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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 51 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 -29
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 19 36 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.49% 3.58% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.08% 11.11% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 15
10th Percentile £55,500 £38,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,295 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.26% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,045 £64,563 £64,388
90th Percentile £83,750 £64,956 £71,500
Berkshire median annual salary £63,670 £50,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year +27.34% -4.31% -2.34%

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 126 324 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 23.16% 32.24% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 68 158 234
10th Percentile £28,525 £35,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% +6.15% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,625 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.40% +13.64% -13.89%

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 6 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (21.05%) Azure AI
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (89.47%) Power BI
2 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (26.32%) Tableau
4 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.26%) Looker
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL
6 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Power Query
6 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.26%) SAS EBI
6 1 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Games
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Junior
2 4 (21.05%) Junior Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Junior Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (52.63%) Data Governance
3 9 (47.37%) Data Management
4 8 (42.11%) AI
5 7 (36.84%) Data Security
5 7 (36.84%) Data Validation
5 7 (36.84%) Validation
6 6 (31.58%) Analytics
6 6 (31.58%) Data Governance Strategy
6 6 (31.58%) Data Lineage
6 6 (31.58%) Data Privacy
7 4 (21.05%) Agile
7 4 (21.05%) ETL
8 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) Data Quality
2 7 (36.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Talend