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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 47 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 -10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 203 189 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.12% 5.35% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.63% 16.27% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 85 80 86
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,261 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,750 £75,250 £59,463
90th Percentile £75,750 £76,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +11.65% -6.36%

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 1,221 1,162 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.77% 32.92% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 614 605 839
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,938 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,100 £83,550
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -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 24 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 24 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 +17 115 £56,750 +8.10% 66
Buckinghamshire +1 59 £52,500 -12.50% 33
Oxfordshire +24 29 £60,000 +14.05% 13
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 (4.93%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.48%) SAS
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 115 (56.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (58.13%) Azure
2 17 (8.37%) Azure AI
3 12 (5.91%) Power Automate
3 12 (5.91%) Snowflake
4 11 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.43%) AWS
7 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.45%) SaaS
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.96%) dbt
8 6 (2.96%) GCP
9 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.48%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.99%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Modbus
1 4 (1.97%) MQTT
2 1 (0.49%) DHCP
2 1 (0.49%) DNS
2 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (93.10%) Power BI
2 70 (34.48%) Data Lake
3 63 (31.03%) SAP BW
4 34 (16.75%) Tableau
5 14 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.91%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (5.42%) Power Query
8 8 (3.94%) Metadata
9 7 (3.45%) PowerPivot
9 7 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.46%) Looker
10 5 (2.46%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.48%) MySQL
11 3 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Git
2 3 (1.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
General
1 117 (57.64%) Social Skills
2 85 (41.87%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (28.08%) Finance
4 18 (8.87%) Marketing
5 15 (7.39%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.42%) Retail
8 5 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.97%) Games
10 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Back Office
11 2 (0.99%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (47.29%) Analyst
2 50 (24.63%) Lead
3 45 (22.17%) Data Analyst
4 34 (16.75%) Report Analyst
5 30 (14.78%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (13.79%) Sustainability Analyst
7 21 (10.34%) Developer
8 16 (7.88%) Senior
9 15 (7.39%) Junior
9 15 (7.39%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (7.39%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (5.91%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (5.91%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 12 (5.91%) Procurement Analyst
12 11 (5.42%) Financial Analyst
13 10 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
15 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing Engineer
15 6 (2.96%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.48%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (0.99%) .NET
2 2 (0.99%) Hugging Face
2 2 (0.99%) NumPy
2 2 (0.99%) Pandas
2 2 (0.99%) scikit-learn
2 2 (0.99%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.49%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.49%) Flash
3 1 (0.49%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.49%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.49%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.49%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.49%) PySpark
3 1 (0.49%) REST
3 1 (0.49%) RESTful
3 1 (0.49%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (5.91%) FMCG
2 12 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.94%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 8 (3.94%) SCADA
4 7 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.97%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (1.97%) IoT
6 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Windows
1 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (92.12%) Business Intelligence
2 123 (60.59%) Analytics
3 100 (49.26%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (38.42%) Data Modelling
5 68 (33.50%) Decision-Making
6 54 (26.60%) Actionable Insight
7 52 (25.62%) Data Governance
8 43 (21.18%) AI
9 42 (20.69%) ERP
10 38 (18.72%) Data Cleansing
11 33 (16.26%) Visualisation
12 30 (14.78%) Quality Management
13 29 (14.29%) ETL
14 28 (13.79%) GAP Analysis
14 28 (13.79%) Source to Pay
15 27 (13.30%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (12.32%) Data Analysis
17 24 (11.82%) Data Analytics
18 21 (10.34%) Computer Science
18 21 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (41.87%) SQL
2 56 (27.59%) Python
3 22 (10.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (5.91%) C#
5 10 (4.93%) VBA
6 6 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.48%) R
9 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Java
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (50.74%) Degree
2 16 (7.88%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.90%) CIMA
4 13 (6.40%) ACCA
5 10 (4.93%) HNC
6 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) AAT
7 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.99%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (40.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.97%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Argo
2 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (38.92%) SAP
2 38 (18.72%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.93%) Databricks
4 4 (1.97%) Allen-Bradley
4 4 (1.97%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.97%) Siemens
5 3 (1.48%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.48%) Oracle
5 3 (1.48%) Talend
6 2 (0.99%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.99%) Cognos
6 2 (0.99%) Google
6 2 (0.99%) Xero
6 2 (0.99%) Zoho
7 1 (0.49%) Foundry
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir
7 1 (0.49%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.49%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow