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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 231 315
Rank change year-on-year -89 +84 +224
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 487 533 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.30% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 3.53% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 375 324 652
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,375 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £86,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

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 26,360 15,087 33,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.83% 36.89% 36.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,946 11,059 26,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,550 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -74 435 £56,938 -5.10% 201
UK excluding London -119 240 £50,000 -4.76% 156
London +43 209 £60,000 -14.29% 63
Work from Home -28 159 £52,500 -4.55% 94
North of England -31 72 £47,085 -10.32% 34
Midlands -42 52 £59,000 +13.63% 40
South East -56 49 £50,000 -16.67% 51
North West -13 39 £55,000 +4.76% 22
West Midlands -14 37 £47,085 -0.87% 24
East of England -29 30 £69,250 +38.50% 17
Yorkshire -52 30 £40,000 -23.81% 9
South West -138 16 £43,500 -24.35% 12
East Midlands -46 15 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Wales -17 12 £41,740 -14.82% 3
Scotland -21 11 £65,000 +28.85% 4
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
1 140 (28.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.46%) Appian
4 6 (1.23%) CMS
5 5 (1.03%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.62%) Confluence
7 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 65 (13.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.03%) Shopify
3 3 (0.62%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.62%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.41%) Magento
4 2 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 410 (84.19%) Power Platform
2 309 (63.45%) PowerApps
3 261 (53.59%) Azure
4 146 (29.98%) Dynamics 365
5 134 (27.52%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (17.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 44 (9.03%) Microsoft Copilot
8 41 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (7.60%) Serverless
11 36 (7.39%) Azure Functions
12 34 (6.98%) Copilot Studio
13 33 (6.78%) Entra ID
14 23 (4.72%) Azure AI
14 23 (4.72%) OneDrive
15 21 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (4.11%) SaaS
17 15 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (3.08%) Boomi
17 15 (3.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.26%) Firewall
2 5 (1.03%) DNS
2 5 (1.03%) VPN
3 3 (0.62%) DHCP
3 3 (0.62%) Intranet
3 3 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.41%) NAS
4 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) VLAN
4 2 (0.41%) VoIP
4 2 (0.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (55.44%) Power BI
2 69 (14.17%) SQL Server
3 36 (7.39%) Power Query
4 29 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.72%) PowerPivot
6 17 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.46%) Metabase
7 12 (2.46%) Pinecone
8 10 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.64%) Metadata
10 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.82%) MySQL
11 4 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (3.70%) Visual Studio
2 15 (3.08%) Git
3 12 (2.46%) MLflow
4 7 (1.44%) JIRA
5 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 208 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 138 (28.34%) Finance
3 102 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.27%) Law
5 35 (7.19%) Legal
6 28 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 26 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.08%) Marketing
10 14 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.64%) Agriculture
11 8 (1.64%) Retail
12 7 (1.44%) Automotive
13 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.03%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.41%) Billing
16 2 (0.41%) Police
16 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (34.29%) Developer
2 86 (17.66%) Power Platform Developer
3 85 (17.45%) Analyst
4 56 (11.50%) Senior
5 47 (9.65%) IT Support
6 35 (7.19%) Consultant
7 33 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 29 (5.95%) Lead
9 27 (5.54%) Financial Analyst
10 26 (5.34%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 26 (5.34%) Support Manager
11 24 (4.93%) Support Analyst
11 24 (4.93%) Support Engineer
11 24 (4.93%) Systems Analyst
12 22 (4.52%) Applications Support
13 19 (3.90%) Applications Developer
13 19 (3.90%) Data Analyst
13 19 (3.90%) Power Apps Developer
14 18 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (3.70%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (14.58%) .NET
2 66 (13.55%) REST
3 43 (8.83%) HTML5 Canvas
4 30 (6.16%) JSON
5 26 (5.34%) Web Services
6 24 (4.93%) SOAP
7 23 (4.72%) HTML
8 22 (4.52%) CSS
9 21 (4.31%) RESTful
10 20 (4.11%) SPFx
11 15 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (3.08%) XML
12 14 (2.87%) JWT
12 14 (2.87%) OpenAPI
12 14 (2.87%) Swagger
13 13 (2.67%) .NET Core
13 13 (2.67%) OAuth
13 13 (2.67%) Pandas
14 12 (2.46%) pytest
14 12 (2.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 91 (18.69%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.62%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.62%) IoT
11 3 (0.62%) PropTech
12 2 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.70%) Windows
2 12 (2.46%) Linux
3 6 (1.23%) Unix
4 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.41%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (51.95%) Business Intelligence
2 148 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 98 (20.12%) AI
5 94 (19.30%) CRM
5 94 (19.30%) Workflow
6 79 (16.22%) Agile
7 74 (15.20%) DevOps
8 57 (11.70%) CI/CD
9 55 (11.29%) Data Modelling
10 54 (11.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (10.88%) Data Analysis
12 50 (10.27%) Analytics
13 49 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 48 (9.86%) Translating Business Requirements
15 43 (8.83%) Mentoring
16 42 (8.62%) Visualisation
17 41 (8.42%) ERP
18 40 (8.21%) ETL
19 39 (8.01%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 165 (33.88%) SQL
2 102 (20.94%) C#
3 100 (20.53%) JavaScript
4 59 (12.11%) Python
5 43 (8.83%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.70%) VBA
9 11 (2.26%) Java
9 11 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) Bash
12 2 (0.41%) VB
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (12.73%) Degree
2 38 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.44%) ACCA
6 7 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.44%) CIMA
6 7 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.41%) PhD
9 1 (0.21%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.21%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.75%) QA
3 16 (3.29%) GDPR
4 13 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.46%) SLA
6 11 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.44%) PMO
8 5 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.82%) TickIT
10 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.41%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.41%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.41%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 313 (64.27%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 26 (5.34%) SAP
3 26 (5.34%) UiPath
4 15 (3.08%) Automation Anywhere
4 15 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 14 (2.87%) Intapp
5 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.46%) Adobe
6 12 (2.46%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.26%) Oracle
8 6 (1.23%) Pega
8 6 (1.23%) Workday
9 5 (1.03%) Databricks
9 5 (1.03%) IBM
9 5 (1.03%) IFS
9 5 (1.03%) Infor
9 5 (1.03%) Jitterbit
9 5 (1.03%) SnapLogic
9 5 (1.03%) Talend