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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 275 314
Rank change year-on-year -37 +39 +201
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 513 487 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 3.17% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 392 369 678
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,900 £36,330
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £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 26,587 15,373 34,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 35.15% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,876 10,843 26,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -30 457 £57,500 - 163
UK excluding London -38 281 £50,001 -4.76% 110
London +16 197 £60,000 -14.29% 74
Work from Home -19 170 £52,500 -4.55% 92
North of England +2 88 £46,042 -12.30% 26
Midlands -50 52 £51,250 -2.38% 22
East of England +2 51 £76,750 +53.50% 8
South East -41 47 £50,001 -13.04% 44
North West +18 45 £56,800 +8.19% 7
West Midlands -43 39 £44,000 -14.81% 14
Yorkshire -43 39 £42,039 -23.57% 13
Wales -12 18 £41,740 -19.73% 3
South West -60 18 £43,500 -24.35% 4
East Midlands -32 13 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Scotland +2 10 £55,000 +9.03% 5
North East -33 4 £51,000 -15.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 1

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
1 161 (31.38%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.14%) Appian
4 6 (1.17%) CMS
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 58 (11.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 84 (16.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.58%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 441 (85.96%) Power Platform
2 345 (67.25%) PowerApps
3 272 (53.02%) Azure
4 164 (31.97%) Dynamics 365
5 146 (28.46%) Microsoft 365
6 93 (18.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 61 (11.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (8.97%) Entra ID
10 42 (8.19%) OneDrive
11 36 (7.02%) Copilot Studio
12 33 (6.43%) Serverless
13 29 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.65%) Azure Functions
14 25 (4.87%) SaaS
15 20 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 18 (3.51%) Azure AI
18 13 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
19 12 (2.34%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.53%) Firewall
2 6 (1.17%) Intranet
3 4 (0.78%) VoIP
3 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.58%) DHCP
4 3 (0.58%) DNS
4 3 (0.58%) NAS
4 3 (0.58%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) LTE
5 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) Network Security
6 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (52.44%) Power BI
2 78 (15.20%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.24%) Power Query
4 31 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (3.51%) PowerPivot
7 15 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (2.14%) Metabase
9 11 (2.14%) Pinecone
10 10 (1.95%) Metadata
11 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.78%) MySQL
12 4 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (2.73%) Visual Studio
2 11 (2.14%) MLflow
3 9 (1.75%) Git
4 7 (1.36%) JIRA
5 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 197 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 147 (28.65%) Finance
3 92 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.41%) Law
5 34 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.46%) Legal
6 28 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 21 (4.09%) Marketing
9 11 (2.14%) Retail
10 10 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.56%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.36%) Automotive
13 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.39%) Billing
14 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 180 (35.09%) Developer
2 83 (16.18%) Power Platform Developer
3 81 (15.79%) Analyst
4 62 (12.09%) Senior
5 44 (8.58%) IT Support
6 40 (7.80%) Consultant
7 35 (6.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 33 (6.43%) Lead
8 33 (6.43%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.85%) Support Manager
10 28 (5.46%) Applications Developer
11 26 (5.07%) Power Apps Developer
12 23 (4.48%) Systems Analyst
13 21 (4.09%) Applications Support
13 21 (4.09%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (4.09%) Support Analyst
14 20 (3.90%) IT Manager
15 18 (3.51%) Applications Manager
15 18 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.51%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (15.20%) .NET
2 54 (10.53%) REST
3 53 (10.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 37 (7.21%) CSS
4 37 (7.21%) HTML
5 31 (6.04%) SPFx
6 26 (5.07%) JSON
6 26 (5.07%) Microsoft Graph
7 23 (4.48%) .NET Core
8 21 (4.09%) Web Services
9 16 (3.12%) RESTful
9 16 (3.12%) SOAP
10 13 (2.53%) JWT
10 13 (2.53%) OAuth
10 13 (2.53%) OpenAPI
10 13 (2.53%) Swagger
11 12 (2.34%) Pandas
11 12 (2.34%) React
12 11 (2.14%) Flask
12 11 (2.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.62%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.73%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.53%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Social Media
13 3 (0.58%) PropTech
14 2 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.39%) IoT
14 2 (0.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.46%) Windows
2 10 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.56%) Linux
4 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (50.29%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (26.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 131 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (24.95%) CRM
5 108 (21.05%) AI
6 84 (16.37%) Workflow
7 80 (15.59%) DevOps
8 69 (13.45%) Agile
9 62 (12.09%) Data Modelling
10 60 (11.70%) CI/CD
11 58 (11.31%) Analytics
12 52 (10.14%) Project Management
13 51 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 51 (9.94%) Translating Business Requirements
14 49 (9.55%) User Experience
15 45 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (8.58%) ERP
16 44 (8.58%) Process Improvement
17 42 (8.19%) Data Analysis
17 42 (8.19%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (32.75%) SQL
2 110 (21.44%) C#
3 106 (20.66%) JavaScript
4 52 (10.14%) PowerShell
5 51 (9.94%) Python
6 32 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.31%) VBA
9 14 (2.73%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.17%) Java
11 3 (0.58%) PHP
11 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.39%) VB
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (13.45%) Degree
2 35 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (5.65%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.58%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.58%) ICAEW
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) CIMA
11 2 (0.39%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.72%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.02%) QA
3 15 (2.92%) GDPR
3 15 (2.92%) SLA
4 14 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.56%) PMO
6 5 (0.97%) TickIT
7 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) GRC
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.53%) Docker
3 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.58%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 356 (69.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.68%) UiPath
3 22 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.09%) Adobe
4 21 (4.09%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.92%) Automation Anywhere
5 15 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.53%) SAP
7 8 (1.56%) Intapp
8 7 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.17%) Databricks
9 6 (1.17%) Oracle
9 6 (1.17%) Pega
10 5 (0.97%) Sage
10 5 (0.97%) VMware
11 4 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (0.78%) Cisco
11 4 (0.78%) Facebook
11 4 (0.78%) Meraki
12 3 (0.58%) Sophos