Power Platform Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Power Platform
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 53 60
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 18 39 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.54% 3.39% 3.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.88% 11.37% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 14
10th Percentile £56,150 £38,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,250 £40,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.33% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £64,563 £66,569
90th Percentile £74,968 £64,869 £71,750
Berkshire median annual salary £69,840 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +39.68% -3.85% -3.70%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 121 343 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 23.77% 29.80% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 69 172 232
10th Percentile £28,800 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year - +6.15% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% -15.38%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Reading

Power Platform
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Reading over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in Reading

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) iPaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (94.44%) Power BI
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Tableau
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.56%) Looker
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Power Query
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) SAS EBI
5 1 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Games
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (66.67%) Data Management
3 10 (55.56%) Data Governance
4 8 (44.44%) Data Security
4 8 (44.44%) Data Validation
4 8 (44.44%) Validation
5 7 (38.89%) Data Governance Strategy
5 7 (38.89%) Data Lineage
5 7 (38.89%) Data Privacy
6 5 (27.78%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Agile
7 4 (22.22%) AI
7 4 (22.22%) ETL
8 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 2 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (44.44%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Talend