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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 274 318
Rank change year-on-year -34 +44 +243
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 476 513 743
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.18% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 3.16% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 367 298 606
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £53,750 £51,093
% change year-on-year -10.70% +5.20% -2.68%

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 24,032 16,252 31,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.42% 37.26% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,945 10,996 25,693
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,009
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 14 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 14 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 -34 421 £56,938 -5.10% 191
UK excluding London -85 223 £48,000 -10.70% 151
London +61 209 £60,000 -14.29% 70
Work from Home +5 146 £52,835 -7.31% 108
North of England -29 70 £47,500 -13.64% 30
Midlands -21 49 £57,500 +9.52% 28
West Midlands -5 38 £47,085 -10.32% 21
North West +8 37 £55,000 - 20
South East -21 35 £50,000 -16.67% 51
Yorkshire -42 30 £42,039 -23.57% 6
East of England +13 26 £55,000 +15.79% 15
South West -128 19 £42,625 -25.87% 13
Wales +4 13 £41,740 -14.82% 9
Scotland -11 12 £60,000 +34.83% 9
East Midlands -23 11 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North East -20 3 £51,000 -18.40% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £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
1 145 (30.46%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.52%) Appian
4 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 3 (0.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 67 (14.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.05%) Shopify
3 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.63%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 400 (84.03%) Power Platform
2 309 (64.92%) PowerApps
3 259 (54.41%) Azure
4 152 (31.93%) Dynamics 365
5 143 (30.04%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (17.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 48 (10.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (8.82%) Serverless
10 41 (8.61%) Azure Functions
11 40 (8.40%) Copilot Studio
12 36 (7.56%) Entra ID
13 33 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (5.67%) Azure AI
15 23 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (3.78%) SaaS
17 16 (3.36%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (3.15%) AWS
18 15 (3.15%) GitHub
18 15 (3.15%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.73%) Firewall
2 10 (2.10%) VPN
3 9 (1.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) DHCP
4 4 (0.84%) Intranet
5 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.42%) VLAN
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (55.25%) Power BI
2 63 (13.24%) SQL Server
3 37 (7.77%) Power Query
4 29 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.62%) PowerPivot
6 12 (2.52%) Pinecone
7 11 (2.31%) Metabase
8 9 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.26%) Metadata
11 5 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.84%) MySQL
12 4 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.41%) Visual Studio
2 18 (3.78%) Git
3 12 (2.52%) MLflow
4 7 (1.47%) JIRA
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 204 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 128 (26.89%) Finance
3 87 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.34%) Law
5 42 (8.82%) Legal
6 32 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.78%) Marketing
10 15 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.68%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.47%) Automotive
12 7 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Retail
13 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 2 (0.42%) Banking
14 2 (0.42%) Local Government
15 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 160 (33.61%) Developer
2 92 (19.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 77 (16.18%) Analyst
4 53 (11.13%) Senior
5 40 (8.40%) IT Support
6 35 (7.35%) Consultant
7 33 (6.93%) Senior Developer
8 28 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 26 (5.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 26 (5.46%) Financial Analyst
10 25 (5.25%) Lead
11 23 (4.83%) Support Analyst
12 22 (4.62%) Systems Analyst
13 20 (4.20%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.57%) Power Platform Consultant
16 16 (3.36%) Architect
16 16 (3.36%) IT Engineer
17 15 (3.15%) Applications Support
17 15 (3.15%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (13.87%) REST
2 61 (12.82%) .NET
3 34 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 30 (6.30%) Web Services
5 28 (5.88%) SOAP
6 24 (5.04%) JSON
7 21 (4.41%) RESTful
8 20 (4.20%) HTML
9 16 (3.36%) CSS
9 16 (3.36%) XML
10 14 (2.94%) JWT
10 14 (2.94%) OpenAPI
10 14 (2.94%) Swagger
11 13 (2.73%) OAuth
11 13 (2.73%) Pandas
12 12 (2.52%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.52%) Flask
12 12 (2.52%) pytest
12 12 (2.52%) scikit-learn
12 12 (2.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.91%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.84%) IoT
13 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.63%) PropTech
14 2 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.20%) Windows
2 13 (2.73%) Linux
3 7 (1.47%) Android
4 6 (1.26%) Unix
5 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Solaris
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (52.31%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 102 (21.43%) AI
5 88 (18.49%) Workflow
6 86 (18.07%) CRM
7 83 (17.44%) Agile
8 80 (16.81%) DevOps
9 60 (12.61%) CI/CD
10 57 (11.97%) Data Modelling
11 54 (11.34%) Data Analysis
12 51 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 50 (10.50%) Analytics
14 49 (10.29%) Visualisation
15 48 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 43 (9.03%) Translating Business Requirements
17 42 (8.82%) Migration
18 41 (8.61%) ETL
18 41 (8.61%) Mentoring
19 39 (8.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 149 (31.30%) SQL
2 102 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 98 (20.59%) C#
4 57 (11.97%) Python
5 44 (9.24%) PowerShell
6 26 (5.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (3.99%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.78%) VBA
9 9 (1.89%) Java
9 9 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) Bash
12 2 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (13.24%) Degree
2 44 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 43 (9.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 35 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.47%) ACCA
7 7 (1.47%) CIMA
7 7 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.42%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.25%) QA
3 16 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.36%) GDPR
3 16 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.10%) SLA
5 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.42%) GRC
6 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.42%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.99%) Docker
3 5 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.63%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 303 (63.66%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.25%) UiPath
4 24 (5.04%) SAP
5 15 (3.15%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.73%) Automation Anywhere
6 13 (2.73%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.52%) Intapp
7 12 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.10%) Oracle
9 6 (1.26%) Pega
10 5 (1.05%) Adobe
10 5 (1.05%) Dell
10 5 (1.05%) Epicor
10 5 (1.05%) Foundry
10 5 (1.05%) IBM
10 5 (1.05%) Infor
10 5 (1.05%) Informatica
10 5 (1.05%) Software AG
10 5 (1.05%) Talend