Power Platform Job Trends

Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 46 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +19
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 2,881 2,603 3,892
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.33% 5.22% 5.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.99% 14.11% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 1,472 3,250
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +14.74% -5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,185 18,453 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.35% 37.02% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,977 11,035 23,469
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the UK

Power Platform
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 17 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 12 February 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
England -3 2,525 £59,527 -4.76% 792
UK excluding London +2 1,829 £50,000 -8.26% 726
London +6 842 £70,000 +3.70% 279
Work from Home +5 802 £55,000 -8.33% 399
South East +19 484 £50,000 -13.04% 267
North of England -9 449 £55,000 - 161
Midlands +10 381 £50,000 -0.99% 152
West Midlands 0 248 £53,094 +0.00% 100
North West -8 231 £55,000 - 97
South West -16 177 £45,000 -2.17% 60
Yorkshire -7 168 £48,500 -7.62% 44
East of England -14 137 £46,750 -33.21% 38
East Midlands +37 131 £45,000 - 52
Scotland +7 131 £53,750 +20.79% 37
Wales +23 53 £41,740 -12.13% 15
North East +22 50 £63,076 -2.96% 23
Northern Ireland -3 30 £62,500 -10.71% 2

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 260 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.35%) Confluence
4 21 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.66%) SAS
6 17 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (0.56%) CMS
8 7 (0.24%) Appian
8 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.21%) Apache
9 6 (0.21%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Drupal
10 5 (0.17%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.069%) Moodle
12 2 (0.069%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.069%) SugarCRM
13 1 (0.035%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.035%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,080 (37.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.49%) Trello
8 9 (0.31%) Maya
9 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.069%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.069%) Revit
11 1 (0.035%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.035%) InDesign
11 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 171 (5.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
2 18 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.38%) Visualfiles
5 10 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.24%) Shopify
8 6 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (0.10%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 1,468 (50.95%) Azure
2 523 (18.15%) Azure AI
3 401 (13.92%) PowerApps
4 395 (13.71%) Power Automate
5 373 (12.95%) Dynamics 365
5 373 (12.95%) Microsoft 365
6 220 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
7 181 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 151 (5.24%) Snowflake
9 129 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 121 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 116 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 110 (3.82%) AWS
13 98 (3.40%) Entra ID
14 95 (3.30%) SaaS
15 73 (2.53%) dbt
16 64 (2.22%) GCP
16 64 (2.22%) GitHub
17 61 (2.12%) Serverless
18 50 (1.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (0.90%) Firewall
2 17 (0.59%) DNS
3 14 (0.49%) Intranet
3 14 (0.49%) VPN
4 13 (0.45%) WAN
5 12 (0.42%) DHCP
6 10 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.24%) LAN
7 7 (0.24%) VoIP
8 5 (0.17%) Broadband
8 5 (0.17%) Modbus
8 5 (0.17%) MQTT
8 5 (0.17%) VLAN
9 4 (0.14%) Internet
10 3 (0.10%) Mobile Broadband
10 3 (0.10%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.10%) Softphone
11 2 (0.069%) Network Security
11 2 (0.069%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.069%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,298 (79.76%) Power BI
2 805 (27.94%) Tableau
3 247 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 214 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (5.41%) Data Lake
6 136 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 114 (3.96%) Power Query
8 86 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 81 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 65 (2.26%) Looker
11 47 (1.63%) Metadata
12 46 (1.60%) SAP BW
13 45 (1.56%) Relational Database
14 35 (1.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 29 (1.01%) MySQL
15 29 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
16 28 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (0.90%) Big Data
18 24 (0.83%) BigQuery
19 21 (0.73%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 101 (3.51%) Git
2 82 (2.85%) JIRA
3 45 (1.56%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (0.35%) Postman
6 10 (0.35%) Selenium
7 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.24%) GitLab
9 6 (0.21%) ERwin
10 4 (0.14%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.10%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.10%) Snyk
11 3 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.069%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.069%) NUnit
12 2 (0.069%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,351 (46.89%) Social Skills
2 874 (30.34%) Finance
3 648 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (6.00%) Marketing
5 140 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (4.72%) Legal
7 126 (4.37%) Law
8 121 (4.20%) Public Sector
9 108 (3.75%) Manufacturing
10 84 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 82 (2.85%) Retail
