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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 37 71 77
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 3,379 5,806 5,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.27% 4.59% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.71% 10.63% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 4,294 4,155
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,350
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

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 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 18 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 30 November 2023. 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 +26 2,878 £57,500 - 1,329
UK excluding London +32 1,989 £50,000 - 909
Work from Home +41 1,695 £58,000 +0.87% 707
London +22 1,144 £67,500 +3.85% 501
North of England +34 606 £50,000 - 270
Midlands +37 381 £50,000 - 168
North West +48 315 £52,500 +6.06% 143
South West +34 296 £49,000 +4.26% 87
South East +10 292 £52,500 -4.55% 213
West Midlands +40 284 £50,000 - 117
Yorkshire +17 267 £50,000 -2.91% 83
Scotland +47 196 £47,557 +2.83% 69
Wales +10 102 £34,000 -15.00% 22
East Midlands +31 97 £37,500 -25.00% 50
East of England +37 80 £47,500 -13.64% 83
Northern Ireland +38 50 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North East +16 24 £45,000 -10.00% 46
Channel Islands +11 3 £65,000 -

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
1 361 (10.68%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 60 (1.78%) Apache
4 42 (1.24%) Confluence
5 27 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.65%) IIS
7 16 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.44%) MS Exchange
9 12 (0.36%) SAS
10 10 (0.30%) CMS
10 10 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.24%) Mendix
12 6 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.18%) WordPress
13 5 (0.15%) IBM Domino
13 5 (0.15%) Luigi
14 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
15 2 (0.059%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.059%) Drupal
Applications
1 471 (13.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 156 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.27%) InDesign
9 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.18%) SPSS
11 5 (0.15%) Trello
12 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.059%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.059%) Blender
13 2 (0.059%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.059%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.030%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.030%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 510 (15.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 18 (0.53%) Primavera
3 17 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.36%) Maximo
5 9 (0.27%) Shopify
5 9 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
6 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
7 6 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.18%) iTrent
7 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.18%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.15%) SystmOne
9 4 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,746 (51.67%) Azure
2 901 (26.66%) Dynamics 365
3 598 (17.70%) PowerApps
4 529 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
5 422 (12.49%) Microsoft 365
6 339 (10.03%) Power Automate
7 333 (9.85%) Serverless
8 296 (8.76%) PaaS
9 292 (8.64%) Azure Functions
10 281 (8.32%) SaaS
11 262 (7.75%) IaaS
12 202 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 192 (5.68%) GCP
14 190 (5.62%) AWS
15 142 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 120 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 95 (2.81%) Snowflake
18 91 (2.69%) Google Analytics
19 67 (1.98%) GitHub
20 51 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (0.92%) DNS
2 22 (0.65%) Network Security
3 19 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) Firewall
5 15 (0.44%) Intranet
6 14 (0.41%) DHCP
6 14 (0.41%) VPN
7 13 (0.38%) Internet
7 13 (0.38%) SSL
7 13 (0.38%) WAN
8 11 (0.33%) LAN
9 7 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) IPv6
10 6 (0.18%) SAN
10 6 (0.18%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.15%) VSAN
12 4 (0.12%) BGP
12 4 (0.12%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.12%) VLAN
12 4 (0.12%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,409 (71.29%) Power BI
2 582 (17.22%) SQL Server
3 498 (14.74%) Tableau
4 418 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
5 325 (9.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 320 (9.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 231 (6.84%) Data Lake
8 170 (5.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 134 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 125 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 114 (3.37%) Power Query
12 107 (3.17%) NoSQL
13 106 (3.14%) MySQL
14 99 (2.93%) Looker
15 91 (2.69%) Big Data
16 90 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
17 89 (2.63%) BigQuery
18 67 (1.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 62 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
20 51 (1.51%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 88 (2.60%) JIRA
2 85 (2.52%) Git
3 63 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 28 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 20 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.21%) ERwin
7 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (0.18%) Selenium
8 6 (0.18%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.15%) MSTest
9 5 (0.15%) NUnit
9 5 (0.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.12%) Maven
10 4 (0.12%) RStudio
11 3 (0.089%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.089%) GitLab
11 3 (0.089%) TeamCity
General
1 1,207 (35.72%) Finance
2 922 (27.29%) Social Skills
3 615 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (8.64%) Retail
5 260 (7.69%) Marketing
6 212 (6.27%) Banking
7 142 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 141 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 132 (3.91%) Law
10 124 (3.67%) Manufacturing
11 115 (3.40%) Legal
12 108 (3.20%) Public Sector
13 50 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 42 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 35 (1.04%) Advertising
