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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 50 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +47
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 169 136 300
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.82% 6.10% 5.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.72% 14.23% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 115 77 265
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,150 £35,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -0.47%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,800 £84,500 £87,950
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -3.06%

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 1,739 956 2,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 29.05% 42.87% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 608 1,643
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 5 June 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 5 June 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
Wigan +7 8 £37,500 -3.85%
Oldham +13 5 £42,000 +33.33% 1
Bolton +12 5 £42,500 -29.17%
Salford -12 4 £35,609 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 £51,000 - 4
Stockport -4 1 £50,000 -31.03%
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 25 (14.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
Applications
1 52 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.96%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.96%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.37%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 52 (30.77%) Azure
2 39 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (14.20%) Power Automate
4 23 (13.61%) PowerApps
5 20 (11.83%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (10.65%) Microsoft Copilot
6 18 (10.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (10.06%) Azure AI
8 11 (6.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.73%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (4.14%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.55%) AWS
12 6 (3.55%) OneDrive
13 5 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.96%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.96%) SaaS
13 5 (2.96%) Serverless
14 4 (2.37%) Dropbox
14 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) Firewall
1 3 (1.78%) LTE
1 3 (1.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (68.64%) Power BI
2 35 (20.71%) Tableau
3 15 (8.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.33%) Power Query
6 7 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.37%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.78%) MySQL
10 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.18%) Looker
11 1 (0.59%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.59%) Metadata
11 1 (0.59%) OLAP
11 1 (0.59%) OLTP
11 1 (0.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.59%) MLflow
3 1 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 60 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.61%) Law
4 22 (13.02%) Finance
5 19 (11.24%) Retail
6 16 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (8.88%) Military
7 15 (8.88%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.73%) Marketing
9 5 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Banking
10 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Local Government
12 1 (0.59%) Billing
12 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.59%) Games
12 1 (0.59%) Legal
12 1 (0.59%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 50 (29.59%) Analyst
2 32 (18.93%) Senior
3 29 (17.16%) Data Analyst
4 20 (11.83%) Data Manager
5 17 (10.06%) Junior
5 17 (10.06%) Junior Analyst
5 17 (10.06%) Junior Data Analyst
6 16 (9.47%) Developer
6 16 (9.47%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Consultant
8 13 (7.69%) Administrator
9 12 (7.10%) Data Administrator
9 12 (7.10%) Power Platform Consultant
10 10 (5.92%) Architect
10 10 (5.92%) Lead
11 9 (5.33%) Support Analyst
12 8 (4.73%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (4.14%) Data Governance Analyst
13 7 (4.14%) Data Governance Manager
13 7 (4.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.96%) EDI
2 4 (2.37%) HTML
2 4 (2.37%) Web Services
3 3 (1.78%) CSS
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.78%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.78%) REST
3 3 (1.78%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.18%) PySpark
5 1 (0.59%) .NET
5 1 (0.59%) ADO
5 1 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.59%) Kafka
5 1 (0.59%) React
5 1 (0.59%) SPFx
5 1 (0.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.14%) Pricing Data
3 6 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.37%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.18%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Replication
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.59%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (62.72%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (31.95%) AI
3 45 (26.63%) Analytics
4 30 (17.75%) Visualisation
5 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (16.57%) Decision-Making
7 23 (13.61%) Agile
7 23 (13.61%) Data Visualisation
7 23 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (12.43%) Data Modelling
9 20 (11.83%) Data Governance
10 19 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (10.65%) Data Management
12 16 (9.47%) DevOps
12 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (8.88%) Data Analysis
13 15 (8.88%) ETL
13 15 (8.88%) Performance Improvement
13 15 (8.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 60 (35.50%) SQL
2 41 (24.26%) Python
3 9 (5.33%) C#
3 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.33%) VBA
4 6 (3.55%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.78%) Bicep
5 3 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.78%) R
6 2 (1.18%) Scala
7 1 (0.59%) Bash
7 1 (0.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (11.24%) Azure Certification
2 17 (10.06%) Degree
3 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) ACCA
5 1 (0.59%) CFA
5 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.51%) GDPR
3 9 (5.33%) QA
4 7 (4.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.33%) Terraform
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 84 (49.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.73%) Databricks
3 5 (2.96%) Northgate
3 5 (2.96%) SAP
4 4 (2.37%) New Relic
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle
4 4 (2.37%) Splunk
5 3 (1.78%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Adyen
6 2 (1.18%) Google
6 2 (1.18%) IFS
7 1 (0.59%) Adobe
7 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.59%) Genesys
7 1 (0.59%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.59%) Informatica
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) Verint