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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 277 320
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 +44
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 783 501 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.02% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 3.26% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 595 383 390
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +8.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £81,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,675 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% -6.05% +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 27,393 15,389 23,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.28% 31.35% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,619 10,342 14,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
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 29 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 29 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 +6 718 £59,000 +4.42% 378
UK excluding London 0 492 £55,000 +6.43% 250
Work from Home -2 270 £52,500 -8.70% 226
London +3 252 £70,000 +12.00% 170
North of England +23 160 £50,000 +5.26% 72
Midlands +2 136 £60,000 +11.76% 35
West Midlands -1 98 £62,500 +16.41% 20
North West +24 85 £51,000 +7.37% 40
South East -51 67 £60,000 +20.00% 38
East of England -17 63 £76,021 +32.21% 25
Yorkshire +2 58 £42,500 -10.53% 27
East Midlands -25 38 £49,500 -10.00% 15
South West -65 32 £52,500 +7.69% 29
Wales -56 25 £53,171 +16.86% 9
North East -52 17 £38,000 -24.00% 7
Scotland +9 11 £56,250 +2.27% 21
Northern Ireland -85 1 £60,000 - 26

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
1 306 (39.08%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.92%) IIS
4 8 (1.02%) Apache
4 8 (1.02%) 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 42 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 123 (15.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.92%) Elite 3E
3 11 (1.40%) Carpe Diem
3 11 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 654 (83.52%) Power Platform
2 517 (66.03%) PowerApps
3 373 (47.64%) Azure
4 325 (41.51%) Microsoft 365
5 280 (35.76%) Dynamics 365
6 197 (25.16%) Microsoft Copilot
7 114 (14.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 103 (13.15%) Copilot Studio
9 93 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (11.49%) Entra ID
11 78 (9.96%) OneDrive
12 63 (8.05%) Serverless
13 58 (7.41%) Azure Functions
14 43 (5.49%) SaaS
15 37 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
17 28 (3.58%) Azure AI
18 24 (3.07%) Zapier
19 19 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.32%) Firewall
2 19 (2.43%) DNS
3 10 (1.28%) Intranet
4 9 (1.15%) DHCP
4 9 (1.15%) VPN
5 8 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.77%) VLAN
7 5 (0.64%) VoIP
8 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.51%) Wireless
9 3 (0.38%) LTE
9 3 (0.38%) MQTT
10 2 (0.26%) DKIM
10 2 (0.26%) DMARC
10 2 (0.26%) HTTP
10 2 (0.26%) Internet
10 2 (0.26%) NAS
11 1 (0.13%) Broadband
11 1 (0.13%) LAN
11 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (41.76%) Power BI
2 75 (9.58%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (2.30%) Power Query
7 17 (2.17%) Metadata
8 16 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.15%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.89%) Big Data
12 6 (0.77%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.51%) GIS
14 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.26%) Tableau
16 1 (0.13%) Flink
16 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (3.70%) Git
2 13 (1.66%) JIRA
3 10 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.02%) 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 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 205 (26.18%) Finance
3 84 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.58%) Legal
5 56 (7.15%) Law
6 52 (6.64%) Manufacturing
7 45 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (5.11%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.96%) Retail
10 27 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.94%) Marketing
13 15 (1.92%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.40%) Banking
15 10 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.02%) Aviation
17 7 (0.89%) Social Housing
18 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
19 3 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 344 (43.93%) Developer
2 127 (16.22%) Power Platform Developer
3 78 (9.96%) Senior
4 69 (8.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 66 (8.43%) Analyst
5 66 (8.43%) Consultant
5 66 (8.43%) Lead
6 40 (5.11%) Senior Developer
7 34 (4.34%) Applications Developer
8 32 (4.09%) IT Support
9 31 (3.96%) Administrator
9 31 (3.96%) Architect
9 31 (3.96%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 29 (3.70%) Microsoft Developer
11 25 (3.19%) Power Apps Developer
12 24 (3.07%) Applications Support
13 23 (2.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 23 (2.94%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.81%) Support Engineer
14 22 (2.81%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (16.48%) .NET
2 72 (9.20%) HTML
2 72 (9.20%) REST
3 61 (7.79%) HTML5 Canvas
4 60 (7.66%) CSS
5 41 (5.24%) Microsoft Graph
6 34 (4.34%) JSON
6 34 (4.34%) SPFx
7 28 (3.58%) .NET Core
8 27 (3.45%) ASP.NET
9 21 (2.68%) XML
10 20 (2.55%) React
11 19 (2.43%) .NET Framework
12 18 (2.30%) RESTful
12 18 (2.30%) Web Services
13 11 (1.40%) XSLT
14 9 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (1.15%) Terraform
15 8 (1.02%) AngularJS
15 8 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.68%) Low-Code
2 47 (6.00%) AI Agents
3 39 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.92%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.02%) 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 64 (8.17%) Windows
2 33 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.30%) Linux
4 8 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.02%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (39.21%) Business Intelligence
2 256 (32.69%) AI
3 222 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
4 217 (27.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 177 (22.61%) Agile
6 174 (22.22%) CRM
7 161 (20.56%) DevOps
8 123 (15.71%) Workflow
9 108 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 98 (12.52%) Translating Business Requirements
11 92 (11.75%) Roadmaps
11 92 (11.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 86 (10.98%) Process Improvement
13 83 (10.60%) User Experience
14 78 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (9.32%) ITIL
16 72 (9.20%) Data Modelling
17 71 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
18 66 (8.43%) Customer Service
19 64 (8.17%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 213 (27.20%) C#
2 187 (23.88%) SQL
3 178 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 81 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 61 (7.79%) Python
6 39 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 20 (2.55%) T-SQL
9 18 (2.30%) VBA
10 8 (1.02%) Bash
10 8 (1.02%) C
10 8 (1.02%) VB.NET
11 7 (0.89%) Java
12 4 (0.51%) C++
12 4 (0.51%) PHP
13 3 (0.38%) X++
13 3 (0.38%) XPath
14 2 (0.26%) Bicep
14 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (11.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (9.96%) Degree
3 29 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.02%) PMP
9 7 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.64%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.51%) CCNA
11 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.38%) HND
12 3 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.24%) QA
3 37 (4.73%) GDPR
4 31 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.92%) PMO
7 15 (1.92%) SLA
8 10 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.02%) WCAG
10 5 (0.64%) TickIT
11 4 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.38%) NIST
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.38%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.26%) Docker
5 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.26%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.89%) 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
1 637 (81.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.81%) OpenAI
3 21 (2.68%) Foundry
4 16 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.66%) Adobe
5 13 (1.66%) Intapp
6 12 (1.53%) VMware
7 11 (1.40%) Sage
8 10 (1.28%) Databricks
9 9 (1.15%) Cognizant
9 9 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.15%) Oracle
9 9 (1.15%) UiPath
10 8 (1.02%) Aderant
10 8 (1.02%) Citrix
10 8 (1.02%) DocuSign
10 8 (1.02%) RedGate
10 8 (1.02%) SonicWALL
10 8 (1.02%) Splunk
11 7 (0.89%) SAP