12 81 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (2.19%) Tech for Good
14 47 (1.63%) Banking
15 43 (1.49%) Billing
16 40 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.11%) Games
18 27 (0.94%) Advertising
19 22 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,166 (40.47%) Analyst
2 740 (25.69%) Data Analyst
3 523 (18.15%) Junior
4 512 (17.77%) Junior Analyst
5 499 (17.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 389 (13.50%) Developer
7 324 (11.25%) Senior
8 200 (6.94%) Lead
9 156 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 151 (5.24%) Architect
11 140 (4.86%) Power Platform Developer
12 122 (4.23%) Consultant
13 112 (3.89%) Support Analyst
14 93 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 92 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
16 76 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 74 (2.57%) Business Analyst
18 70 (2.43%) Financial Analyst
19 68 (2.36%) Report Analyst
20 64 (2.22%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (4.72%) .NET
2 71 (2.46%) REST
3 48 (1.67%) HTML
4 40 (1.39%) CSS
4 40 (1.39%) JSON
5 39 (1.35%) XML
6 36 (1.25%) Web Services
7 34 (1.18%) RESTful
8 32 (1.11%) SOAP
9 29 (1.01%) PySpark
10 26 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
11 23 (0.80%) EDI
12 22 (0.76%) OAuth
12 22 (0.76%) React
13 20 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 19 (0.66%) OAuth2
15 17 (0.59%) Middleware
15 17 (0.59%) SAML
16 15 (0.52%) Node.js
17 14 (0.49%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 131 (4.55%) Low-Code
2 109 (3.78%) Management Information System
3 106 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 79 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 74 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 47 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.21%) FMCG
12 26 (0.90%) AI Agents
13 25 (0.87%) Driving Licence
14 24 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (0.69%) Reinsurance
16 19 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.62%) Social Media
18 16 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
18 16 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.85%) Windows
2 18 (0.62%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.52%) Linux
4 10 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.28%) Android
6 8 (0.28%) VMS
6 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.21%) Unix
8 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,192 (76.08%) Business Intelligence
2 934 (32.42%) AI
3 727 (25.23%) Analytics
4 569 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
5 540 (18.74%) Decision-Making
6 533 (18.50%) Agile
7 437 (15.17%) Data Modelling
8 425 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 425 (14.75%) Visualisation
9 343 (11.91%) DevOps
10 312 (10.83%) ETL
11 305 (10.59%) Data Analysis
12 287 (9.96%) CRM
13 280 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
14 269 (9.34%) Data Governance
15 256 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
16 251 (8.71%) Roadmaps
17 234 (8.12%) ERP
18 230 (7.98%) CI/CD
19 228 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,478 (51.30%) SQL
2 996 (34.57%) Python
3 183 (6.35%) C#
4 152 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 135 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 118 (4.10%) PowerShell
7 85 (2.95%) VBA
8 53 (1.84%) R
9 48 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 31 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 30 (1.04%) Java
12 27 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.59%) Scala
15 12 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.38%) Bicep
17 10 (0.35%) Delphi
18 8 (0.28%) Bash
19 6 (0.21%) PHP
20 5 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 536 (18.60%) Azure Certification
2 462 (16.04%) Degree
3 105 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 96 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (2.71%) SC Cleared
6 74 (2.57%) ACCA
6 74 (2.57%) CIMA
7 61 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 59 (2.05%) PMP
9 57 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 52 (1.80%) DBS Check
11 21 (0.73%) HND
12 18 (0.62%) MBA
13 15 (0.52%) CISSP
14 13 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
15 12 (0.42%) CISA
15 12 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.38%) AAT
16 11 (0.38%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (11.18%) Data Quality
2 107 (3.71%) QA
3 93 (3.23%) GDPR
4 79 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.80%) SLA
7 49 (1.70%) PMO
8 24 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.49%) NIST
11 13 (0.45%) GRC
12 10 (0.35%) ITGC
13 8 (0.28%) COBIT
14 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.17%) IFRS
16 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.14%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.10%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.35%) Docker
3 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (1.67%) Terraform
3 38 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.35%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.28%) SCCM
6 5 (0.17%) Ansible
6 5 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.10%) Argo
7 3 (0.10%) Control-M
7 3 (0.10%) MOM
8 2 (0.069%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.035%) Grafana
9 1 (0.035%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,525 (52.93%) Microsoft
2 141 (4.89%) SAP
3 120 (4.17%) Databricks
4 102 (3.54%) Oracle
5 72 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 63 (2.19%) Google
7 54 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.74%) Blue Prism
9 37 (1.28%) Informatica
10 32 (1.11%) Alteryx
11 31 (1.08%) Adobe
12 30 (1.04%) Anaplan
13 22 (0.76%) Verint
14 20 (0.69%) Genesys
15 19 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.59%) HubSpot
17 14 (0.49%) Intapp
18 13 (0.45%) Concur
18 13 (0.45%) iManage
18 13 (0.45%) MuleSoft