Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 58 89
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -7
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,587 5,404 5,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.68% 5.16% 3.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.03% 11.98% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,724 3,408 4,153
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,995
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,039 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.71% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,709 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% +0.44% +5.56%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Power Platform.

Salary trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +15 4,109 £55,000 -4.35% 1,072
UK excluding London +8 3,003 £50,000 +4.80% 662
Work from Home +4 1,949 £55,000 - 538
London +15 1,330 £67,500 - 442
North of England +17 861 £47,500 - 185
Midlands +14 641 £52,500 +10.53% 148
South East +12 628 £52,500 - 133
North West +41 488 £47,500 - 105
West Midlands +15 469 £55,000 +15.79% 97
South West +3 338 £49,000 +3.16% 73
Yorkshire -2 260 £50,000 +5.26% 52
East of England +77 246 £47,500 -7.32% 52
Scotland -36 212 £47,500 -6.10% 46
East Midlands +5 170 £45,000 - 50
North East +7 113 £42,500 -15.00% 28
Wales -23 70 £55,000 +37.50% 27
Northern Ireland -12 11 £65,000 +44.44% 12
Channel Islands -3 1 £57,500 +64.29%
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 2

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 688 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 115 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (1.20%) Confluence
4 49 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.74%) Apache
6 32 (0.70%) SAS
7 29 (0.63%) IIS
8 24 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 15 (0.33%) WordPress
10 7 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.087%) Alfresco
12 4 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.087%) Documentum
12 4 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.065%) IBM Domino
13 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 887 (19.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 222 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 31 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 9 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.17%) InDesign
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 414 (9.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 34 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.44%) Primavera
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.31%) Epicor Tropos
7 10 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.20%) Maximo
9 7 (0.15%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.087%) Finacle
11 4 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.087%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.087%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,907 (41.57%) Azure
2 910 (19.84%) PowerApps
3 827 (18.03%) Dynamics 365
4 755 (16.46%) Power Automate
5 716 (15.61%) Microsoft 365
6 318 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
7 279 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 237 (5.17%) AWS
9 216 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 156 (3.40%) GCP
11 153 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 151 (3.29%) Serverless
13 109 (2.38%) Snowflake
14 105 (2.29%) Entra ID
15 94 (2.05%) SaaS
16 86 (1.87%) Azure Functions
17 84 (1.83%) PaaS
18 75 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (1.42%) Google Analytics
20 64 (1.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.70%) DNS
2 74 (1.61%) Broadband
3 62 (1.35%) Intranet
4 45 (0.98%) DHCP
5 39 (0.85%) Firewall
6 33 (0.72%) WAN
7 29 (0.63%) Network Security
8 23 (0.50%) LAN
9 22 (0.48%) Internet
10 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 14 (0.31%) VPN
13 12 (0.26%) VoIP
14 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.24%) TCP/IP
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.17%) HTTP
16 8 (0.17%) WebEx
17 7 (0.15%) NAS
18 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,509 (76.50%) Power BI
2 833 (18.16%) SQL Server
3 627 (13.67%) Data Warehouse
4 616 (13.43%) Tableau
5 424 (9.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 385 (8.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 284 (6.19%) Data Lake
8 215 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 171 (3.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 168 (3.66%) Power Query
11 141 (3.07%) Relational Database
12 88 (1.92%) Big Data
13 82 (1.79%) Looker
14 74 (1.61%) NoSQL
15 71 (1.55%) QlikView
16 67 (1.46%) BigQuery
17 59 (1.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 58 (1.26%) Data Mining
19 55 (1.20%) MySQL
20 53 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 196 (4.27%) JIRA
2 108 (2.35%) Git
3 91 (1.98%) Visual Studio
4 52 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 43 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (0.59%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.33%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) GitLab
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.13%) Visual Studio Team System
12 5 (0.11%) ERwin
13 4 (0.087%) Selenium
14 3 (0.065%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.065%) NUnit
General
1 1,563 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 1,215 (26.49%) Finance
3 959 (20.91%) Analytical Skills
4 388 (8.46%) Retail
5 369 (8.04%) Marketing
6 327 (7.13%) Public Sector
7 245 (5.34%) Law
8 232 (5.06%) Legal
9 214 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 172 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
11 166 (3.62%) Manufacturing
12 158 (3.44%) Banking
13 82 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 65 (1.42%) Local Government
15 55 (1.20%) Back Office
16 51 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 51 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
17 48 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.02%) Advertising
18 47 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,122 (24.46%) Developer
