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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 77
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 -12
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 172 187 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.73% 4.30% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.58% 15.39% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 69 71 87
10th Percentile £41,050 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +13.86% -6.48%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £68,750 £70,575
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 1,104 1,215 1,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.35% 27.91% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 532 601 922
10th Percentile £29,150 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,800 £83,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%

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 4 November 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 4 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
Berkshire -6 103 £69,840 +39.68% 195
Buckinghamshire +7 44 £47,500 -26.92% 36
Oxfordshire +32 25 £62,500 +21.95% 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 (5.81%) SugarCRM
2 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 100 (58.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (59.30%) Azure
2 14 (8.14%) Power Automate
3 11 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (6.40%) SaaS
4 9 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.91%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.33%) AWS
8 4 (2.33%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.33%) PaaS
8 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.74%) iPaaS
9 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.16%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Broadband
2 2 (1.16%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) Firewall
2 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.16%) VPN
2 2 (1.16%) WAN
3 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.58%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (95.35%) Power BI
2 72 (41.86%) Data Lake
3 63 (36.63%) SAP BW
4 19 (11.05%) SQL Server
5 14 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.98%) Tableau
7 10 (5.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (5.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.07%) Power Query
10 5 (2.91%) Metadata
10 5 (2.91%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (2.33%) MySQL
11 4 (2.33%) PowerPivot
12 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.74%) Looker
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Git
2 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 88 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 76 (44.19%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (27.91%) Finance
4 26 (15.12%) Marketing
5 17 (9.88%) Retail
6 12 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.23%) Games
8 8 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.49%) Legal
10 4 (2.33%) Law
10 4 (2.33%) Retail Finance
10 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.58%) Billing
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (45.35%) Analyst
2 56 (32.56%) Lead
3 37 (21.51%) Report Analyst
4 30 (17.44%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (16.28%) Sustainability Analyst
6 21 (12.21%) Data Analyst
7 15 (8.72%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Procurement Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Senior
9 10 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (4.65%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (4.07%) Developer
12 6 (3.49%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 4 (2.33%) Business Manager
13 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
13 4 (2.33%) Pricing Manager
13 4 (2.33%) Senior Business Manager
13 4 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.33%) .NET
1 4 (2.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.16%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.16%) JSON
2 2 (1.16%) NumPy
2 2 (1.16%) Pandas
2 2 (1.16%) REST
2 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.16%) XML
3 1 (0.58%) Flash
3 1 (0.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (7.56%) FMCG
3 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.91%) SCADA
5 4 (2.33%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.33%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.16%) NHS
7 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) AS400
8 1 (0.58%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) iSeries
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) Robotics
8 1 (0.58%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (92.44%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (68.60%) Analytics
3 88 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (40.12%) Data Modelling
5 58 (33.72%) Decision-Making
6 56 (32.56%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (27.91%) Data Governance
8 37 (21.51%) Data Cleansing
9 34 (19.77%) ERP
10 28 (16.28%) GAP Analysis
10 28 (16.28%) Quality Management
10 28 (16.28%) Source to Pay
11 26 (15.12%) AI
12 25 (14.53%) Data Analysis
12 25 (14.53%) Data Management
13 24 (13.95%) Visualisation
14 22 (12.79%) Validation
15 21 (12.21%) Data Analytics
16 19 (11.05%) Data Visualisation
16 19 (11.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.14%) SQL
2 28 (16.28%) Python
3 14 (8.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.23%) C#
5 5 (2.91%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.91%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.33%) VBA
7 3 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) R
9 1 (0.58%) RPG
Qualifications
1 106 (61.63%) Degree
2 10 (5.81%) HNC
3 6 (3.49%) ACCA
3 6 (3.49%) CIMA
4 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.74%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) AAT
6 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) PhD
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (45.93%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (39.53%) SAP
2 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.65%) Databricks
4 5 (2.91%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.91%) HubSpot
4 5 (2.91%) Siemens
5 4 (2.33%) Google
5 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.74%) Oracle
6 3 (1.74%) Talend
7 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.16%) Cognos
7 2 (1.16%) Meraki
7 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.16%) Zoho
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) JDA
8 1 (0.58%) RedPrairie
8 1 (0.58%) Sage