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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 56 48
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 174 132 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.79% 4.46% 4.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.71% 13.91% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 109 85 218
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,572
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £58,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +22.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,200 £76,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

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 1,269 949 1,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.62% 32.05% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 739 541 1,450
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £87,500 £78,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +28 77 £55,000 +22.22% 33
Buckinghamshire -1 65 £62,500 +4.17% 13
Oxfordshire +13 32 £58,750 +23.68% 10
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 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.72%) SAS
1 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) CMS
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 92 (52.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.17%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (43.68%) Azure
2 37 (21.26%) Azure AI
3 17 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (9.77%) Power Automate
4 15 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (5.75%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.60%) AWS
7 5 (2.87%) GCP
7 5 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.30%) dbt
8 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.30%) SaaS
9 3 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.15%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.57%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) Modbus
1 5 (2.87%) MQTT
2 1 (0.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (86.21%) Power BI
2 65 (37.36%) Tableau
3 11 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.75%) Power Query
5 7 (4.02%) Metadata
5 7 (4.02%) PowerPivot
6 6 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.72%) Looker
9 2 (1.15%) Airbyte
9 2 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.15%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (0.57%) MySQL
10 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Git
2 3 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
General
1 117 (67.24%) Social Skills
2 90 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (48.28%) Finance
4 18 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.05%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (7.47%) Marketing
7 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Back Office
8 2 (1.15%) Law
8 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (56.32%) Analyst
2 67 (38.51%) Data Analyst
3 36 (20.69%) Junior
3 36 (20.69%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (20.69%) Junior Data Analyst
4 35 (20.11%) Developer
5 20 (11.49%) Financial Analyst
6 19 (10.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 16 (9.20%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Power BI Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Report Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Senior
10 10 (5.75%) Business Developer
11 9 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 8 (4.60%) Power BI Specialist
13 7 (4.02%) Applications Support
14 6 (3.45%) Commercial Analyst
14 6 (3.45%) Procurement Analyst
14 6 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.17%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (1.15%) .NET
2 2 (1.15%) RESTful
2 2 (1.15%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.57%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.57%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.57%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.57%) PySpark
3 1 (0.57%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.34%) Low-Code
2 13 (7.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.45%) FMCG
5 5 (2.87%) IoT
5 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.87%) SCADA
6 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.57%) Podcast
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.57%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
1 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (81.03%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (41.38%) Decision-Making
3 55 (31.61%) AI
4 48 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.56%) Analytics
6 38 (21.84%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 36 (20.69%) ETL
8 31 (17.82%) Visualisation
9 26 (14.94%) Data Governance
10 25 (14.37%) Budgeting
10 25 (14.37%) Data Visualisation
11 23 (13.22%) Agile
11 23 (13.22%) CI/CD
12 22 (12.64%) Computer Science
13 21 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (12.07%) ERP
14 19 (10.92%) DevOps
15 17 (9.77%) Data Analytics
15 17 (9.77%) Data Integration
16 16 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 109 (62.64%) SQL
2 87 (50.00%) Python
3 25 (14.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (12.64%) C#
5 21 (12.07%) VBA
6 15 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.72%) R
9 2 (1.15%) Java
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (21.84%) Azure Certification
2 36 (20.69%) CIMA
3 35 (20.11%) ACCA
4 34 (19.54%) Degree
5 15 (8.62%) AAT
6 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.30%) PMO
2 4 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.72%) Terraform
2 1 (0.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 71 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.97%) SAP
3 9 (5.17%) Databricks
4 2 (1.15%) HubSpot
4 2 (1.15%) IFS
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle
4 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.15%) Xero
5 1 (0.57%) Cognos
5 1 (0.57%) Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Informatica
5 1 (0.57%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.57%) Marketo
5 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.57%) Palantir
5 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow