Power Platform Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Power Platform
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Power Platform skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 34 25 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.38% 5.58% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.26% 17.24% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 6
10th Percentile £262 £398 £356
25th Percentile £302 £502 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +5.00% -22.03%
75th Percentile £454 £555 -
90th Percentile £515 £588 £513
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -15.08% +0.10% -

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 197 145 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.17% 32.37% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 95 114
10th Percentile £279 £270 £406
25th Percentile £354 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £515 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% -13.15% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £625
90th Percentile £604 £642 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £21.50 £21.26
% change year-on-year +830.23% +1.15% -5.53%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in South Yorkshire

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in South Yorkshire

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Sheffield -11 27 £355 -34.20% 7
Barnsley - 6 £278 - 2
Doncaster +8 2 £440 +25.71% 4
Power Platform
Yorkshire

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.71%) Apache Pig
3 3 (8.82%) Confluence
4 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (61.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.88%) Maple
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) GCP
2 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
3 4 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.82%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) dbt
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (94.12%) Power BI
2 8 (23.53%) Data Mining
2 8 (23.53%) Power Query
2 8 (23.53%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Apache Hive
3 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
4 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.76%) Looker
5 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) QlikView
6 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Banking
5 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Billing
6 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Local Government
8 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Data Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Data Scientist
4 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Report Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.88%) Data Visualisation Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Report Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Supply Chain Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Payments Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) JSON
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) PySpark
1 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) Mainframe
3 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
4 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (58.82%) Visualisation
3 17 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
4 15 (44.12%) Decision-Making
5 14 (41.18%) Analytics
6 8 (23.53%) Budgeting
7 7 (20.59%) Cost Management
7 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
7 7 (20.59%) Data Collection
7 7 (20.59%) Data Science
7 7 (20.59%) ITIL
7 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Service Management
7 7 (20.59%) Virtual Environments
8 6 (17.65%) Agile
8 6 (17.65%) Data Analytics
8 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 6 (17.65%) Statistics
9 5 (14.71%) Linear Algebra
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) Scala
4 4 (11.76%) VBA
5 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.94%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Cognos
5 1 (2.94%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) SAP