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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 287 283
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 +70
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 801 477 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.98% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 3.07% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 609 370 339
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,868
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,625 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +10.00%

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 26,594 15,526 22,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.32% 31.75% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 18,450 10,465 13,869
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +17 732 £57,500 - 134
UK excluding London +15 500 £53,500 +1.90% 107
Work from Home +3 285 £52,500 -12.50% 91
London -7 260 £68,500 +9.60% 40
North of England +33 167 £50,000 - 35
Midlands +22 140 £60,000 +9.09% 25
West Midlands +12 104 £60,000 +4.35% 17
North West +22 91 £51,000 -2.86% 17
South East -48 62 £60,000 +20.00% 21
Yorkshire 0 57 £42,500 -10.53% 10
East of England -41 53 £75,000 +30.43% 7
South West -41 42 £52,500 +20.00% 18
East Midlands -21 36 £37,500 -31.82% 8
Wales -60 26 £51,748 +13.73% 2
North East -53 19 £38,000 -24.00% 10
Scotland +2 12 £56,250 +2.27% 3
Northern Ireland -82 1 £60,000 -4.00%

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
1 320 (39.95%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.87%) IIS
4 8 (1.00%) Apache
4 8 (1.00%) nginx
5 4 (0.50%) CMS
5 4 (0.50%) WordPress
6 3 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 116 (14.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.87%) Elite 3E
3 11 (1.37%) Carpe Diem
3 11 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.25%) Maximo
5 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.25%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 668 (83.40%) Power Platform
2 539 (67.29%) PowerApps
3 380 (47.44%) Azure
4 345 (43.07%) Microsoft 365
5 284 (35.46%) Dynamics 365
6 213 (26.59%) Microsoft Copilot
7 114 (14.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 113 (14.11%) Copilot Studio
9 107 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (10.99%) Entra ID
11 75 (9.36%) OneDrive
12 72 (8.99%) Serverless
13 67 (8.36%) Azure Functions
14 48 (5.99%) SaaS
15 41 (5.12%) Azure Service Bus
16 34 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 29 (3.62%) Azure AI
17 29 (3.62%) Zapier
18 16 (2.00%) n8n
19 15 (1.87%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.62%) Firewall
2 20 (2.50%) DNS
3 15 (1.87%) Intranet
4 10 (1.25%) DHCP
5 9 (1.12%) VPN
6 7 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.75%) VLAN
8 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.50%) Wireless
9 3 (0.37%) LTE
9 3 (0.37%) MQTT
9 3 (0.37%) VoIP
10 2 (0.25%) DKIM
10 2 (0.25%) DMARC
10 2 (0.25%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) Internet
11 1 (0.12%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.12%) SAN
11 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (40.70%) Power BI
2 69 (8.61%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (2.25%) Metadata
5 17 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.87%) Power Query
6 15 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.12%) Big Data
10 6 (0.75%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.62%) GIS
11 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.25%) Tableau
14 1 (0.12%) Flink
14 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (4.00%) Git
2 12 (1.50%) JIRA
3 9 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (0.87%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.87%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.25%) ERwin
General
1 278 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 198 (24.72%) Finance
3 78 (9.74%) Legal
4 73 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.87%) Law
6 53 (6.62%) Manufacturing
7 50 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (5.49%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.62%) Marketing
10 27 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (3.37%) Retail
11 25 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.75%) Legal Technology
13 11 (1.37%) Banking
13 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.00%) Aviation
15 7 (0.87%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.62%) Local Government
18 4 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 359 (44.82%) Developer
2 129 (16.10%) Power Platform Developer
3 78 (9.74%) Senior
4 74 (9.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 72 (8.99%) Lead
6 66 (8.24%) Consultant
7 58 (7.24%) Analyst
8 37 (4.62%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 37 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 33 (4.12%) Administrator
9 33 (4.12%) Architect
10 31 (3.87%) Applications Developer
11 27 (3.37%) Microsoft Developer
12 23 (2.87%) Systems Developer
13 22 (2.75%) Support Engineer
13 22 (2.75%) Systems Administrator
14 21 (2.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 21 (2.62%) IT Support
14 21 (2.62%) Lead Developer
14 21 (2.62%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (16.48%) .NET
2 74 (9.24%) REST
3 72 (8.99%) HTML
4 55 (6.87%) CSS
4 55 (6.87%) HTML5 Canvas
5 39 (4.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 30 (3.75%) SPFx
7 28 (3.50%) JSON
8 26 (3.25%) ASP.NET
9 23 (2.87%) .NET Core
10 21 (2.62%) XML
11 19 (2.37%) React
12 17 (2.12%) .NET Framework
12 17 (2.12%) RESTful
12 17 (2.12%) Web Services
13 12 (1.50%) Terraform
14 11 (1.37%) XSLT
15 9 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (1.00%) Entity Framework
17 7 (0.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.61%) Low-Code
2 48 (5.99%) AI Agents
3 46 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 44 (5.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 29 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.25%) Taxonomies
12 8 (1.00%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.62%) CMDB
14 5 (0.62%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.62%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
15 4 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.12%) Windows
2 29 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.00%) Linux
4 8 (1.00%) macOS
4 8 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (38.58%) Business Intelligence
2 262 (32.71%) AI
3 231 (28.84%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (27.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 187 (23.35%) Agile
6 181 (22.60%) DevOps
7 166 (20.72%) CRM
8 127 (15.86%) Workflow
9 120 (14.98%) CI/CD
10 108 (13.48%) Translating Business Requirements
11 101 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 100 (12.48%) Roadmaps
13 86 (10.74%) Process Improvement
14 81 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 77 (9.61%) User Experience
16 75 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
17 72 (8.99%) Data Modelling
18 68 (8.49%) ITIL
19 65 (8.11%) Customer Service
20 64 (7.99%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 222 (27.72%) C#
2 181 (22.60%) JavaScript
3 177 (22.10%) SQL
4 79 (9.86%) PowerShell
5 61 (7.62%) Python
6 33 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (2.37%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.00%) VBA
10 8 (1.00%) Bash
11 7 (0.87%) C
11 7 (0.87%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.62%) Bicep
13 4 (0.50%) C++
13 4 (0.50%) Java
14 3 (0.37%) PHP
14 3 (0.37%) X++
14 3 (0.37%) XPath
15 2 (0.25%) Dart
15 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 93 (11.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 82 (10.24%) Degree
3 32 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 31 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.37%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.00%) PMP
8 5 (0.62%) CCNA
8 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.62%) ICAEW
9 4 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.37%) HND
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.25%) CISSP
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.87%) GDPR
3 39 (4.87%) QA
4 33 (4.12%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.62%) SLA
8 10 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.12%) PMO
10 8 (1.00%) WCAG
11 4 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.37%) NIST
13 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) Docker
5 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.87%) Ansible
3 6 (0.75%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.12%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.12%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 657 (82.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.75%) OpenAI
3 21 (2.62%) Foundry
4 16 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 15 (1.87%) Intapp
6 10 (1.25%) Databricks
6 10 (1.25%) Sage
6 10 (1.25%) VMware
7 9 (1.12%) Aderant
7 9 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.00%) Adobe
8 8 (1.00%) Citrix
8 8 (1.00%) DocuSign
8 8 (1.00%) RedGate
8 8 (1.00%) SonicWALL
8 8 (1.00%) Splunk
9 7 (0.87%) Cisco
9 7 (0.87%) Cognizant
9 7 (0.87%) Oracle
9 7 (0.87%) UiPath