| Skill Area | Specific Skills | Recommended Experience | Notes |
| Canvas Apps | - App design & UX
- Custom connectors
- Responsive layouts
- Delegation handling | 3 5 years | Canvas apps have been widely used since ~2018. |
| Model-Driven Apps | - Dataverse schema design
- Business rules
- Command bar customization
- Security roles | 3 5 years | Essential for structured, data-driven apps. |
| Power Pages (formerly Portals) | - Web roles & permissions
- Liquid templates
- Web forms & lists
- Authentication (AAD, external) | 2 4 years | Power Pages rebranded in 2022; experience with Portals counts. |
| Power Automate | - Cloud flows
- Approvals
- Error handling
- Integration with SharePoint, Dataverse, Outlook | 3 5 years | Core to automating business processes. |
| Dataverse | - Table relationships
- Business rules
- Dataflows
- Security model | 3 5 years | Backbone of Model-Driven Apps and Power Pages. |
| Power BI (optional but valuable) | - Embedding in Power Apps
- Data modeling
- DAX basics | 1 3 years | Useful for integrated reporting. |
| Security & Governance | - DLP policies
- Environment strategy
- Role-based access | 2 3 years | Especially important in enterprise environments. |
| Licensing & Cost Optimization | - Understanding of Power Platform licensing tiers
- Cost-effective architecture | 1 2 years | Helps avoid over-architecting and unnecessary costs. |
| Soft Skills | - Agile/Scrum familiarity
- Requirements gathering
- Stakeholder communication | 5+ years (general experience) | Crucial for successful delivery and collaboration. |