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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 283 323
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +37
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 774 498 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.00% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 3.20% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 588 383 382
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £46,212
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,375 £56,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.21% +8.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,250 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.33% -5.45% +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 27,139 15,539 23,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.97% 31.35% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 18,551 10,425 14,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £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 3 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 3 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 +17 707 £58,875 +3.29% 508
UK excluding London -17 480 £54,250 +4.33% 380
Work from Home -3 271 £52,500 -8.70% 323
London -1 253 £67,500 +8.00% 223
North of England +28 155 £50,000 +3.09% 84
Midlands +12 132 £60,000 +11.76% 50
West Midlands 0 96 £62,500 +16.41% 30
North West +10 81 £51,000 +2.00% 39
South East -48 64 £60,000 +20.00% 77
East of England -27 61 £76,021 +32.21% 39
Yorkshire -6 57 £42,500 -10.53% 35
East Midlands -22 36 £41,800 -24.00% 20
South West -57 34 £52,500 +7.69% 45
Wales -58 25 £53,171 +16.86% 18
North East -46 17 £38,000 -24.00% 12
Scotland 0 11 £56,250 +2.27% 44
Northern Ireland -83 1 £60,000 - 27

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
1 310 (40.05%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.94%) IIS
4 8 (1.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.03%) nginx
5 4 (0.52%) CMS
5 4 (0.52%) WordPress
6 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 2 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 39 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 120 (15.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.94%) Elite 3E
3 11 (1.42%) Carpe Diem
3 11 (1.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 649 (83.85%) Power Platform
2 515 (66.54%) PowerApps
3 369 (47.67%) Azure
4 327 (42.25%) Microsoft 365
5 274 (35.40%) Dynamics 365
6 202 (26.10%) Microsoft Copilot
7 111 (14.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 107 (13.82%) Copilot Studio
9 95 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (11.37%) Entra ID
11 79 (10.21%) OneDrive
12 65 (8.40%) Serverless
13 60 (7.75%) Azure Functions
14 43 (5.56%) SaaS
15 37 (4.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 34 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 28 (3.62%) Azure AI
18 24 (3.10%) Zapier
19 18 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.97%) Firewall
2 19 (2.45%) DNS
3 11 (1.42%) Intranet
4 9 (1.16%) DHCP
5 8 (1.03%) VPN
6 7 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.78%) VLAN
8 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.52%) VoIP
8 4 (0.52%) Wireless
9 3 (0.39%) LTE
9 3 (0.39%) MQTT
10 2 (0.26%) DKIM
10 2 (0.26%) DMARC
10 2 (0.26%) HTTP
10 2 (0.26%) Internet
11 1 (0.13%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.13%) NAS
11 1 (0.13%) SAN
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (41.47%) Power BI
2 76 (9.82%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (2.20%) Metadata
7 16 (2.07%) Power Query
8 14 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.03%) Big Data
12 6 (0.78%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.52%) GIS
14 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.26%) Tableau
16 1 (0.13%) Flink
16 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (3.88%) Git
2 13 (1.68%) JIRA
3 9 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 279 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 200 (25.84%) Finance
3 77 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (9.95%) Legal
4 58 (7.49%) Law
5 51 (6.59%) Manufacturing
6 45 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.62%) Retail
9 27 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.97%) Marketing
12 14 (1.81%) Legal Technology
13 11 (1.42%) Banking
14 9 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Aviation
16 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.90%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.39%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 342 (44.19%) Developer
2 126 (16.28%) Power Platform Developer
3 76 (9.82%) Senior
4 68 (8.79%) Consultant
5 66 (8.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 65 (8.40%) Lead
7 62 (8.01%) Analyst
8 39 (5.04%) Senior Developer
9 32 (4.13%) Applications Developer
9 32 (4.13%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 31 (4.01%) Administrator
10 31 (4.01%) Architect
11 29 (3.75%) IT Support
11 29 (3.75%) Microsoft Developer
12 24 (3.10%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 23 (2.97%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.84%) Applications Support
14 22 (2.84%) Power Apps Developer
14 22 (2.84%) Systems Developer
15 21 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (16.28%) .NET
2 73 (9.43%) HTML
3 70 (9.04%) REST
4 60 (7.75%) HTML5 Canvas
5 59 (7.62%) CSS
6 40 (5.17%) Microsoft Graph
7 33 (4.26%) JSON
7 33 (4.26%) SPFx
8 27 (3.49%) .NET Core
8 27 (3.49%) ASP.NET
9 21 (2.71%) XML
10 20 (2.58%) React
11 19 (2.45%) .NET Framework
12 18 (2.33%) RESTful
12 18 (2.33%) Web Services
13 11 (1.42%) XSLT
14 9 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (1.16%) Terraform
15 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
15 8 (1.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.66%) Low-Code
2 47 (6.07%) AI Agents
3 40 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.03%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.65%) CMDB
14 5 (0.65%) Driving Licence
14 5 (0.65%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
15 4 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.01%) Windows
2 32 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.33%) Linux
4 8 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (39.02%) Business Intelligence
2 256 (33.07%) AI
3 221 (28.55%) Problem-Solving
4 213 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 179 (23.13%) Agile
6 171 (22.09%) CRM
7 161 (20.80%) DevOps
8 121 (15.63%) Workflow
9 105 (13.57%) CI/CD
10 99 (12.79%) Translating Business Requirements
11 93 (12.02%) Roadmaps
11 93 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 86 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 80 (10.34%) User Experience
14 76 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 71 (9.17%) Data Modelling
16 70 (9.04%) ITIL
16 70 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
17 64 (8.27%) Customer Service
18 63 (8.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 210 (27.13%) C#
2 182 (23.51%) SQL
3 177 (22.87%) JavaScript
4 80 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 60 (7.75%) Python
6 38 (4.91%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.20%) VBA
9 8 (1.03%) Bash
9 8 (1.03%) C
9 8 (1.03%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.78%) Java
11 4 (0.52%) C++
12 3 (0.39%) PHP
12 3 (0.39%) X++
12 3 (0.39%) XPath
13 2 (0.26%) Bicep
13 2 (0.26%) Dart
13 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (10.08%) Degree
3 29 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.03%) PMP
8 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.65%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.52%) CCNA
10 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.39%) HND
12 2 (0.26%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.04%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.04%) QA
3 38 (4.91%) GDPR
4 33 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.81%) SLA
8 12 (1.55%) PMO
9 10 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.03%) WCAG
11 4 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.39%) NIST
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.26%) TickIT
14 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 49 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.26%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.26%) Docker
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.90%) Ansible
3 6 (0.78%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 631 (81.52%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 21 (2.71%) Foundry
4 16 (2.07%) ServiceNow
5 15 (1.94%) Intapp
6 12 (1.55%) Adobe
7 11 (1.42%) Sage
8 10 (1.29%) Databricks
8 10 (1.29%) VMware
9 9 (1.16%) Cognizant
9 9 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.16%) Oracle
9 9 (1.16%) UiPath
10 8 (1.03%) Aderant
10 8 (1.03%) Citrix
10 8 (1.03%) DocuSign
10 8 (1.03%) RedGate
10 8 (1.03%) SonicWALL
10 8 (1.03%) Splunk
11 6 (0.78%) Alteryx