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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 61 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +31
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 198 124 291
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.10% 4.99% 5.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.96% 12.73% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 144 83 253
10th Percentile £37,124 £40,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £43,693 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -0.47%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,975 £89,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £54,625 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% +10.00% -

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 1,807 974 2,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.31% 39.18% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 630 1,556
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,200 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,957 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,125 £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 15 July 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 15 July 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 12 £47,500 - 2
Wigan +10 9 £37,500 -3.85% 2
Bolton +10 6 £46,250 -22.92% 2
Salford -14 6 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Cheadle - 5 - -
Stockport -2 1 £50,000 -31.03% 2
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 27 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 58 (29.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.53%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.02%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.82%) Azure
2 43 (21.72%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (17.17%) PowerApps
4 32 (16.16%) Dynamics 365
5 31 (15.66%) Power Automate
6 29 (14.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 21 (10.61%) Azure AI
8 16 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.58%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.04%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.54%) OneDrive
14 6 (3.03%) AWS
14 6 (3.03%) GitHub
14 6 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.02%) Dropbox
15 4 (2.02%) GCP
15 4 (2.02%) Serverless
16 2 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) Firewall
1 5 (2.53%) SAN
2 3 (1.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (62.12%) Power BI
2 35 (17.68%) Tableau
3 15 (7.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.55%) Power Query
6 7 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.02%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.52%) MySQL
10 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.01%) Looker
11 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.51%) GIS
11 1 (0.51%) OLAP
11 1 (0.51%) OLTP
11 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (3.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Git
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.51%) MLflow
3 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 59 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.18%) Finance
3 32 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.66%) Law
5 21 (10.61%) Retail
6 20 (10.10%) Military
6 20 (10.10%) Telecoms
7 17 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.05%) Marketing
9 7 (3.54%) Legal
10 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.53%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.02%) Banking
12 4 (2.02%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.51%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.24%) Analyst
2 39 (19.70%) Senior
3 33 (16.67%) Developer
4 31 (15.66%) Data Analyst
5 20 (10.10%) Data Manager
6 16 (8.08%) Junior
6 16 (8.08%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (8.08%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (7.58%) Architect
7 15 (7.58%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 14 (7.07%) Consultant
9 13 (6.57%) Administrator
9 13 (6.57%) Power Platform Developer
10 12 (6.06%) Data Administrator
10 12 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (5.05%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 9 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Lead
12 9 (4.55%) Power Platform Consultant
12 9 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.07%) HTML
2 8 (4.04%) CSS
2 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (3.54%) PySpark
4 6 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (3.03%) SPFx
5 5 (2.53%) EDI
6 4 (2.02%) REST
6 4 (2.02%) Web Services
7 2 (1.01%) .NET
8 1 (0.51%) ADO
8 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.51%) React
8 1 (0.51%) Swagger
8 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.54%) Pricing Data
3 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.01%) Replication
6 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (29.80%) AI
3 47 (23.74%) Analytics
4 36 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (17.17%) Decision-Making
6 33 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.16%) Agile
7 32 (16.16%) Visualisation
8 26 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (12.63%) Data Visualisation
10 24 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (11.62%) DevOps
12 22 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (10.61%) CI/CD
13 21 (10.61%) Data Modelling
14 20 (10.10%) Data Management
15 19 (9.60%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
16 18 (9.09%) Data Analysis
16 18 (9.09%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.84%) SQL
2 43 (21.72%) Python
3 20 (10.10%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.58%) C#
5 9 (4.55%) VBA
6 6 (3.03%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.53%) Bicep
7 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.02%) R
9 3 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 12 (6.06%) Degree
3 6 (3.03%) ACCA
3 6 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.53%) CIMA
4 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.56%) GDPR
2 11 (5.56%) QA
3 9 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 103 (52.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.05%) Databricks
3 5 (2.53%) SAP
3 5 (2.53%) VMware
4 4 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (1.01%) Adyen
5 2 (1.01%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) IFS
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.51%) Liquidlogic