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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 245 107 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.28% 4.52% 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.83% 12.49% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 173 84 115
10th Percentile £39,100 £36,250 £41,350
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £43,730
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% +9.48%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £93,500 £82,250
North West median annual salary £51,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% +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 1,910 857 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.60% 36.19% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 571 833
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £36,050
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £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 18 September 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 September 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 - 17 £51,000 - 2
Wigan +8 9 £37,500 - 3
Salford -16 7 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Bolton -2 5 £42,500 -29.17% 5
Cheadle - 5 - -
Oldham +5 3 £54,250 +8.50% 1
Sale - 3 £62,500 - 1
Altrincham +3 1 £47,500 +72.73%
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 39 (15.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) IIS
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 45 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.22%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.22%) ProjectWise
3 3 (1.22%) Revit
3 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (7.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.04%) SAP PM
3 3 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.29%) Azure
2 56 (22.86%) Dynamics 365
3 53 (21.63%) PowerApps
4 52 (21.22%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (19.59%) Power Automate
6 37 (15.10%) Microsoft Copilot
7 28 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (10.20%) Copilot Studio
9 13 (5.31%) Azure AI
10 11 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (4.08%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.27%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.45%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.45%) GitHub
13 6 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.04%) GCP
14 5 (2.04%) Serverless
15 4 (1.63%) AWS
15 4 (1.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.04%) Firewall
1 5 (2.04%) SAN
2 3 (1.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (55.10%) Power BI
2 25 (10.20%) Tableau
3 15 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (4.08%) Power Query
6 7 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.63%) Metadata
8 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.22%) Looker
10 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.41%) MySQL
11 1 (0.41%) OLAP
11 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Git
2 3 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (0.41%) MLflow
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.41%) Postman
General
1 71 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Finance
4 39 (15.92%) Law
5 22 (8.98%) Military
5 22 (8.98%) Telecoms
6 21 (8.57%) Legal
7 20 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (6.53%) Retail
9 7 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.86%) Marketing
10 6 (2.45%) Local Government
11 5 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.04%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.63%) Legal Technology
12 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (21.63%) Developer
2 37 (15.10%) Analyst
2 37 (15.10%) Senior
3 28 (11.43%) Consultant
4 25 (10.20%) Data Analyst
4 25 (10.20%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 22 (8.98%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 19 (7.76%) Architect
7 17 (6.94%) Data Manager
8 15 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 14 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
10 12 (4.90%) Administrator
10 12 (4.90%) Functional Consultant
10 12 (4.90%) Power Platform Consultant
10 12 (4.90%) Support Consultant
10 12 (4.90%) Systems Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Data Administrator
12 10 (4.08%) Lead
12 10 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.80%) HTML
2 16 (6.53%) CSS
3 13 (5.31%) HTML5 Canvas
4 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 10 (4.08%) SPFx
6 9 (3.67%) REST
7 7 (2.86%) PySpark
7 7 (2.86%) Terraform
8 6 (2.45%) .NET
9 5 (2.04%) EDI
10 3 (1.22%) Web Services
11 2 (0.82%) React
12 1 (0.41%) ADO
12 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.41%) Blazor
12 1 (0.41%) OAuth
12 1 (0.41%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (0.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.67%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.04%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.04%) Learning Management System
5 5 (2.04%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.63%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.22%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.04%) Windows
2 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (48.98%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (27.76%) AI
3 54 (22.04%) Analytics
3 54 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.96%) Agile
6 39 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (15.10%) DevOps
7 37 (15.10%) Visualisation
8 36 (14.69%) Decision-Making
9 29 (11.84%) Data Protection
10 28 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 28 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (11.02%) CI/CD
12 25 (10.20%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (10.20%) Translating Business Requirements
13 24 (9.80%) Roadmaps
14 23 (9.39%) Customer Engagement
14 23 (9.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 66 (26.94%) SQL
2 34 (13.88%) JavaScript
2 34 (13.88%) Python
3 27 (11.02%) C#
4 6 (2.45%) R
5 5 (2.04%) Bicep
5 5 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.63%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.63%) VBA
7 3 (1.22%) Scala
8 2 (0.82%) Java
8 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (5.31%) Degree
3 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.45%) ACCA
6 5 (2.04%) CIMA
6 5 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.63%) CIPD
8 1 (0.41%) CFA
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.65%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.31%) QA
4 10 (4.08%) GDPR
5 7 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.22%) ISO 19650
6 3 (1.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.82%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 140 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.27%) Databricks
3 7 (2.86%) Oracle
4 6 (2.45%) YouTube
5 5 (2.04%) Saba
5 5 (2.04%) SAP
5 5 (2.04%) VMware
6 4 (1.63%) Foundry
6 4 (1.63%) Google
6 4 (1.63%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.22%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.82%) HP
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Adyen
9 1 (0.41%) HighQ
9 1 (0.41%) IFS
9 1 (0.41%) Legatics
9 1 (0.41%) Legora
9 1 (0.41%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.41%) UiPath