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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 26 59
Rank change year-on-year -40 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 27 13 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.93% 4.78% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.59% 16.05% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 2
10th Percentile £314 £135 £334
25th Percentile £360 £249 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £460 £388
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +18.71% -31.32%
75th Percentile £478 £494 £422
90th Percentile £517 £529 £431
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £404
% change year-on-year - +11.46% -26.59%

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 410 81 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.52% 29.78% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 64 80
10th Percentile £355 £289 £187
25th Percentile £413 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £515 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -0.72% -5.68%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £629 £646 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%

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 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 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 -41 27 £419 -8.91% 4
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 6 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Pig
3 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Collibra
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (96.30%) Power BI
2 8 (29.63%) Power Query
2 8 (29.63%) PowerPivot
3 5 (18.52%) Data Mining
4 4 (14.81%) Apache Hive
4 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
5 3 (11.11%) Metadata
6 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.41%) DataStage
6 2 (7.41%) DB2
6 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (81.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (55.56%) Finance
3 12 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (44.44%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Billing
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.70%) Law
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Analyst
2 9 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) Strategy Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
4 4 (14.81%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Report Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) ERP Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (48.15%) Decision-Making
2 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (40.74%) Analytics
4 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
5 9 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 8 (29.63%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (29.63%) Data Extraction
6 8 (29.63%) Risk Analysis
6 8 (29.63%) Risk Analytics
6 8 (29.63%) Strategic Planning
6 8 (29.63%) Strategic Thinking
6 8 (29.63%) Visualisation
7 7 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (18.52%) Data Collection
9 4 (14.81%) Data Science
9 4 (14.81%) Naive Bayes
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) SQL
2 14 (51.85%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) VBA
4 6 (22.22%) Java
5 4 (14.81%) Scala
6 2 (7.41%) Groovy
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) PMO
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) SAP