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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 202 300
Rank change year-on-year -46 +98 +92
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 464 385 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.26% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 3.34% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 262 214
10th Percentile £353 £375 £336
25th Percentile £413 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £599
90th Percentile £635 £630 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £485
% change year-on-year +3.26% -5.15% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile £27.71 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 15,739 11,536 14,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 37.70% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,797 7,823 10,482
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 181 342
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.75 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% +30.70% -11.90%

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 28 February 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 28 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 16 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 28 February 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 -28 389 £500 +4.17% 156
London -7 236 £500 - 64
UK excluding London -47 172 £475 +3.26% 125
Work from Home -9 144 £525 +7.14% 79
North of England -48 50 £500 +6.38% 34
North West -22 35 £450 -4.26% 18
Midlands -59 33 £450 - 26
South East -19 29 £505 +12.22% 38
West Midlands -54 26 £475 +5.56% 16
Scotland +10 23 £425 -5.56% 6
South West -18 22 £413 -11.29% 12
Wales +5 14 £308 +17.14% 6
Yorkshire -63 11 £525 +10.53% 11
East Midlands -19 7 £450 -10.00% 9
North East -15 4 £365 -21.51% 7
East of England -30 2 - - 5

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
1 152 (32.76%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.02%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.94%) Mendix
5 8 (1.72%) Appian
6 7 (1.51%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) Camunda
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.22%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 84 (18.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.65%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 389 (83.84%) Power Platform
2 308 (66.38%) PowerApps
3 259 (55.82%) Azure
4 153 (32.97%) Dynamics 365
5 133 (28.66%) Microsoft 365
6 93 (20.04%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (16.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 60 (12.93%) Copilot Studio
10 59 (12.72%) Azure Functions
10 59 (12.72%) Serverless
11 41 (8.84%) Entra ID
12 39 (8.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 36 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (6.03%) Azure AI
15 27 (5.82%) OneDrive
16 25 (5.39%) GitHub
17 18 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
18 14 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) Intranet
2 1 (0.22%) LAN
2 1 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.22%) Skype
2 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (52.16%) Power BI
2 23 (4.96%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.66%) Power Query
4 11 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.72%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.29%) Metadata
8 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.08%) Tableau
9 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 31 (6.68%) JIRA
2 23 (4.96%) Git
3 8 (1.72%) MLflow
4 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.86%) Postman
5 4 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.43%) GitLab
6 2 (0.43%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.43%) JUnit
6 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.22%) Gatling
7 1 (0.22%) gulp
7 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) Maven
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) Yeoman
General
1 168 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 92 (19.83%) Finance
3 79 (17.03%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.96%) Banking
6 18 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.88%) Marketing
7 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.72%) Legal
9 7 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.51%) Retail
10 6 (1.29%) Law
11 4 (0.86%) Back Office
11 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.65%) Local Government
12 3 (0.65%) Police
13 2 (0.43%) German Language
13 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (42.24%) Developer
2 79 (17.03%) Power Platform Developer
3 51 (10.99%) Analyst
4 39 (8.41%) Consultant
4 39 (8.41%) Senior
5 38 (8.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 37 (7.97%) Architect
7 26 (5.60%) Applications Developer
7 26 (5.60%) Power Apps Developer
8 24 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (5.17%) Microsoft Developer
8 24 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.53%) Lead
10 19 (4.09%) Power Platform Architect
11 18 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
11 18 (3.88%) Platform Architect
12 17 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Engineer
15 11 (2.37%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.64%) .NET
2 46 (9.91%) REST
3 29 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
4 27 (5.82%) Microsoft Graph
5 26 (5.60%) HTML
6 23 (4.96%) JSON
7 18 (3.88%) OAuth
7 18 (3.88%) RESTful
8 15 (3.23%) React
9 14 (3.02%) CSS
10 12 (2.59%) NumPy
10 12 (2.59%) Pandas
11 11 (2.37%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.37%) Flask
11 11 (2.37%) Web Services
12 9 (1.94%) Swagger
13 8 (1.72%) JWT
13 8 (1.72%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.72%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.72%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.39%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.86%) NHS
8 3 (0.65%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.65%) IVR
8 3 (0.65%) PKI
8 3 (0.65%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Licensing
9 2 (0.43%) State Machine
10 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (52.37%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (26.72%) DevOps
3 107 (23.06%) Agile
4 92 (19.83%) Data Modelling
5 88 (18.97%) CRM
6 77 (16.59%) CI/CD
7 73 (15.73%) Analytics
8 71 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (15.09%) AI
10 55 (11.85%) Workflow
11 46 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (7.97%) Data Governance
14 36 (7.76%) User Experience
15 35 (7.54%) API Integration
15 35 (7.54%) Integration Patterns
15 35 (7.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 32 (6.90%) ERP
16 32 (6.90%) Roadmaps
16 32 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.04%) JavaScript
2 92 (19.83%) SQL
3 86 (18.53%) C#
4 53 (11.42%) PowerShell
5 43 (9.27%) Python
6 29 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (2.16%) Formula Language
8 10 (2.16%) LotusScript
9 8 (1.72%) R
10 6 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.08%) X++
12 4 (0.86%) Java
12 4 (0.86%) VBA
13 3 (0.65%) Bash
13 3 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.43%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 91 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.62%) Degree
4 31 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.43%) MBA
9 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.16%) QA
4 8 (1.72%) GDPR
5 6 (1.29%) PMO
6 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.16%) Terraform
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 342 (73.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.60%) OpenAI
3 22 (4.74%) UiPath
4 20 (4.31%) SAP
5 18 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.23%) Oracle
7 14 (3.02%) Lotus
8 11 (2.37%) Automation Anywhere
8 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.94%) Kofax
10 7 (1.51%) Blue Prism
10 7 (1.51%) Foundry
11 6 (1.29%) Google
12 3 (0.65%) Brio
12 3 (0.65%) Databricks
12 3 (0.65%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.65%) Genesys
13 2 (0.43%) ESRI
13 2 (0.43%) Intel
13 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft