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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 285 310
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +129
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 630 505 850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.02% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 3.16% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 507 387 642
10th Percentile £36,580 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,750 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,125 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -

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 27,094 15,957 31,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,745 11,119 23,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -20 562 £55,000 -4.35% 165
UK excluding London -18 382 £51,000 -2.86% 130
Work from Home -21 217 £51,000 -7.27% 79
London -4 209 £65,000 +4.00% 62
North of England +53 129 £47,085 -3.42% 29
Midlands -18 88 £55,000 +2.44% 29
North West +33 67 £50,000 +8.11% 17
South East -36 62 £50,000 -9.09% 44
Yorkshire +13 56 £42,500 -21.66% 7
West Midlands -19 54 £55,000 +5.77% 19
East of England -15 48 £90,000 +56.52% 9
East Midlands -8 34 £52,000 -5.45% 10
Wales -36 26 £53,171 +29.68% 3
South West -67 21 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Scotland +14 9 £67,500 +33.81% 4
North East - 6 £51,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 -

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
1 211 (33.49%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.79%) CMS
3 5 (0.79%) WordPress
4 3 (0.48%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) Appian
5 2 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 47 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (17.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.11%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (1.11%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.32%) Magento
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.32%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 544 (86.35%) Power Platform
2 435 (69.05%) PowerApps
3 317 (50.32%) Azure
4 233 (36.98%) Dynamics 365
5 231 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (18.10%) Azure Logic Apps
6 114 (18.10%) Microsoft Copilot
7 71 (11.27%) Copilot Studio
8 67 (10.63%) OneDrive
9 58 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (9.21%) Entra ID
10 46 (7.30%) Serverless
11 40 (6.35%) Azure Functions
12 33 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
14 29 (4.60%) SaaS
15 24 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (3.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 16 (2.54%) Azure AI
18 9 (1.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.17%) Firewall
2 10 (1.59%) DNS
3 8 (1.27%) DHCP
3 8 (1.27%) VPN
4 7 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.95%) Intranet
5 6 (0.95%) VoIP
6 5 (0.79%) VLAN
7 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.63%) Wireless
8 3 (0.48%) LTE
8 3 (0.48%) NAS
9 2 (0.32%) HTTP
9 2 (0.32%) Internet
10 1 (0.16%) Broadband
10 1 (0.16%) DKIM
10 1 (0.16%) DMARC
10 1 (0.16%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (47.94%) Power BI
2 66 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (4.13%) Power Query
5 24 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (1.59%) PowerPivot
8 10 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.43%) Metadata
10 7 (1.11%) Metabase
11 6 (0.95%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.63%) MySQL
13 4 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (2.38%) Visual Studio
2 14 (2.22%) JIRA
3 12 (1.90%) Git
4 8 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.48%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.32%) ERwin
6 2 (0.32%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 212 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 181 (28.73%) Finance
3 72 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.46%) Law
4 47 (7.46%) Legal
5 40 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.40%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.13%) Marketing
8 24 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 21 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.02%) Retail
11 10 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.11%) Social Housing
13 5 (0.79%) Agriculture
13 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Automotive
14 4 (0.63%) Banking
14 4 (0.63%) Legal Technology
15 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 280 (44.44%) Developer
2 114 (18.10%) Power Platform Developer
3 73 (11.59%) Senior
4 71 (11.27%) Analyst
5 52 (8.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 47 (7.46%) IT Support
6 47 (7.46%) Lead
7 44 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 40 (6.35%) Consultant
9 37 (5.87%) Applications Developer
10 34 (5.40%) Applications Support
11 31 (4.92%) Power Apps Developer
12 30 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
13 25 (3.97%) Support Manager
14 24 (3.81%) IT Manager
14 24 (3.81%) Support Analyst
15 23 (3.65%) CRM Developer
15 23 (3.65%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 22 (3.49%) Architect
17 21 (3.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.62%) .NET
2 65 (10.32%) HTML5 Canvas
3 52 (8.25%) HTML
4 50 (7.94%) REST
5 44 (6.98%) CSS
6 35 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 34 (5.40%) SPFx
8 27 (4.29%) .NET Core
9 25 (3.97%) JSON
10 19 (3.02%) React
11 18 (2.86%) Web Services
12 14 (2.22%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.59%) RESTful
14 9 (1.43%) Middleware
15 8 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (1.11%) .NET Framework
16 7 (1.11%) AngularJS
16 7 (1.11%) SOAP
17 6 (0.95%) EDI
17 6 (0.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.78%) Low-Code
2 33 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (3.02%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.63%) Social Media
15 3 (0.48%) Blog
15 3 (0.48%) Embedded Systems
15 3 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.94%) Windows
2 21 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.22%) Linux
4 8 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.32%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 166 (26.35%) CRM
3 161 (25.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (23.33%) AI
6 142 (22.54%) Agile
7 111 (17.62%) DevOps
8 91 (14.44%) Workflow
9 85 (13.49%) CI/CD
10 75 (11.90%) User Experience
11 71 (11.27%) Roadmaps
12 69 (10.95%) Process Improvement
13 68 (10.79%) Translating Business Requirements
14 67 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 62 (9.84%) Project Management
16 61 (9.68%) Customer Service
17 58 (9.21%) Data Modelling
18 48 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
19 47 (7.46%) ITIL
20 45 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 181 (28.73%) SQL
2 165 (26.19%) C#
3 146 (23.17%) JavaScript
4 65 (10.32%) PowerShell
5 49 (7.78%) Python
6 40 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (2.54%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.59%) VBA
10 7 (1.11%) Java
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
12 4 (0.63%) C
12 4 (0.63%) C++
13 3 (0.48%) PHP
13 3 (0.48%) VB
13 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.32%) X++
15 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.16%) R
15 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (12.38%) Degree
2 49 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.11%) PMP
9 5 (0.79%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.63%) CCNA
10 4 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.48%) HND
11 3 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.35%) QA
3 25 (3.97%) GDPR
4 22 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.38%) PMO
6 11 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.43%) SLA
8 6 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.79%) TickIT
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.63%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.63%) Docker
4 3 (0.48%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.95%) Ansible
2 6 (0.95%) Rundeck
2 6 (0.95%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 487 (77.30%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.17%) Adobe
3 19 (3.02%) OpenAI
4 14 (2.22%) Intapp
5 13 (2.06%) Foundry
6 12 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.59%) Oracle
9 9 (1.43%) Cognizant
10 8 (1.27%) Databricks
10 8 (1.27%) SAP
10 8 (1.27%) UiPath
11 6 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.95%) Cisco
11 6 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.95%) Splunk
11 6 (0.95%) VMware
12 5 (0.79%) Meraki
12 5 (0.79%) Okta
12 5 (0.79%) Sage