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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 134 85 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.60% 5.36% 4.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.93% 13.98% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 55 51
10th Percentile £363 £296 £313
25th Percentile £400 £319 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £501
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -16.08% +0.10%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £567
90th Percentile £575 £538 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £17.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £28.53 £30.30
% change year-on-year +10.41% -5.83% -25.20%

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 1,036 608 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.53% 38.34% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 408 361
10th Percentile £324 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £23.69
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 0 77 £425 -5.56% 104
South Yorkshire -41 32 £406 +7.62% 31
North Yorkshire +4 13 £460 +15.00% 25
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 6
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 19 (14.18%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.97%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (12.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.73%) AutoCAD
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.73%) Navisworks
2 5 (3.73%) ProjectWise
2 5 (3.73%) Revit
2 5 (3.73%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 3 (2.24%) Maximo
2 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (44.78%) Azure
2 28 (20.90%) PowerApps
3 23 (17.16%) Microsoft Copilot
4 20 (14.93%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.69%) AWS
7 15 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (11.19%) Power Automate
8 13 (9.70%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (8.21%) Entra ID
10 10 (7.46%) GCP
11 9 (6.72%) Azure AI
11 9 (6.72%) GitHub
12 7 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.48%) Serverless
14 5 (3.73%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (2.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) LAN
1 1 (0.75%) PSTN
1 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.75%) WAN
1 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (67.91%) Power BI
2 14 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.21%) Tableau
4 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.48%) Metadata
5 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (2.99%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.24%) SAP BW
7 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.49%) Big Data
8 2 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.49%) Power Query
8 2 (1.49%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.49%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
2 2 (1.49%) Applitools
2 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.49%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) JMeter
2 2 (1.49%) Newman
2 2 (1.49%) Postman
2 2 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 40 (29.85%) Finance
3 29 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.46%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.72%) Banking
7 6 (4.48%) Law
8 5 (3.73%) Retail
9 4 (2.99%) Social Science
10 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.49%) Military
12 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.75%) Legal
12 1 (0.75%) Local Government
12 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.75%) Police
12 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.90%) Analyst
2 23 (17.16%) Data Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Developer
4 14 (10.45%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.72%) Consultant
6 8 (5.97%) Architect
6 8 (5.97%) Lead
7 7 (5.22%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Developer
7 7 (5.22%) Senior
8 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Report Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Performance Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.99%) Administrator
10 4 (2.99%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.97%) REST
1 8 (5.97%) Terraform
2 5 (3.73%) YAML
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (2.24%) PySpark
3 3 (2.24%) pytest
4 2 (1.49%) JSON
4 2 (1.49%) Kafka
4 2 (1.49%) Playwright
4 2 (1.49%) React
4 2 (1.49%) SPFx
5 1 (0.75%) Pandas
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
5 1 (0.75%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) AI Agents
3 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.48%) NHS
6 5 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.24%) Blog
8 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (66.42%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (33.58%) Analytics
3 39 (29.10%) Data Modelling
4 36 (26.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (23.88%) Agile
6 31 (23.13%) AI
6 31 (23.13%) DevOps
7 29 (21.64%) Decision-Making
8 27 (20.15%) CI/CD
8 27 (20.15%) Validation
9 25 (18.66%) Data Engineering
10 22 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (16.42%) Migration
11 21 (15.67%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (14.93%) Visualisation
13 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.69%) ETL
15 14 (10.45%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.84%) SQL
2 28 (20.90%) Python
3 9 (6.72%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.97%) C#
5 6 (4.48%) R
6 5 (3.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.99%) Java
7 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.49%) VBA
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.99%) Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CAPM
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) PMP
6 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.48%) PMO
3 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.73%) GDPR
3 5 (3.73%) ISO 19650
3 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (2.24%) GxP
5 2 (1.49%) GRC
5 2 (1.49%) QA
6 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.48%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.49%) Control-M
3 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (47.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.43%) Databricks
3 10 (7.46%) Foundry
4 7 (5.22%) Google
5 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.73%) Autodesk
7 4 (2.99%) SAP
7 4 (2.99%) Splunk
8 3 (2.24%) Adobe
8 3 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.24%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.49%) BMC
9 2 (1.49%) Palantir
9 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.75%) Brio
10 1 (0.75%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.75%) Siemens