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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 291 322
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +82
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 670 507 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.02% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 3.16% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 533 386 524
10th Percentile £36,360 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -1.72% +0.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.01% -2.39% +4.76%

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 27,806 16,063 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.82% 32.29% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,260 11,190 19,509
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,954
% change year-on-year +6.80% -2.75% -3.72%

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 3 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 3 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 -5 607 £56,550 -1.65% 224
UK excluding London -16 408 £51,000 -5.01% 180
Work from Home -16 232 £51,000 -7.27% 140
London -5 226 £65,000 +4.00% 99
North of England +52 141 £50,000 - 38
Midlands -12 94 £55,000 +2.44% 27
North West +45 74 £51,000 +4.62% 20
South East -33 64 £50,000 -4.76% 55
Yorkshire +4 59 £42,500 -21.66% 13
East of England -18 55 £88,750 +54.35% 17
West Midlands -31 55 £55,000 +2.44% 18
East Midlands -3 39 £54,000 -1.82% 8
Wales -44 23 £53,171 +16.86% 4
South West -74 21 £55,000 -4.35% 22
Scotland +9 9 £67,500 +33.81% 8
North East - 8 £50,500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 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
1 240 (35.82%) SharePoint
2 30 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.90%) IIS
4 5 (0.75%) CMS
4 5 (0.75%) WordPress
5 3 (0.45%) Apache
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Confluence
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 44 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 111 (16.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.19%) Elite 3E
3 7 (1.04%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.45%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.30%) Magento
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.30%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 577 (86.12%) Power Platform
2 460 (68.66%) PowerApps
3 334 (49.85%) Azure
4 259 (38.66%) Microsoft 365
5 245 (36.57%) Dynamics 365
6 135 (20.15%) Microsoft Copilot
7 116 (17.31%) Azure Logic Apps
8 80 (11.94%) Copilot Studio
9 70 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (10.45%) OneDrive
10 67 (10.00%) Entra ID
11 47 (7.01%) Serverless
12 41 (6.12%) Azure Functions
13 34 (5.07%) SaaS
14 30 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 26 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 17 (2.54%) Azure AI
19 15 (2.24%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.28%) Firewall
2 13 (1.94%) DNS
3 8 (1.19%) DHCP
3 8 (1.19%) VPN
3 8 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.90%) Intranet
4 6 (0.90%) VoIP
5 5 (0.75%) VLAN
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.60%) Wireless
7 3 (0.45%) LTE
7 3 (0.45%) NAS
8 2 (0.30%) DKIM
8 2 (0.30%) DMARC
8 2 (0.30%) HTTP
8 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (45.97%) Power BI
2 68 (10.15%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.73%) Power Query
4 24 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.64%) Metadata
10 10 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.90%) PowerPivot
12 5 (0.75%) Metabase
12 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.75%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.30%) MySQL
15 2 (0.30%) Tableau
16 1 (0.15%) Flink
16 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (2.39%) Git
2 14 (2.09%) JIRA
3 13 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) Postman
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 221 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 184 (27.46%) Finance
3 80 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (8.21%) Legal
5 52 (7.76%) Law
6 41 (6.12%) Manufacturing
7 40 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.88%) Retail
9 25 (3.73%) Public Sector
10 24 (3.58%) Marketing
11 20 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.49%) Legal Technology
14 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.04%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.90%) Banking
17 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.45%) Automotive
18 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
19 2 (0.30%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 309 (46.12%) Developer
2 120 (17.91%) Power Platform Developer
3 74 (11.04%) Senior
4 64 (9.55%) Analyst
5 59 (8.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 56 (8.36%) Lead
7 45 (6.72%) Consultant
7 45 (6.72%) IT Support
7 45 (6.72%) Senior Developer
8 42 (6.27%) Applications Developer
9 33 (4.93%) Applications Support
9 33 (4.93%) Microsoft Developer
10 31 (4.63%) Power Apps Developer
11 26 (3.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 25 (3.73%) IT Manager
12 25 (3.73%) Support Manager
13 23 (3.43%) CRM Developer
14 21 (3.13%) Architect
14 21 (3.13%) Support Analyst
15 20 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (18.21%) .NET
2 67 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 60 (8.96%) HTML
4 58 (8.66%) REST
5 52 (7.76%) CSS
6 37 (5.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 35 (5.22%) SPFx
8 30 (4.48%) .NET Core
9 26 (3.88%) JSON
10 20 (2.99%) React
11 19 (2.84%) ASP.NET
12 18 (2.69%) Web Services
13 13 (1.94%) RESTful
14 10 (1.49%) .NET Framework
15 9 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (1.19%) AngularJS
16 8 (1.19%) Middleware
17 6 (0.90%) EDI
17 6 (0.90%) Entity Framework
17 6 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.25%) Low-Code
2 35 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.33%) AI Agents
6 28 (4.18%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.39%) Cloud Native
10 15 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.60%) Social Media
15 3 (0.45%) Blog
15 3 (0.45%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.45%) CMDB
15 3 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
15 3 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.21%) Windows
2 24 (3.58%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.24%) Linux
4 8 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (42.09%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (26.72%) AI
3 173 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (25.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 162 (24.18%) CRM
6 147 (21.94%) Agile
7 126 (18.81%) DevOps
8 99 (14.78%) Workflow
9 85 (12.69%) CI/CD
10 84 (12.54%) User Experience
11 75 (11.19%) Translating Business Requirements
12 72 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 70 (10.45%) Process Improvement
14 67 (10.00%) Roadmaps
15 65 (9.70%) Project Management
16 58 (8.66%) Customer Service
17 57 (8.51%) ITIL
18 56 (8.36%) Data Modelling
19 51 (7.61%) Technical Leadership
20 49 (7.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (27.76%) C#
2 184 (27.46%) SQL
3 162 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 67 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 47 (7.01%) Python
6 42 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.54%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.24%) VBA
10 7 (1.04%) Java
11 6 (0.90%) Bash
12 5 (0.75%) C
12 5 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.60%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) VB
15 2 (0.30%) PHP
15 2 (0.30%) X++
16 1 (0.15%) Dart
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (11.34%) Degree
2 58 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.04%) PMP
9 5 (0.75%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.60%) CCNA
10 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.45%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.45%) HND
11 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.67%) QA
3 25 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (3.28%) GDPR
5 20 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.24%) PMO
7 12 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (1.79%) SLA
8 5 (0.75%) TickIT
9 4 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.60%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.30%) Docker
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.90%) Ansible
2 6 (0.90%) Rundeck
2 6 (0.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 528 (78.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.84%) Adobe
2 19 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 14 (2.09%) Intapp
4 12 (1.79%) Foundry
4 12 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.64%) Oracle
6 9 (1.34%) Cognizant
6 9 (1.34%) Databricks
6 9 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.19%) VMware
8 7 (1.04%) Sage
8 7 (1.04%) SAP
9 6 (0.90%) Cisco
9 6 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.90%) Splunk
9 6 (0.90%) UiPath
10 5 (0.75%) DocuSign
10 5 (0.75%) Okta
10 5 (0.75%) RedGate