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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 263 274
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +149
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 498 296 365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.99% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 2.63% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 197 244
10th Percentile £329 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £563 £575
90th Percentile £614 £624 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £29.60 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £38.63 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £41.18 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.01% +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 17,870 11,252 14,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,937 7,591 10,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £634
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.74% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 279 364
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.39
% change year-on-year +98.73% -7.43% -24.50%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +2 418 £500 - 192
London +32 254 £513 +2.50% 72
UK excluding London -22 198 £450 -3.23% 164
Work from Home +10 146 £500 - 101
North of England -51 55 £500 +8.11% 42
South East -29 40 £505 +6.32% 47
Scotland +6 34 £320 -28.89% 6
North West -24 31 £450 - 27
Midlands -49 28 £450 -5.26% 27
South West -14 22 £538 +17.49% 18
Yorkshire -54 20 £500 +5.26% 12
West Midlands -52 18 £456 -3.95% 16
Wales -5 9 £300 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -16 9 £435 - 10
East of England -27 9 £510 +2.00% 8
North East -35 4 £365 -2.67% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 13

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
1 160 (32.13%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.01%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.61%) Appian
4 8 (1.61%) Confluence
5 7 (1.41%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.20%) Mendix
7 4 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.40%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Camunda
10 1 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 69 (13.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.40%) 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
1 395 (79.32%) Power Platform
2 319 (64.06%) PowerApps
3 266 (53.41%) Azure
4 154 (30.92%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (30.32%) Dynamics 365
6 109 (21.89%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (20.68%) Microsoft Copilot
8 69 (13.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 68 (13.65%) Copilot Studio
10 63 (12.65%) Entra ID
11 49 (9.84%) Serverless
12 48 (9.64%) Azure Functions
13 42 (8.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 33 (6.63%) GitHub
15 29 (5.82%) OneDrive
16 27 (5.42%) Azure AI
17 23 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (3.21%) AWS
19 15 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
20 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.00%) DNS
1 5 (1.00%) Firewall
1 5 (1.00%) VPN
2 4 (0.80%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.60%) Network Security
3 3 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (40.56%) Power BI
2 36 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.01%) Power Query
4 14 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.81%) Metadata
5 8 (1.61%) Pinecone
6 6 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
8 4 (0.80%) MySQL
8 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.40%) Tableau
11 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.41%) JIRA
2 12 (2.41%) Git
3 11 (2.21%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.61%) MLflow
5 3 (0.60%) Postman
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 162 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 112 (22.49%) Finance
3 78 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (5.22%) Banking
6 11 (2.21%) Law
6 11 (2.21%) Marketing
7 10 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.01%) Legal
8 7 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.20%) Back Office
9 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.20%) Police
10 5 (1.00%) Local Government
10 5 (1.00%) Retail
11 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (41.97%) Developer
2 78 (15.66%) Power Platform Developer
3 66 (13.25%) Consultant
4 48 (9.64%) Architect
4 48 (9.64%) Senior
5 42 (8.43%) Analyst
6 33 (6.63%) Microsoft Developer
7 29 (5.82%) SharePoint Developer
8 27 (5.42%) Senior Developer
9 26 (5.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 22 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (4.22%) Lead
12 20 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Power Apps Developer
14 17 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 17 (3.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 17 (3.41%) Power Platform Architect
14 17 (3.41%) Power Platform Consultant
15 15 (3.01%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.85%) .NET
2 51 (10.24%) REST
3 42 (8.43%) React
4 41 (8.23%) Microsoft Graph
5 36 (7.23%) CSS
6 35 (7.03%) HTML
6 35 (7.03%) SPFx
7 34 (6.83%) JSON
8 28 (5.62%) HTML5 Canvas
9 19 (3.82%) RESTful
10 13 (2.61%) OAuth
11 10 (2.01%) Web Services
12 8 (1.61%) Django
12 8 (1.61%) Faiss
12 8 (1.61%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.61%) Hugging Face
12 8 (1.61%) JWT
12 8 (1.61%) NumPy
12 8 (1.61%) OpenAPI
12 8 (1.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.64%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.62%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (4.02%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.20%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Licensing
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
11 3 (0.60%) IVR
11 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.00%) 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
1 202 (40.56%) Business Intelligence
2 150 (30.12%) DevOps
3 115 (23.09%) AI
4 110 (22.09%) Agile
5 107 (21.49%) CI/CD
6 96 (19.28%) Data Modelling
7 75 (15.06%) CRM
8 69 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (12.65%) Workflow
10 61 (12.25%) Analytics
11 46 (9.24%) Migration
12 44 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (8.63%) API Integration
14 42 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 41 (8.23%) Integration Patterns
16 40 (8.03%) Translating Business Requirements
17 39 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (7.03%) User Experience
19 32 (6.43%) ETL
20 30 (6.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 116 (23.29%) JavaScript
2 100 (20.08%) C#
3 88 (17.67%) SQL
4 55 (11.04%) PowerShell
5 39 (7.83%) Python
6 31 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.41%) X++
9 10 (2.01%) Java
10 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Formula Language
11 6 (1.20%) LotusScript
12 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.60%) Bicep
13 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.60%) VBA
14 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.83%) Degree
4 33 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.01%) GDPR
4 9 (1.81%) QA
5 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) GRC
6 6 (1.20%) NIST
6 6 (1.20%) WCAG
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.21%) Docker
3 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.41%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.41%) Terraform
2 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.20%) Grafana
4 6 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 338 (67.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.82%) UiPath
3 22 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.82%) SAP
5 18 (3.61%) Oracle
5 18 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.21%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.61%) Foundry
7 8 (1.61%) Google
8 7 (1.41%) Lotus
8 7 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.20%) Databricks
9 6 (1.20%) Kofax
10 5 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.00%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.00%) Splunk
11 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.80%) Brio
12 3 (0.60%) Pega