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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 270 336
Rank change year-on-year -14 +66 +204
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 482 560 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.15% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 3.08% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 368 294 504
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,125 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,250 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -6.19% +7.14% -6.67%

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 22,709 18,202 28,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.22% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,291 10,989 23,763
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 20 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 20 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 -16 422 £57,000 -8.80% 202
UK excluding London -77 230 £49,250 -6.19% 183
London +66 207 £60,000 -14.29% 74
Work from Home +18 153 £57,250 -4.58% 126
North of England +13 70 £48,000 -12.73% 41
Midlands -16 50 £55,594 +5.89% 29
West Midlands -10 39 £48,750 -7.14% 19
North West +20 37 £55,000 - 28
South East -29 37 £44,250 -26.25% 52
Yorkshire -31 30 £42,000 -26.96% 8
East of England +10 23 £55,000 +17.42% 10
Scotland +2 21 £57,000 +28.09% 17
South West -119 19 £43,125 -13.75% 23
Wales +5 11 £41,740 -14.82% 10
East Midlands -7 11 £60,000 +50.00% 9
North East -10 3 £50,500 -19.20% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £70,000 - 3

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
1 152 (31.54%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.49%) Appian
4 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.04%) CMS
4 5 (1.04%) Confluence
4 5 (1.04%) WordPress
5 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 78 (16.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.04%) Shopify
3 3 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.62%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.62%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 395 (81.95%) Power Platform
2 307 (63.69%) PowerApps
3 266 (55.19%) Azure
4 159 (32.99%) Dynamics 365
5 152 (31.54%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (16.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 55 (11.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 53 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (10.58%) Entra ID
10 41 (8.51%) Serverless
11 40 (8.30%) Azure Functions
11 40 (8.30%) Copilot Studio
12 30 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 29 (6.02%) Azure AI
14 25 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (4.36%) AWS
16 16 (3.32%) Anthropic Claude
16 16 (3.32%) GitHub
16 16 (3.32%) OneDrive
16 16 (3.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.49%) Firewall
2 10 (2.07%) VPN
3 9 (1.87%) DNS
4 4 (0.83%) DHCP
4 4 (0.83%) Intranet
5 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.41%) VLAN
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (51.24%) Power BI
2 58 (12.03%) SQL Server
3 35 (7.26%) Power Query
4 25 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (3.94%) PowerPivot
6 12 (2.49%) Pinecone
7 9 (1.87%) Metabase
7 9 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.24%) Metadata
11 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.62%) MySQL
12 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (4.98%) Visual Studio
2 22 (4.56%) Git
3 12 (2.49%) MLflow
4 7 (1.45%) JIRA
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.41%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 207 (42.95%) Social Skills
2 125 (25.93%) Finance
3 79 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.41%) Law
5 46 (9.54%) Legal
6 34 (7.05%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.32%) Marketing
10 15 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.66%) Agriculture
12 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Automotive
13 5 (1.04%) Retail
14 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.41%) Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Local Government
16 1 (0.21%) Advertising
16 1 (0.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (32.57%) Developer
2 93 (19.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 72 (14.94%) Analyst
4 57 (11.83%) Senior
5 41 (8.51%) Consultant
6 38 (7.88%) IT Support
7 35 (7.26%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.02%) Support Engineer
9 28 (5.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 24 (4.98%) Financial Analyst
10 24 (4.98%) Lead
11 23 (4.77%) Support Analyst
12 19 (3.94%) Data Analyst
12 19 (3.94%) Systems Analyst
13 18 (3.73%) Power Platform Consultant
14 16 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 16 (3.32%) IT Engineer
15 15 (3.11%) Applications Support
15 15 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
16 14 (2.90%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (14.73%) REST
2 65 (13.49%) .NET
3 35 (7.26%) Web Services
4 32 (6.64%) SOAP
5 31 (6.43%) HTML
6 28 (5.81%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (4.77%) JSON
8 22 (4.56%) CSS
9 21 (4.36%) RESTful
10 18 (3.73%) XML
11 16 (3.32%) OpenAPI
11 16 (3.32%) Swagger
12 14 (2.90%) JWT
12 14 (2.90%) OAuth
13 13 (2.70%) Pandas
14 12 (2.49%) Django
14 12 (2.49%) Flask
14 12 (2.49%) NumPy
14 12 (2.49%) pytest
14 12 (2.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.67%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.45%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.24%) IoT
10 5 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.62%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.62%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.19%) Windows
2 13 (2.70%) Linux
3 7 (1.45%) Android
4 6 (1.24%) Unix
4 6 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Solaris
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (48.76%) Business Intelligence
2 153 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (20.33%) AI
4 97 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (19.71%) Agile
6 90 (18.67%) CRM
7 89 (18.46%) Workflow
8 85 (17.63%) DevOps
9 67 (13.90%) CI/CD
10 54 (11.20%) Data Modelling
11 52 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (10.58%) Mentoring
13 49 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (10.17%) Visualisation
14 48 (9.96%) Analytics
14 48 (9.96%) Data Analysis
15 43 (8.92%) Process Improvement
16 42 (8.71%) Coaching
16 42 (8.71%) ETL
16 42 (8.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.80%) SQL
2 106 (21.99%) C#
3 101 (20.95%) JavaScript
4 58 (12.03%) Python
5 52 (10.79%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.53%) VBA
8 16 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.28%) Java
10 8 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.45%) PHP
12 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.83%) Bash
14 1 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 62 (12.86%) Degree
2 49 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (9.34%) Security Cleared
4 36 (7.47%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.45%) ACCA
7 7 (1.45%) CIMA
7 7 (1.45%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.04%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.41%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.19%) QA
3 18 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 16 (3.32%) GDPR
6 11 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.07%) SLA
8 6 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.83%) PMO
10 3 (0.62%) WCAG
11 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.41%) P3O
12 1 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.94%) Docker
3 6 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 304 (63.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.22%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.19%) UiPath
4 22 (4.56%) SAP
5 17 (3.53%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.90%) MuleSoft
7 13 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
8 11 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.87%) Intapp
9 9 (1.87%) Oracle
10 6 (1.24%) Foundry
10 6 (1.24%) Pega
10 6 (1.24%) Talend
11 5 (1.04%) Dell
11 5 (1.04%) IBM
11 5 (1.04%) Infor
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.04%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.04%) Software AG