Power Platform Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 57 63
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 2,376 1,418 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.84% 4.13% 3.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.58% 15.45% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,057 1,173
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,005
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £57,750 £57,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +0.43% -6.50% +11.72%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,493 9,180 15,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.92% 26.72% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,007 6,221 9,205
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,258 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
North of England +67 761 £50,000 -9.09% 476
Midlands +2 491 £55,000 +3.77% 325
South East -17 434 £60,000 +20.00% 529
North West +62 425 £51,000 -9.73% 273
West Midlands -6 306 £55,000 +2.44% 227
South West -5 275 £52,500 +5.00% 197
Yorkshire +62 245 £45,000 -14.29% 158
East Midlands +19 185 £47,500 -5.00% 98
East of England -12 182 £58,000 +24.06% 174
Scotland +17 92 £70,000 +40.00% 163
North East -7 91 £47,500 -2.56% 47
Wales -25 80 £55,000 +5.77% 63
Northern Ireland -14 73 £45,000 -35.71% 63
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 351 (14.77%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.26%) CMS
4 27 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
5 15 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.42%) Confluence
8 9 (0.38%) Apache
9 7 (0.29%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.084%) IIS
10 2 (0.084%) Luigi
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.084%) SAS
11 1 (0.042%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 763 (32.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Revit
9 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.13%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 148 (6.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (1.81%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
5 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.29%) Infor M3
6 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.17%) Magento
8 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.13%) Shopify
9 3 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
10 2 (0.084%) Infor CloudSuite
10 2 (0.084%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,072 (45.12%) Azure
2 424 (17.85%) Microsoft 365
3 423 (17.80%) PowerApps
4 401 (16.88%) Azure AI
5 396 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 377 (15.87%) Dynamics 365
7 165 (6.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 148 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
9 98 (4.12%) Entra ID
10 84 (3.54%) AWS
10 84 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 83 (3.49%) OneDrive
12 82 (3.45%) SaaS
13 81 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
15 62 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
16 51 (2.15%) Snowflake
17 49 (2.06%) GCP
18 48 (2.02%) Serverless
19 47 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.77%) WAN
2 41 (1.73%) LAN
3 27 (1.14%) Firewall
4 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.34%) PBX
5 8 (0.34%) VoIP
6 5 (0.21%) DNS
6 5 (0.21%) SAN
7 4 (0.17%) Broadband
7 4 (0.17%) DHCP
7 4 (0.17%) Intranet
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
7 4 (0.17%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) Wireless
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.084%) HTTP
10 1 (0.042%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,737 (73.11%) Power BI
2 532 (22.39%) Tableau
3 158 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (5.64%) SQL Server
5 100 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 88 (3.70%) Power Query
7 76 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 55 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 46 (1.94%) Metadata
12 45 (1.89%) Star Schema
13 37 (1.56%) Looker
14 23 (0.97%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 20 (0.84%) MySQL
17 19 (0.80%) QlikView
18 18 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
19 16 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
19 16 (0.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 61 (2.57%) Git
2 41 (1.73%) JIRA
3 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.29%) MLflow
5 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.13%) ERwin
9 2 (0.084%) Ant
9 2 (0.084%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.084%) GitLab
9 2 (0.084%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.084%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.084%) Maven
9 2 (0.084%) NUnit
10 1 (0.042%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.042%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.042%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.042%) Postman
10 1 (0.042%) Selenium
General
1 1,078 (45.37%) Social Skills
2 523 (22.01%) Finance
3 486 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (5.72%) Manufacturing
5 131 (5.51%) Law
6 119 (5.01%) Public Sector
7 106 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 105 (4.42%) Retail
9 103 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (4.34%) Marketing
10 98 (4.12%) Legal
11 57 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (1.43%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.26%) Military
16 29 (1.22%) Publishing
17 24 (1.01%) Social Housing
18 15 (0.63%) Advertising
19 14 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 800 (33.67%) Analyst
2 531 (22.35%) Data Analyst
3 418 (17.59%) Developer
4 413 (17.38%) Junior
5 396 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
6 383 (16.12%) Junior Data Analyst
7 278 (11.70%) Senior
8 176 (7.41%) Architect
9 144 (6.06%) Lead
10 136 (5.72%) Consultant
11 116 (4.88%) Data Engineer
12 88 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
13 73 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 72 (3.03%) Senior Developer
15 70 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 63 (2.65%) Administrator
16 63 (2.65%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.53%) Applications Support
18 57 (2.40%) IT Support
18 57 (2.40%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.26%) .NET
2 80 (3.37%) HTML
3 62 (2.61%) CSS
4 54 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
5 46 (1.94%) REST
6 43 (1.81%) JSON
7 42 (1.77%) PySpark
8 35 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
9 31 (1.30%) SPFx
10 28 (1.18%) .NET Core
11 27 (1.14%) EDI
12 24 (1.01%) ASP.NET
13 23 (0.97%) XML
14 22 (0.93%) React
15 21 (0.88%) Terraform
16 20 (0.84%) Middleware
17 19 (0.80%) PyTorch
18 16 (0.67%) HTML5
18 16 (0.67%) scikit-learn
19 14 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 162 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 82 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 74 (3.11%) Low-Code
4 69 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 42 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 39 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 29 (1.22%) Cloud Native
12 28 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.18%) Blog
12 28 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 28 (1.18%) NHS
13 27 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
14 20 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.59%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.51%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.37%) Windows
2 27 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 22 (0.93%) Linux
4 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.084%) Solaris
8 1 (0.042%) Android
8 1 (0.042%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.042%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,645 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
2 793 (33.38%) AI
3 604 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
4 532 (22.39%) Analytics
5 458 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 407 (17.13%) Decision-Making
7 316 (13.30%) Data Modelling
8 294 (12.37%) Agile
9 267 (11.24%) CRM
10 261 (10.98%) ERP
11 254 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 233 (9.81%) Visualisation
13 221 (9.30%) DevOps
13 221 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 209 (8.80%) Roadmaps
15 199 (8.38%) ETL
16 193 (8.12%) Data Analysis
17 184 (7.74%) Data Governance
18 173 (7.28%) Actionable Insight
19 164 (6.90%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (47.35%) SQL
2 665 (27.99%) Python
3 225 (9.47%) C#
4 181 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 131 (5.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 80 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.77%) T-SQL
7 42 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.18%) R
9 25 (1.05%) VBA
10 16 (0.67%) Java
11 8 (0.34%) Bicep
12 7 (0.29%) Scala
13 6 (0.25%) C
13 6 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.21%) PHP
14 5 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.21%) VB
14 5 (0.21%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 407 (17.13%) Azure Certification
2 216 (9.09%) Degree
3 89 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 80 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 74 (3.11%) SC Cleared
6 63 (2.65%) ACCA
7 62 (2.61%) CIMA
8 31 (1.30%) DBS Check
9 23 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 19 (0.80%) AAT
11 19 (0.80%) PMP
12 11 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.42%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.21%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.21%) CCNA
14 5 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.21%) HND
14 5 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (12.71%) Data Quality
2 135 (5.68%) GDPR
3 69 (2.90%) QA
4 61 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.39%) GRC
6 30 (1.26%) PMO
7 28 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 24 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (1.01%) SLA
9 17 (0.72%) TickIT
10 16 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.25%) WCAG
14 5 (0.21%) PERC
15 4 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 4 (0.17%) NIST
16 3 (0.13%) GxP
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 67 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.34%) Docker
4 4 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 45 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.13%) Ansible
3 3 (0.13%) SCCM
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.084%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.084%) Puppet
5 1 (0.042%) MOM
Vendors
1 1,514 (63.72%) Microsoft
2 85 (3.58%) Databricks
3 59 (2.48%) Oracle
4 58 (2.44%) SAP
5 52 (2.19%) Google
6 33 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.18%) Sage
7 28 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.14%) Sitecore
9 21 (0.88%) Foundry
10 18 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.72%) Adobe
12 15 (0.63%) VMware
13 12 (0.51%) Informatica
14 11 (0.46%) Cognos
14 11 (0.46%) HubSpot
15 10 (0.42%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.42%) Infor
15 10 (0.42%) Intapp
15 10 (0.42%) SYSPRO