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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 51 61
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 217 167 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.18% 4.92% 4.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.77% 15.27% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 98 75 157
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,255 £38,603
25th Percentile £42,813 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,938 £76,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,094 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.15% 32.22% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 667 565 1,166
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
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 25 January 2026.

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 25 January 2026. 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 +27 126 £55,500 +5.71% 42
Buckinghamshire +1 65 £52,500 -12.50% 16
Oxfordshire +14 26 £52,500 +10.53% 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 5 (2.30%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.38%) SAS
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 130 (59.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.15%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.69%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (56.68%) Azure
2 20 (9.22%) Azure AI
3 16 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.45%) Power Automate
5 12 (5.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (5.53%) Snowflake
6 10 (4.61%) AWS
7 8 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.23%) GCP
9 6 (2.76%) dbt
9 6 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.76%) SaaS
10 4 (1.84%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.38%) Fivetran
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.92%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) Modbus
1 5 (2.30%) MQTT
2 1 (0.46%) DHCP
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
2 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (90.32%) Power BI
2 67 (30.88%) Data Lake
3 64 (29.49%) SAP BW
4 42 (19.35%) Tableau
5 15 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.07%) Power Query
7 9 (4.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (3.69%) Metadata
8 8 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.23%) PowerPivot
10 5 (2.30%) Looker
10 5 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.38%) MySQL
12 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 130 (59.91%) Social Skills
2 108 (49.77%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (35.02%) Finance
4 20 (9.22%) Marketing
5 17 (7.83%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.38%) Law
9 3 (1.38%) Retail
10 2 (0.92%) Back Office
10 2 (0.92%) Games
10 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (51.61%) Analyst
2 52 (23.96%) Data Analyst
3 42 (19.35%) Lead
4 39 (17.97%) Report Analyst
5 32 (14.75%) Developer
6 30 (13.82%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 28 (12.90%) Sustainability Analyst
8 19 (8.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (8.29%) Junior
9 18 (8.29%) Junior Analyst
9 18 (8.29%) Junior Data Analyst
10 16 (7.37%) Financial Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Power BI Developer
11 12 (5.53%) Power Platform Developer
11 12 (5.53%) Procurement Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Senior
12 9 (4.15%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.69%) SAP CO-PA
2 3 (1.38%) .NET
3 2 (0.92%) Hugging Face
3 2 (0.92%) NumPy
3 2 (0.92%) Pandas
3 2 (0.92%) RESTful
3 2 (0.92%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.92%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.46%) GeoPandas
4 1 (0.46%) MapLibre
4 1 (0.46%) NetworkX
4 1 (0.46%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.46%) PySpark
4 1 (0.46%) REST
4 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.45%) Low-Code
3 12 (5.53%) FMCG
4 7 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.30%) IoT
5 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.30%) SCADA
6 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.46%) Podcast
8 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.46%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
1 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (88.94%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (54.84%) Analytics
3 111 (51.15%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (35.94%) Data Modelling
5 77 (35.48%) Decision-Making
6 56 (25.81%) Data Governance
7 54 (24.88%) Actionable Insight
8 47 (21.66%) ERP
9 45 (20.74%) AI
10 38 (17.51%) Data Cleansing
10 38 (17.51%) Visualisation
11 37 (17.05%) ETL
12 32 (14.75%) Data Visualisation
13 30 (13.82%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 30 (13.82%) Quality Management
14 28 (12.90%) GAP Analysis
14 28 (12.90%) Source to Pay
15 27 (12.44%) Computer Science
16 25 (11.52%) Budgeting
17 24 (11.06%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 95 (43.78%) SQL
2 67 (30.88%) Python
3 27 (12.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (8.76%) C#
5 17 (7.83%) VBA
6 12 (5.53%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.38%) R
9 2 (0.92%) Java
9 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (48.85%) Degree
2 23 (10.60%) CIMA
3 22 (10.14%) ACCA
4 20 (9.22%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.23%) AAT
6 5 (2.30%) HNC
7 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.38%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (37.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.30%) QA
3 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.38%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) Argo
2 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (41.47%) SAP
2 46 (21.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.61%) Databricks
4 4 (1.84%) HubSpot
4 4 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.38%) Oracle
5 3 (1.38%) Talend
6 2 (0.92%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.92%) Cognos
6 2 (0.92%) Google
6 2 (0.92%) IFS
6 2 (0.92%) Xero
6 2 (0.92%) Zoho
7 1 (0.46%) Foundry
7 1 (0.46%) Informatica
7 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.46%) Marketo
7 1 (0.46%) Palantir
7 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow