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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 291 320
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +78
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 696 499 698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.00% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 3.13% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 552 375 520
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -2.59% +2.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% -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 27,829 15,967 26,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.25% 32.07% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 18,416 11,057 19,133
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% - -6.25%
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 12 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 12 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 +1 632 £57,000 -0.87% 336
UK excluding London -6 426 £52,500 -2.21% 253
Work from Home -15 244 £51,000 -7.27% 199
London -3 231 £67,500 +8.00% 153
North of England +44 147 £50,000 - 57
Midlands -1 99 £55,000 +2.44% 46
North West +27 76 £51,000 +4.62% 28
South East -42 69 £50,000 +0.00% 64
Yorkshire +17 62 £42,500 -19.05% 19
East of England -20 59 £88,750 +54.35% 24
West Midlands -16 58 £55,000 +4.23% 37
East Midlands -3 41 £54,000 -1.82% 9
Wales -41 23 £53,171 +16.86% 8
South West -65 20 £55,000 -4.35% 24
North East - 9 £50,500 - 12
Scotland +12 8 £65,000 +28.85% 18
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
1 254 (36.49%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.15%) 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 42 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
7 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
1 599 (86.06%) Power Platform
2 477 (68.53%) PowerApps
3 347 (49.86%) Azure
4 273 (39.22%) Microsoft 365
5 251 (36.06%) Dynamics 365
6 144 (20.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 122 (17.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 85 (12.21%) Copilot Studio
9 75 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (10.34%) Entra ID
10 72 (10.34%) OneDrive
11 52 (7.47%) Serverless
12 46 (6.61%) 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 19 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.73%) Azure AI
18 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%) VPN
3 8 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.01%) Intranet
5 6 (0.86%) VoIP
6 5 (0.72%) VLAN
7 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) Wireless
8 3 (0.43%) LTE
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
9 2 (0.29%) DKIM
9 2 (0.29%) DMARC
9 2 (0.29%) HTTP
9 2 (0.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.29%) MQTT
10 1 (0.14%) Broadband
10 1 (0.14%) LAN
10 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (45.11%) Power BI
2 66 (9.48%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.30%) 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%) PowerPivot
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%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.29%) MySQL
11 2 (0.29%) Tableau
12 1 (0.14%) Flink
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
1 229 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 190 (27.30%) Finance
3 83 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.91%) 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
17 2 (0.29%) Billing
17 2 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 324 (46.55%) Developer
2 124 (17.82%) Power Platform Developer
3 80 (11.49%) Senior
4 62 (8.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 60 (8.62%) Analyst
5 60 (8.62%) Lead
6 48 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 47 (6.75%) Consultant
8 44 (6.32%) IT Support
9 43 (6.18%) Applications Developer
10 34 (4.89%) Microsoft Developer
11 33 (4.74%) Applications Support
12 32 (4.60%) Power Apps Developer
13 27 (3.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 25 (3.59%) IT Manager
14 25 (3.59%) Support Manager
15 23 (3.30%) CRM Developer
16 21 (3.02%) Administrator
16 21 (3.02%) Architect
16 21 (3.02%) Systems Developer
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%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 30 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.74%) 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%) Blog
14 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.33%) Windows
2 26 (3.74%) 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
1 286 (41.09%) Business Intelligence
2 196 (28.16%) AI
3 179 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 164 (23.56%) CRM
6 148 (21.26%) Agile
7 133 (19.11%) DevOps
8 105 (15.09%) Workflow
9 88 (12.64%) CI/CD
10 86 (12.36%) User Experience
11 82 (11.78%) Translating Business Requirements
12 75 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 70 (10.06%) Process Improvement
13 70 (10.06%) Roadmaps
14 69 (9.91%) Project Management
15 60 (8.62%) ITIL
16 57 (8.19%) Customer Service
17 55 (7.90%) Data Modelling
17 55 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
18 52 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 193 (27.73%) C#
2 189 (27.16%) 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 75 (10.78%) Degree
2 60 (8.62%) 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
11 3 (0.43%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.43%) HND
11 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 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 40 (5.75%) 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 33 (4.74%) 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%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.72%) Foundry
7 11 (1.58%) Oracle
8 10 (1.44%) Databricks
9 9 (1.29%) Cognizant
9 9 (1.29%) VMware
10 8 (1.15%) DocuSign
10 8 (1.15%) RedGate
10 8 (1.15%) Sage
10 8 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco
11 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.86%) SAP
11 6 (0.86%) Splunk
11 6 (0.86%) UiPath
12 5 (0.72%) Meraki