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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 59 92
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,612 5,112 6,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 5.19% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.97% 12.06% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,730 3,199 4,222
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,747 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,644 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,100 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,757 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.55% +2.65% +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 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
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 £98,750
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 23 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 23 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 +12 4,126 £55,000 -4.35% 1,250
UK excluding London +9 3,029 £50,000 +2.55% 852
Work from Home 0 1,932 £55,000 - 621
London +17 1,334 £67,500 - 536
North of England +16 845 £47,500 - 190
Midlands +10 662 £53,635 +12.92% 150
South East +17 639 £50,000 -7.94% 298
West Midlands +16 490 £55,000 +12.31% 102
North West +32 488 £47,500 - 117
South West +3 354 £50,000 +5.26% 91
Yorkshire -3 247 £50,000 +5.26% 51
East of England +66 239 £48,500 -3.00% 71
Scotland -34 214 £47,500 -6.75% 37
East Midlands +10 169 £45,000 - 46
North East +7 110 £42,500 -15.00% 22
Wales -20 71 £55,000 +37.50% 16
Northern Ireland -20 9 £66,250 +47.22% 11
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -

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
1 660 (14.31%) SharePoint
2 109 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.00%) Confluence
4 39 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.72%) Apache
6 31 (0.67%) SAS
7 28 (0.61%) IIS
8 24 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) WordPress
10 14 (0.30%) CMS
11 8 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.043%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.043%) Drupal
16 2 (0.043%) Joomla!
16 2 (0.043%) nginx
Applications
1 885 (19.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 417 (9.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 33 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 20 (0.43%) Primavera
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
6 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.17%) Shopify
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
9 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.087%) Finacle
11 4 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.087%) Maximo
11 4 (0.087%) Temenos T24
12 3 (0.065%) Sage 300 ERP
12 3 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,953 (42.35%) Azure
2 912 (19.77%) PowerApps
3 844 (18.30%) Dynamics 365
4 781 (16.93%) Power Automate
5 694 (15.05%) Microsoft 365
6 315 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
7 281 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 268 (5.81%) AWS
9 229 (4.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (3.17%) Serverless
11 145 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 134 (2.91%) GCP
13 109 (2.36%) Snowflake
14 105 (2.28%) Entra ID
15 99 (2.15%) SaaS
16 84 (1.82%) Azure Functions
17 82 (1.78%) PaaS
18 77 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (1.34%) Google Analytics
20 59 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.67%) DNS
2 74 (1.60%) Broadband
3 59 (1.28%) Intranet
4 44 (0.95%) DHCP
5 42 (0.91%) Firewall
6 38 (0.82%) WAN
7 28 (0.61%) Network Security
8 26 (0.56%) LAN
9 22 (0.48%) Internet
10 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.33%) VPN
13 13 (0.28%) VoIP
14 12 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.15%) NAS
16 7 (0.15%) TCP/IP
17 6 (0.13%) HTTP
17 6 (0.13%) WebEx
18 5 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,529 (76.52%) Power BI
2 819 (17.76%) SQL Server
3 671 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
4 632 (13.70%) Tableau
5 423 (9.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 365 (7.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 292 (6.33%) Data Lake
8 208 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 175 (3.79%) Power Query
10 164 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 135 (2.93%) Relational Database
12 86 (1.86%) Big Data
13 71 (1.54%) QlikView
14 70 (1.52%) Looker
15 68 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 59 (1.28%) Data Mining
16 59 (1.28%) NoSQL
17 58 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
18 56 (1.21%) BigQuery
18 56 (1.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 178 (3.86%) JIRA
2 107 (2.32%) Git
3 99 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 37 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 16 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.30%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.20%) GitLab
10 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.13%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.11%) ERwin
14 4 (0.087%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.065%) NUnit
15 3 (0.065%) Selenium
15 3 (0.065%) Subversion
General
1 1,580 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 1,210 (26.24%) Finance
3 966 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 367 (7.96%) Marketing
5 365 (7.91%) Retail
6 322 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 237 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 236 (5.12%) Law
9 229 (4.97%) Legal
10 190 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
11 160 (3.47%) Manufacturing
12 146 (3.17%) Banking
13 86 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (1.45%) Local Government
15 61 (1.32%) Back Office
16 55 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
18 46 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 45 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
20 40 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,109 (24.05%) Developer
