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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 58 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,585 5,204 5,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 5.14% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.96% 12.00% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,737 3,270 4,137
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,238 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,709 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% +0.44% +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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £33,750
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 9 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 9 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 4,108 £55,000 -4.35% 1,124
UK excluding London +9 3,005 £50,000 +4.80% 705
Work from Home +3 1,939 £55,000 - 604
London +17 1,327 £67,500 - 431
North of England +16 854 £47,500 - 178
Midlands +16 651 £53,818 +13.30% 170
South East +11 628 £51,000 -2.86% 150
North West +28 487 £47,500 - 109
West Midlands +15 483 £55,000 +15.79% 110
South West +1 345 £50,000 +5.26% 85
Yorkshire -2 254 £50,000 +5.26% 53
East of England +76 243 £48,500 -3.00% 62
Scotland -27 209 £47,500 -6.75% 40
East Midlands +5 165 £45,000 - 59
North East +4 113 £42,500 -15.00% 16
Wales -25 70 £55,000 +37.50% 20
Northern Ireland -18 9 £66,250 +47.22% 10
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 2

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
1 680 (14.83%) SharePoint
2 114 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.05%) Confluence
4 40 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.68%) SAS
6 30 (0.65%) 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%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 4 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.065%) Alfresco
14 3 (0.065%) Documentum
14 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
15 2 (0.044%) Drupal
15 2 (0.044%) Joomla!
Applications
1 882 (19.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 230 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.64%) 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 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.065%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.044%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 415 (9.05%) 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 (0.17%) Maximo
9 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (0.15%) Shopify
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
11 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.087%) Finacle
12 4 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.087%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.065%) Sage 200
13 3 (0.065%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,915 (41.77%) Azure
2 917 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 839 (18.30%) Dynamics 365
4 780 (17.01%) Power Automate
5 721 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
6 321 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 285 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 239 (5.21%) AWS
9 221 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 145 (3.16%) Serverless
12 138 (3.01%) GCP
13 109 (2.38%) Snowflake
14 104 (2.27%) Entra ID
15 95 (2.07%) SaaS
16 83 (1.81%) PaaS
17 81 (1.77%) Azure Functions
18 76 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (1.42%) Google Analytics
19 65 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.70%) DNS
2 74 (1.61%) Broadband
3 62 (1.35%) Intranet
4 47 (1.03%) DHCP
5 41 (0.89%) Firewall
6 37 (0.81%) 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 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.33%) VPN
13 13 (0.28%) VoIP
14 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.17%) HTTP
16 8 (0.17%) WebEx
17 7 (0.15%) NAS
17 7 (0.15%) TCP/IP
18 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,499 (76.31%) Power BI
2 830 (18.10%) SQL Server
3 634 (13.83%) Data Warehouse
4 611 (13.33%) Tableau
5 418 (9.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 374 (8.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 278 (6.06%) Data Lake
8 215 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 170 (3.71%) Power Query
10 165 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 137 (2.99%) Relational Database
12 81 (1.77%) Big Data
13 76 (1.66%) Looker
14 71 (1.55%) QlikView
15 63 (1.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 62 (1.35%) NoSQL
17 60 (1.31%) Data Mining
18 56 (1.22%) BigQuery
19 55 (1.20%) Metadata
20 50 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 188 (4.10%) JIRA
2 107 (2.33%) Git
3 94 (2.05%) Visual Studio
4 52 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 39 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
6 19 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.33%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) GitLab
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.11%) ERwin
13 4 (0.087%) Selenium
14 3 (0.065%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.065%) NUnit
14 3 (0.065%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,578 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 1,196 (26.09%) Finance
3 958 (20.89%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (8.16%) Retail
5 364 (7.94%) Marketing
6 328 (7.15%) Public Sector
7 237 (5.17%) Law
8 230 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 229 (4.99%) Legal
10 167 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 164 (3.58%) Manufacturing
12 143 (3.12%) Banking
13 84 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 65 (1.42%) Local Government
15 57 (1.24%) Back Office
16 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
18 48 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
18 48 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 43 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,118 (24.38%) Developer
2 1,021 (22.27%) Analyst
3 528 (11.52%) Senior
4 402 (8.77%) Data Analyst
5 392 (8.55%) Lead
6 348 (7.59%) Consultant
7 342 (7.46%) Architect
8 277 (6.04%) Data Engineer
9 271 (5.91%) Power Platform Developer
10 257 (5.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 207 (4.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 182 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 170 (3.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 158 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
15 157 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
16 152 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
17 128 (2.79%) DBA
18 118 (2.57%) Power Platform Architect
19 117 (2.55%) SQL DBA
20 110 (2.40%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (9.68%) .NET
2 194 (4.23%) HTML
3 129 (2.81%) CSS
4 102 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
5 101 (2.20%) JSON
6 88 (1.92%) REST
7 87 (1.90%) .NET Framework
8 74 (1.61%) ASP.NET
9 63 (1.37%) Web Services
10 60 (1.31%) XML
11 46 (1.00%) RESTful
12 41 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 41 (0.89%) React
13 38 (0.83%) PySpark
14 35 (0.76%) 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
1 188 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 144 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 128 (2.79%) Low-Code
4 117 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 102 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 93 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.11%) FMCG
10 46 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 45 (0.98%) NHS
12 41 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 38 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.74%) Driving Licence
15 29 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
17 25 (0.55%) Cloud Native
17 25 (0.55%) Housing Association
17 25 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 187 (4.08%) Windows
2 83 (1.81%) VMS
3 70 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.35%) Linux
5 34 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 24 (0.52%) 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 2,992 (65.26%) Business Intelligence
2 1,025 (22.36%) Agile
3 1,000 (21.81%) Analytics
4 815 (17.78%) Visualisation
5 774 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 630 (13.74%) ETL
7 611 (13.33%) DevOps
8 583 (12.72%) Data Analysis
9 573 (12.50%) CRM
10 542 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
11 530 (11.56%) Data Modelling
12 458 (9.99%) Decision-Making
13 431 (9.40%) Project Management
14 414 (9.03%) Migration
15 401 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 388 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
17 385 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 370 (8.07%) Roadmaps
19 362 (7.90%) Data Science
20 355 (7.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,123 (46.30%) SQL
2 641 (13.98%) Python
3 533 (11.62%) C#
4 417 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 360 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 259 (5.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 224 (4.89%) PowerShell
8 161 (3.51%) R
9 100 (2.18%) TypeScript
10 87 (1.90%) Java
11 74 (1.61%) VBA
12 39 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.55%) VB
14 24 (0.52%) 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
1 805 (17.56%) Degree
2 298 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 185 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.71%) DBS Check
5 127 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 119 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 90 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 80 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 33 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.52%) CIPD
13 18 (0.39%) MCSE
13 18 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.37%) CIMA
15 16 (0.35%) CISM
15 16 (0.35%) CISSP
15 16 (0.35%) MBA
16 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.28%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 192 (4.19%) GDPR
3 109 (2.38%) QA
4 63 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) PMO
6 34 (0.74%) 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 12 (0.26%) COBIT
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.087%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.044%) NCSC
17 1 (0.022%) IFRS
17 1 (0.022%) NIST 800
System Software
1 177 (3.86%) 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 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.065%) vSphere
9 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (0.94%) Terraform
3 36 (0.79%) 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 (0.087%) Grafana
9 4 (0.087%) Puppet
10 3 (0.065%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.044%) cPanel
11 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.022%) logstash
12 1 (0.022%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.022%) Salt
12 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,338 (50.99%) Microsoft
2 243 (5.30%) Databricks
3 216 (4.71%) Oracle
4 175 (3.82%) Google
5 128 (2.79%) SAP
6 106 (2.31%) Alteryx
7 60 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 41 (0.89%) VMware
9 37 (0.81%) iManage
10 36 (0.79%) IFS
11 31 (0.68%) Cognos
12 30 (0.65%) UiPath
13 27 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.57%) Sophos
15 24 (0.52%) Blue Prism
16 23 (0.50%) Aderant
16 23 (0.50%) Adobe
17 21 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
18 20 (0.44%) IBM
18 20 (0.44%) Veeam