Power Automate Job Trends

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Power Automate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 240 320
Rank change year-on-year -80 +80 +217
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 460 514 805
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.26% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 3.39% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 354 309 636
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Power Automate 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25,475 15,159 33,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,442 11,029 26,352
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,065 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.34% +10.00% -9.09%

Power Automate
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power Automate relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Power Automate job vacancy trend in the UK

Power Automate
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Automate within the UK over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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 -71 409 £56,000 -6.67% 201
UK excluding London -128 217 £50,000 -4.76% 156
London +36 206 £60,000 -14.29% 63
Work from Home -15 150 £52,500 -7.89% 94
North of England -40 63 £46,042 -14.34% 34
Midlands -25 49 £57,500 +9.52% 40
South East -52 43 £50,000 -15.61% 51
West Midlands -16 36 £47,085 -10.32% 24
North West -2 33 £52,500 - 22
Yorkshire -46 27 £40,000 -23.81% 9
East of England -23 24 £60,000 +22.45% 17
South West -134 17 £43,125 -25.00% 12
East Midlands -37 13 £61,250 +11.36% 15
Wales -15 12 £41,740 -14.82% 3
Scotland -28 11 £65,000 +28.85% 4
North East -18 3 £51,000 -18.40% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £70,000 -

Power Automate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 136 (29.57%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.61%) Appian
4 5 (1.09%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.09%) CMS
5 3 (0.65%) Confluence
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 58 (12.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.09%) Shopify
3 3 (0.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.65%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.65%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 388 (84.35%) Power Platform
2 291 (63.26%) PowerApps
3 253 (55.00%) Azure
4 135 (29.35%) Dynamics 365
5 130 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (17.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 44 (9.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 39 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (8.48%) Serverless
9 38 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 38 (8.26%) Azure Functions
10 35 (7.61%) Copilot Studio
11 32 (6.96%) Entra ID
12 25 (5.43%) Azure AI
13 21 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (4.13%) SaaS
15 17 (3.70%) OneDrive
16 15 (3.26%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (3.04%) AWS
17 14 (3.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.61%) Firewall
2 7 (1.52%) DNS
2 7 (1.52%) VPN
3 4 (0.87%) DHCP
4 3 (0.65%) Intranet
5 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.43%) VLAN
5 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.22%) NAS
6 1 (0.22%) Network Security
6 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.22%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (56.30%) Power BI
2 63 (13.70%) SQL Server
3 36 (7.83%) Power Query
4 29 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.00%) PowerPivot
6 13 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.61%) Metabase
7 12 (2.61%) Pinecone
8 9 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.30%) Metadata
9 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.87%) MySQL
11 4 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.43%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (4.13%) Visual Studio
2 15 (3.26%) Git
3 12 (2.61%) MLflow
4 7 (1.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 195 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 125 (27.17%) Finance
3 89 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.87%) Law
5 35 (7.61%) Legal
6 28 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.26%) Marketing
10 14 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.74%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.52%) Automotive
13 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.65%) Retail
16 2 (0.43%) Local Government
17 1 (0.22%) Advertising
17 1 (0.22%) Billing
17 1 (0.22%) Police
17 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (34.35%) Developer
2 84 (18.26%) Power Platform Developer
3 76 (16.52%) Analyst
4 53 (11.52%) Senior
5 44 (9.57%) IT Support
6 32 (6.96%) Consultant
7 31 (6.74%) Senior Developer
8 27 (5.87%) Financial Analyst
9 25 (5.43%) Support Engineer
10 24 (5.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 24 (5.22%) Lead
11 23 (5.00%) Support Manager
11 23 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
12 22 (4.78%) Support Analyst
13 20 (4.35%) Applications Support
13 20 (4.35%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (3.91%) Power Platform Consultant
15 17 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 16 (3.48%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (13.91%) .NET
2 61 (13.26%) REST
3 38 (8.26%) HTML5 Canvas
4 27 (5.87%) JSON
5 26 (5.65%) Web Services
6 24 (5.22%) SOAP
7 21 (4.57%) RESTful
8 19 (4.13%) HTML
9 17 (3.70%) CSS
10 16 (3.48%) SPFx
11 15 (3.26%) XML
12 14 (3.04%) JWT
12 14 (3.04%) OpenAPI
12 14 (3.04%) Swagger
13 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
13 13 (2.83%) OAuth
13 13 (2.83%) Pandas
14 12 (2.61%) pytest
14 12 (2.61%) scikit-learn
14 12 (2.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.57%) Low-Code
2 19 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) IoT
11 3 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.65%) PropTech
12 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.91%) Windows
2 11 (2.39%) Linux
3 6 (1.30%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (52.39%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (20.87%) AI
5 90 (19.57%) Workflow
6 83 (18.04%) CRM
7 73 (15.87%) Agile
8 72 (15.65%) DevOps
9 54 (11.74%) Data Analysis
9 54 (11.74%) Data Modelling
10 53 (11.52%) CI/CD
11 48 (10.43%) Analytics
12 47 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 45 (9.78%) Visualisation
15 42 (9.13%) Translating Business Requirements
16 40 (8.70%) ETL
17 38 (8.26%) Decision-Making
18 37 (8.04%) Mentoring
19 35 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 152 (33.04%) SQL
2 94 (20.43%) JavaScript
3 93 (20.22%) C#
4 56 (12.17%) Python
5 39 (8.48%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.91%) VBA
9 10 (2.17%) Java
10 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.43%) Bash
12 2 (0.43%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (13.70%) Degree
2 42 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.52%) ACCA
7 7 (1.52%) CIMA
7 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.22%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.00%) QA
3 16 (3.48%) GDPR
4 13 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.39%) SLA
6 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.13%) Docker
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
4 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 295 (64.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.43%) SAP
4 24 (5.22%) UiPath
5 15 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.83%) Automation Anywhere
6 13 (2.83%) Intapp
6 13 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.61%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.96%) Adobe
8 9 (1.96%) Oracle
9 6 (1.30%) Pega
10 5 (1.09%) Dell
10 5 (1.09%) Epicor
10 5 (1.09%) IBM
10 5 (1.09%) Infor
10 5 (1.09%) Informatica
10 5 (1.09%) Software AG
10 5 (1.09%) Talend
10 5 (1.09%) TIBCO