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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 30 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.93% 4.04% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.70% 13.04% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 3
10th Percentile £308 £135 £315
25th Percentile £356 £433 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £460 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +31.43% -15.15%
75th Percentile £441 £519 £406
90th Percentile £500 £529 £425
Yorkshire median daily rate £440 £430 £425
% change year-on-year +2.33% +1.18% -15.00%

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 448 115 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.71% 31.00% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 94 78
10th Percentile £356 £185 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +16.28% -21.82%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 26 £400 -13.04% 10
Barnsley - 3 - - 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 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) Collibra
6 1 (3.33%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (90.00%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Power Query
2 8 (26.67%) PowerPivot
3 7 (23.33%) Tableau
4 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.33%) DataStage
7 1 (3.33%) DB2
7 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.33%) Looker
7 1 (3.33%) Metadata
7 1 (3.33%) Parquet
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
2 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (43.33%) Finance
4 9 (30.00%) Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Retail
7 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Strategy Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
8 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) ERP Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Migration Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) PySpark
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (46.67%) Decision-Making
4 13 (43.33%) Actionable Insight
5 11 (36.67%) Analytics
5 11 (36.67%) Data Governance
5 11 (36.67%) Data Modelling
5 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (33.33%) Data Analysis
7 9 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
8 8 (26.67%) Data Extraction
8 8 (26.67%) Risk Analysis
8 8 (26.67%) Risk Analytics
8 8 (26.67%) Strategic Planning
8 8 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (26.67%) Validation
9 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
10 5 (16.67%) ETL
10 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
10 5 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) SQL
2 17 (56.67%) Python
3 8 (26.67%) VBA
4 5 (16.67%) R
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Groovy
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PMO
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk