Power Platform Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Power Platform skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 74 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 +38
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 76 139 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.99% 3.26% 5.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.32% 9.49% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 82 112
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,500 £37,523
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,938 £49,500 £61,835
90th Percentile £77,530 £68,114 £74,900
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,750 £55,065
% change year-on-year -5.35% +10.32% +0.12%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 617 1,464 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.26% 34.30% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 227 604 796
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,441 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% - -
75th Percentile £71,391 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,550 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Edinburgh +32 44 £47,500 +15.15% 17
Glasgow +34 25 £48,500 +8.38% 18
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 -
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (13.16%) Confluence
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 15 (19.74%) Snowflake
5 10 (13.16%) Power Automate
6 7 (9.21%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (9.21%) OCI
7 6 (7.89%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.26%) SaaS
9 3 (3.95%) AWS
9 3 (3.95%) Serverless
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (82.89%) Power BI
2 30 (39.47%) Tableau
3 12 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.95%) Metadata
8 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.63%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.63%) Power Query
8 2 (2.63%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (25.00%) JIRA
2 7 (9.21%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (55.26%) Finance
2 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Manufacturing
4 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Marketing
6 7 (9.21%) Law
7 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.95%) Banking
9 2 (2.63%) Automotive
9 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (44.74%) Analyst
2 17 (22.37%) Senior
3 12 (15.79%) Applications Support
3 12 (15.79%) Applications Support Analyst
3 12 (15.79%) Support Analyst
4 11 (14.47%) Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Insight Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Consultant
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Lead
9 4 (5.26%) Power Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Report Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.95%) Platform Specialist
10 3 (3.95%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) OAuth
1 7 (9.21%) OAuth2
1 7 (9.21%) RESTful
1 7 (9.21%) SAML
2 1 (1.32%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.58%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) FMCG
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (81.58%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (34.21%) Agile
3 24 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
4 23 (30.26%) Analytics
5 22 (28.95%) Coaching
5 22 (28.95%) ERP
6 21 (27.63%) Asset Management
6 21 (27.63%) ETL
7 20 (26.32%) DevOps
8 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
9 13 (17.11%) Decision-Making
10 12 (15.79%) ITIL
11 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
11 11 (14.47%) Visualisation
12 10 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
12 10 (13.16%) User Stories
13 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
13 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
13 9 (11.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (65.79%) SQL
2 19 (25.00%) Python
3 18 (23.68%) PL/SQL
4 8 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 7 (9.21%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) C#
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) ACCA
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) CIMA
4 1 (1.32%) CISM
4 1 (1.32%) CISSP
4 1 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) P3O
4 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (9.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (32.89%) Oracle
2 23 (30.26%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.47%) Concur
3 11 (14.47%) SAP
4 5 (6.58%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.63%) Teradata
6 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.32%) VMware