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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 46 79
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 183 218 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.02% 5.03% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.47% 16.86% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 74 91 88
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67,688 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,702 £76,000 £71,475
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +11.90% -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 1,293 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 32.46% 29.85% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 570 654 897
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +5.45% -7.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £59,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -20.17% +10.19% -6.09%

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 21 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 21 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 +2 101 £69,840 +39.68% 35
Buckinghamshire +2 52 £49,000 -24.62% 23
Oxfordshire +36 30 £62,500 +21.95% 23
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 (5.46%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 106 (57.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.64%) Azure
2 14 (7.65%) Power Automate
3 12 (6.56%) Snowflake
4 10 (5.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.92%) SaaS
6 7 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.73%) AWS
8 5 (2.73%) Azure AI
8 5 (2.73%) dbt
9 4 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.19%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.64%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.64%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.09%) GCP
11 2 (1.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) Broadband
2 3 (1.64%) Modbus
3 2 (1.09%) MQTT
4 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (96.17%) Power BI
2 70 (38.25%) Data Lake
3 63 (34.43%) SAP BW
4 21 (11.48%) Tableau
5 17 (9.29%) SQL Server
6 14 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.01%) Power Query
8 10 (5.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.83%) Metadata
10 7 (3.83%) PowerPivot
11 5 (2.73%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (2.19%) Looker
13 2 (1.09%) Airbyte
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Git
2 2 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 98 (53.55%) Social Skills
2 80 (43.72%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (28.96%) Finance
4 23 (12.57%) Marketing
5 16 (8.74%) Retail
6 12 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.83%) Games
9 6 (3.28%) Legal
10 4 (2.19%) Law
10 4 (2.19%) Retail Finance
10 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Back Office
11 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (46.45%) Analyst
2 54 (29.51%) Lead
3 37 (20.22%) Report Analyst
4 30 (16.39%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (15.30%) Data Analyst
5 28 (15.30%) Sustainability Analyst
6 16 (8.74%) Senior
7 13 (7.10%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.56%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (6.56%) Procurement Analyst
9 11 (6.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (4.92%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (4.37%) Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing Engineer
13 6 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
14 5 (2.73%) Business Manager
14 5 (2.73%) Senior Manager
14 5 (2.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.19%) .NET
1 4 (2.19%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.09%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.09%) JSON
2 2 (1.09%) NumPy
2 2 (1.09%) Pandas
2 2 (1.09%) REST
2 2 (1.09%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.09%) Snowpark
2 2 (1.09%) XML
3 1 (0.55%) Flash
3 1 (0.55%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.55%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.55%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.55%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
3 1 (0.55%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (7.10%) FMCG
2 13 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.83%) SCADA
4 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.19%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) IoT
8 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (94.54%) Business Intelligence
2 121 (66.12%) Analytics
3 90 (49.18%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (39.89%) Data Modelling
5 65 (35.52%) Decision-Making
6 57 (31.15%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (26.23%) Data Governance
8 37 (20.22%) Data Cleansing
9 36 (19.67%) ERP
10 30 (16.39%) Quality Management
11 29 (15.85%) Data Analysis
11 29 (15.85%) Visualisation
12 28 (15.30%) AI
12 28 (15.30%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (15.30%) Source to Pay
13 24 (13.11%) Data Management
14 22 (12.02%) Data Visualisation
14 22 (12.02%) Validation
15 21 (11.48%) Data Analytics
15 21 (11.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.70%) SQL
2 37 (20.22%) Python
3 19 (10.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.46%) C#
5 7 (3.83%) VBA
6 5 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.73%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.09%) R
9 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (58.47%) Degree
2 11 (6.01%) CIMA
3 10 (5.46%) ACCA
3 10 (5.46%) HNC
4 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.09%) AAT
6 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (44.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Argo
1 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (39.34%) SAP
2 24 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.28%) Databricks
4 5 (2.73%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.73%) Siemens
5 4 (2.19%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.64%) Google
6 3 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Talend
7 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.09%) Cognos
7 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.09%) Xero
7 2 (1.09%) Zoho
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) JDA
8 1 (0.55%) RedPrairie
8 1 (0.55%) SendGrid