Power Platform Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Power Platform
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 44 33
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 +52
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 157 151 302
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 6.67% 5.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.19% 15.38% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 103 87 272
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -0.47%
75th Percentile £63,438 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,600 £82,900 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,750 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.74% +21.05% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

Power Platform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,708 982 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.12% 43.39% 38.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 646 1,617
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +5.22% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Manchester

Power Platform
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in Manchester

Power Platform
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Wigan +5 8 £37,500 -3.85% 1
Oldham +10 6 £42,000 +33.33% 1
Bolton +11 5 £42,500 -29.17% 1
Salford -15 4 £35,609 - 4
Stockport -3 1 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Power Platform
North West

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 25 (15.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.18%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.27%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 54 (34.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.82%) NEC Housing
3 5 (3.18%) SAP PM
4 4 (2.55%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.76%) Azure
2 37 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (13.38%) Power Automate
4 20 (12.74%) Azure AI
4 20 (12.74%) PowerApps
5 17 (10.83%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Purview
6 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (6.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (5.10%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (4.46%) OneDrive
9 7 (4.46%) SaaS
9 7 (4.46%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.82%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.18%) Serverless
12 4 (2.55%) AWS
12 4 (2.55%) Dropbox
13 2 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) LTE
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SAN
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (70.70%) Power BI
2 34 (21.66%) Tableau
3 15 (9.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.73%) Power Query
6 7 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.91%) MySQL
9 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.64%) Looker
10 1 (0.64%) Metadata
10 1 (0.64%) OLAP
10 1 (0.64%) OLTP
10 1 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.64%) Postman
General
1 60 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.65%) Law
4 19 (12.10%) Finance
5 18 (11.46%) Retail
6 16 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (9.55%) Military
7 15 (9.55%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.46%) Marketing
8 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.91%) Banking
11 2 (1.27%) Games
12 1 (0.64%) Billing
12 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.64%) Legal
12 1 (0.64%) Local Government
12 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) Analyst
2 30 (19.11%) Data Analyst
2 30 (19.11%) Senior
3 20 (12.74%) Junior
3 20 (12.74%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (12.74%) Junior Data Analyst
4 18 (11.46%) Data Manager
5 17 (10.83%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (7.64%) Administrator
6 12 (7.64%) Consultant
6 12 (7.64%) Data Administrator
7 11 (7.01%) Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Lead
8 10 (6.37%) Power Platform Consultant
8 10 (6.37%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) Architect
9 7 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.82%) Applications Support
10 6 (3.82%) Applications Support Analyst
10 6 (3.82%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.18%) EDI
2 4 (2.55%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.55%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.55%) Web Services
3 1 (0.64%) .NET
3 1 (0.64%) ADO
3 1 (0.64%) CSS
3 1 (0.64%) HTML
3 1 (0.64%) Kafka
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.64%) PySpark
3 1 (0.64%) React
3 1 (0.64%) REST
3 1 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) Pricing Data
2 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.18%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.27%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (64.33%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (33.76%) AI
3 41 (26.11%) Analytics
4 28 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.56%) Decision-Making
6 25 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (15.29%) Visualisation
8 23 (14.65%) Agile
8 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (11.46%) Data Modelling
9 18 (11.46%) Data Visualisation
10 17 (10.83%) Data Governance
11 16 (10.19%) ETL
11 16 (10.19%) User Experience
12 15 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (9.55%) Data Management
12 15 (9.55%) Performance Improvement
13 13 (8.28%) DevOps
14 12 (7.64%) Data Analysis
14 12 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.94%) SQL
2 38 (24.20%) Python
3 9 (5.73%) VBA
4 6 (3.82%) C#
4 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.82%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.27%) Bicep
6 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) Bash
7 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Azure Certification
2 17 (10.83%) Degree
3 3 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.27%) PMP
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) QA
3 7 (4.46%) GDPR
4 5 (3.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.55%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Terraform
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 76 (48.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.82%) Databricks
2 6 (3.82%) New Relic
2 6 (3.82%) Northgate
2 6 (3.82%) Splunk
3 5 (3.18%) SAP
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
5 2 (1.27%) Adyen
5 2 (1.27%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.27%) Genesys
5 2 (1.27%) IFS
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) Verint
5 2 (1.27%) VMware
6 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.64%) Informatica