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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 274 351
Rank change year-on-year +2 +77 +206
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 452 562 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.05% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.90% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 341 290 367
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -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 20,367 19,394 22,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.33% 36.11% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,129 11,407 18,508
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,597 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -4 405 £57,500 -8.00% 108
UK excluding London -47 219 £50,000 -0.99% 98
London +65 196 £60,000 -11.11% 40
Work from Home +61 151 £58,750 -2.08% 68
North of England +27 62 £50,000 -6.98% 24
Midlands +3 47 £57,500 +10.05% 17
South East +15 43 £50,000 -16.67% 29
West Midlands +9 36 £57,500 +9.52% 13
North West +36 34 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Yorkshire -14 27 £42,020 -23.60% 8
East of England +16 25 £57,500 +112.96% 7
Scotland +15 21 £55,000 +23.60% 7
South West -96 16 £42,500 -15.00% 6
East Midlands 0 11 £60,000 +46.34% 4
Wales -1 4 £50,000 +2.04% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £70,000 -
North East +1 1 £50,000 -20.00% 2

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
1 142 (31.42%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.10%) Confluence
4 9 (1.99%) Appian
5 5 (1.11%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.11%) CMS
5 5 (1.11%) WordPress
6 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 41 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 77 (17.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.33%) Shopify
3 4 (0.88%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.44%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.44%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 364 (80.53%) Power Platform
2 283 (62.61%) PowerApps
3 253 (55.97%) Azure
4 158 (34.96%) Dynamics 365
5 146 (32.30%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (16.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 67 (14.82%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (12.39%) Microsoft Copilot
9 45 (9.96%) Entra ID
10 42 (9.29%) Copilot Studio
10 42 (9.29%) Serverless
11 34 (7.52%) Azure Functions
12 28 (6.19%) Azure AI
13 24 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (3.76%) AWS
15 17 (3.76%) GitHub
16 16 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (3.32%) OneDrive
18 12 (2.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.88%) Firewall
2 10 (2.21%) VPN
3 9 (1.99%) DNS
4 7 (1.55%) Internet
4 7 (1.55%) Wireless
5 4 (0.88%) DHCP
5 4 (0.88%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.66%) Intranet
6 3 (0.66%) Network Security
7 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) VLAN
7 2 (0.44%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.22%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (48.23%) Power BI
2 49 (10.84%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.75%) Power Query
4 13 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.43%) PowerPivot
7 9 (1.99%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.33%) Metadata
9 6 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.88%) Metabase
11 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.22%) EDMS
14 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.22%) MS Access
14 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.08%) Git
2 27 (5.97%) Visual Studio
3 18 (3.98%) JIRA
4 9 (1.99%) MLflow
5 4 (0.88%) Postman
5 4 (0.88%) Selenium
6 3 (0.66%) JMeter
6 3 (0.66%) MSTest
6 3 (0.66%) NUnit
6 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.22%) Moq
7 1 (0.22%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 183 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 121 (26.77%) Finance
3 59 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.40%) Law
5 40 (8.85%) Legal
6 29 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.65%) Marketing
9 14 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.21%) Retail
11 9 (1.99%) Automotive
11 9 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.66%) Banking
14 3 (0.66%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.44%) Local Government
15 2 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 144 (31.86%) Developer
2 81 (17.92%) Power Platform Developer
3 55 (12.17%) Analyst
4 52 (11.50%) Senior
5 35 (7.74%) Consultant
6 34 (7.52%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.08%) Lead
8 31 (6.86%) IT Support
9 26 (5.75%) Support Engineer
10 25 (5.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 18 (3.98%) Power Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.76%) Support Analyst
13 15 (3.32%) Administrator
13 15 (3.32%) Systems Analyst
14 13 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 13 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
14 13 (2.88%) IT Engineer
15 12 (2.65%) Development Engineer
15 12 (2.65%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.37%) REST
2 71 (15.71%) .NET
3 39 (8.63%) Web Services
4 34 (7.52%) HTML
5 33 (7.30%) SOAP
6 26 (5.75%) HTML5 Canvas
7 24 (5.31%) CSS
7 24 (5.31%) JSON
8 22 (4.87%) RESTful
9 17 (3.76%) XML
10 15 (3.32%) OpenAPI
10 15 (3.32%) Swagger
11 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (2.88%) React
13 11 (2.43%) .NET Framework
14 10 (2.21%) OAuth
14 10 (2.21%) Pandas
15 9 (1.99%) Flask
15 9 (1.99%) pytest
15 9 (1.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.59%) Low-Code
2 26 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.10%) IoT
6 12 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.33%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.11%) Digital Media
12 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.66%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.87%) Windows
2 10 (2.21%) Linux
3 7 (1.55%) Android
4 6 (1.33%) Unix
4 6 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (44.69%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (24.78%) Agile
4 88 (19.47%) DevOps
5 86 (19.03%) AI
5 86 (19.03%) CRM
6 77 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (16.37%) CI/CD
7 74 (16.37%) Workflow
8 58 (12.83%) Mentoring
9 55 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 51 (11.28%) Migration
11 45 (9.96%) Visualisation
12 43 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (9.29%) ITIL
14 41 (9.07%) Process Improvement
15 40 (8.85%) Analytics
15 40 (8.85%) Change Management
15 40 (8.85%) Data Migration
16 39 (8.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 120 (26.55%) SQL
2 107 (23.67%) C#
3 93 (20.58%) JavaScript
4 59 (13.05%) PowerShell
5 50 (11.06%) Python
6 21 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.98%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.76%) VBA
9 11 (2.43%) Java
10 9 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.33%) PHP
12 5 (1.11%) Bash
12 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 49 (10.84%) Degree
1 49 (10.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.55%) ACCA
7 7 (1.55%) CIMA
8 5 (1.11%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.66%) PMP
10 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.44%) MCP
10 2 (0.44%) PhD
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.19%) QA
2 21 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.10%) GDPR
5 11 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.99%) SLA
8 7 (1.55%) PMO
9 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.11%) WCAG
10 2 (0.44%) NIST
10 2 (0.44%) P3O
11 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.76%) Docker
3 7 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.55%) Terraform
4 6 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.44%) Autotask
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 286 (63.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.09%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.65%) UiPath
4 19 (4.20%) SAP
5 15 (3.32%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.21%) Intapp
6 10 (2.21%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.99%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (1.99%) Oracle
8 8 (1.77%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.33%) Foundry
10 6 (1.33%) Talend
11 5 (1.11%) Dell
11 5 (1.11%) Epicor
11 5 (1.11%) IBM
11 5 (1.11%) Infor
11 5 (1.11%) Informatica
11 5 (1.11%) Software AG
11 5 (1.11%) TIBCO