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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 59 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,653 5,098 6,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 5.24% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.99% 12.11% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,751 3,183 4,295
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,647 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,198 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +0.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,368 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.28% +3.93% +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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 28 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 28 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 +13 4,168 £55,000 -4.35% 1,119
UK excluding London +9 3,061 £50,000 +1.28% 685
Work from Home 0 1,950 £55,000 - 552
London +15 1,344 £67,500 - 426
North of England +12 846 £47,500 - 193
Midlands +6 669 £53,068 +11.72% 131
South East +16 658 £50,000 -9.09% 164
West Midlands +8 498 £55,000 +11.41% 87
North West +38 486 £47,500 -0.63% 123
South West +1 356 £50,000 - 97
Yorkshire -4 250 £50,000 +5.26% 49
East of England +67 242 £48,500 -3.00% 55
Scotland -34 215 £47,500 -5.45% 39
East Midlands +3 168 £45,000 - 44
North East +6 110 £42,500 -15.00% 21
Wales -21 71 £55,000 +37.50% 12
Northern Ireland -25 8 £65,000 +44.44% 9
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57%
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 (14.18%) SharePoint
2 107 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (0.97%) Confluence
4 39 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 35 (0.75%) Apache
6 31 (0.67%) SAS
7 27 (0.58%) IIS
8 24 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 14 (0.30%) WordPress
10 13 (0.28%) CMS
11 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.086%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.064%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.043%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.043%) Drupal
16 2 (0.043%) Joomla!
16 2 (0.043%) nginx
Applications
1 891 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 227 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.064%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.064%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 418 (8.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 33 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
4 20 (0.43%) Primavera
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.21%) Epicor Tropos
7 10 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.17%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.086%) Finacle
12 4 (0.086%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.086%) Maximo
12 4 (0.086%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.064%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,959 (42.10%) Azure
2 925 (19.88%) PowerApps
3 865 (18.59%) Dynamics 365
4 789 (16.96%) Power Automate
5 691 (14.85%) Microsoft 365
6 317 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
7 284 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 270 (5.80%) AWS
9 232 (4.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (3.16%) Serverless
11 146 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 128 (2.75%) GCP
13 107 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 106 (2.28%) Entra ID
15 96 (2.06%) SaaS
16 84 (1.81%) Azure Functions
17 81 (1.74%) PaaS
18 78 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
19 58 (1.25%) Google Analytics
19 58 (1.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 75 (1.61%) DNS
2 74 (1.59%) Broadband
3 60 (1.29%) Intranet
4 44 (0.95%) Firewall
5 43 (0.92%) DHCP
6 36 (0.77%) WAN
7 28 (0.60%) Network Security
8 25 (0.54%) LAN
9 22 (0.47%) Internet
10 21 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 16 (0.34%) VoIP
13 15 (0.32%) VPN
14 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.15%) NAS
17 6 (0.13%) HTTP
17 6 (0.13%) TCP/IP
17 6 (0.13%) WebEx
18 5 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,546 (76.21%) Power BI
2 813 (17.47%) SQL Server
3 674 (14.49%) Data Warehouse
4 633 (13.60%) Tableau
5 419 (9.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 361 (7.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 290 (6.23%) Data Lake
8 205 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 180 (3.87%) Power Query
10 164 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 136 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 90 (1.93%) Big Data
13 72 (1.55%) QlikView
14 71 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 65 (1.40%) Looker
16 59 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
17 58 (1.25%) Data Mining
18 57 (1.23%) NoSQL
19 55 (1.18%) Metadata
20 53 (1.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (3.80%) JIRA
2 110 (2.36%) Git
3 99 (2.13%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 38 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.30%) RStudio
8 10 (0.21%) GitLab
8 10 (0.21%) gulp
8 10 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.21%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.11%) ERwin
12 4 (0.086%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.086%) Subversion
13 3 (0.064%) Selenium
13 3 (0.064%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,593 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 1,217 (26.16%) Finance
3 968 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
4 375 (8.06%) Marketing
5 361 (7.76%) Retail
6 324 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 244 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 238 (5.11%) Law
9 232 (4.99%) Legal
10 187 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 164 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 146 (3.14%) Banking
13 89 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (1.44%) Local Government
15 61 (1.31%) Back Office
16 60 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.10%) Fire and Rescue
18 46 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
19 45 (0.97%) Telecoms
20 39 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,128 (24.24%) Developer
