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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 67 104
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 +10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 144 57 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.29% 2.98% 3.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.84% 10.67% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 29 37 178
10th Percentile £44,500 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% -6.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £60,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,599 £71,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 909 534 2,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.08% 27.90% 43.68%
Number of salaries quoted 341 370 1,017
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £44,063 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,114
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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
Edinburgh +23 45 £80,000 +28.00% 14
Glasgow +4 44 £70,000 +45.83% 13
Aberdeen -6 21 - - 2
Dundee - 21 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £38,000 -
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 8 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (60.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.39%) Alphatax
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 125 (86.81%) Azure
2 84 (58.33%) Azure AI
3 28 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (9.72%) GitHub
7 13 (9.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (6.94%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.56%) OCI
11 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.39%) AWS
12 2 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.39%) GCP
12 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.39%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.39%) SaaS
13 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
13 1 (0.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) Broadband
1 2 (1.39%) DHCP
1 2 (1.39%) DNS
1 2 (1.39%) Firewall
1 2 (1.39%) Mobile Broadband
1 2 (1.39%) Softphone
1 2 (1.39%) VLAN
1 2 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (86.81%) Power BI
2 95 (65.97%) Tableau
3 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.39%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.39%) Metadata
5 2 (1.39%) MySQL
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Git
1 8 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 8 (5.56%) JIRA
1 8 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 99 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.19%) Finance
3 13 (9.03%) Billing
4 10 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.47%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 100 (69.44%) Analyst
2 85 (59.03%) Junior
3 84 (58.33%) Data Analyst
3 84 (58.33%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (58.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 15 (10.42%) Support Analyst
5 13 (9.03%) Applications Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 12 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (6.94%) Architect
8 8 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 6 (4.17%) Applications Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Application Development Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Applications Development Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Consultant
11 4 (2.78%) Development Manager
12 3 (2.08%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.08%) Senior
13 2 (1.39%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) OAuth
1 8 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 8 (5.56%) RESTful
1 8 (5.56%) SAML
2 3 (2.08%) .NET
3 2 (1.39%) ODBC
3 2 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) CSS
4 1 (0.69%) HTML
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 12 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.39%) iPhone
6 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.69%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.39%) Windows
1 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (86.11%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (70.14%) AI
3 29 (20.14%) Agile
3 29 (20.14%) DevOps
4 16 (11.11%) Analytics
4 16 (11.11%) Coaching
5 15 (10.42%) CI/CD
5 15 (10.42%) Process Improvement
6 14 (9.72%) Asset Management
6 14 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 14 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (9.03%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (9.03%) Test Automation
8 12 (8.33%) Regression Testing
8 12 (8.33%) Storyboarding
8 12 (8.33%) Waterfall
9 10 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (6.94%) Visualisation
10 9 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (6.25%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 107 (74.31%) SQL
2 103 (71.53%) Python
3 8 (5.56%) Java
3 8 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.39%) C#
5 2 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (59.03%) Azure Certification
2 15 (10.42%) Degree
3 12 (8.33%) HND
4 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.69%) PMP
4 1 (0.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 12 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.39%) BitLocker
1 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
1 8 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 128 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.33%) Adobe
2 12 (8.33%) Freshdesk
2 12 (8.33%) Nintex
3 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (1.39%) Bomgar
4 2 (1.39%) iManage
4 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.69%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.69%) Databricks
5 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.69%) FIS
5 1 (0.69%) Genesys
5 1 (0.69%) Meraki
5 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.69%) Verint