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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 279 314
Rank change year-on-year -33 +35 +195
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 510 488 896
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.12% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 3.17% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 388 370 679
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,075 £36,342
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,375 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £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 27,355 15,396 34,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.11% 35.19% 35.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,896 10,932 26,754
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,322 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +4.91% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 May 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 10 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 -32 453 £57,500 - 168
UK excluding London -56 279 £50,001 -4.76% 116
London +16 195 £60,000 -14.29% 77
Work from Home -32 170 £52,500 -4.55% 85
North of England -14 88 £46,042 -12.30% 27
Midlands -36 52 £56,250 +7.14% 22
East of England +10 50 £82,500 +65.00% 9
South East -60 46 £50,001 -13.04% 51
North West +26 45 £56,800 +8.19% 8
West Midlands -46 39 £44,000 -14.81% 13
Yorkshire -50 39 £42,039 -23.57% 13
Wales -13 18 £41,740 -19.73% 4
South West -67 18 £43,500 -24.35% 4
East Midlands -29 13 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Scotland -8 10 £55,000 +9.03% 1
North East -39 4 £51,000 -15.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 1

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
1 156 (30.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.35%) Appian
4 6 (1.18%) CMS
5 3 (0.59%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 58 (11.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 80 (15.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.59%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.59%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 437 (85.69%) Power Platform
2 342 (67.06%) PowerApps
3 272 (53.33%) Azure
4 162 (31.76%) Dynamics 365
5 144 (28.24%) Microsoft 365
6 94 (18.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 60 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (9.02%) Entra ID
10 42 (8.24%) OneDrive
11 37 (7.25%) Copilot Studio
12 34 (6.67%) Serverless
13 30 (5.88%) Azure Functions
14 29 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (4.71%) SaaS
16 20 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (3.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (3.73%) Azure AI
18 14 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
19 12 (2.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.35%) Firewall
2 5 (0.98%) Intranet
3 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.59%) DHCP
4 3 (0.59%) DNS
4 3 (0.59%) NAS
4 3 (0.59%) VoIP
4 3 (0.59%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) LTE
5 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (53.14%) Power BI
2 77 (15.10%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.27%) Power Query
4 30 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (3.53%) PowerPivot
7 15 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.35%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (2.16%) Metabase
10 10 (1.96%) Metadata
11 6 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.78%) MySQL
12 4 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.59%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (2.75%) Visual Studio
2 12 (2.35%) MLflow
3 9 (1.76%) Git
4 7 (1.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 197 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 147 (28.82%) Finance
3 91 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.25%) Law
5 33 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (5.29%) Legal
8 20 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 20 (3.92%) Marketing
9 11 (2.16%) Retail
10 10 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.57%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.37%) Automotive
13 5 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.98%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.39%) Billing
14 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.20%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 179 (35.10%) Developer
2 82 (16.08%) Analyst
2 82 (16.08%) Power Platform Developer
3 61 (11.96%) Senior
4 45 (8.82%) IT Support
5 41 (8.04%) Consultant
6 34 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 33 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 32 (6.27%) Lead
9 30 (5.88%) Support Manager
10 27 (5.29%) Applications Developer
11 26 (5.10%) Power Apps Developer
12 23 (4.51%) Systems Analyst
13 22 (4.31%) Applications Support
13 22 (4.31%) Support Analyst
14 21 (4.12%) Financial Analyst
15 20 (3.92%) IT Manager
16 19 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (3.53%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.10%) .NET
2 55 (10.78%) REST
3 52 (10.20%) HTML5 Canvas
4 37 (7.25%) CSS
4 37 (7.25%) HTML
5 32 (6.27%) SPFx
6 27 (5.29%) Microsoft Graph
7 26 (5.10%) JSON
8 23 (4.51%) .NET Core
9 22 (4.31%) Web Services
10 17 (3.33%) RESTful
11 16 (3.14%) SOAP
12 14 (2.75%) JWT
12 14 (2.75%) OAuth
12 14 (2.75%) OpenAPI
12 14 (2.75%) Swagger
13 13 (2.55%) Pandas
14 12 (2.35%) pytest
14 12 (2.35%) scikit-learn
14 12 (2.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.71%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) Social Media
12 3 (0.59%) PropTech
12 3 (0.59%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.10%) Windows
2 8 (1.57%) Linux
2 8 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (50.98%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (26.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (24.12%) CRM
5 108 (21.18%) AI
6 85 (16.67%) Workflow
7 80 (15.69%) DevOps
8 69 (13.53%) Agile
9 61 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 61 (11.96%) Data Modelling
10 58 (11.37%) Analytics
11 52 (10.20%) Project Management
11 52 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (10.20%) Translating Business Requirements
12 49 (9.61%) User Experience
13 44 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (8.43%) Process Improvement
15 42 (8.24%) Data Analysis
15 42 (8.24%) Data Management
15 42 (8.24%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 167 (32.75%) SQL
2 110 (21.57%) C#
3 105 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 52 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 52 (10.20%) Python
5 32 (6.27%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (3.14%) VBA
8 14 (2.75%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.18%) Java
10 3 (0.59%) PHP
10 3 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.39%) VB
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (13.14%) Degree
2 35 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (5.69%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.59%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) CIMA
11 2 (0.39%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.06%) QA
3 15 (2.94%) GDPR
3 15 (2.94%) SLA
4 14 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.57%) PMO
7 5 (0.98%) TickIT
8 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.75%) Docker
3 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.59%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 354 (69.41%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.90%) UiPath
3 23 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.31%) OpenAI
5 21 (4.12%) Adobe
6 16 (3.14%) Automation Anywhere
7 14 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.55%) SAP
9 8 (1.57%) Intapp
10 7 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.18%) Databricks
11 6 (1.18%) Oracle
11 6 (1.18%) Pega
12 5 (0.98%) Sage
12 5 (0.98%) VMware
13 4 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (0.78%) Facebook
14 3 (0.59%) Barracuda Networks
14 3 (0.59%) Foundry
14 3 (0.59%) Sophos