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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 38 36
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 31 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.68% 4.93% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.13% 16.67% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 17
10th Percentile £343 £254 £447
25th Percentile £400 £295 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £355 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -32.38% +13.51%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £555
90th Percentile £550 £525 £589
Yorkshire median daily rate £437 £425 £495
% change year-on-year +2.82% -14.14% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year +5.71% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 435 180 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.66% 29.56% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 140 112
10th Percentile £358 £293 £228
25th Percentile £450 £357 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £473 £506
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -6.62% -12.00%
75th Percentile £594 £539 £588
90th Percentile £688 £639 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.30
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% +57.67% -1.20%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Power Platform job vacancy trend 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 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in South Yorkshire

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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 30 July 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
Sheffield -31 23 £419 +19.64% 4
Barnsley +3 3 - - 3
Doncaster -10 1 - -
Rotherham - 1 - - 1
Power Platform
Yorkshire

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) AutoCAD
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.45%) Navisworks
2 2 (6.45%) ProjectWise
2 2 (6.45%) Revit
3 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) PowerApps
3 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) AWS
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (83.87%) Power BI
2 8 (25.81%) Tableau
3 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.68%) Spark SQL
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.23%) Looker
6 1 (3.23%) Parquet
6 1 (3.23%) Power Query
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) Terragrunt
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Local Government
5 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Risk Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Data Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) Data Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) JSON
2 3 (9.68%) PySpark
3 2 (6.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Blog
1 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.23%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (48.39%) Visualisation
3 12 (38.71%) Validation
4 11 (35.48%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) Decision-Making
5 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (29.03%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (25.81%) Analytics
7 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (22.58%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (22.58%) Data Collection
8 7 (22.58%) Mathematics
8 7 (22.58%) Statistical Analysis
9 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
10 5 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (16.13%) Statistics
11 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
11 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) R
4 4 (12.90%) C#
4 4 (12.90%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) ISO 19650
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) GRC
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Autodesk
4 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.23%) Foundry
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk