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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 48 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +53
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 157 151 304
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.80% 6.68% 6.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 15.31% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 104 87 274
10th Percentile £31,875 £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 £64,531 £70,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £70,525 £82,900 £88,750
North West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 1,689 986 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.14% 43.61% 38.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,111 649 1,620
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,450 £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 18 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 18 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 +4 7 £37,500 -3.85% 2
Oldham +10 6 £42,000 +33.33% 2
Bolton +11 5 £42,500 -29.17% 2
Salford -13 4 £35,609 - 5
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 26 (16.56%) 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
Applications
1 54 (34.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.82%) NEC Housing
2 5 (3.18%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.55%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.12%) Azure
2 38 (24.20%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (12.74%) Azure AI
3 20 (12.74%) Power Automate
4 19 (12.10%) PowerApps
5 18 (11.46%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (10.83%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (6.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.73%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.10%) OneDrive
10 8 (5.10%) SaaS
11 7 (4.46%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.82%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.18%) Serverless
14 4 (2.55%) AWS
14 4 (2.55%) Dropbox
15 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
1 110 (70.06%) Power BI
2 34 (21.66%) Tableau
3 14 (8.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.73%) Power Query
6 7 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.91%) MySQL
7 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.64%) Metadata
9 1 (0.64%) OLAP
9 1 (0.64%) OLTP
9 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 61 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.65%) Law
4 17 (10.83%) Finance
4 17 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (10.83%) Retail
5 15 (9.55%) Military
5 15 (9.55%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.46%) Marketing
6 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.91%) Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Games
9 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
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%) Data Administrator
7 11 (7.01%) Consultant
8 10 (6.37%) 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
9 7 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Applications Support
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%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (4.46%) Pricing Data
2 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.18%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.27%) Replication
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (63.69%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (33.76%) AI
3 41 (26.11%) Analytics
4 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (17.20%) Decision-Making
6 25 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (15.29%) Agile
8 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (14.65%) Visualisation
9 18 (11.46%) Data Modelling
10 17 (10.83%) Data Governance
10 17 (10.83%) Data Visualisation
10 17 (10.83%) User Experience
11 15 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (9.55%) Data Management
11 15 (9.55%) ETL
11 15 (9.55%) Performance Improvement
12 14 (8.92%) DevOps
13 12 (7.64%) Change Management
14 11 (7.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (35.03%) SQL
2 37 (23.57%) 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 20 (12.74%) 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%) 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 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Terraform
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (47.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.46%) New Relic
2 7 (4.46%) Splunk
3 6 (3.82%) Databricks
3 6 (3.82%) Northgate
4 5 (3.18%) SAP
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) Adyen
6 2 (1.27%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.27%) Genesys
6 2 (1.27%) IFS
6 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.27%) Verint
6 2 (1.27%) VMware
7 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.64%) Informatica