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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +30
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 15 10 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 3.46% 2.02% 2.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.39% 6.37% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £43,275 - £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +57.89% +20.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - £58,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.61% -2.61%

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 112 157 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.81% 31.72% 37.06%
Number of salaries quoted 39 71 110
10th Percentile £30,550 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £46,481 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £74,156 £74,572 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,448 £93,750 £78,882
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 8 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 8 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 +9 8 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Newry - 2 - -
County Down - 2 - -
County Tyrone +2 1 £40,500 - 1
County Armagh - 1 - -
County Londonderry - 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Tech for Good
5 2 (13.33%) Billing
5 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Advertising
6 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Application Development Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Development Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Business Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Commercial Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Insight Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Insight Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) EDI
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 5 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Visual Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) WFM
6 3 (20.00%) AI
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Six Sigma
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Insight
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GMP
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) RedGate
2 1 (6.67%) SAP