Power Platform Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 61 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 433 414 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.17% 4.46% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.45% 13.65% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 218 206 207
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -1.94%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,219 3,034 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.04% 32.67% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 1,658 2,136
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,302
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the South East

Power Platform
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the South East

Power Platform
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Thames Valley +13 204 £53,750 -10.42% 399
Berkshire +23 117 £56,750 +8.10% 231
Hampshire -1 61 £57,500 +21.05% 170
Buckinghamshire -1 59 £52,500 -12.50% 112
Surrey +13 49 £52,500 -8.70% 109
Kent +16 44 £42,500 +21.43% 98
East Sussex -1 32 £42,500 -52.78% 48
Oxfordshire +28 28 £61,250 +22.37% 56
West Sussex +17 19 £57,500 +21.05% 52
Middlesex +13 17 - - 4
Sussex +8 6 £45,000 -
Isle of Wight - 1 £42,500 - 46
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.31%) SugarCRM
3 9 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.39%) Appian
5 5 (1.15%) Apache
6 4 (0.92%) Confluence
6 4 (0.92%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 213 (49.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) InDesign
6 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.39%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.92%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.46%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (0.46%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.23%) iTrent
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) Shopify
6 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 196 (45.27%) Azure
2 57 (13.16%) Azure AI
3 49 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (8.31%) Dynamics 365
5 35 (8.08%) PowerApps
6 33 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (6.70%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.93%) Snowflake
9 15 (3.46%) AWS
10 13 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.00%) SaaS
11 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.85%) dbt
12 8 (1.85%) GCP
13 7 (1.62%) Fivetran
13 7 (1.62%) Smartsheet
14 6 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.39%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.85%) Intranet
2 4 (0.92%) Modbus
2 4 (0.92%) MQTT
3 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.23%) BGP
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) Firewall
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (80.83%) Power BI
2 78 (18.01%) Tableau
3 71 (16.40%) Data Lake
4 63 (14.55%) SAP BW
5 31 (7.16%) SQL Server
6 22 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.77%) Power Query
9 9 (2.08%) Looker
10 8 (1.85%) Metadata
11 7 (1.62%) Airbyte
11 7 (1.62%) PowerPivot
12 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
14 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.92%) MySQL
15 3 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (3.93%) Git
2 6 (1.39%) JIRA
2 6 (1.39%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.39%) Selenium
2 6 (1.39%) Snyk
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 205 (47.34%) Social Skills
2 148 (34.18%) Finance
3 130 (30.02%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.93%) Manufacturing
5 19 (4.39%) Marketing
6 12 (2.77%) Retail
7 11 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.08%) Billing
9 7 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.62%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.39%) Law
10 6 (1.39%) Legal
11 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.92%) Games
12 4 (0.92%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.69%) Back Office
13 3 (0.69%) Banking
13 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 202 (46.65%) Analyst
2 93 (21.48%) Data Analyst
3 65 (15.01%) Lead
4 54 (12.47%) Developer
5 50 (11.55%) Junior
5 50 (11.55%) Junior Analyst
5 50 (11.55%) Junior Data Analyst
6 43 (9.93%) Report Analyst
7 31 (7.16%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 29 (6.70%) Senior
9 28 (6.47%) Sustainability Analyst
10 24 (5.54%) Power Platform Developer
11 20 (4.62%) Automation Developer
12 18 (4.16%) Support Analyst
13 16 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.70%) Consultant
14 15 (3.46%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (3.23%) Architect
15 14 (3.23%) Data Manager
16 13 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.08%) CSS
1 9 (2.08%) HTML
1 9 (2.08%) React
2 8 (1.85%) .NET
3 6 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (1.39%) ASP.NET
3 6 (1.39%) Kafka
4 5 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (1.15%) RESTful
4 5 (1.15%) Vue
5 4 (0.92%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.92%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.92%) Blazor
5 4 (0.92%) SAP CO-PA
6 3 (0.69%) Web Services
7 2 (0.46%) EDI
7 2 (0.46%) JSON
7 2 (0.46%) NumPy
7 2 (0.46%) REST
7 2 (0.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.77%) FMCG
6 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 7 (1.62%) SCADA
9 6 (1.39%) NHS
10 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.92%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Industry 4.0
12 3 (0.69%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.46%) Replication
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Storage
14 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (76.91%) Business Intelligence
2 161 (37.18%) Analytics
3 133 (30.72%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (29.79%) AI
5 108 (24.94%) Decision-Making
6 98 (22.63%) Agile
7 97 (22.40%) Data Modelling
8 71 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (15.70%) Data Governance
10 67 (15.47%) ERP
11 64 (14.78%) Actionable Insight
12 57 (13.16%) Roadmaps
12 57 (13.16%) Visualisation
13 54 (12.47%) Data Analysis
14 50 (11.55%) ETL
15 37 (8.55%) Data Cleansing
16 36 (8.31%) Data Visualisation
16 36 (8.31%) Project Management
17 35 (8.08%) Data Analytics
17 35 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 204 (47.11%) SQL
2 128 (29.56%) Python
3 25 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (5.54%) VBA
5 22 (5.08%) C#
6 16 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.15%) R
10 1 (0.23%) Delphi
10 1 (0.23%) Java
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.23%) VB
10 1 (0.23%) VB6
Qualifications
1 131 (30.25%) Degree
2 51 (11.78%) Azure Certification
3 23 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.08%) ACCA
5 20 (4.62%) CIMA
6 19 (4.39%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.31%) HNC
9 7 (1.62%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.39%) APMP
10 6 (1.39%) MBA
11 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.92%) PMP
13 3 (0.69%) AAT
13 3 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.93%) PMO
2 17 (3.93%) QA
3 11 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.39%) SLA
6 5 (1.15%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) IFRS
8 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.08%) Terraform
2 6 (1.39%) Ansible
3 5 (1.15%) SCCM
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 194 (44.80%) Microsoft
2 82 (18.94%) SAP
3 35 (8.08%) Blue Prism
4 14 (3.23%) Databricks
5 7 (1.62%) VMware
6 6 (1.39%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (1.39%) Black Duck
6 6 (1.39%) Informatica
6 6 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.39%) UiPath
7 5 (1.15%) Coverity
7 5 (1.15%) Google
7 5 (1.15%) Oracle
8 4 (0.92%) Siemens
9 3 (0.69%) Allen-Bradley
9 3 (0.69%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.69%) Talend
10 2 (0.46%) Xero