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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 38 53
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 83 52 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.38% 5.09% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.74% 13.68% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 40 40
10th Percentile £315 £296 £324
25th Percentile £400 £372 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.45% -13.75%
75th Percentile £500 £478 £500
90th Percentile £595 £502 £553
England median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.96 -
England median hourly rate £30.75 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.78% +25.22% -54.48%

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 950 380 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.68% 37.18% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 268 324
10th Percentile £313 £240 £233
25th Percentile £413 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £646 £650 £641
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 47 £478 +12.35% 22
South Yorkshire -43 30 £431 -4.22% 27
North Yorkshire -7 5 £450 +12.50% 11
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 3 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.61%) Cloudability
3 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.37%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (25.30%) PowerApps
4 14 (16.87%) AWS
5 12 (14.46%) Power Automate
6 10 (12.05%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
9 7 (8.43%) GCP
9 7 (8.43%) GitHub
10 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (6.02%) Azure AI
11 5 (6.02%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (6.02%) Serverless
12 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
12 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (4.82%) OneDrive
12 4 (4.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.61%) LAN
2 3 (3.61%) PSTN
2 3 (3.61%) Unified Communications
2 3 (3.61%) WAN
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (74.70%) Power BI
2 14 (16.87%) Tableau
3 9 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.23%) Power Query
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.02%) PowerPivot
5 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.41%) Big Data
6 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.41%) Metadata
6 2 (2.41%) MS Access
6 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.20%) DataStage
7 1 (1.20%) DB2
7 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Looker
7 1 (1.20%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Git
1 3 (3.61%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.20%) Postman
3 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (32.53%) Finance
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.46%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.82%) Legal
8 3 (3.61%) Law
9 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Military
9 2 (2.41%) Social Science
10 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (49.40%) Analyst
2 13 (15.66%) Data Analyst
2 13 (15.66%) Developer
3 12 (14.46%) Business Analyst
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Strategy Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Lead
9 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.61%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) .NET
1 3 (3.61%) JSON
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (3.61%) PySpark
1 3 (3.61%) REST
2 2 (2.41%) Pandas
2 2 (2.41%) XML
2 2 (2.41%) YAML
3 1 (1.20%) NumPy
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.20%) Plotly
3 1 (1.20%) PyArrow
3 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.82%) NHS
4 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) IoT
4 3 (3.61%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (34.94%) Agile
3 24 (28.92%) Decision-Making
4 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.89%) Data Modelling
5 19 (22.89%) Visualisation
6 18 (21.69%) Actionable Insight
6 18 (21.69%) DevOps
7 17 (20.48%) Analytics
8 16 (19.28%) Data Governance
8 16 (19.28%) Migration
8 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
10 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
11 12 (14.46%) AI
12 11 (13.25%) Validation
12 11 (13.25%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (12.05%) ETL
14 9 (10.84%) Business Analysis
14 9 (10.84%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) SQL
2 25 (30.12%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) R
4 7 (8.43%) C#
5 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.02%) VBA
7 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.20%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) Java
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) PMO
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.02%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (43.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Databricks
3 5 (6.02%) Google
3 5 (6.02%) Splunk
4 4 (4.82%) Brio
4 4 (4.82%) Foundry
5 3 (3.61%) Adobe
5 3 (3.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica
7 1 (1.20%) SAP