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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 280 320
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 +42
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 780 507 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.04% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 3.28% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 594 379 405
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,375 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% +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 27,639 15,451 24,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.79% 31.57% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,715 10,447 15,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,000
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 £100,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +15 717 £58,875 +7.05% 414
UK excluding London -10 495 £55,000 +6.80% 295
Work from Home -14 271 £52,500 -7.89% 236
London -1 247 £69,250 +10.80% 189
North of England +31 161 £50,000 +5.26% 71
Midlands +11 137 £60,000 +11.76% 43
West Midlands -6 99 £60,000 +11.76% 24
North West +13 86 £51,000 +7.37% 34
South East -54 69 £56,100 +12.20% 72
East of England -13 64 £78,010 +35.67% 24
Yorkshire -10 58 £42,500 -10.53% 28
East Midlands -12 38 £54,000 -1.82% 19
South West -62 31 £52,500 +3.45% 30
Wales -60 25 £53,171 +6.34% 15
North East -48 17 £38,000 -24.00% 11
Scotland +2 10 £62,500 +13.64% 29
Northern Ireland -81 1 £60,000 - 16

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
1 303 (38.85%) SharePoint
2 39 (5.00%) 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 41 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.82%) 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
1 125 (16.03%) 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
2 515 (66.03%) PowerApps
3 375 (48.08%) Azure
4 323 (41.41%) Microsoft 365
5 281 (36.03%) Dynamics 365
6 194 (24.87%) Microsoft Copilot
7 115 (14.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 102 (13.08%) Copilot Studio
9 92 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (11.28%) Entra ID
11 80 (10.26%) OneDrive
12 63 (8.08%) Serverless
13 58 (7.44%) Azure Functions
14 41 (5.26%) SaaS
15 37 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
17 28 (3.59%) Azure AI
18 23 (2.95%) Zapier
19 21 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (1.79%) 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%) SAN
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (42.44%) Power BI
2 74 (9.49%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (2.31%) Power Query
7 17 (2.18%) Metadata
8 16 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.77%) Big Data
11 6 (0.77%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.38%) GIS
15 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.26%) Tableau
16 1 (0.13%) Flink
16 1 (0.13%) MySQL
16 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
1 278 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 201 (25.77%) Finance
3 84 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.36%) Legal
5 53 (6.79%) Law
6 52 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 46 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.97%) Retail
10 26 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.95%) Marketing
13 15 (1.92%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.41%) Banking
15 10 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.03%) Aviation
18 7 (0.90%) Social Housing
19 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
19 3 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 346 (44.36%) Developer
2 128 (16.41%) Power Platform Developer
3 78 (10.00%) Senior
4 71 (9.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 66 (8.46%) Consultant
6 64 (8.21%) Lead
7 63 (8.08%) Analyst
8 42 (5.38%) Senior Developer
9 36 (4.62%) Applications Developer
9 36 (4.62%) IT Support
10 32 (4.10%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 30 (3.85%) Administrator
11 30 (3.85%) Architect
11 30 (3.85%) Microsoft Developer
12 26 (3.33%) Applications Support
12 26 (3.33%) Power Apps Developer
13 25 (3.21%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 24 (3.08%) Functional Consultant
15 23 (2.95%) Support Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (16.92%) .NET
2 73 (9.36%) HTML
3 72 (9.23%) REST
4 63 (8.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 61 (7.82%) CSS
6 43 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
7 35 (4.49%) JSON
7 35 (4.49%) SPFx
8 30 (3.85%) .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
15 9 (1.15%) Terraform
16 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
16 8 (1.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.72%) Low-Code
2 47 (6.03%) AI Agents
3 41 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.69%) 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 9 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.03%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.64%) CMDB
13 5 (0.64%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (0.51%) Driving Licence
14 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
2 254 (32.56%) AI
3 219 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
4 213 (27.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 179 (22.95%) Agile
6 177 (22.69%) CRM
7 159 (20.38%) DevOps
8 121 (15.51%) Workflow
9 107 (13.72%) CI/CD
10 98 (12.56%) Translating Business Requirements
11 91 (11.67%) Roadmaps
12 89 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 85 (10.90%) Process Improvement
13 85 (10.90%) User Experience
14 73 (9.36%) ITIL
14 73 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 71 (9.10%) Data Modelling
16 70 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (8.72%) Customer Service
18 65 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 216 (27.69%) C#
2 187 (23.97%) SQL
3 179 (22.95%) JavaScript
4 80 (10.26%) PowerShell
5 58 (7.44%) Python
6 41 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.31%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.31%) VBA
9 8 (1.03%) Bash
9 8 (1.03%) C
9 8 (1.03%) VB.NET
10 7 (0.90%) Java
11 4 (0.51%) C++
11 4 (0.51%) PHP
12 3 (0.38%) X++
12 3 (0.38%) XPath
13 2 (0.26%) Bicep
13 2 (0.26%) Dart
13 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (11.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (10.00%) Degree
3 29 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.03%) PMP
9 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.64%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.51%) CCNA
11 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.38%) HND
12 3 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.26%) QA
3 36 (4.62%) GDPR
4 31 (3.97%) 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%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 633 (81.15%) 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 11 (1.41%) Databricks
6 11 (1.41%) Sage
7 9 (1.15%) Cognizant
7 9 (1.15%) Oracle
7 9 (1.15%) UiPath
8 8 (1.03%) Aderant
8 8 (1.03%) Citrix
8 8 (1.03%) DocuSign
8 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.03%) RedGate
8 8 (1.03%) SonicWALL
9 7 (0.90%) Splunk
10 6 (0.77%) SAP