17 32 (0.95%) Telecoms
18 26 (0.77%) Electronics
19 24 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
20 14 (0.41%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 785 (23.23%) Analyst
2 720 (21.31%) Developer
3 568 (16.81%) Architect
4 418 (12.37%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 376 (11.13%) Senior
6 316 (9.35%) Data Analyst
7 240 (7.10%) Data Engineer
8 230 (6.81%) Solutions Architect
9 228 (6.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 228 (6.75%) Lead
10 227 (6.72%) CRM Architect
11 223 (6.60%) Dynamics CRM Architect
12 175 (5.18%) Consultant
13 169 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 156 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
15 143 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 134 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
17 122 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
18 105 (3.11%) Power Platform Developer
19 95 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (10.51%) .NET
2 180 (5.33%) HTML
3 139 (4.11%) CSS
4 79 (2.34%) REST
5 77 (2.28%) .NET Framework
6 65 (1.92%) ASP.NET
7 58 (1.72%) JSON
7 58 (1.72%) XML
8 52 (1.54%) Kafka
9 43 (1.27%) React
10 42 (1.24%) PySpark
11 37 (1.09%) Web Services
12 36 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
13 33 (0.98%) Middleware
14 32 (0.95%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.83%) Entity Framework
16 25 (0.74%) Pandas
17 24 (0.71%) RESTful
17 24 (0.71%) SOAP
18 23 (0.68%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 128 (3.79%) Management Information System
2 119 (3.52%) Low-Code
3 94 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 68 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (2.01%) Public Cloud
4 68 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 47 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 41 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (0.89%) IoT
10 30 (0.89%) NHS
11 28 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 28 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
12 24 (0.71%) Cloud Native
13 22 (0.65%) Mobile App
14 21 (0.62%) Housing Association
14 21 (0.62%) Reinsurance
15 19 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.58%) Windows
2 49 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 37 (1.09%) Linux
4 27 (0.80%) Unix
5 24 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.68%) Android
7 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.030%) CentOS
12 1 (0.030%) Debian
12 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,054 (60.79%) Business Intelligence
2 1,268 (37.53%) Agile
3 912 (26.99%) Analytics
4 714 (21.13%) DevOps
5 709 (20.98%) Visualisation
6 612 (18.11%) CRM
7 604 (17.88%) Actionable Insight
8 595 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
9 479 (14.18%) ETL
10 461 (13.64%) Data Modelling
11 459 (13.58%) Data Visualisation
12 434 (12.84%) Data Analysis
13 414 (12.25%) Mentoring
14 413 (12.22%) Roadmaps
15 376 (11.13%) Decision-Making
16 328 (9.71%) Data Analytics
17 306 (9.06%) Requirements Gathering
18 284 (8.40%) Presales
19 259 (7.66%) Strategic Roadmap
20 250 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,450 (42.91%) SQL
2 443 (13.11%) Python
3 412 (12.19%) C#
4 311 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 244 (7.22%) T-SQL
6 199 (5.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 149 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 125 (3.70%) R
9 51 (1.51%) TypeScript
10 45 (1.33%) Java
11 36 (1.07%) VBA
12 32 (0.95%) PHP
12 32 (0.95%) VB.NET
13 23 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.62%) VB
15 17 (0.50%) Scala
16 12 (0.36%) Bicep
17 11 (0.33%) X++
18 10 (0.30%) Ruby
19 8 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 509 (15.06%) Degree
2 161 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 123 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 96 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 27 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.59%) MCSE
10 16 (0.47%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.33%) ACCA
12 9 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.24%) MBA
14 7 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) MCSA
15 6 (0.18%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.15%) PMP
16 5 (0.15%) Postgraduate
17 4 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 110 (3.26%) QA
3 69 (2.04%) GDPR
4 49 (1.45%) SLA
5 44 (1.30%) PMO
6 37 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.41%) GMP
9 12 (0.36%) NIST
10 11 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.33%) GRC
11 8 (0.24%) COBIT
11 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.18%) WCAG
13 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.089%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.059%) GAAP
System Software
1 112 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 36 (1.07%) Docker
2 36 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.21%) vSphere
7 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Firmware
9 3 (0.089%) IAG
10 2 (0.059%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (2.16%) Terraform
2 50 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (0.98%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.47%) SCCM
5 9 (0.27%) Ansible
6 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.059%) Kibana
9 2 (0.059%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.030%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.030%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.030%) logstash
10 1 (0.030%) Nagios
10 1 (0.030%) Puppet
10 1 (0.030%) SCOM
10 1 (0.030%) WSUS
10 1 (0.030%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,771 (52.41%) Microsoft
2 200 (5.92%) Google
3 170 (5.03%) Databricks
4 156 (4.62%) Oracle
5 103 (3.05%) SAP
6 71 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.07%) Alteryx
8 44 (1.30%) VMware
9 41 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 26 (0.77%) Adobe
11 23 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 23 (0.68%) Teradata
12 21 (0.62%) IBM
13 20 (0.59%) Informatica
14 18 (0.53%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.38%) UiPath
16 12 (0.36%) Blue Prism
16 12 (0.36%) Cisco
16 12 (0.36%) Hotjar
16 12 (0.36%) MicroStrategy