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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 277 315
Rank change year-on-year -41 +38 +175
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 533 507 914
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.16% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 3.45% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 415 388 684
10th Percentile £36,100 £39,513 £36,365
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 £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% - +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 27,289 14,710 34,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.62% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 10,123 26,927
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 31 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 31 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 -33 478 £57,500 - 145
UK excluding London -47 298 £50,001 -4.76% 116
London +1 199 £63,500 -3.05% 48
Work from Home -29 171 £50,001 -9.09% 71
North of England +7 105 £45,000 -14.29% 42
Midlands -56 54 £55,000 +2.44% 28
North West +21 51 £55,000 +7.32% 22
East of England -4 51 £76,750 +53.50% 5
Yorkshire -23 48 £42,500 -26.09% 13
South East -41 46 £50,000 -9.09% 21
West Midlands -49 37 £47,085 -9.45% 19
Wales -26 19 £41,740 -10.24% 5
East Midlands -31 17 £59,866 +8.85% 9
South West -65 17 £43,500 -24.35% 7
Scotland +3 7 £55,000 +9.03% 4
North East - 6 £51,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 4

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
1 160 (30.02%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.69%) Appian
4 6 (1.13%) CMS
5 5 (0.94%) WordPress
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 92 (17.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.56%) SAP SD
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
1 452 (84.80%) Power Platform
2 367 (68.86%) PowerApps
3 273 (51.22%) Azure
4 179 (33.58%) Dynamics 365
5 164 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
6 99 (18.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 69 (12.95%) Microsoft Copilot
8 51 (9.57%) Entra ID
9 50 (9.38%) OneDrive
10 41 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (7.69%) Copilot Studio
11 35 (6.57%) Serverless
12 30 (5.63%) Azure Functions
13 29 (5.44%) SaaS
14 28 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (3.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (2.63%) Azure AI
17 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 10 (1.88%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.44%) Firewall
2 6 (1.13%) Intranet
2 6 (1.13%) VoIP
3 3 (0.56%) DHCP
3 3 (0.56%) DNS
3 3 (0.56%) LTE
3 3 (0.56%) NAS
3 3 (0.56%) VPN
3 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) VLAN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (50.09%) Power BI
2 77 (14.45%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.63%) Power Query
4 26 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (3.00%) PowerPivot
7 11 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.69%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.50%) Metabase
9 8 (1.50%) Metadata
10 7 (1.31%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.75%) MySQL
12 4 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Visual Studio
2 9 (1.69%) MLflow
3 8 (1.50%) JIRA
4 6 (1.13%) Git
4 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.38%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 182 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 151 (28.33%) Finance
3 83 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.88%) Law
5 38 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (7.13%) Legal
6 24 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.32%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.13%) Marketing
9 11 (2.06%) Retail
10 9 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.50%) Agriculture
12 7 (1.31%) Automotive
13 6 (1.13%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.38%) Billing
16 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 196 (36.77%) Developer
2 86 (16.14%) Power Platform Developer
3 80 (15.01%) Analyst
4 64 (12.01%) Senior
5 43 (8.07%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 40 (7.50%) IT Support
7 39 (7.32%) Lead
8 38 (7.13%) Consultant
9 34 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 32 (6.00%) Applications Developer
11 30 (5.63%) Support Manager
12 29 (5.44%) Power Apps Developer
13 27 (5.07%) Applications Support
14 24 (4.50%) IT Manager
15 23 (4.32%) Architect
15 23 (4.32%) Support Analyst
16 21 (3.94%) CRM Developer
17 20 (3.75%) Systems Analyst
18 18 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 18 (3.38%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.20%) .NET
2 55 (10.32%) HTML5 Canvas
3 49 (9.19%) REST
4 41 (7.69%) HTML
5 39 (7.32%) CSS
6 28 (5.25%) SPFx
7 27 (5.07%) Microsoft Graph
8 24 (4.50%) .NET Core
8 24 (4.50%) JSON
9 22 (4.13%) Web Services
10 15 (2.81%) React
10 15 (2.81%) RESTful
11 13 (2.44%) SOAP
12 11 (2.06%) JWT
12 11 (2.06%) OAuth
13 9 (1.69%) Faiss
13 9 (1.69%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.69%) Hugging Face
13 9 (1.69%) OpenAPI
13 9 (1.69%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.13%) Low-Code
2 27 (5.07%) Management Information System
3 26 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.00%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) Social Media
14 3 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.56%) PropTech
15 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
15 2 (0.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.94%) Windows
2 11 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.69%) Linux
4 4 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (47.84%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (27.02%) CRM
3 136 (25.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (20.45%) AI
6 94 (17.64%) Workflow
7 80 (15.01%) Agile
8 78 (14.63%) DevOps
9 65 (12.20%) Data Modelling
10 60 (11.26%) CI/CD
11 55 (10.32%) Analytics
11 55 (10.32%) Project Management
12 54 (10.13%) Roadmaps
12 54 (10.13%) Translating Business Requirements
13 53 (9.94%) User Experience
14 52 (9.76%) Process Improvement
15 49 (9.19%) Customer Service
16 48 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 44 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 40 (7.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (31.14%) SQL
2 114 (21.39%) C#
2 114 (21.39%) JavaScript
3 56 (10.51%) PowerShell
4 50 (9.38%) Python
5 33 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (3.00%) T-SQL
7 16 (3.00%) VBA
8 6 (1.13%) Java
9 5 (0.94%) Bash
10 3 (0.56%) PHP
10 3 (0.56%) VB
10 3 (0.56%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (12.76%) Degree
2 35 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 27 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.50%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.94%) ICAEW
9 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.56%) PMP
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.13%) QA
3 16 (3.00%) GDPR
4 15 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.63%) PMO
6 13 (2.44%) SLA
7 10 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.94%) TickIT
10 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 32 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.06%) Docker
3 4 (0.75%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.94%) Ansible
3 5 (0.94%) Rundeck
3 5 (0.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 376 (70.54%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.13%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.94%) OpenAI
4 20 (3.75%) Adobe
4 20 (3.75%) UiPath
5 14 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.44%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (1.88%) SAP
8 8 (1.50%) Cognizant
8 8 (1.50%) Intapp
9 7 (1.31%) Databricks
9 7 (1.31%) Oracle
10 5 (0.94%) Cisco
10 5 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.94%) Meraki
10 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.94%) Pega
10 5 (0.94%) Sage
10 5 (0.94%) Splunk
10 5 (0.94%) VMware