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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 291 312
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 +208
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 500 468 894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.07% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 3.06% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 382 367 677
10th Percentile £36,375 £38,550 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,563 £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 £86,150 £86,750 £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 28,060 15,272 34,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.69% 34.96% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 14,703 10,948 26,824
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,972 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,875 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +5.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,474 £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 7 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 7 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 -38 441 £57,500 - 186
UK excluding London -45 274 £50,001 -4.76% 128
London +10 190 £60,000 -14.29% 88
Work from Home -17 169 £52,500 -4.55% 100
North of England -15 82 £47,085 -10.32% 30
Midlands -39 52 £56,250 +7.14% 19
East of England +4 49 £82,500 +65.00% 10
South East -51 47 £50,000 -13.04% 52
North West +7 42 £57,500 +9.52% 13
West Midlands -40 38 £44,000 -15.14% 13
Yorkshire -45 36 £42,039 -23.57% 12
Wales -11 18 £41,740 -17.35% 7
South West -67 18 £43,500 -24.35% 8
East Midlands -29 14 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Scotland -11 11 £55,000 +9.03% 2
North East -24 4 £51,000 -15.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 3

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
1 157 (31.40%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.40%) Appian
4 4 (0.80%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 59 (11.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 77 (15.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.60%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.60%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 431 (86.20%) Power Platform
2 334 (66.80%) PowerApps
3 264 (52.80%) Azure
4 156 (31.20%) Dynamics 365
5 142 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (17.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 55 (11.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (8.40%) Entra ID
10 41 (8.20%) OneDrive
11 35 (7.00%) Copilot Studio
12 33 (6.60%) Serverless
13 31 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (6.00%) Azure Functions
15 23 (4.60%) SaaS
16 20 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (3.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (3.80%) Azure AI
18 14 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
19 12 (2.40%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.40%) Firewall
2 5 (1.00%) Intranet
3 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.60%) DHCP
4 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 3 (0.60%) NAS
4 3 (0.60%) VoIP
4 3 (0.60%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) LTE
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (53.40%) Power BI
2 76 (15.20%) SQL Server
3 33 (6.60%) Power Query
4 30 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (3.80%) PowerPivot
7 14 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.40%) Pinecone
9 11 (2.20%) Metabase
9 11 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.00%) Metadata
11 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.80%) MySQL
12 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (2.80%) Visual Studio
2 12 (2.40%) MLflow
3 8 (1.60%) Git
4 7 (1.40%) JIRA
5 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 200 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 145 (29.00%) Finance
3 93 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.40%) Law
5 29 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.40%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.60%) Legal
9 19 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.20%) Marketing
11 11 (2.20%) Retail
12 10 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.60%) Agriculture
14 7 (1.40%) Automotive
15 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.40%) Billing
16 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.20%) Brand Awareness
17 1 (0.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 174 (34.80%) Developer
2 83 (16.60%) Analyst
3 79 (15.80%) Power Platform Developer
4 60 (12.00%) Senior
5 46 (9.20%) IT Support
6 42 (8.40%) Consultant
7 33 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 30 (6.00%) Lead
10 28 (5.60%) Support Manager
11 26 (5.20%) Applications Developer
12 25 (5.00%) Power Apps Developer
13 23 (4.60%) Systems Analyst
14 22 (4.40%) Financial Analyst
14 22 (4.40%) Support Analyst
15 21 (4.20%) Applications Support
16 19 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (3.60%) IT Analyst
17 18 (3.60%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.20%) .NET
2 53 (10.60%) HTML5 Canvas
3 52 (10.40%) REST
4 36 (7.20%) HTML
5 35 (7.00%) CSS
6 33 (6.60%) SPFx
7 28 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
8 26 (5.20%) JSON
9 23 (4.60%) .NET Core
10 21 (4.20%) Web Services
11 17 (3.40%) RESTful
12 15 (3.00%) SOAP
13 14 (2.80%) JWT
13 14 (2.80%) OAuth
13 14 (2.80%) OpenAPI
13 14 (2.80%) Swagger
14 13 (2.60%) Pandas
15 12 (2.40%) pytest
15 12 (2.40%) scikit-learn
15 12 (2.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.00%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Social Media
13 3 (0.60%) PropTech
13 3 (0.60%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.80%) Windows
2 8 (1.60%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (51.20%) Business Intelligence
2 133 (26.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 130 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (23.20%) CRM
5 102 (20.40%) AI
6 85 (17.00%) Workflow
7 79 (15.80%) DevOps
8 68 (13.60%) Agile
9 59 (11.80%) CI/CD
9 59 (11.80%) Data Modelling
10 56 (11.20%) Analytics
11 53 (10.60%) Translating Business Requirements
12 52 (10.40%) Project Management
13 51 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 48 (9.60%) User Experience
15 44 (8.80%) Data Analysis
15 44 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (8.40%) ERP
17 40 (8.00%) Data Management
17 40 (8.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 164 (32.80%) SQL
2 108 (21.60%) C#
3 104 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 53 (10.60%) PowerShell
5 52 (10.40%) Python
6 33 (6.60%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.40%) VBA
9 14 (2.80%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.20%) Java
11 3 (0.60%) PHP
11 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.40%) VB
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (12.60%) Degree
2 35 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.60%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.60%) ACCA
9 3 (0.60%) CIMA
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.80%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.60%) QA
3 15 (3.00%) SLA
4 14 (2.80%) GDPR
4 14 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.60%) PMO
7 6 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.00%) TickIT
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.80%) Docker
3 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.60%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.60%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 346 (69.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.00%) UiPath
3 23 (4.60%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.20%) Adobe
5 20 (4.00%) OpenAI
6 16 (3.20%) Automation Anywhere
7 14 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.80%) SAP
8 8 (1.60%) Intapp
9 7 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.20%) Oracle
10 6 (1.20%) Pega
11 5 (1.00%) Databricks
11 5 (1.00%) Sage
11 5 (1.00%) VMware
12 4 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (0.80%) Facebook
13 3 (0.60%) Barracuda Networks
13 3 (0.60%) Foundry
13 3 (0.60%) Sophos