Power Platform Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Power Platform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 77
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 -15
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 198 206 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.18% 5.21% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.74% 16.35% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 80 90 89
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,900 £41,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,563 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +19.13% -5.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,100 £76,000 £70,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,183 1,260 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.97% 31.87% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 584 660 874
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,600 £83,750
South East median annual salary £49,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.24% +11.43% -8.70%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Power Platform
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the Thames Valley

Power Platform
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +15 109 £57,500 +15.00% 54
Buckinghamshire +4 58 £51,250 -18.00% 33
Oxfordshire +35 31 £60,000 +14.05% 22
Power Platform
South East

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (5.05%) SugarCRM
2 2 (1.01%) SAS
2 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 116 (58.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (56.06%) Azure
2 14 (7.07%) Azure AI
2 14 (7.07%) Power Automate
3 13 (6.57%) Snowflake
4 11 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (4.04%) AWS
6 7 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.54%) SaaS
7 6 (3.03%) dbt
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.53%) GCP
8 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.52%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.01%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Broadband
1 3 (1.52%) Modbus
1 3 (1.52%) MQTT
2 1 (0.51%) DHCP
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (94.95%) Power BI
2 71 (35.86%) Data Lake
3 63 (31.82%) SAP BW
4 31 (15.66%) Tableau
5 18 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (8.08%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (6.06%) Power Query
9 10 (5.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.04%) Metadata
11 7 (3.54%) PowerPivot
12 5 (2.53%) Looker
12 5 (2.53%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.52%) MySQL
13 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
14 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
General
1 109 (55.05%) Social Skills
2 87 (43.94%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (27.78%) Finance
4 22 (11.11%) Marketing
5 14 (7.07%) Retail
6 12 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.53%) Games
8 5 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) Retail Finance
10 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.01%) Back Office
11 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Billing
12 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (48.99%) Analyst
2 51 (25.76%) Lead
3 42 (21.21%) Data Analyst
4 37 (18.69%) Report Analyst
5 30 (15.15%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.14%) Sustainability Analyst
7 15 (7.58%) Developer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior
8 13 (6.57%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Financial Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Junior
9 12 (6.06%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Procurement Analyst
10 10 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 10 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Data Manager
12 6 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.01%) .NET
1 2 (1.01%) .NET Framework
1 2 (1.01%) Hugging Face
1 2 (1.01%) NumPy
1 2 (1.01%) Pandas
1 2 (1.01%) scikit-learn
1 2 (1.01%) Snowpark
2 1 (0.51%) Flash
2 1 (0.51%) GeoPandas
2 1 (0.51%) JSON
2 1 (0.51%) MapLibre
2 1 (0.51%) NetworkX
2 1 (0.51%) PostGIS
2 1 (0.51%) PySpark
2 1 (0.51%) REST
2 1 (0.51%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.06%) FMCG
4 7 (3.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 7 (3.54%) SCADA
5 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.02%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.52%) IoT
7 3 (1.52%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.51%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Replication
8 1 (0.51%) SCORM
8 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Windows
1 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (93.94%) Business Intelligence
2 122 (61.62%) Analytics
3 92 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (38.38%) Data Modelling
5 68 (34.34%) Decision-Making
6 56 (28.28%) Actionable Insight
7 52 (26.26%) Data Governance
8 40 (20.20%) ERP
9 39 (19.70%) AI
10 38 (19.19%) Data Cleansing
11 30 (15.15%) Quality Management
12 29 (14.65%) Visualisation
13 28 (14.14%) Data Analysis
13 28 (14.14%) GAP Analysis
13 28 (14.14%) Source to Pay
14 27 (13.64%) ETL
15 23 (11.62%) Data Visualisation
16 22 (11.11%) Data Analytics
17 21 (10.61%) Validation
18 20 (10.10%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (41.92%) SQL
2 52 (26.26%) Python
3 21 (10.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.05%) C#
4 10 (5.05%) VBA
5 5 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.53%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.52%) R
7 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (53.54%) Degree
2 14 (7.07%) CIMA
3 13 (6.57%) ACCA
4 12 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.05%) HNC
6 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.01%) AAT
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
8 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (41.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.52%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Argo
1 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (38.38%) SAP
2 33 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.54%) Databricks
4 4 (2.02%) Allen-Bradley
4 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.02%) Siemens
5 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle
5 3 (1.52%) Talend
6 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.01%) Cognos
6 2 (1.01%) Google
6 2 (1.01%) Xero
6 2 (1.01%) Zoho
7 1 (0.51%) Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) Palantir
7 1 (0.51%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.51%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow