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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 6 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.83% 2.04% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.32% 6.13% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £43,650 - £35,000
25th Percentile £50,250 - £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +66.67% +16.03%
75th Percentile £66,875 - £53,750
90th Percentile £68,750 - £55,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £62,500 £55,106
% change year-on-year -8.80% +13.42% -1.60%

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 82 163 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.00% 33.27% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 29 76 118
10th Percentile £40,650 £33,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,375 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £69,538
90th Percentile £80,448 £94,375 £80,070
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 18 October 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 18 October 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 1 £70,000 -6.67% 4
County Tyrone +2 1 £40,500 - 2
County Armagh - 1 - - 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Epics
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Semantic Search
4 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GMP
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP