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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 268 315
Rank change year-on-year -49 +47 +186
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 527 488 905
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.14% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 3.42% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 411 369 681
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 27,325 14,286 34,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 33.45% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,651 9,840 26,812
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 28 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 16 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 28 May 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 -44 473 £57,500 - 142
UK excluding London -40 291 £50,001 -4.76% 113
London -7 201 £62,500 -8.09% 45
Work from Home -35 170 £50,001 -9.09% 66
North of England +7 102 £46,042 -12.30% 42
Midlands -54 52 £57,500 +7.10% 27
East of England -13 51 £76,750 +53.50% 5
North West +21 50 £55,000 +7.32% 23
Yorkshire -35 46 £42,500 -26.09% 13
South East -52 44 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands -50 37 £47,085 -9.32% 21
Wales -24 19 £41,740 -19.73% 6
South West -70 17 £43,500 -24.35% 8
East Midlands -30 15 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Scotland +1 8 £55,000 +9.03% 2
North East - 6 £51,000 - 6

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
1 158 (29.98%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.71%) Appian
4 6 (1.14%) CMS
5 5 (0.95%) WordPress
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
7 2 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 90 (17.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.57%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.38%) Magento
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 445 (84.44%) Power Platform
2 357 (67.74%) PowerApps
3 273 (51.80%) Azure
4 176 (33.40%) Dynamics 365
5 157 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
6 98 (18.60%) Azure Logic Apps
7 67 (12.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 50 (9.49%) Entra ID
9 47 (8.92%) OneDrive
10 42 (7.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (7.59%) Copilot Studio
12 34 (6.45%) Serverless
13 29 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.50%) Azure Functions
13 29 (5.50%) SaaS
14 19 (3.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (2.85%) Azure AI
16 13 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
17 11 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.47%) Firewall
2 6 (1.14%) Intranet
2 6 (1.14%) VoIP
3 3 (0.57%) LTE
3 3 (0.57%) NAS
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
3 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.38%) DHCP
4 2 (0.38%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (49.15%) Power BI
2 78 (14.80%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.69%) Power Query
4 28 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (3.04%) PowerPivot
8 11 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.71%) Metabase
9 9 (1.71%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.52%) Metadata
11 6 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.76%) MySQL
12 4 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (2.09%) Visual Studio
2 9 (1.71%) JIRA
2 9 (1.71%) MLflow
3 7 (1.33%) Git
4 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.38%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 185 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 151 (28.65%) Finance
3 86 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.02%) Law
5 36 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.83%) Legal
6 26 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.17%) Marketing
9 20 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.09%) Retail
11 8 (1.52%) Agriculture
11 8 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Automotive
13 5 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Social Housing
15 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.38%) Billing
16 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 191 (36.24%) Developer
2 83 (15.75%) Power Platform Developer
3 79 (14.99%) Analyst
4 62 (11.76%) Senior
5 41 (7.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 40 (7.59%) IT Support
7 39 (7.40%) Consultant
8 36 (6.83%) Lead
9 32 (6.07%) Senior Developer
10 31 (5.88%) Applications Developer
10 31 (5.88%) Support Manager
11 28 (5.31%) Power Apps Developer
12 26 (4.93%) Applications Support
13 24 (4.55%) IT Manager
14 22 (4.17%) Architect
14 22 (4.17%) Support Analyst
15 21 (3.98%) Systems Analyst
16 19 (3.61%) CRM Developer
17 18 (3.42%) Microsoft Developer
18 17 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.99%) .NET
2 54 (10.25%) HTML5 Canvas
3 49 (9.30%) REST
4 38 (7.21%) HTML
5 37 (7.02%) CSS
6 29 (5.50%) SPFx
7 27 (5.12%) Microsoft Graph
8 24 (4.55%) .NET Core
8 24 (4.55%) JSON
9 21 (3.98%) Web Services
10 14 (2.66%) React
10 14 (2.66%) RESTful
10 14 (2.66%) SOAP
11 11 (2.09%) JWT
11 11 (2.09%) OAuth
12 9 (1.71%) Faiss
12 9 (1.71%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.71%) Hugging Face
12 9 (1.71%) NumPy
12 9 (1.71%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.85%) Low-Code
2 28 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.04%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.85%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.76%) Social Media
14 3 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.57%) PropTech
15 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
15 2 (0.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.02%) Windows
2 11 (2.09%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.71%) Linux
4 4 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (46.87%) Business Intelligence
2 141 (26.76%) CRM
3 138 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (20.30%) AI
6 94 (17.84%) Workflow
7 79 (14.99%) DevOps
8 74 (14.04%) Agile
9 64 (12.14%) Data Modelling
10 61 (11.57%) CI/CD
11 57 (10.82%) Analytics
12 54 (10.25%) Roadmaps
12 54 (10.25%) Translating Business Requirements
13 52 (9.87%) Project Management
13 52 (9.87%) User Experience
14 51 (9.68%) Process Improvement
15 48 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (8.92%) Customer Service
17 45 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 39 (7.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (31.69%) SQL
2 111 (21.06%) C#
3 110 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 57 (10.82%) PowerShell
5 50 (9.49%) Python
6 33 (6.26%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (3.04%) T-SQL
8 16 (3.04%) VBA
9 6 (1.14%) Java
10 5 (0.95%) Bash
11 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 3 (0.57%) VB
11 3 (0.57%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.19%) R
12 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (12.52%) Degree
2 32 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (4.74%) Security Cleared
5 16 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.95%) ICAEW
9 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.57%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.25%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.40%) QA
3 15 (2.85%) GDPR
3 15 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.66%) PMO
4 14 (2.66%) SLA
5 13 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.14%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.95%) TickIT
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 31 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.09%) Docker
3 4 (0.76%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.95%) Ansible
3 5 (0.95%) Rundeck
3 5 (0.95%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 370 (70.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.36%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 21 (3.98%) Adobe
4 21 (3.98%) UiPath
5 15 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.47%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (1.90%) SAP
8 8 (1.52%) Cognizant
8 8 (1.52%) Intapp
9 7 (1.33%) Oracle
10 6 (1.14%) Databricks
11 5 (0.95%) Cisco
11 5 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.95%) Meraki
11 5 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.95%) Pega
11 5 (0.95%) Sage
11 5 (0.95%) Splunk
11 5 (0.95%) VMware