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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +38
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 88 130 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.16% 3.98% 5.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.00% 13.20% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 49 64 106
10th Percentile £37,350 £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -13.71% +9.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £62,938
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,125 £76,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.61% -2.61%

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 677 985 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.31% 30.13% 35.49%
Number of salaries quoted 259 475 719
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,168
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,466
90th Percentile £87,750 £80,000 £85,000
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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +18 48 £47,500 +5.56% 12
Glasgow -29 30 £48,000 +10.34% 30
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 - 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 12 (13.64%) Confluence
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (32.95%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (21.59%) PowerApps
4 17 (19.32%) Snowflake
5 14 (15.91%) GitHub
5 14 (15.91%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (15.91%) Power Automate
6 13 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (11.36%) OCI
8 8 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (6.82%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.41%) AWS
12 3 (3.41%) Serverless
13 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 2 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (84.09%) Power BI
2 29 (32.95%) Tableau
3 16 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (7.95%) Metadata
6 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.27%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.27%) Power Query
9 2 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.27%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) JIRA
2 10 (11.36%) Git
2 10 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (53.41%) Finance
2 25 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.09%) Marketing
6 7 (7.95%) Law
7 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.55%) Legal
8 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.55%) Retail
9 3 (3.41%) Tech for Good
10 2 (2.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Analyst
2 14 (15.91%) Applications Engineer
3 13 (14.77%) Support Analyst
4 12 (13.64%) Applications Support
4 12 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 11 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Senior
6 10 (11.36%) Business Analyst
6 10 (11.36%) Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
8 6 (6.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Report Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Power Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (3.41%) Lead
11 3 (3.41%) Platform Specialist
11 3 (3.41%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) OAuth
1 10 (11.36%) OAuth2
1 10 (11.36%) RESTful
1 10 (11.36%) SAML
2 1 (1.14%) REST
2 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.36%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) Replication
7 1 (1.14%) FMCG
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (84.09%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (37.50%) Agile
2 33 (37.50%) Coaching
3 32 (36.36%) Asset Management
4 30 (34.09%) AI
5 29 (32.95%) DevOps
6 27 (30.68%) Analytics
7 26 (29.55%) ERP
8 22 (25.00%) ETL
9 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (21.59%) Visualisation
11 18 (20.45%) CI/CD
12 16 (18.18%) Test Automation
13 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (14.77%) Validation
15 12 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
15 12 (13.64%) Decision-Making
15 12 (13.64%) ITIL
15 12 (13.64%) User Stories
16 11 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 61 (69.32%) SQL
2 29 (32.95%) Python
3 21 (23.86%) PL/SQL
4 11 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 10 (11.36%) Java
6 4 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) C#
7 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (1.14%) ACCA
3 1 (1.14%) CIMA
3 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) P3O
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
1 10 (11.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Oracle
2 25 (28.41%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.50%) Concur
3 11 (12.50%) SAP
4 6 (6.82%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.41%) Teradata
6 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.14%) VMware