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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 268 316
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 +251
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 467 502 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.19% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 3.19% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 361 294 608
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,118 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 24,261 15,718 32,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.19% 37.15% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,981 10,985 25,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 March 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 March 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 -38 414 £56,938 -5.10% 186
UK excluding London -101 215 £47,500 -13.64% 148
London +48 209 £60,000 -14.29% 61
Work from Home -12 143 £52,500 -8.70% 92
North of England -29 64 £47,292 -14.01% 33
Midlands -21 50 £57,500 +9.52% 36
West Midlands +2 38 £47,085 -10.32% 22
South East -39 38 £50,000 -16.67% 47
North West 0 35 £55,000 - 19
Yorkshire -49 26 £40,000 -25.58% 11
East of England -7 23 £56,250 +18.42% 14
South West -123 19 £42,625 -25.87% 11
Wales -10 12 £41,740 -14.82% 4
East Midlands -42 12 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Scotland -21 11 £65,000 +46.07% 7
North East -25 3 £51,000 -18.40% 4
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
1 144 (30.84%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.57%) Appian
4 5 (1.07%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.07%) CMS
5 4 (0.86%) Confluence
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (13.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 62 (13.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Shopify
3 3 (0.64%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.64%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 396 (84.80%) Power Platform
2 301 (64.45%) PowerApps
3 255 (54.60%) Azure
4 146 (31.26%) Dynamics 365
5 138 (29.55%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (17.99%) Azure Logic Apps
7 47 (10.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 41 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (8.78%) Serverless
9 40 (8.57%) Azure Functions
10 36 (7.71%) Copilot Studio
11 35 (7.49%) Entra ID
12 34 (7.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (5.57%) Azure AI
14 23 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (4.07%) SaaS
16 16 (3.43%) OneDrive
17 15 (3.21%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (3.21%) GitHub
18 14 (3.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.57%) Firewall
2 9 (1.93%) VPN
3 8 (1.71%) DNS
4 4 (0.86%) DHCP
4 4 (0.86%) Intranet
5 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (56.32%) Power BI
2 64 (13.70%) SQL Server
3 36 (7.71%) Power Query
4 29 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.71%) PowerPivot
6 12 (2.57%) Metabase
6 12 (2.57%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.28%) Metadata
11 5 (1.07%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.86%) MySQL
12 4 (0.86%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (4.71%) Visual Studio
2 18 (3.85%) Git
3 12 (2.57%) MLflow
4 8 (1.71%) JIRA
5 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 197 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 127 (27.19%) Finance
3 89 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.35%) Law
5 36 (7.71%) Legal
6 30 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.64%) Marketing
10 14 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.71%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.50%) Automotive
13 6 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Retail
14 4 (0.86%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.43%) Advertising
15 2 (0.43%) Banking
15 2 (0.43%) Local Government
16 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 161 (34.48%) Developer
2 90 (19.27%) Power Platform Developer
3 78 (16.70%) Analyst
4 53 (11.35%) Senior
5 40 (8.57%) IT Support
6 34 (7.28%) Consultant
7 32 (6.85%) Senior Developer
8 27 (5.78%) Financial Analyst
8 27 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 26 (5.57%) Lead
10 25 (5.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 23 (4.93%) Support Analyst
11 23 (4.93%) Systems Analyst
12 20 (4.28%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.85%) Support Manager
14 17 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) Applications Support
15 16 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) IT Analyst
15 16 (3.43%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (13.70%) REST
2 62 (13.28%) .NET
3 36 (7.71%) HTML5 Canvas
4 28 (6.00%) Web Services
5 27 (5.78%) SOAP
6 24 (5.14%) JSON
7 21 (4.50%) RESTful
8 19 (4.07%) HTML
9 15 (3.21%) CSS
9 15 (3.21%) XML
10 14 (3.00%) JWT
10 14 (3.00%) OpenAPI
10 14 (3.00%) Swagger
11 13 (2.78%) OAuth
11 13 (2.78%) Pandas
11 13 (2.78%) SPFx
12 12 (2.57%) Django
12 12 (2.57%) Hugging Face
12 12 (2.57%) pytest
12 12 (2.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 88 (18.84%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.86%) IoT
13 3 (0.64%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.64%) PropTech
14 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.85%) Windows
2 12 (2.57%) Linux
3 6 (1.28%) Android
3 6 (1.28%) Unix
4 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (53.10%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (29.98%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 99 (21.20%) AI
5 89 (19.06%) Workflow
6 84 (17.99%) CRM
7 80 (17.13%) Agile
8 76 (16.27%) DevOps
9 58 (12.42%) CI/CD
10 54 (11.56%) Data Analysis
11 53 (11.35%) Data Modelling
12 50 (10.71%) Analytics
13 49 (10.49%) Visualisation
14 48 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 48 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (9.21%) Translating Business Requirements
16 41 (8.78%) Migration
17 40 (8.57%) ETL
17 40 (8.57%) Mentoring
18 38 (8.14%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 151 (32.33%) SQL
2 99 (21.20%) JavaScript
3 96 (20.56%) C#
4 56 (11.99%) Python
5 40 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (4.07%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.85%) VBA
9 9 (1.93%) Java
9 9 (1.93%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.43%) Bash
11 2 (0.43%) PHP
12 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (13.49%) Degree
2 43 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.50%) ACCA
7 7 (1.50%) CIMA
7 7 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL 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 33 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.35%) QA
3 16 (3.43%) GDPR
4 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.14%) SLA
7 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.43%) NIST
8 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.07%) Docker
3 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.64%) Terraform
4 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 301 (64.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.14%) SAP
3 24 (5.14%) UiPath
4 15 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.78%) Automation Anywhere
5 13 (2.78%) Intapp
5 13 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.57%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.14%) Oracle
8 6 (1.28%) Adobe
8 6 (1.28%) Pega
9 5 (1.07%) Dell
9 5 (1.07%) Epicor
9 5 (1.07%) Foundry
9 5 (1.07%) IBM
9 5 (1.07%) Infor
9 5 (1.07%) Informatica
9 5 (1.07%) Software AG
9 5 (1.07%) Talend