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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 272 331
Rank change year-on-year -9 +59 +212
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 479 565 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.14% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 3.07% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 367 295 502
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%

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 22,349 18,413 28,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.32% 37.08% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,132 10,979 23,785
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,115 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 14 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 14 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 -17 420 £56,875 -9.00% 144
UK excluding London -67 231 £50,000 -4.76% 129
London +58 204 £60,000 -14.29% 56
Work from Home +8 151 £55,000 -8.33% 90
North of England +15 69 £47,500 -13.64% 30
Midlands -8 48 £57,500 +9.52% 25
South East -6 39 £45,000 -25.00% 38
West Midlands -5 38 £51,844 -1.25% 17
North West +29 36 £55,000 - 19
Yorkshire -26 30 £42,000 -23.64% 7
East of England +15 23 £55,000 +17.42% 3
Scotland +7 21 £57,000 +28.09% 11
South West -114 21 £43,500 -13.00% 15
Wales +10 11 £41,740 -14.82% 8
East Midlands -9 10 £60,000 +50.00% 8
North East -9 3 £50,500 -19.20% 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
1 152 (31.73%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.51%) Appian
4 6 (1.25%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.04%) CMS
5 5 (1.04%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 55 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 80 (16.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.04%) Shopify
3 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.63%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 393 (82.05%) Power Platform
2 305 (63.67%) PowerApps
3 262 (54.70%) Azure
4 156 (32.57%) Dynamics 365
5 150 (31.32%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (16.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 53 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (11.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 50 (10.44%) Entra ID
9 42 (8.77%) Serverless
10 40 (8.35%) Azure Functions
11 39 (8.14%) Copilot Studio
12 29 (6.05%) Azure AI
12 29 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (5.22%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (4.18%) AWS
15 16 (3.34%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (3.34%) GitHub
15 16 (3.34%) OneDrive
16 13 (2.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.51%) Firewall
2 10 (2.09%) VPN
3 9 (1.88%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) DHCP
4 4 (0.84%) Intranet
5 2 (0.42%) Internet
5 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.42%) VLAN
5 2 (0.42%) Wireless
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (50.94%) Power BI
2 57 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 33 (6.89%) Power Query
4 22 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (3.97%) PowerPivot
6 12 (2.51%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.67%) Metabase
8 8 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.25%) Metadata
10 6 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.63%) MySQL
11 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.22%) Visual Studio
2 24 (5.01%) Git
3 12 (2.51%) MLflow
4 8 (1.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.42%) Postman
5 2 (0.42%) Selenium
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) MSTest
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 205 (42.80%) Social Skills
2 125 (26.10%) Finance
3 74 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.65%) Law
5 47 (9.81%) Legal
6 34 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.34%) Marketing
10 11 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.67%) Agriculture
12 6 (1.25%) Automotive
12 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Retail
13 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.63%) Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Advertising
15 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (32.36%) Developer
2 91 (19.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 70 (14.61%) Analyst
4 55 (11.48%) Senior
5 41 (8.56%) Consultant
6 36 (7.52%) IT Support
7 33 (6.89%) Senior Developer
8 28 (5.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 28 (5.85%) Support Engineer
9 24 (5.01%) Lead
10 23 (4.80%) Financial Analyst
11 21 (4.38%) Support Analyst
12 19 (3.97%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.76%) Power Platform Consultant
13 18 (3.76%) Systems Analyst
14 16 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 15 (3.13%) Applications Support
15 15 (3.13%) IT Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) IT Support Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.45%) REST
2 66 (13.78%) .NET
3 36 (7.52%) Web Services
4 33 (6.89%) SOAP
5 32 (6.68%) HTML
6 26 (5.43%) HTML5 Canvas
7 24 (5.01%) JSON
8 23 (4.80%) CSS
9 22 (4.59%) RESTful
10 18 (3.76%) XML
11 16 (3.34%) OpenAPI
11 16 (3.34%) Swagger
12 14 (2.92%) OAuth
13 13 (2.71%) JWT
13 13 (2.71%) Pandas
14 12 (2.51%) FastAPI
14 12 (2.51%) Microsoft Graph
14 12 (2.51%) pytest
14 12 (2.51%) PyTorch
14 12 (2.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 86 (17.95%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.46%) IoT
9 7 (1.46%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.63%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.80%) Windows
2 12 (2.51%) Linux
3 7 (1.46%) Android
4 6 (1.25%) Unix
4 6 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.04%) 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
1 228 (47.60%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (20.88%) Agile
4 96 (20.04%) AI
5 92 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 92 (19.21%) CRM
6 85 (17.75%) Workflow
7 83 (17.33%) DevOps
8 68 (14.20%) CI/CD
9 53 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 51 (10.65%) Data Modelling
10 51 (10.65%) Mentoring
11 48 (10.02%) Data Analysis
12 47 (9.81%) Visualisation
13 46 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (9.39%) Analytics
15 44 (9.19%) Process Improvement
16 43 (8.98%) Coaching
17 42 (8.77%) Migration
18 40 (8.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 130 (27.14%) SQL
2 105 (21.92%) C#
3 97 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 58 (12.11%) Python
5 54 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 24 (5.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.55%) VBA
8 16 (3.34%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.30%) Java
10 8 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.46%) PHP
12 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.84%) Bash
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 58 (12.11%) Degree
2 48 (10.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (8.98%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.89%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.46%) ACCA
7 7 (1.46%) CIMA
7 7 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.04%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) 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 29 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.43%) QA
3 17 (3.55%) GDPR
3 17 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.88%) SLA
7 6 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.04%) PMO
9 3 (0.63%) 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 30 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.97%) Docker
3 6 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.97%) 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
1 297 (62.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.05%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.22%) UiPath
4 21 (4.38%) SAP
5 17 (3.55%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.71%) Automation Anywhere
6 13 (2.71%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.88%) Intapp
8 9 (1.88%) Oracle
9 6 (1.25%) Foundry
9 6 (1.25%) Talend
10 5 (1.04%) Dell
10 5 (1.04%) Epicor
10 5 (1.04%) IBM
10 5 (1.04%) Infor
10 5 (1.04%) Informatica
10 5 (1.04%) Pega
10 5 (1.04%) Software AG
10 5 (1.04%) TIBCO