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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 282 309
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 +114
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 632 506 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.03% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 3.18% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 507 387 611
10th Percentile £36,580 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,875 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £53,100
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.13% +1.14%

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 27,128 15,899 30,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.32% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 17,761 11,058 23,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,598 £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 21 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 21 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 -8 564 £56,000 -2.61% 191
UK excluding London -13 380 £51,000 -2.86% 138
Work from Home -29 219 £51,000 -7.27% 98
London +12 213 £65,000 +4.00% 78
North of England +56 129 £47,085 -3.42% 35
Midlands -21 88 £55,000 +2.44% 27
North West +35 67 £50,000 +8.11% 19
South East -48 62 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Yorkshire 0 56 £42,500 -21.66% 11
West Midlands -20 54 £55,000 +5.77% 19
East of England -9 47 £90,000 +56.52% 11
East Midlands -10 34 £52,000 -5.45% 8
Wales -38 26 £53,171 +29.68% 4
South West -66 20 £55,000 -4.35% 17
Scotland +14 9 £67,500 +33.81% 5
North East - 6 £51,000 - 7
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
1 214 (33.86%) SharePoint
2 26 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.79%) CMS
3 5 (0.79%) WordPress
4 3 (0.47%) 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 46 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (17.88%) 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 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.47%) 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
Cloud Services
1 546 (86.39%) Power Platform
2 438 (69.30%) PowerApps
3 319 (50.47%) Azure
4 234 (37.03%) Dynamics 365
5 233 (36.87%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (18.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 114 (18.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 71 (11.23%) Copilot Studio
9 67 (10.60%) OneDrive
10 60 (9.49%) Entra ID
11 58 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (7.28%) Serverless
13 40 (6.33%) Azure Functions
14 33 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 29 (4.59%) SaaS
17 24 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (3.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 16 (2.53%) Azure AI
20 9 (1.42%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.16%) Firewall
2 10 (1.58%) 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 (0.47%) LTE
8 3 (0.47%) 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 (47.78%) Power BI
2 66 (10.44%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.96%) Power Query
5 24 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.42%) Metadata
9 9 (1.42%) PowerPivot
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 (0.47%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (2.37%) Visual Studio
2 14 (2.22%) JIRA
3 12 (1.90%) Git
4 8 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.47%) 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 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 179 (28.32%) Finance
3 72 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.59%) Law
5 46 (7.28%) Legal
6 40 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (5.38%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.11%) Marketing
9 24 (3.80%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (3.16%) Retail
12 10 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.11%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.79%) Banking
14 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.63%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.63%) Automotive
15 4 (0.63%) Legal Technology
16 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 282 (44.62%) Developer
2 114 (18.04%) Power Platform Developer
3 73 (11.55%) Senior
4 69 (10.92%) Analyst
5 53 (8.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 47 (7.44%) IT Support
6 47 (7.44%) Lead
7 44 (6.96%) Senior Developer
8 41 (6.49%) Consultant
9 37 (5.85%) Applications Developer
10 34 (5.38%) Applications Support
11 31 (4.91%) Power Apps Developer
12 30 (4.75%) Microsoft Developer
13 25 (3.96%) Support Manager
14 24 (3.80%) IT Manager
14 24 (3.80%) Support Analyst
15 23 (3.64%) CRM Developer
15 23 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 22 (3.48%) Architect
17 21 (3.32%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.56%) .NET
2 65 (10.28%) HTML5 Canvas
3 52 (8.23%) HTML
4 51 (8.07%) REST
5 44 (6.96%) CSS
6 35 (5.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 34 (5.38%) SPFx
8 27 (4.27%) .NET Core
9 25 (3.96%) JSON
10 19 (3.01%) React
11 18 (2.85%) Web Services
12 14 (2.22%) ASP.NET
13 11 (1.74%) RESTful
14 9 (1.42%) 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 (7.75%) Low-Code
2 33 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 19 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.69%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.53%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.63%) Social Media
14 3 (0.47%) Blog
14 3 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.91%) Windows
2 21 (3.32%) 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
1 279 (44.15%) Business Intelligence
2 166 (26.27%) CRM
3 162 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 157 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (23.58%) AI
6 142 (22.47%) Agile
7 112 (17.72%) DevOps
8 90 (14.24%) Workflow
9 85 (13.45%) CI/CD
10 76 (12.03%) User Experience
11 70 (11.08%) Roadmaps
12 69 (10.92%) Translating Business Requirements
13 68 (10.76%) Process Improvement
14 67 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 62 (9.81%) Project Management
16 61 (9.65%) Customer Service
17 59 (9.34%) Data Modelling
18 48 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
19 47 (7.44%) ITIL
20 45 (7.12%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 181 (28.64%) SQL
2 166 (26.27%) C#
3 147 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 65 (10.28%) PowerShell
5 49 (7.75%) Python
6 40 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.58%) VBA
10 7 (1.11%) Java
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
12 4 (0.63%) C
12 4 (0.63%) C++
13 3 (0.47%) PHP
13 3 (0.47%) VB
13 3 (0.47%) 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 (12.34%) Degree
2 49 (7.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.32%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.85%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.42%) 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 (0.47%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.47%) HND
11 3 (0.47%) 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 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.17%) QA
3 25 (3.96%) GDPR
4 23 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.37%) PMO
7 11 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.42%) SLA
9 6 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.79%) TickIT
11 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (5.38%) 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 (0.47%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.95%) Ansible
2 6 (0.95%) Rundeck
2 6 (0.95%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 491 (77.69%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.16%) Adobe
3 19 (3.01%) OpenAI
4 14 (2.22%) Intapp
5 13 (2.06%) Foundry
6 12 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.58%) Oracle
9 9 (1.42%) 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