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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 63 42
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 +31
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 205 118 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.16% 4.73% 4.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.17% 12.33% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 152 77 208
10th Percentile £37,650 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,965 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.94% +3.01%
75th Percentile £61,375 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £92,000 £93,400
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 1,835 957 1,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.31% 38.34% 37.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 621 1,341
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,840 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £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 25 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 25 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 - 14 £51,000 - 2
Wigan +10 10 £40,000 - 1
Bolton +9 6 £46,250 -22.92% 2
Salford -13 6 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Cheadle - 5 - - 3
Oldham +9 1 £54,250 +72.22% 2
Stockport -1 1 £50,000 - 3
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 28 (13.66%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
Applications
1 56 (27.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.44%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.95%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.98%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.15%) Azure
2 44 (21.46%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (17.07%) Dynamics 365
3 35 (17.07%) PowerApps
4 33 (16.10%) Power Automate
5 31 (15.12%) Microsoft Copilot
6 20 (9.76%) Azure AI
7 18 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.32%) Copilot Studio
9 14 (6.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.41%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.93%) AWS
13 6 (2.93%) GitHub
13 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.95%) Dropbox
14 4 (1.95%) GCP
14 4 (1.95%) Serverless
15 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) Firewall
1 5 (2.44%) SAN
2 3 (1.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (60.98%) Power BI
2 35 (17.07%) Tableau
3 15 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (4.39%) Power Query
5 7 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.95%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.46%) MySQL
10 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.98%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.98%) Looker
11 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.49%) GIS
11 1 (0.49%) OLAP
11 1 (0.49%) OLTP
11 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (2.93%) JIRA
2 2 (0.98%) Git
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.49%) MLflow
3 1 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 60 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.59%) Finance
3 33 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Law
4 20 (9.76%) Military
4 20 (9.76%) Retail
4 20 (9.76%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.88%) Marketing
7 9 (4.39%) Legal
8 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.44%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.95%) Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Local Government
11 3 (1.46%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.98%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.49%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.49%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 47 (22.93%) Analyst
2 42 (20.49%) Senior
3 38 (18.54%) Developer
4 31 (15.12%) Data Analyst
5 20 (9.76%) Data Manager
6 17 (8.29%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 15 (7.32%) Architect
7 15 (7.32%) Junior
7 15 (7.32%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (7.32%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (7.32%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (6.34%) Administrator
9 12 (5.85%) Consultant
9 12 (5.85%) Data Administrator
10 11 (5.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 11 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 10 (4.88%) Lead
11 10 (4.88%) Systems Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.29%) HTML
2 11 (5.37%) CSS
3 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 9 (4.39%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (3.90%) SPFx
6 7 (3.41%) PySpark
7 5 (2.44%) EDI
7 5 (2.44%) REST
8 4 (1.95%) Web Services
9 3 (1.46%) .NET
10 1 (0.49%) ADO
10 1 (0.49%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.49%) React
10 1 (0.49%) Swagger
10 1 (0.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.41%) Pricing Data
4 6 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.98%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.93%) Windows
2 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (53.66%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (30.24%) AI
3 47 (22.93%) Analytics
4 40 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (17.07%) Agile
7 34 (16.59%) Decision-Making
8 32 (15.61%) Visualisation
9 29 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (13.17%) DevOps
11 26 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (12.20%) Data Visualisation
13 24 (11.71%) CI/CD
14 23 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
14 23 (11.22%) Data Modelling
15 22 (10.73%) Translating Business Requirements
16 21 (10.24%) Data Management
17 20 (9.76%) Data Protection
18 19 (9.27%) Customer Engagement
19 18 (8.78%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.66%) SQL
2 44 (21.46%) Python
3 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
4 19 (9.27%) C#
5 9 (4.39%) VBA
6 6 (2.93%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.44%) Bicep
7 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.95%) R
9 3 (1.46%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (8.29%) Azure Certification
2 11 (5.37%) Degree
3 7 (3.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) ACCA
5 5 (2.44%) CIMA
5 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.71%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.85%) QA
3 11 (5.37%) GDPR
4 9 (4.39%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.95%) SLA
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 108 (52.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.88%) Databricks
3 5 (2.44%) SAP
3 5 (2.44%) VMware
4 4 (1.95%) Oracle
5 2 (0.98%) Adyen
5 2 (0.98%) Google
5 2 (0.98%) IFS
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.49%) Liquidlogic