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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 243 269
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 +155
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 503 311 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.09% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.87% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 211 239
10th Percentile £346 £390 £313
25th Percentile £413 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £612 £630 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -1.62% -2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £26.21 £36.18 -
25th Percentile £27.71 £39.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £46.32 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +172.44% -47.29%
75th Percentile £29.50 £53.94 £17.50
90th Percentile £34.75 £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £46.32 £17.00
% change year-on-year -37.39% +172.44% -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 17,393 10,826 13,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.79% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 7,404 9,904
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.25 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -33.08%

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 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
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 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 -4 422 £500 - 164
London +19 261 £505 -3.81% 54
UK excluding London -14 194 £456 -1.62% 118
Work from Home -7 145 £500 -3.85% 86
North of England -55 52 £500 +5.26% 40
South East -33 37 £505 +6.32% 28
Scotland +14 36 £320 -28.89% 4
Midlands -52 32 £456 +4.29% 28
North West -27 29 £500 +11.11% 18
South West -13 22 £500 +9.59% 7
West Midlands -59 22 £463 +1.37% 21
Yorkshire -54 17 £500 +5.26% 16
Wales -7 9 £300 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -18 9 £435 - 7
East of England -30 8 £499 -0.25% 5
North East -25 6 £370 -1.33% 6

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
1 168 (33.40%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.98%) SharePoint Server
3 14 (2.78%) HCL Notes
4 10 (1.99%) Mendix
4 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.59%) Appian
5 8 (1.59%) Confluence
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 76 (15.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 401 (79.72%) Power Platform
2 316 (62.82%) PowerApps
3 261 (51.89%) Azure
4 150 (29.82%) Dynamics 365
5 149 (29.62%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (20.28%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (19.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 66 (13.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 66 (13.12%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (11.73%) Entra ID
10 47 (9.34%) Serverless
11 46 (9.15%) Azure Functions
12 43 (8.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 33 (6.56%) GitHub
14 28 (5.57%) OneDrive
15 26 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (4.57%) Azure AI
17 16 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (2.58%) AWS
19 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) DNS
1 4 (0.80%) Firewall
1 4 (0.80%) VPN
2 3 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.60%) Intranet
2 3 (0.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.60%) SMS
3 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (41.15%) Power BI
2 37 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.78%) Power Query
4 18 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.39%) Metadata
6 10 (1.99%) Oracle Database
7 8 (1.59%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.99%) Tableau
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (3.38%) JIRA
2 16 (3.18%) Git
3 10 (1.99%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.59%) MLflow
5 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) gulp
7 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 165 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.66%) Finance
3 76 (15.11%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.36%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.77%) Banking
7 13 (2.58%) Marketing
8 11 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.19%) Law
9 9 (1.79%) Legal
10 7 (1.39%) Back Office
11 6 (1.19%) Police
12 5 (0.99%) Local Government
13 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Retail
14 3 (0.60%) Military
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 218 (43.34%) Developer
2 77 (15.31%) Power Platform Developer
3 68 (13.52%) Consultant
4 47 (9.34%) Senior
5 44 (8.75%) Analyst
6 42 (8.35%) Architect
7 32 (6.36%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.77%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 25 (4.97%) Senior Developer
11 20 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (3.98%) Lead
11 20 (3.98%) Power Apps Developer
12 19 (3.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 17 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 16 (3.18%) Applications Developer
14 16 (3.18%) Power Platform Architect
14 16 (3.18%) Power Platform Consultant
15 15 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.73%) .NET
2 53 (10.54%) REST
3 45 (8.95%) React
4 40 (7.95%) Microsoft Graph
5 35 (6.96%) CSS
5 35 (6.96%) HTML
6 33 (6.56%) SPFx
7 29 (5.77%) HTML5 Canvas
8 26 (5.17%) JSON
9 21 (4.17%) RESTful
10 13 (2.58%) OAuth
11 10 (1.99%) Web Services
12 9 (1.79%) NumPy
12 9 (1.79%) Pandas
12 9 (1.79%) Swagger
13 8 (1.59%) Flask
13 8 (1.59%) pytest
13 8 (1.59%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.59%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.53%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.77%) AI Agents
3 19 (3.78%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (0.99%) IVR
7 5 (0.99%) Taxonomies
8 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.80%) NHS
9 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.60%) IoT
10 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (0.40%) State Machine
10 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.80%) Windows
2 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (41.15%) Business Intelligence
2 141 (28.03%) DevOps
3 109 (21.67%) Agile
4 105 (20.87%) CI/CD
5 99 (19.68%) AI
6 97 (19.28%) Data Modelling
7 80 (15.90%) CRM
8 71 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (13.52%) Workflow
10 64 (12.72%) Analytics
11 46 (9.15%) API Integration
12 41 (8.15%) Migration
13 40 (7.95%) Integration Patterns
14 38 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 33 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
17 33 (6.56%) User Experience
18 32 (6.36%) ERP
18 32 (6.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 113 (22.47%) JavaScript
2 96 (19.09%) C#
3 92 (18.29%) SQL
4 53 (10.54%) PowerShell
5 40 (7.95%) Python
6 30 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.58%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.19%) X++
10 10 (1.99%) Formula Language
10 10 (1.99%) Java
10 10 (1.99%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.19%) R
13 4 (0.80%) VBA
14 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.40%) Bash
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
15 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.52%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (5.77%) Degree
5 23 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISM
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.59%) QA
3 7 (1.39%) GDPR
4 6 (1.19%) GRC
4 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.99%) NIST
6 4 (0.80%) WCAG
7 3 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.19%) Docker
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.18%) Terraform
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.99%) Grafana
5 5 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 332 (66.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.97%) Oracle
2 25 (4.97%) UiPath
3 21 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 18 (3.58%) SAP
4 18 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.78%) Lotus
6 11 (2.19%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (1.99%) Kofax
8 8 (1.59%) Google
9 7 (1.39%) Databricks
9 7 (1.39%) Foundry
10 5 (0.99%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.80%) Brio
11 4 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.80%) Splunk
12 3 (0.60%) Pega