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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 53 65
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 258 108 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.38% 4.54% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.64% 12.69% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 183 87 94
10th Percentile £39,600 £37,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +4.23%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% - +12.38%

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 1,892 851 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.77% 35.80% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 569 760
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.42% -0.42%
75th Percentile £80,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 - 22 £44,000 - 4
Wigan +9 8 £37,500 - 4
Salford -12 6 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Cheadle +2 5 - - 3
Bolton -1 4 £28,718 -52.14% 16
Oldham +5 3 £54,250 +8.50% 3
Sale - 3 £62,500 -
Altrincham +3 1 £47,500 +72.73%
Rochdale - 1 - - 4
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 46 (17.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (14.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.16%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.16%) Navisworks
2 3 (1.16%) ProjectWise
2 3 (1.16%) Revit
2 3 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (7.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.39%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.17%) Azure
2 62 (24.03%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (22.09%) Dynamics 365
3 57 (22.09%) PowerApps
4 54 (20.93%) Power Automate
5 43 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 30 (11.63%) Copilot Studio
7 28 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.81%) OneDrive
9 10 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (3.49%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.10%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.71%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.33%) GitHub
13 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.33%) SaaS
14 5 (1.94%) GCP
14 5 (1.94%) Serverless
15 4 (1.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.94%) Firewall
1 5 (1.94%) SAN
2 3 (1.16%) LTE
3 1 (0.39%) DHCP
3 1 (0.39%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) SNMP
3 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (50.39%) Power BI
2 20 (7.75%) Tableau
3 15 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (3.88%) Power Query
6 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.55%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.55%) Metadata
9 3 (1.16%) Looker
9 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.39%) GIS
11 1 (0.39%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Git
1 4 (1.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) MLflow
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 61 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.44%) Finance
3 43 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.95%) Law
5 25 (9.69%) Legal
6 20 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (7.36%) Military
7 19 (7.36%) Telecoms
8 15 (5.81%) Retail
9 7 (2.71%) Local Government
9 7 (2.71%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.94%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.94%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.94%) Marketing
11 5 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (25.58%) Developer
2 39 (15.12%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 36 (13.95%) Analyst
4 35 (13.57%) Senior
5 29 (11.24%) Consultant
6 24 (9.30%) Data Analyst
7 23 (8.91%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 19 (7.36%) Architect
9 15 (5.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Developer
10 14 (5.43%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (5.04%) Power Platform Consultant
11 13 (5.04%) Support Consultant
12 12 (4.65%) Administrator
12 12 (4.65%) Data Manager
12 12 (4.65%) Functional Consultant
12 12 (4.65%) Systems Developer
13 11 (4.26%) Data Administrator
14 10 (3.88%) Product Specialist
14 10 (3.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.24%) HTML
2 16 (6.20%) CSS
3 14 (5.43%) HTML5 Canvas
4 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 10 (3.88%) SPFx
6 9 (3.49%) REST
7 7 (2.71%) PySpark
7 7 (2.71%) Terraform
8 6 (2.33%) .NET
9 4 (1.55%) EDI
10 3 (1.16%) Web Services
11 2 (0.78%) React
12 1 (0.39%) ADO
12 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.39%) Blazor
12 1 (0.39%) OAuth
12 1 (0.39%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (0.39%) SAML
12 1 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.49%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.33%) Hackathon
7 6 (2.33%) Learning Management System
7 6 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.55%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.78%) NHS
11 2 (0.78%) Pricing Data
12 1 (0.39%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.39%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Windows
2 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (44.19%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (26.74%) AI
3 56 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (18.99%) Agile
6 47 (18.22%) Analytics
7 42 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (13.95%) DevOps
9 34 (13.18%) Data Protection
10 33 (12.79%) Visualisation
11 30 (11.63%) Decision-Making
11 30 (11.63%) Translating Business Requirements
12 29 (11.24%) Data Modelling
13 27 (10.47%) CI/CD
13 27 (10.47%) Roadmaps
14 24 (9.30%) CRM
15 23 (8.91%) Data Visualisation
15 23 (8.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 21 (8.14%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.03%) SQL
2 38 (14.73%) JavaScript
3 31 (12.02%) Python
4 26 (10.08%) C#
5 7 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.33%) R
7 5 (1.94%) Bicep
8 4 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.16%) Scala
9 3 (1.16%) VBA
10 2 (0.78%) Java
10 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (5.43%) Degree
1 14 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (5.43%) SC Cleared
1 14 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.71%) ACCA
2 7 (2.71%) CIPD
3 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.33%) CIMA
4 5 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.39%) CFA
5 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.02%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.08%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.49%) GDPR
4 8 (3.10%) QA
5 7 (2.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.55%) NEBOSH
7 3 (1.16%) ISO 19650
7 3 (1.16%) SLA
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 156 (60.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.49%) Databricks
3 8 (3.10%) Oracle
4 6 (2.33%) Saba
4 6 (2.33%) VMware
4 6 (2.33%) YouTube
5 4 (1.55%) Foundry
5 4 (1.55%) Google
5 4 (1.55%) OneTrust
6 3 (1.16%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.78%) HighQ
7 2 (0.78%) HP
7 2 (0.78%) UiPath
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe
8 1 (0.39%) Legatics
8 1 (0.39%) Legora
8 1 (0.39%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.39%) Sage
8 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.39%) Zscaler