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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 58 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing Power Platform 4,556 5,218 5,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 5.14% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.94% 12.01% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 3,280 4,167
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,738 £33,825
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,613 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £80,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,709 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% +0.44% +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 35,219 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 7 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 7 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 4,079 £55,000 -4.35% 1,246
UK excluding London +9 2,990 £50,000 +4.80% 801
Work from Home +3 1,921 £55,000 - 675
London +17 1,316 £67,500 - 461
North of England +16 846 £47,500 - 196
Midlands +17 650 £53,635 +12.92% 195
South East +14 621 £51,000 -2.86% 183
North West +30 484 £47,500 - 120
West Midlands +16 480 £55,000 +15.79% 134
South West 0 343 £50,000 +5.26% 86
Yorkshire -8 250 £49,990 +7.51% 57
East of England +71 245 £48,500 -3.00% 72
Scotland -27 210 £47,500 -6.75% 44
East Midlands +7 167 £45,000 - 60
North East +5 112 £42,500 -15.00% 19
Wales -21 70 £55,000 +37.50% 23
Northern Ireland -15 9 £66,250 +47.22% 12
Channel Islands -2 2 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 2

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
1 676 (14.84%) SharePoint
2 112 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.05%) Confluence
4 39 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.68%) SAS
6 30 (0.66%) IIS
7 27 (0.59%) Apache
8 25 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 15 (0.33%) WordPress
10 7 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.11%) IBM Notes
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.066%) Alfresco
13 3 (0.066%) Documentum
13 3 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.044%) Drupal
14 2 (0.044%) Joomla!
Applications
1 877 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 225 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) SPSS
7 12 (0.26%) Trello
8 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.11%) InDesign
10 3 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
11 2 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 414 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
3 32 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.44%) Primavera
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.31%) Epicor Tropos
7 10 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.18%) Maximo
9 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.15%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.088%) Finacle
11 4 (0.088%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.088%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.088%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,899 (41.68%) Azure
2 910 (19.97%) PowerApps
3 829 (18.20%) Dynamics 365
4 772 (16.94%) Power Automate
5 716 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
6 319 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 280 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 237 (5.20%) AWS
9 217 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 145 (3.18%) Serverless
12 138 (3.03%) GCP
13 108 (2.37%) Snowflake
14 103 (2.26%) Entra ID
15 94 (2.06%) SaaS
16 83 (1.82%) PaaS
17 81 (1.78%) Azure Functions
18 76 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (1.43%) Google Analytics
19 65 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.69%) DNS
2 74 (1.62%) Broadband
3 62 (1.36%) Intranet
4 46 (1.01%) DHCP
5 41 (0.90%) Firewall
6 36 (0.79%) WAN
7 28 (0.61%) Network Security
8 25 (0.55%) LAN
9 22 (0.48%) Internet
10 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 14 (0.31%) VPN
13 12 (0.26%) VoIP
14 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.18%) HTTP
16 8 (0.18%) WebEx
17 7 (0.15%) NAS
18 6 (0.13%) SAN
18 6 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3,473 (76.23%) Power BI
2 827 (18.15%) SQL Server
3 628 (13.78%) Data Warehouse
4 606 (13.30%) Tableau
5 418 (9.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 375 (8.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 271 (5.95%) Data Lake
8 214 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 168 (3.69%) Power Query
10 165 (3.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 135 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 81 (1.78%) Big Data
13 75 (1.65%) Looker
14 71 (1.56%) QlikView
15 62 (1.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 62 (1.36%) NoSQL
16 57 (1.25%) Data Mining
17 55 (1.21%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.19%) Metadata
19 48 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 188 (4.13%) JIRA
2 106 (2.33%) Git
3 95 (2.09%) Visual Studio
4 52 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 19 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.33%) RStudio
8 10 (0.22%) GitLab
8 10 (0.22%) gulp
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.22%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.11%) ERwin
13 4 (0.088%) Selenium
14 3 (0.066%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.066%) NUnit
14 3 (0.066%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,574 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 1,184 (25.99%) Finance
3 948 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
4 376 (8.25%) Retail
5 368 (8.08%) Marketing
6 325 (7.13%) Public Sector
7 233 (5.11%) Law
8 228 (5.00%) Legal
9 225 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 169 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 163 (3.58%) Manufacturing
12 142 (3.12%) Banking
13 83 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 65 (1.43%) Local Government
15 56 (1.23%) Back Office
16 52 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
17 51 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
18 49 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
19 48 (1.05%) Telecoms
20 43 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,115 (24.47%) Developer
