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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 60 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +30
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 196 126 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.10% 5.09% 5.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.90% 12.77% 14.28%
Number of salaries quoted 143 83 258
10th Percentile £37,070 £40,000 £34,950
25th Percentile £43,945 £43,125 £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 £63,125 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £89,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1,798 987 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.41% 39.86% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 644 1,587
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,950 £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 10 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 10 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 - 10 £47,500 - 2
Wigan +10 9 £37,500 -3.85% 3
Bolton +9 6 £46,250 -22.92% 1
Salford -13 6 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Cheadle - 4 - -
Stockport -1 1 £50,000 -31.03% 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 26 (13.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.06%) Confluence
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.02%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 58 (29.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.55%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.63%) Azure
2 42 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (16.33%) PowerApps
4 31 (15.82%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (15.31%) Power Automate
6 27 (13.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 20 (10.20%) Azure AI
8 16 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
9 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (4.08%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.57%) AWS
13 6 (3.06%) GitHub
13 6 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
14 5 (2.55%) GCP
14 5 (2.55%) Serverless
15 4 (2.04%) Dropbox
16 2 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) Firewall
1 5 (2.55%) SAN
2 3 (1.53%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (63.27%) Power BI
2 36 (18.37%) Tableau
3 15 (7.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.59%) Power Query
6 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.04%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.53%) MySQL
10 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.02%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.02%) Looker
11 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.51%) GIS
11 1 (0.51%) Metadata
11 1 (0.51%) OLAP
11 1 (0.51%) OLTP
11 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (3.06%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.51%) MLflow
3 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 60 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Finance
3 32 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.82%) Law
5 21 (10.71%) Retail
6 20 (10.20%) Military
6 20 (10.20%) Telecoms
7 16 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.10%) Marketing
9 7 (3.57%) Legal
10 6 (3.06%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.55%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.04%) Banking
12 4 (2.04%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Analyst
2 37 (18.88%) Senior
3 31 (15.82%) Data Analyst
4 30 (15.31%) Developer
5 20 (10.20%) Data Manager
6 16 (8.16%) Architect
6 16 (8.16%) Junior
6 16 (8.16%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (8.16%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (7.65%) Consultant
8 13 (6.63%) Administrator
8 13 (6.63%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Data Administrator
9 12 (6.12%) Power Platform Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 10 (5.10%) Power Platform Consultant
11 9 (4.59%) Lead
11 9 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.08%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.12%) HTML
2 7 (3.57%) CSS
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (3.57%) PySpark
3 5 (2.55%) EDI
3 5 (2.55%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (2.55%) SPFx
4 4 (2.04%) REST
4 4 (2.04%) Web Services
5 2 (1.02%) .NET
6 1 (0.51%) ADO
6 1 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.51%) React
6 1 (0.51%) Swagger
6 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.57%) Pricing Data
4 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.02%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.06%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (55.61%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (29.08%) AI
3 47 (23.98%) Analytics
4 35 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 34 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (16.33%) Visualisation
7 31 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (15.31%) Agile
9 25 (12.76%) Data Visualisation
9 25 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (11.22%) Data Modelling
11 22 (11.22%) DevOps
12 20 (10.20%) CI/CD
12 20 (10.20%) Data Management
13 19 (9.69%) Customer Engagement
14 18 (9.18%) Data Analysis
14 18 (9.18%) Data Governance
15 17 (8.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.18%) SQL
2 43 (21.94%) Python
3 18 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.14%) C#
5 9 (4.59%) VBA
6 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.55%) Bicep
7 5 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.04%) R
9 3 (1.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (9.18%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.63%) Degree
3 6 (3.06%) ACCA
3 6 (3.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.55%) CIMA
4 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.61%) GDPR
2 11 (5.61%) QA
3 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.04%) 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 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 101 (51.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.10%) Databricks
3 5 (2.55%) SAP
3 5 (2.55%) VMware
4 4 (2.04%) Oracle
5 2 (1.02%) Adyen
5 2 (1.02%) Google
5 2 (1.02%) IFS
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.51%) Informatica
6 1 (0.51%) Liquidlogic