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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 217 318
Rank change year-on-year -24 +101 +89
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 424 408 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.19% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 3.27% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 279 219
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £404 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £568 £598 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.78 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,986 12,486 15,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.29% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,543 8,302 10,995
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 176 273
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.33 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.08 £69.72 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +29.17% +7.69%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 15 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 17 December 2025. 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 -11 378 £500 - 188
London +7 232 £500 - 70
UK excluding London -49 141 £475 - 159
Work from Home -18 134 £508 +6.84% 89
North of England -40 41 £525 +11.11% 23
Midlands -32 40 £475 +3.26% 34
West Midlands -38 32 £478 +3.80% 23
North West -17 27 £450 -4.26% 11
South West 0 23 £350 -48.15% 12
Yorkshire -46 14 £525 +5.00% 9
Scotland +6 13 £463 +2.78% 7
South East -19 12 £500 -10.71% 65
East Midlands -19 8 £450 -10.00% 11
Wales +2 6 £398 +6.00%
East of England -12 6 £438 +4.17% 20

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
1 136 (32.08%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.01%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.89%) Confluence
5 5 (1.18%) Mendix
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Moodle
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 32 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (18.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.71%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 370 (87.26%) Power Platform
2 298 (70.28%) PowerApps
3 229 (54.01%) Azure
4 150 (35.38%) Dynamics 365
5 118 (27.83%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (13.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 55 (12.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 46 (10.85%) Azure Functions
9 46 (10.85%) Serverless
10 40 (9.43%) Copilot Studio
11 36 (8.49%) Entra ID
12 22 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (4.72%) GitHub
14 18 (4.25%) OneDrive
15 15 (3.54%) Azure AI
15 15 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.30%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Skype
3 1 (0.24%) DKIM
3 1 (0.24%) DMARC
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) PSTN
3 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (54.01%) Power BI
2 20 (4.72%) Power Query
3 17 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 8 (1.89%) Tableau
8 6 (1.42%) Metadata
9 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.47%) GIS
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) Lumira
11 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.24%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 37 (8.73%) JIRA
2 31 (7.31%) Git
3 7 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.94%) Postman
4 4 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.47%) GitLab
5 2 (0.47%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) Gatling
6 1 (0.24%) gulp
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) JMeter
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.87%) Finance
3 73 (17.22%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.31%) Banking
6 23 (5.42%) Marketing
7 12 (2.83%) Retail
8 8 (1.89%) Law
8 8 (1.89%) Legal
8 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.71%) Back Office
12 3 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Local Government
13 2 (0.47%) German Language
Job Titles
1 188 (44.34%) Developer
2 68 (16.04%) Power Platform Developer
3 40 (9.43%) Consultant
3 40 (9.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 35 (8.25%) Analyst
5 32 (7.55%) Architect
6 29 (6.84%) Lead
7 28 (6.60%) Power Apps Developer
8 27 (6.37%) Senior
9 23 (5.42%) Applications Developer
10 20 (4.72%) Microsoft Developer
11 16 (3.77%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.54%) Functional Consultant
13 14 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.30%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (2.83%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 10 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.36%) Power Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (14.39%) .NET
2 40 (9.43%) REST
3 32 (7.55%) HTML
3 32 (7.55%) HTML5 Canvas
4 26 (6.13%) JSON
5 20 (4.72%) Microsoft Graph
6 17 (4.01%) React
7 15 (3.54%) XML
8 14 (3.30%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.30%) SOAP
9 12 (2.83%) CSS
10 10 (2.36%) OAuth
11 9 (2.12%) JMS
11 9 (2.12%) XSD
12 7 (1.65%) RESTful
13 6 (1.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (1.18%) LangChain
14 5 (1.18%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.18%) Semantic Kernel
15 4 (0.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.14%) Low-Code
2 21 (4.95%) AI Agents
3 17 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.59%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.59%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.65%) IVR
8 5 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.94%) Derivative
9 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.71%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.71%) IoT
10 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.89%) Windows
2 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (53.30%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (32.08%) Agile
3 104 (24.53%) DevOps
4 84 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (19.10%) CRM
6 68 (16.04%) CI/CD
6 68 (16.04%) Data Modelling
7 56 (13.21%) Analytics
8 51 (12.03%) AI
9 43 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (9.67%) Workflow
11 35 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (8.02%) Scrum
13 32 (7.55%) Migration
13 32 (7.55%) Visualisation
14 31 (7.31%) Customer Service
14 31 (7.31%) Decision-Making
15 29 (6.84%) Customer Engagement
16 27 (6.37%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 91 (21.46%) JavaScript
2 88 (20.75%) SQL
3 79 (18.63%) C#
4 40 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 38 (8.96%) Python
6 24 (5.66%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.12%) Formula Language
8 9 (2.12%) LotusScript
8 9 (2.12%) R
9 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.18%) VBA
10 5 (1.18%) X++
11 3 (0.71%) Bicep
11 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.47%) Korn
13 1 (0.24%) Bash
13 1 (0.24%) Java
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.14%) Degree
4 37 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.47%) MBA
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) CIMA
8 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.95%) QA
2 12 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.59%) GDPR
4 8 (1.89%) PMO
5 7 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.47%) WCAG
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.12%) Kubernetes
1 9 (2.12%) Terraform
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.47%) SCCM
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 321 (75.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.90%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.25%) SAP
4 17 (4.01%) Lotus
5 14 (3.30%) Blue Prism
6 13 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 13 (3.07%) Oracle
6 13 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.89%) UiPath
8 6 (1.42%) DocuSign
9 5 (1.18%) Kofax
10 4 (0.94%) Foundry
11 3 (0.71%) Brio
11 3 (0.71%) Genesys
11 3 (0.71%) Google
11 3 (0.71%) Pega
12 2 (0.47%) Adobe
12 2 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco
12 2 (0.47%) ESRI