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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 212 127 217
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.09% 5.11% 4.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.16% 13.44% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 161 81 183
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £90,000 £96,650
North West median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 1,900 945 1,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.67% 38.03% 36.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 618 1,140
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,692 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,375 £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 14 August 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 14 August 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 - 15 £51,000 - 2
Wigan +9 9 £37,500 - 2
Bolton +10 6 £46,250 -22.92%
Salford -16 6 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Cheadle - 5 - -
Oldham +7 3 £54,250 +72.22%
Sale - 2 £52,500 -
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 31 (14.62%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.94%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 51 (24.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.36%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.79%) Azure
2 48 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (20.28%) Dynamics 365
4 42 (19.81%) Power Automate
4 42 (19.81%) PowerApps
5 37 (17.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 24 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.43%) Copilot Studio
8 17 (8.02%) Azure AI
9 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.77%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.30%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.83%) GitHub
13 6 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.36%) AWS
15 4 (1.89%) Dropbox
15 4 (1.89%) GCP
15 4 (1.89%) Serverless
16 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.36%) Firewall
1 5 (2.36%) SAN
2 3 (1.42%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (57.08%) Power BI
2 32 (15.09%) Tableau
3 14 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (5.19%) Power Query
5 6 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.89%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.94%) Looker
10 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.47%) GIS
10 1 (0.47%) MySQL
10 1 (0.47%) OLAP
10 1 (0.47%) OLTP
10 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (2.83%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Git
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.47%) MLflow
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 65 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (16.51%) Finance
3 34 (16.04%) Law
4 20 (9.43%) Military
4 20 (9.43%) Retail
4 20 (9.43%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.66%) Legal
7 10 (4.72%) Marketing
8 6 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.36%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.89%) Banking
10 4 (1.89%) Legal Technology
10 4 (1.89%) Local Government
10 4 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.94%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (20.75%) Analyst
1 44 (20.75%) Developer
2 41 (19.34%) Senior
3 29 (13.68%) Data Analyst
4 20 (9.43%) Data Manager
5 18 (8.49%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 17 (8.02%) Power Platform Developer
7 15 (7.08%) Architect
8 14 (6.60%) Consultant
9 13 (6.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 12 (5.66%) Administrator
10 12 (5.66%) Junior
10 12 (5.66%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (5.66%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (5.66%) Systems Developer
11 11 (5.19%) Data Administrator
11 11 (5.19%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 10 (4.72%) Functional Consultant
12 10 (4.72%) Lead
12 10 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.91%) HTML
2 15 (7.08%) CSS
3 12 (5.66%) HTML5 Canvas
4 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (4.25%) SPFx
6 7 (3.30%) PySpark
6 7 (3.30%) REST
7 5 (2.36%) .NET
7 5 (2.36%) EDI
8 4 (1.89%) Web Services
9 1 (0.47%) ADO
9 1 (0.47%) React
9 1 (0.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.30%) Pricing Data
4 6 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.42%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.94%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (50.47%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (28.77%) AI
3 48 (22.64%) Analytics
4 47 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (18.87%) Agile
6 39 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (16.04%) DevOps
8 33 (15.57%) Decision-Making
8 33 (15.57%) Visualisation
9 31 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (12.74%) CI/CD
11 27 (12.74%) Data Modelling
12 26 (12.26%) Translating Business Requirements
13 24 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (10.85%) Customer Engagement
15 22 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
16 21 (9.91%) Data Management
16 21 (9.91%) Data Protection
17 20 (9.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.02%) SQL
2 39 (18.40%) Python
3 30 (14.15%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.32%) C#
5 9 (4.25%) VBA
6 6 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.36%) Bicep
7 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.89%) R
9 3 (1.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (6.60%) Azure Certification
2 12 (5.66%) Degree
3 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.83%) ACCA
5 5 (2.36%) CIMA
6 4 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.79%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.60%) QA
3 11 (5.19%) GDPR
4 9 (4.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.89%) SLA
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.30%) Terraform
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 112 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.25%) Databricks
3 5 (2.36%) SAP
3 5 (2.36%) VMware
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle
5 2 (0.94%) Adyen
5 2 (0.94%) Foundry
5 2 (0.94%) Google
5 2 (0.94%) IFS
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) HighQ
6 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.47%) Legatics
6 1 (0.47%) Legora
6 1 (0.47%) Liquidlogic