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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 -11
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,588 5,150 6,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.60% 5.17% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.96% 12.04% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,731 3,232 4,188
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,575 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.93% +2.26% +5.56%

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 35,393 42,765 77,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 42.94% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,672 28,066 41,284
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 19 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 16 May 2024. 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 +14 4,108 £55,000 -4.35% 1,122
UK excluding London +9 3,005 £50,000 +2.93% 718
Work from Home 0 1,936 £55,000 - 783
London +16 1,327 £67,500 - 417
North of England +15 848 £47,500 - 181
Midlands +14 657 £54,500 +14.74% 160
South East +14 630 £50,000 -6.38% 173
North West +32 488 £47,500 - 113
West Midlands +16 485 £55,000 +15.79% 109
South West 0 349 £50,000 +5.26% 91
Yorkshire -7 247 £50,000 +5.26% 51
East of England +66 238 £48,500 -3.00% 62
Scotland -35 209 £47,500 -6.75% 33
East Midlands +8 169 £45,000 - 50
North East +7 113 £42,500 -10.53% 17
Wales -19 70 £55,000 +37.50% 20
Northern Ireland -20 8 £66,250 +47.22% 9
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

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
1 669 (14.58%) SharePoint
2 111 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.02%) Confluence
4 39 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.68%) SAS
6 30 (0.65%) Apache
7 29 (0.63%) IIS
8 25 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) WordPress
10 14 (0.31%) CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
15 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.044%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.044%) Drupal
16 2 (0.044%) Joomla!
16 2 (0.044%) nginx
Applications
1 885 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.044%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 416 (9.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
2 34 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 20 (0.44%) Primavera
4 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
5 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
6 12 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.15%) Maximo
9 7 (0.15%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.087%) Finacle
11 4 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.087%) Temenos T24
12 3 (0.065%) Sage 300 ERP
12 3 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,917 (41.78%) Azure
2 916 (19.97%) PowerApps
3 840 (18.31%) Dynamics 365
4 781 (17.02%) Power Automate
5 704 (15.34%) Microsoft 365
6 319 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
7 281 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 240 (5.23%) AWS
9 225 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 147 (3.20%) Serverless
12 137 (2.99%) GCP
13 108 (2.35%) Snowflake
14 105 (2.29%) Entra ID
15 98 (2.14%) SaaS
16 84 (1.83%) Azure Functions
17 82 (1.79%) PaaS
18 79 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
19 64 (1.39%) Google Analytics
20 62 (1.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.72%) DNS
2 74 (1.61%) Broadband
3 60 (1.31%) Intranet
4 46 (1.00%) DHCP
5 42 (0.92%) Firewall
6 38 (0.83%) WAN
7 29 (0.63%) Network Security
8 26 (0.57%) LAN
9 22 (0.48%) Internet
10 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 16 (0.35%) VPN
13 13 (0.28%) VoIP
14 12 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.17%) WebEx
17 7 (0.15%) HTTP
17 7 (0.15%) NAS
17 7 (0.15%) TCP/IP
18 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,501 (76.31%) Power BI
2 825 (17.98%) SQL Server
3 640 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
4 613 (13.36%) Tableau
5 417 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 366 (7.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 286 (6.23%) Data Lake
8 211 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 171 (3.73%) Power Query
10 163 (3.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 135 (2.94%) Relational Database
12 83 (1.81%) Big Data
13 75 (1.63%) Looker
14 71 (1.55%) QlikView
15 64 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 62 (1.35%) NoSQL
17 61 (1.33%) Data Mining
18 56 (1.22%) BigQuery
19 55 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
19 55 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 188 (4.10%) JIRA
2 107 (2.33%) Git
3 98 (2.14%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.31%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) GitLab
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.15%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.11%) ERwin
12 4 (0.087%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.065%) NUnit
13 3 (0.065%) Selenium
13 3 (0.065%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,581 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 1,205 (26.26%) Finance
3 969 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (8.09%) Retail
5 369 (8.04%) Marketing
6 326 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 234 (5.10%) Law
8 233 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 229 (4.99%) Legal
10 166 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
11 161 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 143 (3.12%) Banking
13 86 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 66 (1.44%) Local Government
15 59 (1.29%) Back Office
16 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
18 47 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 46 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
20 44 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,114 (24.28%) Developer
2 1,015 (22.12%) Analyst