2 1,009 (22.15%) Analyst
3 525 (11.52%) Senior
4 399 (8.76%) Data Analyst
5 392 (8.60%) Lead
6 350 (7.68%) Consultant
7 337 (7.40%) Architect
8 269 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 267 (5.86%) Power Platform Developer
10 257 (5.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 206 (4.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 182 (3.99%) Senior Developer
13 167 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 156 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
15 155 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
16 151 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
17 128 (2.81%) DBA
18 117 (2.57%) SQL DBA
19 113 (2.48%) Power Platform Architect
20 109 (2.39%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (9.72%) .NET
2 195 (4.28%) HTML
3 129 (2.83%) CSS
4 101 (2.22%) JSON
5 100 (2.19%) HTML5 Canvas
6 88 (1.93%) REST
7 86 (1.89%) .NET Framework
8 75 (1.65%) ASP.NET
9 64 (1.40%) Web Services
10 58 (1.27%) XML
11 46 (1.01%) RESTful
12 41 (0.90%) .NET Core
12 41 (0.90%) React
13 37 (0.81%) PySpark
14 35 (0.77%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 26 (0.57%) Entity Framework
17 23 (0.50%) MDX
18 22 (0.48%) Node.js
18 22 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 186 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 144 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
3 127 (2.79%) Low-Code
4 117 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 99 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 92 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 50 (1.10%) FMCG
10 45 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 43 (0.94%) NHS
12 39 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 38 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 34 (0.75%) Driving Licence
15 29 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
17 26 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (0.55%) Housing Association
19 23 (0.50%) Cloud Native
19 23 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 188 (4.13%) Windows
2 83 (1.82%) VMS
3 70 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.36%) Linux
5 35 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 24 (0.53%) Unix
7 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.29%) 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 2,970 (65.19%) Business Intelligence
2 1,023 (22.45%) Agile
3 994 (21.82%) Analytics
4 807 (17.71%) Visualisation
5 775 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 630 (13.83%) ETL
7 608 (13.35%) DevOps
8 579 (12.71%) Data Analysis
9 574 (12.60%) CRM
10 534 (11.72%) Data Visualisation
11 527 (11.57%) Data Modelling
12 456 (10.01%) Decision-Making
13 427 (9.37%) Project Management
14 414 (9.09%) Migration
15 400 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 383 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 382 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 369 (8.10%) Roadmaps
19 362 (7.95%) Data Science
20 352 (7.73%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,109 (46.29%) SQL
2 632 (13.87%) Python
3 530 (11.63%) C#
4 414 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 359 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 256 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 220 (4.83%) PowerShell
8 161 (3.53%) R
9 101 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 87 (1.91%) Java
11 71 (1.56%) VBA
12 39 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.55%) PHP
13 25 (0.55%) VB
14 20 (0.44%) C
15 17 (0.37%) Bash
15 17 (0.37%) VB.NET
16 13 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.26%) Go
17 12 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 794 (17.43%) Degree
2 296 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 184 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 170 (3.73%) DBS Check
5 126 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 115 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 90 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 79 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 34 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.53%) CIPD
13 18 (0.40%) MCSE
13 18 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.37%) CIMA
15 16 (0.35%) CISM
15 16 (0.35%) CISSP
15 16 (0.35%) MBA
16 15 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.29%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.13%) GDPR
3 109 (2.39%) QA
4 62 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.97%) PMO
6 33 (0.72%) SLA
7 29 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 27 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.29%) NIST
11 12 (0.26%) COBIT
12 9 (0.20%) GRC
12 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.088%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.088%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.044%) NCSC
16 1 (0.022%) IFRS
16 1 (0.022%) NIST 800
System Software
1 176 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 86 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.35%) Docker
6 8 (0.18%) Firmware
7 5 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.066%) vSphere
9 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (0.92%) Terraform
3 36 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.44%) Ansible
5 16 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 10 (0.22%) 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 (0.088%) Grafana
9 4 (0.088%) Puppet
10 3 (0.066%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.044%) cPanel
11 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.022%) Kibana
12 1 (0.022%) logstash
12 1 (0.022%) Salt
12 1 (0.022%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,321 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 237 (5.20%) Databricks
3 215 (4.72%) Oracle
4 174 (3.82%) Google
5 127 (2.79%) SAP
6 107 (2.35%) Alteryx
7 60 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 41 (0.90%) VMware
9 37 (0.81%) iManage
10 35 (0.77%) IFS
11 31 (0.68%) Cognos
12 29 (0.64%) UiPath
13 27 (0.59%) Adobe
13 27 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.57%) Sophos
15 25 (0.55%) Blue Prism
16 21 (0.46%) Aderant
16 21 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
17 20 (0.44%) IBM
17 20 (0.44%) Veeam