2 1,008 (21.98%) Analyst
3 528 (11.51%) Senior
4 396 (8.63%) Data Analyst
5 394 (8.59%) Lead
6 353 (7.70%) Consultant
7 327 (7.13%) Architect
8 270 (5.89%) Data Engineer
9 267 (5.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 260 (5.67%) Power Platform Developer
11 208 (4.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 182 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 165 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 162 (3.53%) Power BI Developer
15 156 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
16 148 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
17 128 (2.79%) DBA
18 117 (2.55%) SQL DBA
19 115 (2.51%) Applications Developer
20 114 (2.49%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (9.61%) .NET
2 198 (4.32%) HTML
3 132 (2.88%) CSS
4 108 (2.35%) JSON
5 105 (2.29%) HTML5 Canvas
6 89 (1.94%) REST
7 85 (1.85%) .NET Framework
8 77 (1.68%) ASP.NET
9 62 (1.35%) Web Services
10 58 (1.26%) XML
11 48 (1.05%) RESTful
12 43 (0.94%) .NET Core
12 43 (0.94%) React
13 37 (0.81%) AngularJS
14 34 (0.74%) PySpark
15 30 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 24 (0.52%) Entity Framework
16 24 (0.52%) MDX
17 22 (0.48%) jQuery
17 22 (0.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (3.97%) Management Information System
2 139 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 132 (2.88%) Low-Code
4 117 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 97 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 74 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 66 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.07%) FMCG
10 42 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 41 (0.89%) NHS
12 39 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 35 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.74%) Driving Licence
15 30 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
16 29 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
17 27 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (0.55%) Housing Association
18 25 (0.55%) Reinsurance
19 24 (0.52%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 192 (4.19%) Windows
2 83 (1.81%) VMS
3 71 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.37%) Linux
5 36 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.59%) Unix
7 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.17%) Android
11 7 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,992 (65.23%) Business Intelligence
2 1,051 (22.91%) Agile
3 1,009 (22.00%) Analytics
4 823 (17.94%) Visualisation
5 777 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 649 (14.15%) ETL
7 616 (13.43%) DevOps
8 579 (12.62%) Data Analysis
9 576 (12.56%) CRM
10 549 (11.97%) Data Visualisation
11 528 (11.51%) Data Modelling
12 462 (10.07%) Decision-Making
13 424 (9.24%) Project Management
14 411 (8.96%) Migration
15 407 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 395 (8.61%) Artificial Intelligence
17 371 (8.09%) Roadmaps
18 370 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
19 367 (8.00%) Data Science
20 366 (7.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,137 (46.59%) SQL
2 649 (14.15%) Python
3 524 (11.42%) C#
4 423 (9.22%) T-SQL
5 366 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 257 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 216 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 163 (3.55%) R
9 104 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 85 (1.85%) Java
11 70 (1.53%) VBA
12 39 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.59%) PHP
14 21 (0.46%) C
14 21 (0.46%) VB
15 17 (0.37%) Bash
15 17 (0.37%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.31%) Scala
17 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 784 (17.09%) Degree
2 296 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 182 (3.97%) Security Cleared
4 169 (3.68%) DBS Check
5 127 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 111 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 76 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 37 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.52%) CIPD
12 19 (0.41%) MCSE
13 17 (0.37%) MBA
14 16 (0.35%) CIMA
15 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
16 13 (0.28%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) ACCA
16 13 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 185 (4.03%) GDPR
3 109 (2.38%) QA
4 62 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) PMO
6 37 (0.81%) SLA
7 26 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.26%) COBIT
12 9 (0.20%) GRC
12 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.20%) NIST
13 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.087%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.044%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.022%) GMP
16 1 (0.022%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 87 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.37%) Docker
6 8 (0.17%) Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.065%) vSphere
9 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.022%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (1.02%) Terraform
3 36 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.44%) Ansible
5 16 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.15%) Foglight
6 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (0.15%) Nagios
6 7 (0.15%) SCCM
6 7 (0.15%) WSUS
7 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.087%) Grafana
8 4 (0.087%) Puppet
9 3 (0.065%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.044%) cPanel
11 1 (0.022%) Kibana
11 1 (0.022%) logstash
11 1 (0.022%) Salt
11 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,328 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 242 (5.28%) Databricks
3 211 (4.60%) Oracle
4 181 (3.95%) Google
5 129 (2.81%) SAP
6 109 (2.38%) Alteryx
7 62 (1.35%) Salesforce
8 43 (0.94%) VMware
9 38 (0.83%) iManage
10 35 (0.76%) IFS
11 33 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 31 (0.68%) Cognos
13 30 (0.65%) Adobe
13 30 (0.65%) UiPath
14 26 (0.57%) Sophos
15 25 (0.55%) Blue Prism
16 23 (0.50%) IBM
17 22 (0.48%) Veeam
18 21 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
19 20 (0.44%) Aderant