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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 92 98
Rank change year-on-year +46 +6 -31
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 109 57 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.18% 2.24% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.01% 10.16% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 48 46 123
10th Percentile £43,225 £37,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £42,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £52,750 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.12% +22.67% -21.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,897 £59,500
90th Percentile - £83,738 £73,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.01%

All Cloud Computing 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 838 561 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.47% 22.09% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 451 257 763
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend 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 3 August 2026.

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 3 August 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
Glasgow +23 40 £75,000 +54.64% 17
Edinburgh +16 33 £80,000 +29.90% 8
Aberdeen -4 14 - - 1
Dundee - 14 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 £35,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +2 3 - -
Fife - 1 £27,000 - 1
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 57 (52.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (77.06%) Azure
2 56 (51.38%) Azure AI
3 22 (20.18%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.26%) Power Automate
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.67%) SaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.75%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.75%) Serverless
9 2 (1.83%) AWS
9 2 (1.83%) GCP
10 1 (0.92%) GitHub
10 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (75.23%) Power BI
2 59 (54.13%) Tableau
3 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.83%) Metadata
5 2 (1.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 69 (63.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.75%) Billing
3 3 (2.75%) Finance
4 2 (1.83%) Law
4 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (55.05%) Analyst
1 60 (55.05%) Junior
2 57 (52.29%) Data Analyst
3 56 (51.38%) Junior Analyst
3 56 (51.38%) Junior Data Analyst
4 17 (15.60%) Architect
5 14 (12.84%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 13 (11.93%) Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Junior Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Junior Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Applications Support
10 3 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Solutions Consultant
10 3 (2.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) .NET
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.83%) ODBC
4 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.83%) Data Fabric
3 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (74.31%) Business Intelligence
2 63 (57.80%) AI
3 11 (10.09%) Analytics
4 8 (7.34%) CRM
4 8 (7.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (6.42%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.42%) Decision-Making
6 6 (5.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.50%) DevOps
6 6 (5.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (4.59%) Agile
7 5 (4.59%) Change Management
7 5 (4.59%) Data Migration
7 5 (4.59%) Data Modelling
7 5 (4.59%) Data Security
7 5 (4.59%) Data Strategy
7 5 (4.59%) Migration
7 5 (4.59%) User Experience
8 4 (3.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.63%) SQL
2 61 (55.96%) Python
3 8 (7.34%) C#
3 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.92%) R
6 1 (0.92%) Scala
6 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (54.13%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) HND
4 1 (0.92%) MCT
4 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) PMO
Vendors
1 94 (86.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) Adobe
2 3 (2.75%) Freshdesk
2 3 (2.75%) Nintex
2 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle
3 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks