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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 280 313
Rank change year-on-year -29 +33 +109
Permanent jobs citing Power Automate 656 505 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.02% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 3.17% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 522 385 572
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,250 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £68,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £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 27,598 15,937 28,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.16% 32.32% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18,038 11,098 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,319 £41,250 £42,500
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 28 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 28 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 -4 591 £55,500 -3.48% 195
UK excluding London -7 395 £51,000 -5.01% 161
Work from Home -26 228 £51,000 -7.27% 98
London -6 223 £65,000 +4.00% 74
North of England +50 137 £50,000 - 40
Midlands -21 92 £55,000 +2.44% 29
North West +46 72 £50,000 +5.26% 21
South East -26 63 £50,000 -6.98% 48
Yorkshire +1 58 £42,500 -21.66% 14
West Midlands -15 55 £55,000 +2.44% 20
East of England -12 50 £90,000 +56.52% 18
East Midlands -8 37 £56,500 +2.73% 9
Wales -45 23 £53,171 +29.68% 5
South West -64 21 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Scotland +16 10 £67,500 +33.81% 8
North East - 7 £50,500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1

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
1 233 (35.52%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.76%) CMS
3 5 (0.76%) WordPress
4 4 (0.61%) IIS
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Confluence
5 2 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Appian
6 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 46 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (17.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.22%) Elite 3E
3 7 (1.07%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.46%) 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
Cloud Services
1 567 (86.43%) Power Platform
2 455 (69.36%) PowerApps
3 328 (50.00%) Azure
4 250 (38.11%) Microsoft 365
5 240 (36.59%) Dynamics 365
6 125 (19.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 111 (16.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 75 (11.43%) Copilot Studio
9 69 (10.52%) OneDrive
10 65 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (9.76%) Entra ID
12 44 (6.71%) Serverless
13 38 (5.79%) Azure Functions
14 32 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (4.88%) SaaS
15 29 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 17 (2.59%) Azure AI
19 12 (1.83%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.20%) Firewall
2 12 (1.83%) DNS
3 8 (1.22%) DHCP
3 8 (1.22%) VPN
3 8 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.91%) Intranet
4 6 (0.91%) VoIP
5 5 (0.76%) VLAN
6 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.61%) Wireless
7 3 (0.46%) LTE
7 3 (0.46%) 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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (47.56%) Power BI
2 70 (10.67%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (3.96%) Power Query
5 24 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.52%) Metadata
10 7 (1.07%) PowerPivot
10 7 (1.07%) Star Schema
11 6 (0.91%) Metabase
12 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.61%) MySQL
13 4 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.46%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (2.13%) Git
1 14 (2.13%) JIRA
1 14 (2.13%) Visual Studio
2 9 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.30%) ERwin
5 1 (0.15%) MLflow
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 217 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 186 (28.35%) Finance
3 77 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.08%) Legal
5 51 (7.77%) Law
6 40 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.10%) Manufacturing
7 25 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 25 (3.81%) Retail
8 24 (3.66%) Marketing
9 20 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.07%) Legal Technology
11 7 (1.07%) Social Housing
12 6 (0.91%) Banking
12 6 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.46%) Automotive
14 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 298 (45.43%) Developer
2 116 (17.68%) Power Platform Developer
3 74 (11.28%) Senior
4 67 (10.21%) Analyst
5 55 (8.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 51 (7.77%) Lead
7 46 (7.01%) IT Support
8 44 (6.71%) Consultant
8 44 (6.71%) Senior Developer
9 41 (6.25%) Applications Developer
10 33 (5.03%) Applications Support
11 32 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
12 31 (4.73%) Power Apps Developer
13 26 (3.96%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 25 (3.81%) IT Manager
14 25 (3.81%) Support Manager
15 23 (3.51%) CRM Developer
16 22 (3.35%) Support Analyst
17 21 (3.20%) Administrator
17 21 (3.20%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.29%) .NET
2 65 (9.91%) HTML5 Canvas
3 58 (8.84%) HTML
4 56 (8.54%) REST
5 50 (7.62%) CSS
6 37 (5.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 35 (5.34%) SPFx
8 29 (4.42%) .NET Core
9 26 (3.96%) JSON
10 20 (3.05%) React
11 18 (2.74%) Web Services
12 17 (2.59%) ASP.NET
13 11 (1.68%) RESTful
14 10 (1.52%) .NET Framework
15 9 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (1.37%) Middleware
16 8 (1.22%) AngularJS
17 6 (0.91%) EDI
17 6 (0.91%) Entity Framework
17 6 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.38%) Low-Code
2 35 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 29 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.66%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.20%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.59%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.61%) Social Media
14 3 (0.46%) Blog
14 3 (0.46%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.23%) Windows
2 22 (3.35%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.29%) Linux
4 8 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 168 (25.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 167 (25.46%) AI
4 166 (25.30%) CRM
5 165 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (21.80%) Agile
7 121 (18.45%) DevOps
8 96 (14.63%) Workflow
9 87 (13.26%) CI/CD
10 82 (12.50%) User Experience
11 73 (11.13%) Translating Business Requirements
12 70 (10.67%) Process Improvement
12 70 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 68 (10.37%) Roadmaps
14 64 (9.76%) Project Management
15 61 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 58 (8.84%) Customer Service
17 53 (8.08%) ITIL
18 50 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
19 47 (7.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (28.81%) SQL
2 177 (26.98%) C#
3 154 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 67 (10.21%) PowerShell
5 47 (7.16%) Python
6 38 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.98%) VBA
10 7 (1.07%) Java
11 6 (0.91%) Bash
12 4 (0.61%) C
12 4 (0.61%) C++
12 4 (0.61%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.46%) PHP
13 3 (0.46%) VB
14 2 (0.30%) X++
15 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.15%) R
15 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (11.59%) Degree
2 54 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.07%) PMP
8 5 (0.76%) ICAEW
9 4 (0.61%) CCNA
9 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.46%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.46%) HND
10 3 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.95%) QA
3 24 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.51%) GDPR
5 20 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.90%) Accessibility
7 15 (2.29%) PMO
8 12 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.68%) SLA
10 5 (0.76%) TickIT
11 4 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.46%) Docker
5 3 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.91%) Ansible
2 6 (0.91%) Rundeck
2 6 (0.91%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 516 (78.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.05%) Adobe
2 20 (3.05%) OpenAI
3 14 (2.13%) Intapp
4 13 (1.98%) Foundry
5 11 (1.68%) Oracle
5 11 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.37%) Cognizant
7 8 (1.22%) Databricks
8 7 (1.07%) SAP
8 7 (1.07%) UiPath
8 7 (1.07%) VMware
9 6 (0.91%) Cisco
9 6 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.91%) Splunk
10 5 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.76%) Meraki
10 5 (0.76%) Okta
10 5 (0.76%) Sage