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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 273 346
Rank change year-on-year -4 +73 +200
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 476 575 588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.11% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 3.03% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 362 298 478
10th Percentile £36,375 £37,487 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,125 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%

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 21,358 18,979 27,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.47% 36.59% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,580 11,101 23,038
10th Percentile £28,745 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,711
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,499
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.37%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -16 417 £57,500 -8.00% 128
UK excluding London -66 231 £50,000 -4.76% 101
London +66 201 £60,000 -11.44% 73
Work from Home +24 159 £57,000 -5.00% 79
North of England +7 69 £47,500 -13.64% 15
Midlands -5 47 £57,500 +10.05% 18
South East +11 41 £45,000 -25.00% 38
North West +37 36 £57,500 +9.52% 11
West Midlands +5 36 £51,844 -1.25% 11
Yorkshire -11 31 £42,020 -23.60% 2
East of England +17 23 £55,000 +26.44% 3
Scotland +10 22 £56,000 +25.84% 11
South West -102 19 £43,125 -13.75% 6
Wales +9 11 £41,740 -14.82% 10
East Midlands +1 11 £60,000 +50.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £70,000 -
North East -5 2 £50,000 -20.00% 2

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
1 151 (31.72%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.52%) Appian
4 9 (1.89%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 5 (1.05%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 50 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 87 (18.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.26%) Shopify
3 4 (0.84%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 390 (81.93%) Power Platform
2 308 (64.71%) PowerApps
3 260 (54.62%) Azure
4 162 (34.03%) Dynamics 365
5 150 (31.51%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (17.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 54 (11.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 53 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (10.08%) Entra ID
10 45 (9.45%) Serverless
11 41 (8.61%) Copilot Studio
12 40 (8.40%) Azure Functions
13 30 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (6.09%) Azure AI
15 25 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.99%) AWS
17 16 (3.36%) GitHub
18 15 (3.15%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (3.15%) OneDrive
19 13 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.31%) Firewall
2 10 (2.10%) VPN
3 9 (1.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) DHCP
4 4 (0.84%) Internet
4 4 (0.84%) Intranet
4 4 (0.84%) Wireless
5 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.42%) VLAN
7 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) WAN
7 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (49.58%) Power BI
2 56 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.30%) Power Query
4 19 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.36%) PowerPivot
6 13 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.52%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.26%) Metabase
9 6 (1.26%) Metadata
9 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.63%) MySQL
10 3 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (6.30%) Git
2 28 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.52%) MLflow
4 11 (2.31%) JIRA
5 3 (0.63%) Postman
5 3 (0.63%) Selenium
6 2 (0.42%) JMeter
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.21%) MSTest
7 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 204 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 129 (27.10%) Finance
3 66 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.29%) Law
5 45 (9.45%) Legal
6 32 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.36%) Marketing
10 10 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.68%) Automotive
12 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.26%) Retail
13 5 (1.05%) Agriculture
13 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.63%) Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Local Government
16 2 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 157 (32.98%) Developer
2 87 (18.28%) Power Platform Developer
3 65 (13.66%) Analyst
4 55 (11.55%) Senior
5 37 (7.77%) Consultant
6 34 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.51%) IT Support
8 28 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 28 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 27 (5.67%) Lead
10 20 (4.20%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
12 17 (3.57%) Power Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
13 16 (3.36%) Administrator
13 16 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 16 (3.36%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.36%) Power Platform Consultant
14 14 (2.94%) IT Engineer
15 13 (2.73%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (16.60%) REST
2 66 (13.87%) .NET
3 40 (8.40%) Web Services
4 36 (7.56%) SOAP
5 33 (6.93%) HTML
6 26 (5.46%) HTML5 Canvas
7 24 (5.04%) CSS
7 24 (5.04%) JSON
8 23 (4.83%) RESTful
9 18 (3.78%) XML
10 17 (3.57%) OpenAPI
10 17 (3.57%) Swagger
11 13 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (2.73%) OAuth
11 13 (2.73%) Pandas
12 12 (2.52%) Flask
12 12 (2.52%) NumPy
12 12 (2.52%) pytest
12 12 (2.52%) PyTorch
12 12 (2.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.44%) Low-Code
2 24 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.89%) IoT
9 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.47%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.63%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.63%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.41%) Windows
2 11 (2.31%) Linux
3 7 (1.47%) Android
4 6 (1.26%) Unix
4 6 (1.26%) Windows 10
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (22.69%) Agile
4 97 (20.38%) CRM
5 93 (19.54%) AI
6 88 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 81 (17.02%) Workflow
8 80 (16.81%) DevOps
9 73 (15.34%) CI/CD
10 55 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (11.34%) Mentoring
12 46 (9.66%) Data Analysis
12 46 (9.66%) Data Modelling
12 46 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (9.66%) Visualisation
13 45 (9.45%) Coaching
13 45 (9.45%) Migration
14 44 (9.24%) Process Improvement
15 43 (9.03%) Analytics
16 42 (8.82%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 126 (26.47%) SQL
2 105 (22.06%) C#
3 96 (20.17%) JavaScript
4 58 (12.18%) Python
5 56 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 22 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.78%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.57%) VBA
9 11 (2.31%) Java
10 8 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.47%) PHP
12 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.84%) Bash
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (11.76%) Degree
2 49 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.93%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.47%) ACCA
7 7 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.47%) CIMA
8 5 (1.05%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.67%) QA
3 17 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.57%) GDPR
4 16 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.89%) SLA
7 7 (1.47%) PMO
8 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.84%) WCAG
10 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.42%) NIST
10 2 (0.42%) P3O
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.99%) Docker
3 6 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.84%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 292 (61.34%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.25%) UiPath
4 21 (4.41%) SAP
5 17 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.52%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (2.52%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.89%) Intapp
7 9 (1.89%) Oracle
8 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.26%) Talend
10 5 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.05%) Foundry
10 5 (1.05%) IBM
10 5 (1.05%) IFS
10 5 (1.05%) Infor
10 5 (1.05%) Jitterbit
10 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.05%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.05%) Workday