (3.23%) Groovy
8 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
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 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Databricks
2 4 (6.45%) Splunk
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Brio
4 2 (3.23%) Informatica
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow