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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 31 52
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 38 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.79% 3.10% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 11.25% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 3
10th Percentile £300 £393 £330
25th Percentile £330 £431 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £460 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +31.43% -45.42%
75th Percentile £438 £470 £406
90th Percentile £501 £537 £425
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% -20.45%

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 318 80 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.10% 27.59% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 52 88
10th Percentile £311 £364 £343
25th Percentile £400 £444 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £505 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -11.09% +3.27%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £610
90th Percentile £613 £673 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% - +64.00%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -20 37 £369 -20.65% 4
Barnsley - 1 £450 - 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 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (13.16%) Apache Pig
3 3 (7.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (63.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) PowerApps
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Collibra
3 3 (7.89%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
1 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (100.00%) Power BI
2 12 (31.58%) Power Query
3 9 (23.68%) Data Mining
4 8 (21.05%) PowerPivot
5 5 (13.16%) Apache Hive
5 5 (13.16%) Hadoop
6 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.89%) Metadata
8 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.26%) DataStage
8 2 (5.26%) DB2
8 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.26%) Tableau
9 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (65.79%) Finance
3 19 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (42.11%) Banking
5 10 (26.32%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Billing
7 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.63%) Law
9 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Analyst
2 17 (44.74%) Data Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Strategy Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Report Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Data Scientist
6 4 (10.53%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
9 1 (2.63%) Consultant
9 1 (2.63%) Data Modeller
9 1 (2.63%) Financial Business Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Migration Consultant
9 1 (2.63%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) .NET
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Data Centre
2 8 (21.05%) Mainframe
3 5 (13.16%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (42.11%) Analytics
2 16 (42.11%) Decision-Making
2 16 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (39.47%) Data Analysis
4 14 (36.84%) Visualisation
5 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (31.58%) Data Visualisation
7 11 (28.95%) Data Governance
7 11 (28.95%) Data Modelling
8 10 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (26.32%) Budgeting
8 10 (26.32%) Cost Management
8 10 (26.32%) ITIL
8 10 (26.32%) Service Management
8 10 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
9 9 (23.68%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (23.68%) Risk Analytics
9 9 (23.68%) Strategic Planning
9 9 (23.68%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 30 (78.95%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Python
3 11 (28.95%) VBA
4 7 (18.42%) Java
5 5 (13.16%) Scala
6 2 (5.26%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) PMO
2 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Splunk
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) SAP