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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 238 279
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +123
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 483 322 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.11% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.96% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 221 231
10th Percentile £350 £393 £313
25th Percentile £413 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £588
90th Percentile £612 £630 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £26.46 - -
25th Percentile £30.35 £56.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.13 £58.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% +245.59% -47.29%
75th Percentile £98.75 £60.63 £17.50
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 £58.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +53.19% +245.59% -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 16,836 10,887 13,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.67% 37.57% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,370 7,495 9,847
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 245 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.84 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +104.97% +20.71% -28.58%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -16 406 £500 - 151
London +16 256 £500 -4.76% 65
UK excluding London -26 180 £450 - 110
Work from Home -15 136 £500 - 90
North of England -61 44 £500 +8.11% 28
South East -32 37 £505 +12.22% 41
Scotland +25 35 £320 -24.71% 4
Midlands -50 29 £450 +2.86% 21
North West -25 26 £500 +17.65% 8
South West -21 21 £500 +9.59% 6
West Midlands -60 20 £450 +2.86% 13
Yorkshire -51 12 £500 +5.26% 13
Wales -5 8 £300 +21.21% 5
East Midlands -21 8 £443 - 8
East of England -31 7 £488 -2.50% 7
North East -17 6 £370 -1.33% 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
1 158 (32.71%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.90%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.48%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.07%) Mendix
5 8 (1.66%) Appian
6 7 (1.45%) Confluence
7 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.21%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 74 (15.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 392 (81.16%) Power Platform
2 305 (63.15%) PowerApps
3 254 (52.59%) Azure
4 149 (30.85%) Dynamics 365
5 145 (30.02%) Microsoft 365
6 96 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (18.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (13.25%) Copilot Studio
9 55 (11.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 50 (10.35%) Entra ID
11 46 (9.52%) Serverless
12 45 (9.32%) Azure Functions
13 37 (7.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 29 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (6.00%) GitHub
15 27 (5.59%) OneDrive
16 25 (5.18%) Azure AI
17 14 (2.90%) AWS
18 13 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) DNS
1 4 (0.83%) Firewall
1 4 (0.83%) HTTP
1 4 (0.83%) VPN
2 3 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.62%) SMS
3 2 (0.41%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (43.27%) Power BI
2 34 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.73%) Power Query
4 10 (2.07%) Metadata
4 10 (2.07%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.66%) Pinecone
6 6 (1.24%) Tableau
7 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.83%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.62%) MySQL
9 3 (0.62%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (3.93%) JIRA
2 16 (3.31%) Git
3 9 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.66%) MLflow
5 3 (0.62%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 158 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.57%) Finance
3 74 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.38%) Banking
7 14 (2.90%) Marketing
8 11 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.07%) Law
10 9 (1.86%) Legal
11 6 (1.24%) Back Office
12 5 (1.04%) Local Government
12 5 (1.04%) Police
12 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.83%) Retail
14 3 (0.62%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Military
15 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (43.48%) Developer
2 78 (16.15%) Power Platform Developer
3 62 (12.84%) Consultant
4 46 (9.52%) Senior
5 40 (8.28%) Architect
6 39 (8.07%) Analyst
7 31 (6.42%) Microsoft Developer
8 27 (5.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 27 (5.59%) SharePoint Developer
9 24 (4.97%) Senior Developer
10 21 (4.35%) Power Apps Developer
11 20 (4.14%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 18 (3.73%) Applications Developer
13 18 (3.73%) Power Platform Consultant
14 17 (3.52%) Power Platform Architect
15 16 (3.31%) Platform Architect
16 15 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (3.11%) Lead
16 15 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.39%) .NET
2 50 (10.35%) REST
3 39 (8.07%) React
4 36 (7.45%) HTML
5 33 (6.83%) CSS
5 33 (6.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 28 (5.80%) HTML5 Canvas
6 28 (5.80%) SPFx
7 24 (4.97%) JSON
8 21 (4.35%) RESTful
9 13 (2.69%) OAuth
10 10 (2.07%) Web Services
11 9 (1.86%) NumPy
11 9 (1.86%) Pandas
11 9 (1.86%) Swagger
12 8 (1.66%) Django
12 8 (1.66%) Hugging Face
12 8 (1.66%) pytest
12 8 (1.66%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.59%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.14%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.24%) IVR
9 5 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.04%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.83%) PKI
11 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.62%) IoT
11 3 (0.62%) NHS
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) State Machine
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Android
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (43.27%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (27.74%) DevOps
3 105 (21.74%) Agile
4 98 (20.29%) CI/CD
5 90 (18.63%) Data Modelling
6 89 (18.43%) AI
7 78 (16.15%) CRM
8 71 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (13.04%) Workflow
10 61 (12.63%) Analytics
11 42 (8.70%) API Integration
12 38 (7.87%) Integration Patterns
12 38 (7.87%) User Experience
13 37 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (7.45%) Migration
15 33 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 32 (6.63%) ETL
17 31 (6.42%) Change Management
18 30 (6.21%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.95%) JavaScript
2 88 (18.22%) C#
2 88 (18.22%) SQL
3 44 (9.11%) PowerShell
4 35 (7.25%) Python
5 29 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (2.69%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.07%) Formula Language
8 10 (2.07%) Java
8 10 (2.07%) LotusScript
9 9 (1.86%) X++
10 8 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.24%) R
12 4 (0.83%) VBA
13 3 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 88 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.42%) Degree
4 29 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) MBA
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.07%) QA
3 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.24%) GDPR
3 6 (1.24%) GRC
4 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.62%) WCAG
6 2 (0.41%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.07%) Docker
3 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.11%) Terraform
3 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.04%) Grafana
5 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Ansible
7 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 318 (65.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.18%) Oracle
3 22 (4.55%) UiPath
4 21 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.90%) Lotus
6 13 (2.69%) SAP
7 11 (2.28%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.07%) Kofax
9 8 (1.66%) Foundry
9 8 (1.66%) Google
10 5 (1.04%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.83%) Brio
11 4 (0.83%) Databricks
11 4 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.83%) Pega
11 4 (0.83%) Splunk