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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 267 325
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 +227
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 464 515 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.17% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 3.12% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 354 300 600
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,950 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,750 £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 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £88,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -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 23,335 16,488 31,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 37.41% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12,526 11,106 25,648
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -35 409 £57,250 -4.58% 178
UK excluding London -91 212 £47,500 -13.64% 161
London +65 208 £60,000 -14.29% 56
Work from Home -8 138 £53,171 -7.13% 105
North of England -12 67 £48,000 -12.73% 41
Midlands -18 48 £55,594 +5.89% 31
West Midlands -9 38 £47,500 -9.52% 19
North West +8 37 £55,000 - 21
South East -30 33 £50,000 -16.67% 46
Yorkshire -43 28 £42,039 -23.57% 13
East of England +6 23 £55,000 +15.79% 12
South West -120 18 £42,750 -25.65% 15
Wales +3 12 £41,740 -14.82% 10
Scotland -12 12 £60,000 +34.83% 10
East Midlands -15 10 £60,000 - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £70,000 -
North East -18 2 £51,000 -18.40% 9

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
1 143 (30.82%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.59%) Appian
4 5 (1.08%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.08%) CMS
5 3 (0.65%) Confluence
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (13.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 66 (14.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) Shopify
3 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.65%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 389 (83.84%) Power Platform
2 299 (64.44%) PowerApps
3 250 (53.88%) Azure
4 151 (32.54%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (30.39%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (15.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 48 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.41%) Azure Functions
9 39 (8.41%) Copilot Studio
9 39 (8.41%) Serverless
10 37 (7.97%) Entra ID
11 30 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (6.03%) Azure AI
13 23 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (3.45%) SaaS
15 14 (3.02%) AWS
15 14 (3.02%) GitHub
15 14 (3.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.80%) Firewall
2 10 (2.16%) VPN
3 9 (1.94%) DNS
4 4 (0.86%) DHCP
4 4 (0.86%) Intranet
5 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.22%) Network Security
6 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.22%) WAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (55.17%) Power BI
2 59 (12.72%) SQL Server
3 38 (8.19%) Power Query
4 30 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.53%) PowerPivot
6 12 (2.59%) Pinecone
7 11 (2.37%) Metabase
8 9 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.29%) Metadata
11 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.86%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.65%) MySQL
14 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.43%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.22%) EDMS
15 1 (0.22%) GIS
Development Applications
1 21 (4.53%) Visual Studio
2 17 (3.66%) Git
3 12 (2.59%) MLflow
4 7 (1.51%) JIRA
5 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 198 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 124 (26.72%) Finance
3 84 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.64%) Law
5 42 (9.05%) Legal
6 32 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.45%) Marketing
10 15 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.72%) Agriculture
12 6 (1.29%) Automotive
12 6 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Retail
13 4 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.43%) Advertising
14 2 (0.43%) Banking
14 2 (0.43%) Local Government
15 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (33.41%) Developer
2 91 (19.61%) Power Platform Developer
3 76 (16.38%) Analyst
4 52 (11.21%) Senior
5 40 (8.62%) IT Support
6 35 (7.54%) Consultant
7 32 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 27 (5.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 26 (5.60%) Financial Analyst
11 25 (5.39%) Lead
12 23 (4.96%) Support Analyst
13 21 (4.53%) Data Analyst
13 21 (4.53%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) IT Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Power Platform Consultant
16 16 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
17 15 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 15 (3.23%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (14.01%) REST
2 54 (11.64%) .NET
3 31 (6.68%) HTML5 Canvas
4 30 (6.47%) Web Services
5 28 (6.03%) SOAP
6 22 (4.74%) JSON
7 19 (4.09%) RESTful
8 18 (3.88%) HTML
9 17 (3.66%) XML
10 14 (3.02%) JWT
10 14 (3.02%) OpenAPI
10 14 (3.02%) Swagger
11 13 (2.80%) CSS
11 13 (2.80%) OAuth
11 13 (2.80%) Pandas
12 12 (2.59%) Django
12 12 (2.59%) Flask
12 12 (2.59%) NumPy
12 12 (2.59%) pytest
12 12 (2.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 89 (19.18%) Low-Code
2 19 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.51%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.86%) IoT
11 3 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.65%) PropTech
12 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.53%) Windows
2 13 (2.80%) Linux
3 7 (1.51%) Android
4 6 (1.29%) Unix
5 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (52.59%) Business Intelligence
2 141 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (21.77%) AI
3 101 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 88 (18.97%) Workflow
5 83 (17.89%) CRM
6 81 (17.46%) Agile
7 77 (16.59%) DevOps
8 59 (12.72%) CI/CD
9 58 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 54 (11.64%) Data Analysis
11 49 (10.56%) Analytics
11 49 (10.56%) Visualisation
12 48 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (9.27%) Translating Business Requirements
15 42 (9.05%) ETL
16 41 (8.84%) Migration
17 38 (8.19%) Change Management
17 38 (8.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 144 (31.03%) SQL
2 94 (20.26%) JavaScript
3 92 (19.83%) C#
4 56 (12.07%) Python
5 42 (9.05%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.88%) VBA
8 17 (3.66%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.72%) Java
11 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) Bash
13 1 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (13.15%) Degree
2 44 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.51%) ACCA
6 7 (1.51%) CIMA
6 7 (1.51%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.43%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.17%) QA
3 17 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.45%) GDPR
4 16 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.16%) SLA
6 8 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.65%) 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 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.09%) Docker
3 5 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 292 (62.93%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.47%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.39%) UiPath
4 24 (5.17%) SAP
5 15 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.80%) Automation Anywhere
6 13 (2.80%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.59%) Intapp
8 10 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.72%) Oracle
10 6 (1.29%) Pega
11 5 (1.08%) Dell
11 5 (1.08%) Epicor
11 5 (1.08%) Foundry
11 5 (1.08%) IBM
11 5 (1.08%) Infor
11 5 (1.08%) Informatica
11 5 (1.08%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.08%) Software AG
11 5 (1.08%) TIBCO