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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 47 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 -13
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 187 216 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.03% 5.08% 3.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.82% 16.39% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 74 90 84
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £59,563 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +16.79% -4.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £60,006
90th Percentile £71,702 £76,000 £71,775
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 1,182 1,318 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 31.81% 31.00% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 576 673 868
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +7.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £71,313
90th Percentile £81,875 £88,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £58,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -18.80% +10.38% -7.83%

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 28 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 28 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 +4 104 £69,840 +39.68% 35
Buckinghamshire -2 53 £50,000 -23.08% 33
Oxfordshire +40 30 £62,500 +18.80% 20
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 (5.35%) SugarCRM
2 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 110 (58.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (56.15%) Azure
2 14 (7.49%) Power Automate
3 12 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (6.42%) Snowflake
4 8 (4.28%) Azure AI
4 8 (4.28%) SaaS
5 7 (3.74%) AWS
5 7 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.21%) dbt
6 6 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.14%) GCP
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.60%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.60%) iPaaS
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.07%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.60%) Modbus
3 2 (1.07%) MQTT
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (96.26%) Power BI
2 71 (37.97%) Data Lake
3 63 (33.69%) SAP BW
4 25 (13.37%) Tableau
5 17 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.88%) Power Query
7 10 (5.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (5.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (4.28%) Metadata
9 7 (3.74%) PowerPivot
10 5 (2.67%) Looker
10 5 (2.67%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.60%) MySQL
11 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.07%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Git
2 2 (1.07%) JIRA
General
1 101 (54.01%) Social Skills
2 82 (43.85%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (27.27%) Finance
4 22 (11.76%) Marketing
5 15 (8.02%) Retail
6 12 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.21%) Games
9 5 (2.67%) Legal
10 4 (2.14%) Law
10 4 (2.14%) Retail Finance
10 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Back Office
12 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (48.13%) Analyst
2 52 (27.81%) Lead
3 37 (19.79%) Report Analyst
4 34 (18.18%) Data Analyst
5 30 (16.04%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.97%) Sustainability Analyst
7 16 (8.56%) Senior
8 13 (6.95%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.42%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 12 (6.42%) Procurement Analyst
10 11 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
11 10 (5.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 9 (4.81%) Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Data Manager
14 6 (3.21%) Junior
14 6 (3.21%) Junior Analyst
14 6 (3.21%) Junior Data Analyst
14 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.14%) .NET
1 4 (2.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.07%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.07%) JSON
2 2 (1.07%) NumPy
2 2 (1.07%) Pandas
2 2 (1.07%) REST
2 2 (1.07%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.07%) Snowpark
2 2 (1.07%) XML
3 1 (0.53%) Flash
3 1 (0.53%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.53%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.53%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.53%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.53%) PySpark
3 1 (0.53%) SOAP
3 1 (0.53%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.95%) FMCG
2 13 (6.95%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.74%) SCADA
4 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.14%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.14%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.60%) IoT
7 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Robotics
9 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
1 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (95.19%) Business Intelligence
2 123 (65.78%) Analytics
3 88 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (40.64%) Data Modelling
5 66 (35.29%) Decision-Making
6 56 (29.95%) Actionable Insight
7 49 (26.20%) Data Governance
8 38 (20.32%) Data Cleansing
8 38 (20.32%) ERP
9 33 (17.65%) AI
10 30 (16.04%) Data Analysis
10 30 (16.04%) Quality Management
11 29 (15.51%) Visualisation
12 28 (14.97%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (14.97%) Source to Pay
13 25 (13.37%) ETL
14 23 (12.30%) Data Management
14 23 (12.30%) Validation
15 22 (11.76%) Data Analytics
15 22 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.11%) SQL
2 44 (23.53%) Python
3 19 (10.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.35%) C#
5 9 (4.81%) VBA
6 5 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.67%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.60%) R
8 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (56.68%) Degree
2 13 (6.95%) CIMA
3 12 (6.42%) ACCA
4 10 (5.35%) HNC
5 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.07%) AAT
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) PhD
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (43.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Argo
1 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (39.57%) SAP
2 26 (13.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.74%) Databricks
4 5 (2.67%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.67%) Siemens
5 4 (2.14%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle
6 3 (1.60%) Talend
7 2 (1.07%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.07%) Cognos
7 2 (1.07%) Google
7 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.07%) Xero
7 2 (1.07%) Zoho
8 1 (0.53%) Foundry
8 1 (0.53%) Palantir
8 1 (0.53%) RedPrairie
8 1 (0.53%) SendGrid