2 1,009 (21.88%) Analyst
3 541 (11.73%) Senior
4 396 (8.59%) Data Analyst
5 392 (8.50%) Lead
6 370 (8.02%) Architect
7 348 (7.55%) Consultant
8 296 (6.42%) Data Engineer
9 268 (5.81%) Power Platform Developer
10 256 (5.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 208 (4.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 191 (4.14%) Senior Developer
13 170 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 156 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
15 151 (3.27%) Power BI Developer
16 149 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
17 126 (2.73%) DBA
18 121 (2.62%) Power Platform Architect
19 117 (2.54%) SQL DBA
20 108 (2.34%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (9.45%) .NET
2 194 (4.21%) HTML
3 130 (2.82%) CSS
4 100 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
5 95 (2.06%) JSON
6 85 (1.84%) .NET Framework
7 81 (1.76%) REST
8 68 (1.47%) ASP.NET
9 64 (1.39%) Web Services
10 61 (1.32%) XML
11 45 (0.98%) RESTful
12 42 (0.91%) React
13 41 (0.89%) .NET Core
13 41 (0.89%) PySpark
14 31 (0.67%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 27 (0.59%) Entity Framework
17 23 (0.50%) MDX
18 22 (0.48%) Node.js
18 22 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 189 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 147 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
3 118 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 117 (2.54%) Low-Code
5 101 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 92 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 74 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.11%) FMCG
10 50 (1.08%) NHS
11 47 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 42 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 39 (0.85%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.74%) Driving Licence
15 30 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
17 26 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
17 26 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 25 (0.54%) Cloud Native
18 25 (0.54%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 182 (3.95%) Windows
2 82 (1.78%) VMS
3 69 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.30%) Linux
5 33 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 25 (0.54%) Unix
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.22%) Android
8 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.043%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,010 (65.26%) Business Intelligence
2 1,030 (22.33%) Analytics
3 1,004 (21.77%) Agile
4 815 (17.67%) Visualisation
5 796 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 629 (13.64%) ETL
7 627 (13.59%) DevOps
8 611 (13.25%) Data Analysis
9 576 (12.49%) CRM
10 566 (12.27%) Data Modelling
11 543 (11.77%) Data Visualisation
12 452 (9.80%) Decision-Making
13 421 (9.13%) Project Management
14 412 (8.93%) Migration
15 393 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 386 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 382 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
17 382 (8.28%) Data Science
18 370 (8.02%) Data Analytics
19 366 (7.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2,144 (46.49%) SQL
2 649 (14.07%) Python
3 533 (11.56%) C#
4 416 (9.02%) T-SQL
5 353 (7.65%) JavaScript
6 271 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 221 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 159 (3.45%) R
9 92 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 82 (1.78%) Java
11 76 (1.65%) VBA
12 38 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.54%) VB
14 20 (0.43%) C
15 18 (0.39%) VB.NET
16 17 (0.37%) PHP
17 16 (0.35%) Bash
18 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (0.26%) Go
20 11 (0.24%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 818 (17.74%) Degree
2 294 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 172 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.69%) DBS Check
5 129 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 115 (2.49%) SC Cleared
7 92 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 84 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 29 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 26 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.52%) CIPD
12 18 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (0.37%) CIMA
14 16 (0.35%) CISM
14 16 (0.35%) CISSP
14 16 (0.35%) MBA
15 15 (0.33%) MCSE
15 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 193 (4.18%) GDPR
3 112 (2.43%) QA
4 63 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 42 (0.91%) PMO
6 33 (0.72%) SLA
7 30 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.30%) 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 5 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.065%) PCI DSS
17 2 (0.043%) NCSC
18 1 (0.022%) IFRS
18 1 (0.022%) NIST 800
System Software
1 178 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 85 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.33%) Docker
6 9 (0.20%) Firmware
7 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.043%) vSphere
9 1 (0.022%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (0.98%) Terraform
3 36 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.43%) Ansible
5 14 (0.30%) 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
8 6 (0.13%) WSUS
9 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.087%) Grafana
10 4 (0.087%) Puppet
11 3 (0.065%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.043%) cPanel
12 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.022%) logstash
13 1 (0.022%) Packer
13 1 (0.022%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,344 (50.82%) Microsoft
2 246 (5.33%) Databricks
3 209 (4.53%) Oracle
4 173 (3.75%) Google
5 129 (2.80%) SAP
6 101 (2.19%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 41 (0.89%) VMware
9 36 (0.78%) IFS
9 36 (0.78%) iManage
10 31 (0.67%) Cognos
11 29 (0.63%) UiPath
12 26 (0.56%) Sophos
13 23 (0.50%) Aderant
14 22 (0.48%) Blue Prism
15 21 (0.46%) Adobe
15 21 (0.46%) ServiceNow
15 21 (0.46%) Veeam
16 20 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
17 19 (0.41%) Epicor