Power Platform Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Power Platform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 43 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +29
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 19 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 4.19% 1.83% 3.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.70% 6.00% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £44,425 - £36,500
25th Percentile £50,938 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile - - £55,000
90th Percentile £70,875 - £58,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 121 150 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 26.65% 30.55% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 98
10th Percentile £32,025 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,188 £46,713 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +27.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £69,950
90th Percentile £88,125 £94,375 £79,146
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.79%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Power Platform
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Power Platform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in Northern Ireland

Power Platform
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
County Antrim +17 12 £70,000 -6.67% 10
County Down - 2 - -
Newry - 2 - -
County Tyrone -2 1 £40,500 - 1
County Londonderry - 1 - -
County Armagh - 1 - -
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (31.58%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.26%) Boomi
5 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) Power BI
2 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
3 6 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (31.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (15.79%) Tableau
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.26%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Tech for Good
4 2 (10.53%) Billing
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Application Development Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Applications Development Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Applications Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Development Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Commercial Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Insight Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) AI
5 5 (26.32%) Process Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 4 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Visual Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) WFM
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) CRM
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) ERP
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Six Sigma
8 2 (10.53%) Agile
8 2 (10.53%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GMP
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) RedGate
3 1 (5.26%) SAP