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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 293 318
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 +88
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 696 501 702
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.00% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 3.14% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 549 376 524
10th Percentile £37,360 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -1.30% +2.21%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,835 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.39% +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 27,840 15,938 26,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.20% 31.91% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18,383 11,032 19,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -5 631 £57,125 -0.65% 242
UK excluding London -5 424 £52,835 -1.59% 173
Work from Home -7 244 £51,000 -7.27% 124
London -3 232 £67,500 +8.00% 110
North of England +47 147 £50,000 - 41
Midlands -20 99 £55,000 +2.44% 30
North West +46 77 £51,000 +4.62% 21
South East -29 68 £50,000 +0.00% 55
Yorkshire +20 62 £42,500 -19.05% 16
East of England -12 59 £88,750 +54.35% 16
West Midlands -21 58 £55,000 +4.23% 23
East Midlands -11 41 £54,000 -1.82% 7
Wales -46 23 £53,171 +16.86% 4
South West -61 19 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Scotland +14 8 £65,000 +28.85% 6
North East - 8 £50,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 7

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
1 254 (36.49%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.29%) IIS
4 5 (0.72%) CMS
4 5 (0.72%) WordPress
5 4 (0.57%) Apache
5 4 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 40 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (16.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.44%) Elite 3E
3 8 (1.15%) Carpe Diem
4 6 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.43%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.29%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 598 (85.92%) Power Platform
2 478 (68.68%) PowerApps
3 347 (49.86%) Azure
4 277 (39.80%) Microsoft 365
5 253 (36.35%) Dynamics 365
6 146 (20.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 122 (17.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 87 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
9 74 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (10.34%) Entra ID
10 72 (10.34%) OneDrive
11 51 (7.33%) Serverless
12 45 (6.47%) Azure Functions
13 36 (5.17%) SaaS
14 30 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
15 29 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (2.87%) Azure AI
18 19 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 18 (2.59%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.30%) Firewall
2 14 (2.01%) DNS
3 8 (1.15%) DHCP
3 8 (1.15%) Intranet
3 8 (1.15%) VPN
3 8 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.86%) VoIP
5 5 (0.72%) VLAN
6 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.57%) Wireless
7 3 (0.43%) LTE
7 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) DKIM
8 2 (0.29%) DMARC
8 2 (0.29%) HTTP
8 2 (0.29%) Internet
8 2 (0.29%) MQTT
9 1 (0.14%) Broadband
9 1 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (44.54%) Power BI
2 66 (9.48%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.16%) Power Query
5 19 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.87%) Metadata
7 13 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.72%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.57%) Metabase
10 4 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.57%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.29%) MySQL
11 2 (0.29%) Tableau
12 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.44%) Git
2 14 (2.01%) JIRA
3 12 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.57%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.29%) ERwin
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 232 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 189 (27.16%) Finance
3 83 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.76%) Legal
5 51 (7.33%) Law
6 43 (6.18%) Manufacturing
7 40 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (4.17%) Retail
9 25 (3.59%) Marketing
9 25 (3.59%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.87%) Legal Technology
12 11 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.01%) Banking
14 7 (1.01%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.43%) Automotive
16 3 (0.43%) Aviation
17 2 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 323 (46.41%) Developer
2 123 (17.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 80 (11.49%) Senior
4 62 (8.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 60 (8.62%) Lead
6 59 (8.48%) Analyst
7 48 (6.90%) Consultant
7 48 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 43 (6.18%) Applications Developer
8 43 (6.18%) IT Support
9 34 (4.89%) Microsoft Developer
10 32 (4.60%) Power Apps Developer
11 31 (4.45%) Applications Support
12 27 (3.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 23 (3.30%) CRM Developer
13 23 (3.30%) IT Manager
13 23 (3.30%) Support Manager
14 22 (3.16%) Support Engineer
15 21 (3.02%) Administrator
15 21 (3.02%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.53%) .NET
2 70 (10.06%) HTML5 Canvas
3 62 (8.91%) HTML
4 60 (8.62%) REST
5 54 (7.76%) CSS
6 39 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
7 36 (5.17%) SPFx
8 30 (4.31%) .NET Core
9 28 (4.02%) JSON
10 21 (3.02%) React
11 18 (2.59%) ASP.NET
11 18 (2.59%) Web Services
12 14 (2.01%) RESTful
13 12 (1.72%) .NET Framework
14 9 (1.29%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (1.15%) Middleware
16 6 (0.86%) EDI
16 6 (0.86%) Entity Framework
16 6 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.34%) Low-Code
2 37 (5.32%) AI Agents
2 37 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.30%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.72%) CMDB
12 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.57%) Social Media
14 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.48%) Windows
2 27 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.16%) Linux
4 8 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (40.80%) Business Intelligence
2 197 (28.30%) AI
3 178 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 177 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (23.28%) CRM
6 148 (21.26%) Agile
7 132 (18.97%) DevOps
8 104 (14.94%) Workflow
9 88 (12.64%) User Experience
10 87 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 82 (11.78%) Translating Business Requirements
12 75 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 72 (10.34%) Roadmaps
14 69 (9.91%) Process Improvement
15 67 (9.63%) Project Management
16 61 (8.76%) ITIL
17 59 (8.48%) Customer Service
18 55 (7.90%) Data Modelling
18 55 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
19 54 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 193 (27.73%) C#
2 188 (27.01%) SQL
3 168 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 69 (9.91%) PowerShell
5 46 (6.61%) Python
6 44 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.44%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.16%) VBA
10 7 (1.01%) Java
11 6 (0.86%) Bash
11 6 (0.86%) C
11 6 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.57%) C++
13 3 (0.43%) VB
14 2 (0.29%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) X++
14 2 (0.29%) XPath
15 1 (0.14%) Dart
15 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 74 (10.63%) Degree
2 62 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (4.02%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.01%) PMP
9 5 (0.72%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.57%) CCNA
10 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.43%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.43%) HND
11 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.46%) QA
3 24 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (3.02%) GDPR
5 20 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 19 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.16%) PMO
8 13 (1.87%) SLA
9 11 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.72%) TickIT
11 4 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.29%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.43%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.29%) Docker
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.01%) Terraform
3 6 (0.86%) Ansible
3 6 (0.86%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 550 (79.02%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.87%) OpenAI
3 19 (2.73%) Adobe
4 14 (2.01%) Intapp
5 13 (1.87%) Foundry
5 13 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.58%) Oracle
7 10 (1.44%) Databricks
8 9 (1.29%) Cognizant
8 9 (1.29%) VMware
9 8 (1.15%) DocuSign
9 8 (1.15%) RedGate
9 8 (1.15%) Sage
9 8 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.86%) Cisco
10 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.86%) SAP
10 6 (0.86%) Splunk
10 6 (0.86%) UiPath
11 5 (0.72%) Meraki