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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 40 22 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.61% 4.93% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.39% 16.92% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 5
10th Percentile £272 £447 £355
25th Percentile £310 £508 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -22.03%
75th Percentile £454 £555 -
90th Percentile £522 £589 £515
Yorkshire median daily rate £388 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -24.76% +14.44% -14.29%

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 244 130 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.22% 29.15% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 85 92
10th Percentile £302 £404 £389
25th Percentile £371 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.63% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £620
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% -0.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

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 1 November 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 1 November 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 -15 34 £360 -33.27% 10
Barnsley - 6 £278 -
Doncaster +3 1 £445 +18.67% 2
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 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Pig
3 3 (7.50%) Confluence
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (67.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.00%) Maple
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) GCP
1 6 (15.00%) PowerApps
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Collibra
3 2 (5.00%) dbt
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (95.00%) Power BI
2 11 (27.50%) Power Query
3 9 (22.50%) Data Mining
4 7 (17.50%) Tableau
5 5 (12.50%) Apache Hive
5 5 (12.50%) BigQuery
5 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
6 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.00%) Looker
6 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.50%) PowerPivot
8 2 (5.00%) Metadata
9 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.50%) DataStage
9 1 (2.50%) DB2
9 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.50%) QlikView
9 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (50.00%) Finance
3 15 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (27.50%) Banking
5 9 (22.50%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (10.00%) Billing
8 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.50%) Local Government
9 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Analyst
2 17 (42.50%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Report Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Data Scientist
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Strategy Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Data Visualisation Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Report Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Risk Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Supply Chain Manager
8 1 (2.50%) IT Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) JSON
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
1 1 (2.50%) PySpark
1 1 (2.50%) REST
1 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 18 (45.00%) Analytics
4 17 (42.50%) Data Visualisation
4 17 (42.50%) Decision-Making
5 11 (27.50%) Budgeting
5 11 (27.50%) Data Analysis
6 10 (25.00%) Cost Management
6 10 (25.00%) ITIL
6 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.00%) Service Management
6 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
7 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
8 8 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 7 (17.50%) Data Analytics
9 7 (17.50%) Data Collection
9 7 (17.50%) Data Transformation
10 6 (15.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (72.50%) SQL
2 18 (45.00%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) VBA
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) Scala
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Cognos
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle