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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 281 321
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +54
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 780 518 630
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.05% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 3.30% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 596 388 417
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,447 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.91% -6.46% +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 27,851 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.99% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,800 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +7 717 £58,000 +5.45% 376
UK excluding London -2 494 £55,000 +6.91% 252
Work from Home -16 272 £52,500 -8.70% 210
London -5 248 £67,500 +8.00% 195
North of England +27 160 £50,000 +5.26% 62
Midlands +11 135 £60,000 +11.76% 30
West Midlands -1 97 £61,250 +14.09% 20
North West +31 84 £51,000 +7.37% 30
South East -57 71 £53,750 +7.50% 69
East of England -14 65 £80,000 +39.13% 19
Yorkshire -8 59 £42,500 -10.53% 21
East Midlands -20 38 £54,000 -1.82% 10
South West -62 30 £52,500 +3.45% 27
Wales -58 25 £53,171 +6.34% 13
North East -52 17 £38,000 -24.00% 13
Scotland +2 10 £62,500 +13.64% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 9

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
1 304 (38.97%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.92%) IIS
4 8 (1.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.03%) nginx
5 5 (0.64%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) WordPress
7 3 (0.38%) Confluence
8 2 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 40 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 126 (16.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.92%) Elite 3E
3 11 (1.41%) Carpe Diem
4 9 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.26%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.13%) Magento
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 653 (83.72%) Power Platform
2 517 (66.28%) PowerApps
3 376 (48.21%) Azure
4 324 (41.54%) Microsoft 365
5 281 (36.03%) Dynamics 365
6 193 (24.74%) Microsoft Copilot
7 118 (15.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 101 (12.95%) Copilot Studio
9 91 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (11.15%) Entra ID
11 80 (10.26%) OneDrive
12 64 (8.21%) Serverless
13 59 (7.56%) Azure Functions
14 39 (5.00%) SaaS
15 36 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 32 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
17 27 (3.46%) Azure AI
18 22 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (2.82%) Zapier
19 15 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.46%) Firewall
2 19 (2.44%) DNS
3 10 (1.28%) Intranet
4 9 (1.15%) DHCP
4 9 (1.15%) VPN
4 9 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.77%) VLAN
5 6 (0.77%) VoIP
6 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.51%) Wireless
7 3 (0.38%) LTE
7 3 (0.38%) MQTT
7 3 (0.38%) NAS
8 2 (0.26%) DKIM
8 2 (0.26%) DMARC
8 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 2 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) Broadband
9 1 (0.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (42.44%) Power BI
2 74 (9.49%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (2.18%) Power Query
7 16 (2.05%) Metadata
7 16 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.77%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.64%) Big Data
11 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.38%) GIS
14 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau
15 1 (0.13%) Flink
15 1 (0.13%) MySQL
15 1 (0.13%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 29 (3.72%) Git
2 13 (1.67%) JIRA
3 10 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.26%) ERwin
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 279 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 199 (25.51%) Finance
3 85 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.36%) Legal
5 53 (6.79%) Law
6 52 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 48 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (4.74%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.97%) Retail
10 26 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.95%) Marketing
12 15 (1.92%) Legal Technology
13 11 (1.41%) Banking
14 10 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Aviation
15 8 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.90%) Social Housing
17 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 348 (44.62%) Developer
2 128 (16.41%) Power Platform Developer
3 79 (10.13%) Senior
4 71 (9.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 66 (8.46%) Consultant
6 64 (8.21%) Lead
7 63 (8.08%) Analyst
8 43 (5.51%) Senior Developer
9 37 (4.74%) Applications Developer
10 36 (4.62%) IT Support
11 31 (3.97%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 30 (3.85%) Administrator
12 30 (3.85%) Microsoft Developer
13 27 (3.46%) Architect
13 27 (3.46%) Power Apps Developer
14 26 (3.33%) Applications Support
15 24 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 23 (2.95%) Functional Consultant
16 23 (2.95%) Support Engineer
17 22 (2.82%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (17.18%) .NET
2 73 (9.36%) HTML
3 72 (9.23%) REST
4 66 (8.46%) HTML5 Canvas
5 62 (7.95%) CSS
6 44 (5.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 36 (4.62%) JSON
7 36 (4.62%) SPFx
8 31 (3.97%) .NET Core
9 27 (3.46%) ASP.NET
10 21 (2.69%) XML
11 20 (2.56%) React
12 19 (2.44%) .NET Framework
13 18 (2.31%) RESTful
13 18 (2.31%) Web Services
14 11 (1.41%) XSLT
15 9 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
16 8 (1.03%) Entity Framework
16 8 (1.03%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.85%) Low-Code
2 47 (6.03%) AI Agents
3 41 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.03%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.64%) CMDB
12 5 (0.64%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.51%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (8.33%) Windows
2 34 (4.36%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.31%) Linux
4 8 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (39.10%) Business Intelligence
2 251 (32.18%) AI
3 217 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
4 212 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 178 (22.82%) Agile
5 178 (22.82%) CRM
6 157 (20.13%) DevOps
7 119 (15.26%) Workflow
8 105 (13.46%) CI/CD
9 95 (12.18%) Translating Business Requirements
10 89 (11.41%) Roadmaps
11 88 (11.28%) User Experience
12 87 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 84 (10.77%) Process Improvement
14 73 (9.36%) ITIL
15 72 (9.23%) Data Modelling
15 72 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 71 (9.10%) Customer Service
17 70 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 218 (27.95%) C#
2 188 (24.10%) SQL
3 181 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 80 (10.26%) PowerShell
5 57 (7.31%) Python
6 42 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.18%) VBA
10 8 (1.03%) Bash
10 8 (1.03%) C
10 8 (1.03%) VB.NET
11 7 (0.90%) Java
12 4 (0.51%) C++
12 4 (0.51%) PHP
13 3 (0.38%) VB
13 3 (0.38%) X++
13 3 (0.38%) XPath
14 2 (0.26%) Dart
15 1 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (11.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (10.00%) Degree
3 28 (3.59%) Security Cleared
4 26 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 26 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.03%) PMP
8 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.64%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.51%) CCNA
10 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.38%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.38%) HND
11 3 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.13%) QA
3 35 (4.49%) GDPR
4 30 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (2.05%) SLA
8 15 (1.92%) PMO
9 10 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.03%) WCAG
11 5 (0.64%) TickIT
12 4 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.26%) NIST
14 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.26%) Docker
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.90%) Ansible
3 6 (0.77%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 634 (81.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.82%) OpenAI
3 20 (2.56%) Foundry
4 15 (1.92%) Adobe
4 15 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.67%) Intapp
5 13 (1.67%) VMware
6 12 (1.54%) Sage
7 11 (1.41%) Databricks
8 9 (1.15%) Cognizant
8 9 (1.15%) Oracle
9 8 (1.03%) Aderant
9 8 (1.03%) Citrix
9 8 (1.03%) DocuSign
9 8 (1.03%) RedGate
9 8 (1.03%) SonicWALL
9 8 (1.03%) UiPath
10 7 (0.90%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.90%) Splunk
11 6 (0.77%) SAP