3 533 (11.62%) Senior
4 397 (8.65%) Data Analyst
5 393 (8.57%) Lead
6 346 (7.54%) Consultant
7 344 (7.50%) Architect
8 290 (6.32%) Data Engineer
9 273 (5.95%) Power Platform Developer
10 258 (5.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 207 (4.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 186 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 171 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 157 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
14 157 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
15 152 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
16 127 (2.77%) DBA
17 119 (2.59%) Power Platform Architect
18 117 (2.55%) SQL DBA
19 108 (2.35%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (9.72%) .NET
2 197 (4.29%) HTML
3 132 (2.88%) CSS
4 100 (2.18%) HTML5 Canvas
5 98 (2.14%) JSON
6 86 (1.87%) .NET Framework
7 85 (1.85%) REST
8 72 (1.57%) ASP.NET
9 64 (1.39%) Web Services
10 62 (1.35%) XML
11 44 (0.96%) RESTful
12 41 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 41 (0.89%) React
13 40 (0.87%) PySpark
14 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 27 (0.59%) Entity Framework
17 23 (0.50%) MDX
18 22 (0.48%) Node.js
18 22 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 188 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 146 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
3 123 (2.68%) Low-Code
4 117 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 92 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 76 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.11%) FMCG
10 47 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.00%) NHS
12 41 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 38 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.74%) Driving Licence
15 30 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
17 26 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (0.54%) Cloud Native
18 25 (0.54%) Housing Association
19 23 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 185 (4.03%) Windows
2 83 (1.81%) VMS
3 69 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.35%) Linux
5 32 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 25 (0.54%) Unix
7 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.20%) Android
9 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,992 (65.21%) Business Intelligence
2 1,013 (22.08%) Agile
3 1,001 (21.82%) Analytics
4 814 (17.74%) Visualisation
5 777 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 628 (13.69%) ETL
7 609 (13.27%) DevOps
8 587 (12.79%) Data Analysis
9 576 (12.55%) CRM
10 543 (11.84%) Data Visualisation
11 538 (11.73%) Data Modelling
12 458 (9.98%) Decision-Making
13 426 (9.29%) Project Management
14 412 (8.98%) Migration
15 398 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 386 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 383 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 371 (8.09%) Roadmaps
19 360 (7.85%) Data Science
20 355 (7.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,131 (46.45%) SQL
2 648 (14.12%) Python
3 535 (11.66%) C#
4 413 (9.00%) T-SQL
5 359 (7.82%) JavaScript
6 265 (5.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 223 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 161 (3.51%) R
9 97 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 86 (1.87%) Java
11 76 (1.66%) VBA
12 38 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.54%) VB
14 21 (0.46%) PHP
15 20 (0.44%) C
16 17 (0.37%) Bash
16 17 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.26%) Go
18 12 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 814 (17.74%) Degree
2 298 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 178 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.71%) DBS Check
5 125 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (2.64%) SC Cleared
7 91 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 31 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.52%) CIPD
12 17 (0.37%) CIMA
12 17 (0.37%) MCSE
12 17 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
13 16 (0.35%) CISM
13 16 (0.35%) CISSP
13 16 (0.35%) MBA
14 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (0.28%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.16%) GDPR
3 115 (2.51%) QA
4 63 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) PMO
6 34 (0.74%) SLA
7 29 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.28%) NIST
12 11 (0.24%) COBIT
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.087%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.044%) NCSC
17 1 (0.022%) IFRS
17 1 (0.022%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 179 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 86 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.35%) Docker
6 8 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.065%) vSphere
9 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (0.98%) Terraform
3 37 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.44%) Ansible
5 15 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (0.24%) SCCM
7 7 (0.15%) Foglight
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.15%) Nagios
7 7 (0.15%) WSUS
8 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.087%) Grafana
9 4 (0.087%) Puppet
10 3 (0.065%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.044%) cPanel
11 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.022%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.022%) logstash
12 1 (0.022%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,344 (51.09%) Microsoft
2 246 (5.36%) Databricks
3 214 (4.66%) Oracle
4 176 (3.84%) Google
5 128 (2.79%) SAP
6 104 (2.27%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 43 (0.94%) VMware
9 36 (0.78%) IFS
9 36 (0.78%) iManage
10 31 (0.68%) Cognos
11 30 (0.65%) UiPath
12 26 (0.57%) Sophos
13 24 (0.52%) Blue Prism
13 24 (0.52%) ServiceNow
14 23 (0.50%) Aderant
15 22 (0.48%) Adobe
16 21 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
17 20 (0.44%) Veeam
18 19 (0.41%) Epicor