Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 90
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,571 5,206 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 5.19% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.95% 12.09% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 3,269 4,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,887
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,796 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +5.56%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Power Platform.

Salary trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 4,089 £55,000 -4.35% 1,164
UK excluding London +8 2,997 £50,000 +4.17% 744
Work from Home +1 1,927 £55,000 - 587
London +15 1,317 £67,500 - 427
North of England +16 849 £47,500 - 186
Midlands +16 656 £54,500 +14.74% 169
South East +15 626 £50,000 -4.76% 174
North West +33 487 £47,500 - 118
West Midlands +13 484 £55,000 +15.79% 115
South West +4 343 £50,000 +5.26% 92
Yorkshire -3 249 £50,000 +5.26% 52
East of England +67 239 £48,500 -3.00% 67
Scotland -26 210 £47,500 -6.75% 33
East Midlands +4 169 £45,000 - 53
North East +8 113 £42,500 -10.53% 16
Wales -18 70 £55,000 +37.50% 24
Northern Ireland -16 8 £66,250 +47.22% 9
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 671 (14.68%) SharePoint
2 110 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.05%) Confluence
4 39 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.68%) SAS
6 29 (0.63%) IIS
7 27 (0.59%) Apache
8 25 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) WordPress
10 14 (0.31%) CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.044%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.044%) Drupal
16 2 (0.044%) Joomla!
16 2 (0.044%) nginx
Applications
1 882 (19.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 229 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.066%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.066%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.044%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 415 (9.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
3 33 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.44%) Primavera
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.31%) Epicor Tropos
7 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (0.15%) Maximo
10 7 (0.15%) Shopify
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
11 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.088%) Finacle
12 4 (0.088%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.088%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.066%) Sage 200
13 3 (0.066%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,908 (41.74%) Azure
2 912 (19.95%) PowerApps
3 834 (18.25%) Dynamics 365
4 779 (17.04%) Power Automate
5 709 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
6 318 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 281 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 238 (5.21%) AWS
9 224 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 145 (3.17%) Serverless
12 137 (3.00%) GCP
13 107 (2.34%) Snowflake
14 104 (2.28%) Entra ID
15 97 (2.12%) SaaS
16 82 (1.79%) Azure Functions
16 82 (1.79%) PaaS
17 78 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
18 64 (1.40%) Google Analytics
19 62 (1.36%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.71%) DNS
2 74 (1.62%) Broadband
3 61 (1.33%) Intranet
4 46 (1.01%) DHCP
5 42 (0.92%) Firewall
6 38 (0.83%) WAN
7 29 (0.63%) Network Security
8 26 (0.57%) LAN
9 22 (0.48%) Internet
10 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 16 (0.35%) VPN
13 13 (0.28%) VoIP
14 12 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.18%) WebEx
17 7 (0.15%) HTTP
17 7 (0.15%) NAS
17 7 (0.15%) TCP/IP
18 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,489 (76.33%) Power BI
2 818 (17.90%) SQL Server
3 633 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
4 608 (13.30%) Tableau
5 415 (9.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 366 (8.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 278 (6.08%) Data Lake
8 211 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 168 (3.68%) Power Query
10 161 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 135 (2.95%) Relational Database
12 80 (1.75%) Big Data
13 76 (1.66%) Looker
14 71 (1.55%) QlikView
15 63 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 62 (1.36%) NoSQL
17 60 (1.31%) Data Mining
18 56 (1.23%) BigQuery
19 54 (1.18%) Metadata
20 53 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 187 (4.09%) JIRA
2 105 (2.30%) Git
3 95 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 38 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.31%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) GitLab
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.18%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.15%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.11%) ERwin
12 4 (0.088%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.088%) Selenium
13 3 (0.066%) NUnit
13 3 (0.066%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,578 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 1,197 (26.19%) Finance
3 961 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (8.12%) Retail
5 365 (7.99%) Marketing
6 327 (7.15%) Public Sector
7 235 (5.14%) Law
8 230 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 229 (5.01%) Legal
10 168 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
11 163 (3.57%) Manufacturing
12 141 (3.08%) Banking
13 84 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 66 (1.44%) Local Government
15 58 (1.27%) Back Office
16 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
18 47 (1.03%) Telecoms
19 46 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
20 43 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,111 (24.31%) Developer
2 1,018 (22.27%) Analyst
3 528 (11.55%) Senior
4 400 (8.75%) Data Analyst
5 389 (8.51%) Lead
6 343 (7.50%) Consultant
7 341 (7.46%) Architect
8 281 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 271 (5.93%) Power Platform Developer
10 256 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 205 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 184 (4.03%) Senior Developer
13 170 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 157 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
15 156 (3.41%) Power BI Developer
16 152 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
17 127 (2.78%) DBA
18 118 (2.58%) Power Platform Architect
19 117 (2.56%) SQL DBA
20 110 (2.41%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (9.65%) .NET
2 194 (4.24%) HTML
3 130 (2.84%) CSS
4 100 (2.19%) HTML5 Canvas
5 97 (2.12%) JSON
6 85 (1.86%) .NET Framework
6 85 (1.86%) REST
7 72 (1.58%) ASP.NET
8 63 (1.38%) Web Services
9 60 (1.31%) XML
10 44 (0.96%) RESTful
11 41 (0.90%) .NET Core
11 41 (0.90%) React
12 38 (0.83%) PySpark
13 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
15 26 (0.57%) Entity Framework
16 23 (0.50%) MDX
17 22 (0.48%) Node.js
17 22 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 187 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 145 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 124 (2.71%) Low-Code
4 115 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 92 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 72 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.12%) FMCG
10 46 (1.01%) NHS
10 46 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 40 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 38 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 34 (0.74%) Driving Licence
14 30 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
16 26 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
17 25 (0.55%) Cloud Native
17 25 (0.55%) Housing Association
18 23 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 183 (4.00%) Windows
2 83 (1.82%) VMS
3 68 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.36%) Linux
5 32 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 25 (0.55%) Unix
7 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.20%) Android
9 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,980 (65.19%) Business Intelligence
2 1,013 (22.16%) Agile
3 999 (21.86%) Analytics
4 812 (17.76%) Visualisation
5 775 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 621 (13.59%) ETL
7 606 (13.26%) DevOps
8 589 (12.89%) Data Analysis
9 576 (12.60%) CRM
10 540 (11.81%) Data Visualisation
11 533 (11.66%) Data Modelling
12 458 (10.02%) Decision-Making
13 427 (9.34%) Project Management
14 411 (8.99%) Migration
15 401 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 387 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
17 384 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 371 (8.12%) Roadmaps
19 362 (7.92%) Data Science
20 355 (7.77%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,119 (46.36%) SQL
2 639 (13.98%) Python
3 533 (11.66%) C#
4 413 (9.04%) T-SQL
5 358 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 259 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 222 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 159 (3.48%) R
9 98 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 86 (1.88%) Java
11 72 (1.58%) VBA
12 39 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.55%) VB
14 22 (0.48%) PHP
15 20 (0.44%) C
16 17 (0.37%) Bash
16 17 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.26%) Go
18 12 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 809 (17.70%) Degree
2 297 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 180 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.72%) DBS Check
5 123 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 123 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 91 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 81 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 32 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.53%) CIPD
12 18 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (0.37%) CIMA
13 17 (0.37%) MCSE
14 16 (0.35%) CISM
14 16 (0.35%) CISSP
14 16 (0.35%) MBA
15 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 190 (4.16%) GDPR
3 114 (2.49%) QA
4 62 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) PMO
6 33 (0.72%) SLA
7 29 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.28%) NIST
12 11 (0.24%) COBIT
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.088%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.088%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.044%) NCSC
17 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.022%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 177 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 86 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.35%) Docker
6 8 (0.18%) Firmware
7 4 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.066%) vSphere
9 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (0.94%) Terraform
3 37 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.44%) Ansible
5 15 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 10 (0.22%) SCCM
7 7 (0.15%) Foglight
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.15%) Nagios
7 7 (0.15%) WSUS
8 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.088%) Grafana
9 4 (0.088%) Puppet
10 3 (0.066%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.044%) cPanel
11 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.022%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.022%) logstash
12 1 (0.022%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,332 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 242 (5.29%) Databricks
3 213 (4.66%) Oracle
4 175 (3.83%) Google
5 129 (2.82%) SAP
6 105 (2.30%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 42 (0.92%) VMware
9 37 (0.81%) IFS
10 36 (0.79%) iManage
11 31 (0.68%) Cognos
12 30 (0.66%) UiPath
13 26 (0.57%) Sophos
14 25 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 24 (0.53%) Blue Prism
16 23 (0.50%) Aderant
16 23 (0.50%) Adobe
17 21 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
18 20 (0.44%) Epicor
18 20 (0.44%) Veeam