2 1,015 (21.81%) Analyst
3 546 (11.73%) Senior
4 404 (8.68%) Data Analyst
5 393 (8.45%) Lead
6 379 (8.15%) Architect
7 356 (7.65%) Consultant
8 292 (6.28%) Data Engineer
9 273 (5.87%) Power Platform Developer
10 256 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 216 (4.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 192 (4.13%) Senior Developer
13 171 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 162 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
15 153 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
16 147 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 130 (2.79%) Power Platform Architect
18 127 (2.73%) DBA
19 118 (2.54%) SQL DBA
20 114 (2.45%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (9.37%) .NET
2 196 (4.21%) HTML
3 133 (2.86%) CSS
4 101 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
5 95 (2.04%) JSON
6 86 (1.85%) .NET Framework
7 81 (1.74%) REST
8 66 (1.42%) Web Services
9 65 (1.40%) ASP.NET
10 60 (1.29%) XML
11 45 (0.97%) RESTful
12 42 (0.90%) .NET Core
12 42 (0.90%) React
13 41 (0.88%) PySpark
14 31 (0.67%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.64%) ASP.NET Web API
16 27 (0.58%) Entity Framework
17 23 (0.49%) MDX
18 22 (0.47%) Node.js
18 22 (0.47%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 193 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 146 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 119 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 116 (2.49%) Low-Code
5 100 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 89 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 75 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (1.18%) NHS
10 51 (1.10%) FMCG
11 48 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 43 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 40 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.73%) Driving Licence
15 29 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
17 27 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
18 26 (0.56%) Cloud Native
19 25 (0.54%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 179 (3.85%) Windows
2 83 (1.78%) VMS
3 67 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.29%) Linux
5 32 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 25 (0.54%) Unix
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.24%) Android
8 11 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.043%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.021%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.021%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.021%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,017 (64.84%) Business Intelligence
2 1,030 (22.14%) Analytics
3 1,008 (21.66%) Agile
4 811 (17.43%) Visualisation
5 802 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 629 (13.52%) DevOps
7 621 (13.35%) ETL
8 619 (13.30%) Data Analysis
9 576 (12.38%) CRM
10 567 (12.19%) Data Modelling
11 538 (11.56%) Data Visualisation
12 454 (9.76%) Decision-Making
13 426 (9.16%) Project Management
14 413 (8.88%) Migration
15 391 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 387 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 383 (8.23%) Data Science
18 381 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
19 367 (7.89%) Data Analytics
20 362 (7.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2,149 (46.19%) SQL
2 648 (13.93%) Python
3 536 (11.52%) C#
4 411 (8.83%) T-SQL
5 358 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 273 (5.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 222 (4.77%) PowerShell
8 159 (3.42%) R
9 93 (2.00%) TypeScript
10 83 (1.78%) Java
11 77 (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%) Bash
16 17 (0.37%) PHP
17 13 (0.28%) Go
18 12 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
19 11 (0.24%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 830 (17.84%) Degree
2 297 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 180 (3.87%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.65%) DBS Check
5 137 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 93 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 86 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
9 29 (0.62%) PMI Certification
10 26 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.52%) CIPD
12 19 (0.41%) CISM
12 19 (0.41%) CISSP
13 18 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.37%) CIMA
15 16 (0.34%) MBA
16 15 (0.32%) MCSE
16 15 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 194 (4.17%) GDPR
3 112 (2.41%) QA
4 63 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 42 (0.90%) PMO
6 34 (0.73%) SLA
7 31 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.28%) NIST
12 11 (0.24%) COBIT
13 8 (0.17%) GRC
13 8 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.086%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.043%) GLP
16 2 (0.043%) NCSC
16 2 (0.043%) PCI DSS
17 1 (0.021%) HIPAA
System Software
1 173 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 85 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.34%) Docker
6 9 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.043%) vSphere
8 1 (0.021%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (0.99%) Terraform
3 37 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.43%) Ansible
5 13 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (0.24%) 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 (0.086%) Grafana
10 4 (0.086%) Puppet
11 3 (0.064%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.043%) cPanel
12 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.021%) logstash
13 1 (0.021%) Packer
13 1 (0.021%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.021%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,358 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.27%) Databricks
3 208 (4.47%) Oracle
4 171 (3.68%) Google
5 129 (2.77%) SAP
6 101 (2.17%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 40 (0.86%) VMware
9 36 (0.77%) IFS
10 34 (0.73%) iManage
11 32 (0.69%) Cognos
12 29 (0.62%) UiPath
13 26 (0.56%) Sophos
14 22 (0.47%) Aderant
14 22 (0.47%) Blue Prism
15 21 (0.45%) Veeam
16 20 (0.43%) Adobe
16 20 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
17 19 (0.41%) ServiceNow
18 16 (0.34%) Epicor