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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 85 104
Rank change year-on-year +49 +19 -5
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 131 49 210
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.10% 2.43% 3.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.90% 9.46% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 176
10th Percentile £44,625 £35,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £37,000 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.50% +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £66,875 £61,250
90th Percentile - £83,738 £71,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.36%

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 824 518 2,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.81% 25.64% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 352 277 1,014
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,700 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +9.52% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,114
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +11 41 £75,000 +68.54% 11
Edinburgh +27 38 £80,000 +6.85% 9
Aberdeen -8 19 - - 1
Dundee - 19 - -
West Dunbartonshire +2 12 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £38,000 -
Fife - 1 £27,000 -
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 9 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 78 (59.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.53%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 110 (83.97%) Azure
2 76 (58.02%) Azure AI
3 23 (17.56%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (12.21%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.34%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (3.82%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.05%) GitHub
9 4 (3.05%) SaaS
10 3 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.29%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.29%) OCI
11 2 (1.53%) AWS
11 2 (1.53%) GCP
11 2 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Broadband
2 2 (1.53%) DHCP
2 2 (1.53%) DNS
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) Mobile Broadband
2 2 (1.53%) Softphone
2 2 (1.53%) VLAN
2 2 (1.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (82.44%) Power BI
2 83 (63.36%) Tableau
3 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.29%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.29%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (65.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.16%) Billing
3 6 (4.58%) Finance
4 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Games
7 1 (0.76%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (68.70%) Analyst
2 77 (58.78%) Junior
3 76 (58.02%) Data Analyst
3 76 (58.02%) Junior Analyst
3 76 (58.02%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (12.21%) Architect
5 14 (10.69%) Support Analyst
6 12 (9.16%) Applications Support
6 12 (9.16%) Applications Support Analyst
6 12 (9.16%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 5 (3.82%) Consultant
8 4 (3.05%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.29%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (2.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.29%) Senior
9 3 (2.29%) Solutions Consultant
10 2 (1.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 2 (1.53%) IT Support
10 2 (1.53%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) .NET
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (2.29%) OAuth
1 3 (2.29%) OAuth2
1 3 (2.29%) RESTful
1 3 (2.29%) SAML
2 2 (1.53%) ODBC
2 2 (1.53%) Web Services
3 1 (0.76%) CSS
3 1 (0.76%) HTML
3 1 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Management Information System
1 12 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.53%) iPhone
5 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
1 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (81.68%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (64.89%) AI
3 19 (14.50%) Agile
3 19 (14.50%) DevOps
4 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (10.69%) Customer Service
5 14 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (9.92%) Process Improvement
7 12 (9.16%) Analytics
7 12 (9.16%) Regression Testing
7 12 (9.16%) Storyboarding
7 12 (9.16%) Waterfall
8 5 (3.82%) CI/CD
8 5 (3.82%) Coaching
8 5 (3.82%) Data Modelling
8 5 (3.82%) Decision-Making
8 5 (3.82%) Workflow
9 4 (3.05%) ETL
9 4 (3.05%) Generative AI
9 4 (3.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 88 (67.18%) SQL
2 86 (65.65%) Python
3 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.29%) Java
4 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.53%) C#
6 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (60.31%) Azure Certification
2 14 (10.69%) Degree
3 12 (9.16%) HND
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) MCT
5 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
1 12 (9.16%) SLA
2 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.53%) BitLocker
1 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (2.29%) Terraform
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 124 (94.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Adobe
2 12 (9.16%) Freshdesk
2 12 (9.16%) Nintex
3 4 (3.05%) Oracle
4 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.53%) Bomgar
5 2 (1.53%) iManage
5 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.76%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.76%) Databricks
6 1 (0.76%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.76%) FIS
6 1 (0.76%) Genesys
6 1 (0.76%) Meraki
6 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) Verint