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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 61 55
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +17
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 109 136 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.55% 3.71% 5.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.98% 10.43% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 88 93 114
10th Percentile £37,825 £40,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,710 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,875 £78,500 £89,625
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Cloud 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 910 1,304 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 38.00% 35.55% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 606 725 913
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% +2.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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
Altrincham - 6 £27,500 - 4
Bolton +12 4 £46,250 +15.63% 5
Salford - 2 £45,000 -
Stockport +3 1 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 - 1
Oldham - 1 £50,000 - 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 16 (14.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.50%) WordPress
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 34 (31.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.94%) Azure
2 24 (22.02%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (15.60%) Power Automate
4 15 (13.76%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (10.09%) Entra ID
6 10 (9.17%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (9.17%) OneDrive
7 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.42%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.83%) Google Docs
12 2 (1.83%) Intacct
12 2 (1.83%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (70.64%) Power BI
2 9 (8.26%) Tableau
3 8 (7.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.59%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.67%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.67%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.92%) Big Data
9 1 (0.92%) Power Query
9 1 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.92%) QlikView
9 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) GitLab
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) RStudio
General
1 40 (36.70%) Finance
2 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.26%) Banking
6 8 (7.34%) Law
6 8 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.50%) Retail
9 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.59%) Tech for Good
10 4 (3.67%) Advertising
10 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.75%) Marketing
11 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.83%) Military
13 1 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (33.94%) Analyst
2 17 (15.60%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (7.34%) Consultant
4 8 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Commercial Analyst
5 7 (6.42%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.42%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 6 (5.50%) Power Platform Developer
6 6 (5.50%) Power Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Snowflake Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Application Development Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Applications Development Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Applications Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Development Manager
7 5 (4.59%) IT Support
7 5 (4.59%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) .NET
2 6 (5.50%) HTML
3 3 (2.75%) Snowpark
4 2 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.83%) Middleware
5 1 (0.92%) Blazor
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Social Media
2 12 (11.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.83%) Blog
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.83%) Equities
6 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Windows
2 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.14%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (27.52%) Agile
3 24 (22.02%) Decision-Making
4 20 (18.35%) Analytics
5 18 (16.51%) Data Analysis
6 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (14.68%) Actionable Insight
7 16 (14.68%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 14 (12.84%) AI
8 14 (12.84%) Financial Modelling
8 14 (12.84%) Process Improvement
9 13 (11.93%) ERP
10 12 (11.01%) Data Modelling
11 11 (10.09%) Commercial Awareness
11 11 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.09%) Data Management
11 11 (10.09%) DevOps
12 10 (9.17%) Data Governance
12 10 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.94%) SQL
2 11 (10.09%) Python
3 6 (5.50%) ANSI SQL
3 6 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.67%) C#
4 4 (3.67%) VBA
5 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.92%) PHP
7 1 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (19.27%) Degree
2 13 (11.93%) DBS Check
3 12 (11.01%) ACCA
3 12 (11.01%) CIMA
4 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.59%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.75%) AAT
8 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.83%) CBAP
9 2 (1.83%) MCP
10 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.92%) MBA
10 1 (0.92%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) SLA
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (56.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) Facebook
4 3 (2.75%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.75%) Concur
4 3 (2.75%) SAP
5 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.83%) Google
5 2 (1.83%) New Relic
5 2 (1.83%) Sage
5 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.83%) Splunk
5 2 (1.83%) UiPath
6 1 (0.92%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.92%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.92%) Ariba
6 1 (0.92%) Cognos
6 1 (0.92%) Databricks
6 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow