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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 49 80
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 166 192 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.37% 4.36% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.26% 15.58% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 66 68 82
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,816 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £56,250 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +7.66% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £78,125 £67,875 £72,450
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +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 1,088 1,232 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.64% 27.97% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 503 614 978
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £46,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.13% +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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -6 104 £69,840 +39.68% 109
Buckinghamshire +3 41 £47,500 -26.92% 35
Oxfordshire +19 21 £62,500 +13.64% 19
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 (6.02%) SugarCRM
2 6 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 98 (59.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (62.05%) Azure
2 11 (6.63%) Power Automate
2 11 (6.63%) SaaS
3 10 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.61%) AWS
7 4 (2.41%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.41%) PaaS
7 4 (2.41%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.81%) iPaaS
8 3 (1.81%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.20%) GCP
9 2 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Broadband
2 2 (1.20%) DNS
2 2 (1.20%) Firewall
2 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.20%) VPN
2 2 (1.20%) WAN
3 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.60%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (93.37%) Power BI
2 71 (42.77%) Data Lake
3 63 (37.95%) SAP BW
4 22 (13.25%) SQL Server
5 15 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (5.42%) Tableau
8 4 (2.41%) Metadata
8 4 (2.41%) MySQL
8 4 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.81%) Power Query
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.20%) Looker
10 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Git
2 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 80 (48.19%) Social Skills
2 71 (42.77%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (26.51%) Finance
4 28 (16.87%) Marketing
5 17 (10.24%) Retail
6 12 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.42%) Games
8 8 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.61%) Legal
10 5 (3.01%) Law
11 4 (2.41%) Retail Finance
11 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.60%) Billing
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (42.77%) Analyst
2 56 (33.73%) Lead
3 37 (22.29%) Report Analyst
4 30 (18.07%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (16.87%) Sustainability Analyst
6 18 (10.84%) Data Analyst
7 17 (10.24%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (7.23%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (7.23%) Procurement Analyst
9 10 (6.02%) Senior
10 8 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (4.22%) Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (3.01%) Project Analyst
13 4 (2.41%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing Engineer
13 4 (2.41%) Pricing Manager
13 4 (2.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 4 (2.41%) Systems Engineer
14 3 (1.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.01%) .NET
1 5 (3.01%) .NET Framework
2 4 (2.41%) REST
3 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (1.20%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.20%) JSON
3 2 (1.20%) Kafka
3 2 (1.20%) NumPy
3 2 (1.20%) Pandas
3 2 (1.20%) React
3 2 (1.20%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.20%) XML
4 1 (0.60%) Flash
4 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (7.83%) FMCG
3 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.01%) SCADA
5 4 (2.41%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.41%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.20%) AS400
7 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.20%) iSeries
7 2 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.20%) NHS
7 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (90.36%) Business Intelligence
2 115 (69.28%) Analytics
3 82 (49.40%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (40.96%) Data Modelling
5 57 (34.34%) Actionable Insight
6 54 (32.53%) Decision-Making
7 46 (27.71%) Data Governance
8 37 (22.29%) Data Cleansing
9 34 (20.48%) ERP
10 28 (16.87%) GAP Analysis
10 28 (16.87%) Quality Management
10 28 (16.87%) Source to Pay
11 25 (15.06%) AI
11 25 (15.06%) Data Management
12 24 (14.46%) Visualisation
13 22 (13.25%) Data Analysis
14 21 (12.65%) Data Analytics
14 21 (12.65%) Validation
15 19 (11.45%) Data Visualisation
15 19 (11.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.31%) SQL
2 23 (13.86%) Python
3 6 (3.61%) C#
3 6 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (3.61%) T-SQL
4 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.01%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.20%) Bicep
5 2 (1.20%) Java
5 2 (1.20%) RPG
5 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.60%) R
6 1 (0.60%) VBA
6 1 (0.60%) X++
Qualifications
1 104 (62.65%) Degree
2 10 (6.02%) HNC
3 5 (3.01%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.81%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.20%) ACCA
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.20%) CIMA
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) PhD
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (46.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
1 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (38.55%) SAP
2 24 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.61%) Databricks
4 5 (3.01%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.01%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.01%) Siemens
5 4 (2.41%) Google
5 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.81%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle
6 3 (1.81%) Talend
7 2 (1.20%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.20%) Cognos
7 2 (1.20%) Meraki
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) WSO2
7 2 (1.20%) Zoho
8 1 (0.60%) Adobe
8 1 (0.60%) JDA
8 1 (0.60%) Sage