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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 278 317
Rank change year-on-year -37 +39 +152
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 543 508 924
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.15% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 3.42% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 427 395 690
10th Percentile £36,150 £39,000 £36,365
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

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 24,822 14,837 35,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.06% 33.56% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,841 10,199 27,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -43 489 £57,000 -0.87% 172
UK excluding London -35 310 £50,001 -4.76% 142
London +13 198 £65,000 - 52
Work from Home -24 179 £50,001 -9.09% 138
North of England +18 110 £45,000 -14.29% 40
Midlands -32 60 £55,000 +2.44% 28
North West +29 53 £53,750 +7.50% 31
East of England +1 51 £76,750 +53.50% 8
Yorkshire -23 51 £42,500 -24.44% 7
South East -47 47 £50,000 -9.09% 39
West Midlands -36 40 £55,000 +5.92% 16
East Midlands -24 20 £59,732 +8.60% 12
Wales -31 19 £41,740 -10.24% 4
South West -64 17 £43,500 -24.35% 15
Scotland +15 7 £55,000 +9.03% 3
North East - 6 £51,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 8

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
1 165 (30.39%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.47%) Appian
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 55 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 92 (16.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.55%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.37%) Magento
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 462 (85.08%) Power Platform
2 375 (69.06%) PowerApps
3 272 (50.09%) Azure
4 188 (34.62%) Dynamics 365
5 171 (31.49%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (18.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 74 (13.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 53 (9.76%) OneDrive
9 48 (8.84%) Entra ID
10 44 (8.10%) Copilot Studio
11 40 (7.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (6.26%) Serverless
13 29 (5.34%) Azure Functions
14 28 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (5.16%) SaaS
15 20 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 14 (2.58%) Azure AI
18 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.21%) Firewall
2 6 (1.10%) Intranet
2 6 (1.10%) VoIP
3 3 (0.55%) LTE
3 3 (0.55%) NAS
3 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.37%) DHCP
4 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) Internet
4 2 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) VLAN
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (50.46%) Power BI
2 73 (13.44%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.52%) Power Query
4 25 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (2.95%) PowerPivot
7 12 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.47%) Metabase
9 8 (1.47%) Metadata
9 8 (1.47%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.74%) MySQL
12 4 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Visual Studio
2 8 (1.47%) Git
2 8 (1.47%) JIRA
2 8 (1.47%) MLflow
3 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 179 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 157 (28.91%) Finance
3 78 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.92%) Law
5 39 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.00%) Legal
7 26 (4.79%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.24%) Public Sector
9 22 (4.05%) Marketing
10 11 (2.03%) Retail
11 9 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Agriculture
13 7 (1.29%) Automotive
14 6 (1.10%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.55%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.37%) Billing
17 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
18 1 (0.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 203 (37.38%) Developer
2 91 (16.76%) Power Platform Developer
3 79 (14.55%) Analyst
4 63 (11.60%) Senior
5 43 (7.92%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 41 (7.55%) IT Support
7 40 (7.37%) Lead
8 37 (6.81%) Consultant
9 35 (6.45%) Senior Developer
10 32 (5.89%) Applications Developer
11 31 (5.71%) Applications Support
12 30 (5.52%) Support Manager
13 29 (5.34%) Power Apps Developer
14 24 (4.42%) Architect
14 24 (4.42%) IT Manager
14 24 (4.42%) Support Analyst
15 23 (4.24%) CRM Developer
16 19 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
16 19 (3.50%) Microsoft Developer
16 19 (3.50%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.29%) .NET
2 56 (10.31%) HTML5 Canvas
3 48 (8.84%) REST
4 43 (7.92%) HTML
5 40 (7.37%) CSS
6 31 (5.71%) SPFx
7 30 (5.52%) Microsoft Graph
8 24 (4.42%) .NET Core
9 23 (4.24%) JSON
10 21 (3.87%) Web Services
11 15 (2.76%) React
12 14 (2.58%) RESTful
13 13 (2.39%) SOAP
14 10 (1.84%) JWT
14 10 (1.84%) OAuth
15 9 (1.66%) ASP.NET
16 8 (1.47%) FastAPI
16 8 (1.47%) OpenAPI
16 8 (1.47%) PyTorch
16 8 (1.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.15%) Low-Code
2 27 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 27 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.95%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.76%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.84%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Social Media
13 3 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.55%) PropTech
14 2 (0.37%) Client/Server
15 1 (0.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.00%) Windows
2 11 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.84%) Linux
4 5 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.37%) Android
6 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (48.25%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (27.07%) CRM
3 145 (26.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (20.07%) AI
6 91 (16.76%) Workflow
7 88 (16.21%) Agile
8 78 (14.36%) DevOps
9 65 (11.97%) CI/CD
10 61 (11.23%) Data Modelling
11 58 (10.68%) Translating Business Requirements
12 57 (10.50%) Project Management
13 56 (10.31%) Process Improvement
14 55 (10.13%) Roadmaps
15 54 (9.94%) Analytics
16 53 (9.76%) User Experience
17 52 (9.58%) Customer Service
18 49 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 46 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
20 40 (7.37%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 169 (31.12%) SQL
2 118 (21.73%) C#
3 115 (21.18%) JavaScript
4 56 (10.31%) PowerShell
5 50 (9.21%) Python
6 33 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.31%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.95%) VBA
10 6 (1.10%) Bash
10 6 (1.10%) Java
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) VB
11 3 (0.55%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.18%) R
12 1 (0.18%) Swift
12 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 67 (12.34%) Degree
2 34 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.24%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.92%) ICAEW
8 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.74%) PMP
9 3 (0.55%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.18%) QA
3 16 (2.95%) GDPR
4 15 (2.76%) PMO
5 14 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.21%) SLA
7 10 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.92%) TickIT
10 2 (0.37%) GRC
10 2 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.66%) Docker
3 4 (0.74%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.10%) Ansible
3 6 (1.10%) Rundeck
3 6 (1.10%) Terraform
4 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 385 (70.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.68%) Adobe
2 20 (3.68%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.50%) OpenAI
4 17 (3.13%) UiPath
5 14 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.21%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (1.84%) SAP
8 9 (1.66%) Cognizant
9 8 (1.47%) Databricks
10 7 (1.29%) Intapp
11 6 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.10%) Oracle
11 6 (1.10%) Splunk
12 5 (0.92%) Cisco
12 5 (0.92%) Meraki
12 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.92%) Pega
12 5 (0.92%) Sage
12 5 (0.92%) VMware