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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 52 65
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 -24
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 17 37 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.17% 3.64% 2.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.93% 11.42% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 14
10th Percentile £54,450 £38,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,023 £40,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £64,563 £66,569
90th Percentile £77,000 £64,913 £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 122 324 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 22.72% 31.89% 33.84%
Number of salaries quoted 67 159 228
10th Percentile £28,450 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £38,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.15% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% -13.73%

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 3 December 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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AI
5 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.88%) AWS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (5.88%) dbt
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) Power BI
2 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) Tableau
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.88%) Looker
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata
6 1 (5.88%) MySQL
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Power Query
6 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) SAS EBI
6 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Games
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Junior
2 3 (17.65%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Junior Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) Data Governance
2 9 (52.94%) Data Management
3 7 (41.18%) Data Security
3 7 (41.18%) Data Validation
3 7 (41.18%) Validation
4 6 (35.29%) AI
4 6 (35.29%) Data Governance Strategy
4 6 (35.29%) Data Lineage
4 6 (35.29%) Data Privacy
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (41.18%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Talend