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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 25 48
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 40 24 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.54% 6.09% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.63% 19.83% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 5
10th Percentile £279 £446 £335
25th Percentile £313 £470 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £520 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +38.67% -40.71%
75th Percentile £434 £554 £438
90th Percentile £501 £588 £490
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -17.10% +7.22% -15.09%

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 256 121 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 35.46% 30.71% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 78 95
10th Percentile £300 £400 £355
25th Percentile £375 £451 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -4.78% +0.25%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £610
90th Percentile £615 £658 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -4.76%
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% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -11.11%

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 December 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 December 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 -22 37 £365 -30.48% 8
Barnsley - 3 £295 -
Doncaster +1 1 £445 +18.67% 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 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Pig
3 3 (7.50%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 26 (65.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (15.00%) 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
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Collibra
4 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
1 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (97.50%) Power BI
2 13 (32.50%) Power Query
3 9 (22.50%) Data Mining
4 6 (15.00%) PowerPivot
5 5 (12.50%) Apache Hive
5 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 5 (12.50%) Tableau
6 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
7 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) Looker
8 2 (5.00%) Metadata
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%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Postman
2 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (60.00%) Finance
3 18 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (37.50%) Banking
5 9 (22.50%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (10.00%) Billing
7 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.50%) Law
9 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Analyst
2 18 (45.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Report Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Strategy 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
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Banking Business Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Data Visualisation Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Engineering Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Business Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (45.00%) Analytics
2 18 (45.00%) Visualisation
3 17 (42.50%) Decision-Making
4 15 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
4 15 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (32.50%) Data Analysis
6 12 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (27.50%) Data Governance
8 10 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (25.00%) Budgeting
8 10 (25.00%) Cost Management
8 10 (25.00%) ITIL
8 10 (25.00%) Service Management
8 10 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
9 8 (20.00%) Data Extraction
9 8 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
9 8 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
9 8 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) SQL
2 19 (47.50%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) VBA
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) Scala
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Ansible
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) SAP