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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 47 45
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 +47
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 79 130 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.95% 3.97% 5.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.72% 12.91% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 66 107
10th Percentile £37,125 £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £43,125 £32,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £59,688 £51,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £76,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £62,500 £55,006
% change year-on-year -8.80% +13.63% -3.50%

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 674 1,007 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.14% 30.75% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 239 482 744
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,900
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,641 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,750 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +21 45 £47,500 +15.15% 13
Glasgow -31 24 £46,250 +3.93% 21
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 -
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 12 (15.19%) Confluence
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) Azure
2 26 (32.91%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (24.05%) PowerApps
4 16 (20.25%) Snowflake
5 12 (15.19%) Power Automate
6 11 (13.92%) GitHub
6 11 (13.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (11.39%) OCI
9 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (7.59%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
13 3 (3.80%) AWS
13 3 (3.80%) Serverless
14 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
14 2 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (87.34%) Power BI
2 29 (36.71%) Tableau
3 15 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.59%) Metadata
4 6 (7.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.53%) Power Query
6 2 (2.53%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Git
2 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (53.16%) Finance
2 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Manufacturing
3 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Marketing
5 7 (8.86%) Law
6 4 (5.06%) Legal
6 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Analyst
2 12 (15.19%) Applications Support
2 12 (15.19%) Applications Support Analyst
2 12 (15.19%) Support Analyst
3 11 (13.92%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (13.92%) Senior
4 10 (12.66%) Business Analyst
4 10 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Insight Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Report Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Power Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Platform Specialist
9 3 (3.80%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) OAuth
1 9 (11.39%) OAuth2
1 9 (11.39%) RESTful
1 9 (11.39%) SAML
2 1 (1.27%) REST
2 1 (1.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.92%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (12.66%) Management Information System
4 9 (11.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
4 9 (11.39%) Low-Code
5 8 (10.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Life Science
6 2 (2.53%) Replication
6 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.27%) FMCG
7 1 (1.27%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (87.34%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (37.97%) Agile
3 29 (36.71%) Coaching
4 28 (35.44%) Asset Management
5 27 (34.18%) AI
6 26 (32.91%) DevOps
7 25 (31.65%) ERP
8 24 (30.38%) Analytics
9 22 (27.85%) ETL
10 18 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (20.25%) Visualisation
12 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
13 13 (16.46%) Test Automation
13 13 (16.46%) Validation
14 12 (15.19%) Acceptance Criteria
14 12 (15.19%) ITIL
14 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (15.19%) User Stories
15 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
16 10 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 56 (70.89%) SQL
2 26 (32.91%) Python
3 20 (25.32%) PL/SQL
4 10 (12.66%) Shell Script
5 9 (11.39%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.27%) ACCA
3 1 (1.27%) CIMA
3 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.27%) P3O
4 1 (1.27%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Single Sign-On
1 9 (11.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (31.65%) Oracle
2 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.92%) Concur
3 11 (13.92%) SAP
4 6 (7.59%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.80%) Teradata
6 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.27%) VMware