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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 285 309
Rank change year-on-year -46 +24 +213
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 499 466 891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.07% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 3.05% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 380 365 674
10th Percentile £37,375 £38,200 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £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 27,966 15,270 34,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.63% 35.13% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,636 10,949 26,723
10th Percentile £31,188 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £95,000
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 6 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 6 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 -26 440 £57,500 - 180
UK excluding London -52 272 £50,001 -4.76% 133
London -4 191 £60,000 -14.29% 80
Work from Home -22 169 £52,500 -4.55% 99
North of England -18 81 £47,085 -10.32% 30
Midlands -50 52 £58,250 +10.95% 20
East of England +8 48 £85,000 +70.00% 11
South East -56 47 £50,000 -13.04% 53
North West -1 42 £57,500 +9.52% 13
West Midlands -39 39 £44,000 -15.14% 14
Yorkshire -42 35 £42,039 -23.57% 12
Wales -13 18 £41,740 -17.35% 7
South West -64 18 £43,500 -24.35% 8
East Midlands -39 13 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Scotland -13 11 £55,000 +9.03% 4
North East -26 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
1 155 (31.06%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.61%) 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 (11.82%) 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 75 (15.03%) 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
Cloud Services
1 429 (85.97%) Power Platform
2 332 (66.53%) PowerApps
3 265 (53.11%) Azure
4 154 (30.86%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (17.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 55 (11.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (8.42%) Entra ID
10 40 (8.02%) OneDrive
11 35 (7.01%) Copilot Studio
12 32 (6.41%) Serverless
13 31 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (5.81%) Azure Functions
15 23 (4.61%) SaaS
16 20 (4.01%) Azure AI
17 19 (3.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
19 13 (2.61%) 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
1 266 (53.31%) Power BI
2 77 (15.43%) SQL Server
3 33 (6.61%) Power Query
4 31 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (3.81%) PowerPivot
7 14 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.40%) Metabase
8 12 (2.40%) Pinecone
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 15 (3.01%) 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
1 201 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 146 (29.26%) Finance
3 94 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.41%) Law
5 29 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.61%) Legal
8 18 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.21%) Marketing
10 11 (2.20%) Retail
11 10 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Agriculture
13 7 (1.40%) Automotive
14 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.40%) Billing
15 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.20%) Brand Awareness
16 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 173 (34.67%) Developer
2 84 (16.83%) Analyst
3 79 (15.83%) Power Platform Developer
4 60 (12.02%) Senior
5 47 (9.42%) IT Support
6 42 (8.42%) Consultant
7 33 (6.61%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 30 (6.01%) Lead
9 28 (5.61%) Support Manager
10 26 (5.21%) Applications Developer
11 25 (5.01%) Power Apps Developer
12 24 (4.81%) Systems Analyst
13 23 (4.61%) Financial Analyst
13 23 (4.61%) Support Analyst
14 20 (4.01%) Applications Support
15 19 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (3.81%) IT Analyst
16 18 (3.61%) Applications Manager
16 18 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.23%) .NET
2 53 (10.62%) HTML5 Canvas
3 52 (10.42%) REST
4 36 (7.21%) HTML
5 35 (7.01%) CSS
6 33 (6.61%) SPFx
7 28 (5.61%) Microsoft Graph
8 26 (5.21%) JSON
9 23 (4.61%) .NET Core
10 21 (4.21%) Web Services
11 17 (3.41%) RESTful
12 15 (3.01%) SOAP
13 14 (2.81%) JWT
13 14 (2.81%) OAuth
13 14 (2.81%) OpenAPI
13 14 (2.81%) Swagger
14 13 (2.61%) Pandas
15 12 (2.40%) Django
15 12 (2.40%) Flask
15 12 (2.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.03%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.61%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.80%) Social Media
14 3 (0.60%) PropTech
14 3 (0.60%) Reference Data
15 2 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.81%) Windows
2 8 (1.60%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.10%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (26.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 130 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (22.85%) CRM
5 103 (20.64%) AI
6 85 (17.03%) Workflow
7 79 (15.83%) DevOps
8 68 (13.63%) Agile
9 59 (11.82%) CI/CD
9 59 (11.82%) Data Modelling
10 56 (11.22%) Analytics
11 52 (10.42%) Project Management
11 52 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (10.42%) Translating Business Requirements
12 48 (9.62%) User Experience
13 45 (9.02%) Data Analysis
14 43 (8.62%) ERP
15 42 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 41 (8.22%) Data Management
17 40 (8.02%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 164 (32.87%) SQL
2 107 (21.44%) C#
3 104 (20.84%) JavaScript
4 53 (10.62%) PowerShell
4 53 (10.62%) Python
5 33 (6.61%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.41%) VBA
8 14 (2.81%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.20%) Java
10 3 (0.60%) PHP
10 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.40%) VB
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (12.63%) Degree
2 35 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (6.01%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.81%) 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 (10.82%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.61%) QA
3 15 (3.01%) SLA
4 14 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.61%) GDPR
6 9 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.60%) PMO
8 6 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.00%) TickIT
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.81%) 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 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 345 (69.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.21%) UiPath
3 23 (4.61%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.21%) Adobe
5 20 (4.01%) OpenAI
6 16 (3.21%) Automation Anywhere
7 14 (2.81%) SAP
8 13 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.60%) Intapp
10 7 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.20%) Oracle
11 6 (1.20%) Pega
12 5 (1.00%) Databricks
12 5 (1.00%) Sage
12 5 (1.00%) VMware
13 4 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (0.80%) Facebook
14 3 (0.60%) Barracuda Networks
14 3 (0.60%) Foundry
14 3 (0.60%) Sophos