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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 283 316
Rank change year-on-year -44 +33 +213
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 482 433 857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.87% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 368 338 661
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,850 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £86,625 £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 26,789 15,099 33,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.66% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,030 11,109 26,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £102,950 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 April 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 April 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 -32 428 £56,100 -4.92% 190
UK excluding London -67 244 £50,001 -4.76% 148
London +19 199 £60,000 -14.29% 62
Work from Home -17 162 £51,250 -6.82% 90
North of England -30 73 £47,085 -10.32% 33
Midlands -39 51 £58,250 +12.78% 29
South East -63 51 £50,001 -16.67% 45
North West -7 39 £55,000 +4.76% 17
West Midlands -28 36 £45,542 -4.12% 18
East of England -19 31 £69,250 +38.50% 19
Yorkshire -60 31 £40,000 -25.58% 11
South West -63 16 £43,500 -24.35% 13
East Midlands -42 15 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Wales -16 13 £41,740 -14.82% 7
Scotland -13 11 £65,000 +28.85% 7
North East -32 3 £51,000 -18.40% 5
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
1 137 (28.42%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.49%) Appian
4 6 (1.24%) CMS
5 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.62%) Confluence
7 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 64 (13.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.04%) Shopify
3 3 (0.62%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.62%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.41%) Magento
4 2 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 407 (84.44%) Power Platform
2 305 (63.28%) PowerApps
3 255 (52.90%) Azure
4 144 (29.88%) Dynamics 365
5 131 (27.18%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (16.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 43 (8.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 41 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (7.05%) Entra ID
11 33 (6.85%) Copilot Studio
11 33 (6.85%) Serverless
12 32 (6.64%) Azure Functions
13 24 (4.98%) OneDrive
14 21 (4.36%) Azure AI
15 20 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.94%) SaaS
17 15 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (2.90%) AWS
18 14 (2.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.83%) DNS
2 4 (0.83%) VPN
2 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.62%) DHCP
3 3 (0.62%) Intranet
3 3 (0.62%) NAS
3 3 (0.62%) VoIP
4 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) VLAN
4 2 (0.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (55.60%) Power BI
2 72 (14.94%) SQL Server
3 36 (7.47%) Power Query
4 30 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.56%) PowerPivot
6 17 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.49%) Metabase
7 12 (2.49%) Pinecone
8 11 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.66%) Metadata
11 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.83%) MySQL
12 4 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (3.73%) Visual Studio
2 12 (2.49%) MLflow
3 11 (2.28%) Git
4 7 (1.45%) JIRA
5 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 207 (42.95%) Social Skills
2 135 (28.01%) Finance
3 102 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.34%) Law
5 32 (6.64%) Legal
6 29 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.11%) Marketing
10 8 (1.66%) Agriculture
11 7 (1.45%) Automotive
11 7 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.45%) Retail
12 5 (1.04%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Billing
14 2 (0.41%) Police
14 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 161 (33.40%) Developer
2 85 (17.63%) Analyst
3 81 (16.80%) Power Platform Developer
4 55 (11.41%) Senior
5 49 (10.17%) IT Support
6 36 (7.47%) Consultant
7 32 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 28 (5.81%) Lead
8 28 (5.81%) Support Manager
9 26 (5.39%) Financial Analyst
10 25 (5.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 24 (4.98%) Systems Analyst
12 23 (4.77%) Applications Support
12 23 (4.77%) Support Analyst
12 23 (4.77%) Support Engineer
13 19 (3.94%) Applications Developer
13 19 (3.94%) Power Apps Developer
13 19 (3.94%) Power Platform Consultant
14 18 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (3.73%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.11%) .NET
2 62 (12.86%) REST
3 44 (9.13%) HTML5 Canvas
4 28 (5.81%) JSON
5 25 (5.19%) HTML
5 25 (5.19%) Web Services
6 24 (4.98%) CSS
7 23 (4.77%) SOAP
8 21 (4.36%) RESTful
9 20 (4.15%) SPFx
10 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (2.90%) JWT
11 14 (2.90%) OpenAPI
11 14 (2.90%) Swagger
12 13 (2.70%) .NET Core
12 13 (2.70%) OAuth
12 13 (2.70%) Pandas
13 12 (2.49%) Faiss
13 12 (2.49%) FastAPI
13 12 (2.49%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.46%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.77%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.11%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.62%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.62%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.62%) IoT
14 3 (0.62%) PropTech
15 2 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.94%) Windows
2 12 (2.49%) Linux
3 6 (1.24%) Unix
3 6 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Solaris
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (51.87%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (19.92%) AI
4 96 (19.92%) CRM
5 90 (18.67%) Workflow
6 76 (15.77%) Agile
7 70 (14.52%) DevOps
8 57 (11.83%) Data Modelling
9 54 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (11.00%) CI/CD
10 53 (11.00%) Data Analysis
11 49 (10.17%) Analytics
11 49 (10.17%) Translating Business Requirements
12 48 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 42 (8.71%) ERP
14 41 (8.51%) Mentoring
15 40 (8.30%) ETL
16 39 (8.09%) Project Management
16 39 (8.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 160 (33.20%) SQL
2 100 (20.75%) C#
3 96 (19.92%) JavaScript
4 58 (12.03%) Python
5 41 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (4.77%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.73%) VBA
9 13 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.28%) Java
11 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.62%) PHP
13 2 (0.41%) VB
14 1 (0.21%) Bash
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (12.86%) Degree
2 35 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.24%) ACCA
7 6 (1.24%) CIMA
8 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.41%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) AWS 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 41 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.81%) QA
3 16 (3.32%) GDPR
4 13 (2.70%) SLA
5 12 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.28%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.45%) PMO
8 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.83%) TickIT
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.41%) GRC
9 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.41%) WCAG
10 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 27 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.73%) Docker
3 4 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.62%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.62%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 310 (64.32%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.81%) ServiceNow
3 26 (5.39%) UiPath
4 25 (5.19%) SAP
5 15 (3.11%) Automation Anywhere
5 15 (3.11%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.49%) Adobe
7 12 (2.49%) MuleSoft
8 11 (2.28%) Oracle
9 10 (2.07%) Intapp
10 6 (1.24%) Pega
10 6 (1.24%) Workday
11 5 (1.04%) Dell
11 5 (1.04%) IBM
11 5 (1.04%) Infor
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) Software AG
11 5 (1.04%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.04%) VMware