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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 223 332
Rank change year-on-year -12 +109 +84
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 413 405 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.13% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 3.16% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 275 221
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £590 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -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 13,800 12,832 15,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 35.93% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,381 8,507 11,432
10th Percentile £306 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 179 296
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.44 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%
75th Percentile £51.38 £46.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
% change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -10 369 £500 +1.78% 311
London -2 222 £510 +2.00% 79
UK excluding London -36 141 £475 +0.53% 285
Work from Home -6 135 £515 +9.57% 167
North of England -32 42 £513 +8.47% 51
Midlands -34 42 £475 +4.40% 62
West Midlands -32 32 £478 +4.95% 37
North West -3 28 £450 -4.26% 24
South West -15 22 £363 -46.30% 22
Yorkshire -43 14 £525 +5.00% 24
South East -18 12 £500 -13.04% 92
Scotland +4 11 £481 +13.24% 10
East Midlands -11 10 £450 -10.00% 24
Wales +2 6 £398 +6.00% 5
East of England -14 6 £438 +4.17% 41

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 (32.93%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.39%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) Mendix
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) IIS
6 2 (0.48%) 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%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 72 (17.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.73%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 361 (87.41%) Power Platform
2 294 (71.19%) PowerApps
3 226 (54.72%) Azure
4 145 (35.11%) Dynamics 365
5 119 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (13.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 53 (12.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (10.90%) Azure Functions
9 45 (10.90%) Serverless
10 40 (9.69%) Copilot Studio
11 37 (8.96%) Entra ID
12 22 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (4.60%) GitHub
15 17 (4.12%) OneDrive
16 16 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (3.63%) Azure AI
18 13 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.39%) HTTP
2 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) DKIM
3 1 (0.24%) DMARC
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%) Skype
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (53.03%) Power BI
2 20 (4.84%) Power Query
3 16 (3.87%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.18%) Tableau
7 7 (1.69%) Metadata
8 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.48%) GIS
10 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) Lumira
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (8.72%) JIRA
2 30 (7.26%) Git
3 7 (1.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.48%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) gulp
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 157 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.16%) Finance
3 68 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.26%) Banking
6 20 (4.84%) Marketing
7 12 (2.91%) Retail
8 9 (2.18%) Law
9 8 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.69%) Legal
11 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Back Office
13 3 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.73%) Local Government
14 2 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 183 (44.31%) Developer
2 66 (15.98%) Power Platform Developer
3 43 (10.41%) Consultant
4 39 (9.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 31 (7.51%) Architect
6 29 (7.02%) Analyst
7 28 (6.78%) Senior
8 27 (6.54%) Lead
8 27 (6.54%) Power Apps Developer
9 22 (5.33%) Applications Developer
10 19 (4.60%) Microsoft Developer
11 17 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.39%) Functional Consultant
13 13 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (2.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 10 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.42%) Power Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.04%) .NET
2 36 (8.72%) REST
3 31 (7.51%) HTML
3 31 (7.51%) HTML5 Canvas
4 25 (6.05%) JSON
5 20 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
6 15 (3.63%) React
7 14 (3.39%) SOAP
7 14 (3.39%) XML
8 13 (3.15%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.66%) CSS
10 10 (2.42%) OAuth
11 9 (2.18%) JMS
11 9 (2.18%) XSD
12 6 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.21%) LangChain
13 5 (1.21%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.21%) RESTful
13 5 (1.21%) Semantic Kernel
14 4 (0.97%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.93%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.84%) AI Agents
3 17 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.66%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.69%) IVR
9 5 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.97%) Data Fabric
10 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.97%) Derivative
10 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.73%) IoT
11 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.94%) Windows
2 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (52.30%) Business Intelligence
2 132 (31.96%) Agile
3 101 (24.46%) DevOps
4 80 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (17.92%) CRM
6 67 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 67 (16.22%) Data Modelling
7 56 (13.56%) Analytics
8 48 (11.62%) AI
9 42 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (10.17%) Workflow
10 37 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (7.75%) Migration
12 32 (7.75%) Visualisation
13 31 (7.51%) Scrum
14 30 (7.26%) Customer Service
14 30 (7.26%) Decision-Making
15 28 (6.78%) Data Protection
16 27 (6.54%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.31%) SQL
2 87 (21.07%) JavaScript
3 74 (17.92%) C#
4 39 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 38 (9.20%) Python
6 23 (5.57%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.18%) R
9 8 (1.94%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.69%) Formula Language
10 7 (1.69%) LotusScript
11 5 (1.21%) X++
12 4 (0.97%) VBA
13 3 (0.73%) Bicep
13 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.48%) Java
14 2 (0.48%) Korn
15 1 (0.24%) Bash
15 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 73 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.41%) Degree
4 34 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) MBA
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CIMA
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.57%) QA
2 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.91%) GDPR
3 7 (1.69%) PMO
4 6 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.24%) P3O
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.42%) Terraform
2 9 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.48%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 315 (76.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.36%) SAP
4 14 (3.39%) Blue Prism
4 14 (3.39%) Lotus
5 13 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.18%) Oracle
7 8 (1.94%) UiPath
8 6 (1.45%) DocuSign
9 4 (0.97%) Foundry
10 3 (0.73%) Brio
10 3 (0.73%) Genesys
10 3 (0.73%) Kofax
10 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.73%) Pega
11 2 (0.48%) Adobe
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco
11 2 (0.48%) ESRI
11 2 (0.48%) Google