Power Automate Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Power Automate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 266 284
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +119
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 512 307 366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.95% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 2.53% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 202 250
10th Percentile £320 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £550 £575
90th Percentile £612 £613 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.23 £32.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.96 £34.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +100.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £38.25 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £39.75 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.98% +102.53% -60.00%

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 contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

Power Automate
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Automate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Power Automate job vacancy trend in the UK

Power Automate
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Automate within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 440 £500 - 190
London +25 268 £516 +3.25% 65
UK excluding London -25 204 £450 -5.26% 167
Work from Home +6 145 £500 - 97
North of England -54 62 £500 +5.26% 24
North West -23 37 £450 -5.26% 13
Midlands -45 37 £435 -13.00% 35
South East -29 36 £505 -8.18% 53
Scotland +8 32 £320 -28.89% 8
West Midlands -56 27 £425 -15.00% 23
Yorkshire -44 21 £500 +5.26% 7
South West -31 18 £490 +15.29% 22
Wales -5 10 £300 +9.09% 10
East Midlands -6 9 £435 - 11
East of England -25 9 £510 +2.00% 11
North East -31 4 £365 -2.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 7

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
1 162 (31.64%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Appian
5 4 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.59%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Mendix
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 38 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 70 (13.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 420 (82.03%) Power Platform
2 341 (66.60%) PowerApps
3 272 (53.13%) Azure
4 153 (29.88%) Microsoft 365
5 152 (29.69%) Dynamics 365
6 113 (22.07%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (20.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 66 (12.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 63 (12.30%) Copilot Studio
10 61 (11.91%) Entra ID
11 45 (8.79%) Serverless
12 44 (8.59%) Azure Functions
13 32 (6.25%) GitHub
14 29 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (5.27%) OneDrive
16 22 (4.30%) Azure AI
17 19 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (3.32%) AWS
20 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.56%) DNS
2 7 (1.37%) Firewall
2 7 (1.37%) VPN
3 4 (0.78%) Intranet
4 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.59%) Network Security
4 3 (0.59%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (41.60%) Power BI
2 35 (6.84%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.52%) Power Query
4 15 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.93%) Metadata
5 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.98%) MySQL
6 4 (0.78%) EDRMS
6 4 (0.78%) Pinecone
6 4 (0.78%) PowerPivot
6 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.59%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.59%) Tableau
8 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (2.73%) JIRA
2 13 (2.54%) Git
3 10 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.17%) Postman
4 6 (1.17%) Selenium
5 5 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.98%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.78%) MLflow
7 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Protractor
7 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 169 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.90%) Finance
3 81 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.47%) Banking
7 16 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.54%) Legal
9 12 (2.34%) Law
9 12 (2.34%) Marketing
10 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.98%) Back Office
12 5 (0.98%) Local Government
12 5 (0.98%) Retail
13 4 (0.78%) Military
13 4 (0.78%) Police
14 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (41.99%) Developer
2 86 (16.80%) Power Platform Developer
3 71 (13.87%) Consultant
4 50 (9.77%) Architect
4 50 (9.77%) Senior
5 40 (7.81%) Analyst
6 33 (6.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 28 (5.47%) SharePoint Developer
8 27 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 24 (4.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 24 (4.69%) Lead
11 20 (3.91%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 20 (3.91%) Power Apps Developer
12 19 (3.71%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.52%) Power Platform Consultant
14 15 (2.93%) Applications Developer
14 15 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.73%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 14 (2.73%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.52%) .NET
2 48 (9.38%) REST
3 41 (8.01%) Microsoft Graph
4 38 (7.42%) JSON
5 37 (7.23%) React
6 34 (6.64%) CSS
6 34 (6.64%) HTML
6 34 (6.64%) SPFx
7 26 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
8 13 (2.54%) RESTful
9 10 (1.95%) OAuth
10 7 (1.37%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.37%) FIDO
10 7 (1.37%) XML
11 6 (1.17%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.17%) jQuery
11 6 (1.17%) Middleware
11 6 (1.17%) Web Services
11 6 (1.17%) YAML
12 5 (0.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.57%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.10%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.37%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.78%) NHS
10 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.59%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.59%) IoT
10 3 (0.59%) Life Science
10 3 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.37%) Windows
2 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (41.60%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (30.08%) DevOps
3 128 (25.00%) AI
4 124 (24.22%) Agile
5 116 (22.66%) CI/CD
6 98 (19.14%) Data Modelling
7 78 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (14.84%) CRM
9 66 (12.89%) Workflow
10 58 (11.33%) Analytics
11 52 (10.16%) Migration
11 52 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 50 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (9.18%) Translating Business Requirements
14 37 (7.23%) Integration Patterns
14 37 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (6.84%) API Integration
15 35 (6.84%) User Experience
16 33 (6.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (23.05%) JavaScript
2 95 (18.55%) C#
3 84 (16.41%) SQL
4 49 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 40 (7.81%) Python
6 29 (5.66%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.34%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.34%) X++
9 10 (1.95%) Java
10 8 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Bicep
12 4 (0.78%) Bash
12 4 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.78%) VBA
13 3 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.39%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.39%) Formula Language
14 2 (0.39%) LotusScript
14 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (6.64%) Degree
5 22 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CISM
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) IIBA
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.73%) QA
4 13 (2.54%) GDPR
5 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.56%) WCAG
6 7 (1.37%) NIST
7 6 (1.17%) GRC
7 6 (1.17%) PMO
8 5 (0.98%) SLA
9 3 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.59%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.37%) Docker
3 5 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (4.10%) Terraform
2 17 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.95%) Grafana
4 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 355 (69.34%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.91%) SAP
3 19 (3.71%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.71%) UiPath
4 15 (2.93%) Oracle
5 14 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.76%) Foundry
8 8 (1.56%) Google
9 7 (1.37%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.37%) Databricks
9 7 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.37%) Splunk
10 5 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
11 4 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.78%) Brio
12 3 (0.59%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.59%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.59%) Pega
12 3 (0.59%) Workday