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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 288 308
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +120
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 635 506 815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.03% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 3.18% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 509 385 610
10th Percentile £37,360 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £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 27,181 15,908 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,798 11,057 22,992
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 £102,500 £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 22 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 22 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 -11 568 £56,000 -2.61% 192
UK excluding London -15 381 £51,000 -2.86% 135
Work from Home -17 220 £51,000 -7.27% 100
London +2 216 £65,000 +4.00% 78
North of England +51 129 £47,292 -2.99% 37
Midlands -13 89 £55,000 +2.44% 27
North West +35 68 £50,000 +8.11% 20
South East -42 62 £50,000 -9.09% 38
Yorkshire -3 55 £42,500 -21.66% 11
West Midlands -16 55 £55,000 +4.08% 19
East of England -4 48 £90,000 +56.52% 13
East Midlands -13 34 £52,000 -5.45% 8
Wales -40 25 £53,171 +29.68% 4
South West -74 20 £55,000 -4.35% 17
Scotland +16 9 £67,500 +33.81% 4
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
1 216 (34.02%) SharePoint
2 26 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.79%) CMS
3 5 (0.79%) WordPress
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Appian
5 2 (0.31%) 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 45 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 112 (17.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.10%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (1.10%) 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 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.31%) Magento
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.31%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 548 (86.30%) Power Platform
2 439 (69.13%) PowerApps
3 319 (50.24%) Azure
4 236 (37.17%) Microsoft 365
5 235 (37.01%) Dynamics 365
6 118 (18.58%) Microsoft Copilot
7 113 (17.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (11.65%) Copilot Studio
9 67 (10.55%) OneDrive
10 60 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (9.45%) Entra ID
11 46 (7.24%) Serverless
12 40 (6.30%) Azure Functions
13 33 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 30 (4.72%) SaaS
16 25 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 18 (2.83%) Azure AI
19 10 (1.57%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.15%) Firewall
2 10 (1.57%) DNS
3 8 (1.26%) DHCP
3 8 (1.26%) VPN
4 7 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.94%) Intranet
5 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) HTTP
9 2 (0.31%) 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
1 303 (47.72%) Power BI
2 67 (10.55%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.78%) Power Query
5 18 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.57%) Metadata
7 10 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.26%) PowerPivot
10 7 (1.10%) Metabase
11 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (2.36%) Visual Studio
2 14 (2.20%) JIRA
3 12 (1.89%) Git
4 9 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.31%) ERwin
6 2 (0.31%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 211 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 181 (28.50%) Finance
3 74 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.72%) Law
5 48 (7.56%) Legal
6 40 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (5.51%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.78%) Marketing
9 22 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.15%) Retail
11 10 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.10%) Social Housing
13 5 (0.79%) Banking
13 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.79%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.63%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Automotive
15 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 285 (44.88%) Developer
2 114 (17.95%) Power Platform Developer
3 72 (11.34%) Senior
4 68 (10.71%) Analyst
5 53 (8.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 50 (7.87%) Lead
7 47 (7.40%) IT Support
8 44 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 41 (6.46%) Consultant
10 38 (5.98%) Applications Developer
11 34 (5.35%) Applications Support
12 31 (4.88%) Power Apps Developer
13 30 (4.72%) Microsoft Developer
14 25 (3.94%) Support Manager
15 24 (3.78%) IT Manager
15 24 (3.78%) Support Analyst
16 23 (3.62%) CRM Developer
16 23 (3.62%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 22 (3.46%) Architect
18 21 (3.31%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (17.64%) .NET
2 65 (10.24%) HTML5 Canvas
3 52 (8.19%) HTML
3 52 (8.19%) REST
4 44 (6.93%) CSS
5 36 (5.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 34 (5.35%) SPFx
7 27 (4.25%) .NET Core
8 25 (3.94%) JSON
9 19 (2.99%) React
9 19 (2.99%) Web Services
10 14 (2.20%) ASP.NET
11 11 (1.73%) RESTful
12 9 (1.42%) Middleware
13 8 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.10%) .NET Framework
14 7 (1.10%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.10%) SOAP
15 6 (0.94%) EDI
15 6 (0.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.87%) Low-Code
2 34 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (4.25%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.42%) 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%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.87%) Windows
2 21 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.20%) Linux
4 8 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (43.94%) Business Intelligence
2 165 (25.98%) CRM
3 162 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 160 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (24.57%) AI
6 139 (21.89%) Agile
7 114 (17.95%) DevOps
8 91 (14.33%) Workflow
9 87 (13.70%) CI/CD
10 78 (12.28%) User Experience
11 71 (11.18%) Translating Business Requirements
12 69 (10.87%) Roadmaps
13 68 (10.71%) Process Improvement
13 68 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 63 (9.92%) Project Management
15 58 (9.13%) Customer Service
16 57 (8.98%) Data Modelling
17 48 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (7.56%) Technical Leadership
18 47 (7.40%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (28.98%) SQL
2 167 (26.30%) C#
3 147 (23.15%) JavaScript
4 65 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 50 (7.87%) Python
6 40 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (2.52%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.57%) VBA
10 7 (1.10%) Java
11 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) X++
15 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.16%) R
15 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (12.28%) Degree
2 49 (7.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.31%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.83%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.10%) 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 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.30%) QA
3 25 (3.94%) GDPR
4 23 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.36%) PMO
7 11 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.42%) SLA
9 6 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.79%) TickIT
11 2 (0.31%) GRC
11 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (5.35%) 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 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.94%) Ansible
2 6 (0.94%) Rundeck
2 6 (0.94%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 493 (77.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.31%) OpenAI
3 20 (3.15%) Adobe
4 14 (2.20%) Intapp
5 13 (2.05%) Foundry
6 12 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.57%) Oracle
9 9 (1.42%) Cognizant
10 8 (1.26%) Databricks
10 8 (1.26%) SAP
10 8 (1.26%) UiPath
11 6 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.94%) Cisco
11 6 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.94%) Splunk
11 6 (0.94%) VMware
12 5 (0.79%) Meraki
12 5 (0.79%) Okta
12 5 (0.79%) Sage