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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 223 290
Rank change year-on-year -18 +67 +124
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 493 347 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.18% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 3.15% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 239 229
10th Percentile £350 £388 £312
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £612 £627 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -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% -54.05%
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% -70.43%

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 17,046 11,024 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.80% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,541 7,640 9,911
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 253 342
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.00 £34.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -25 416 £500 - 190
London +34 258 £500 -4.76% 87
UK excluding London -50 185 £450 -2.17% 134
Work from Home -17 143 £500 - 102
North of England -62 44 £500 +6.38% 29
South East -29 39 £505 +12.22% 53
Scotland +16 34 £320 -24.71% 4
Midlands -66 33 £443 -3.80% 23
North West -43 26 £500 +6.38% 13
West Midlands -59 24 £438 -5.91% 16
South West -24 21 £500 +9.59% 8
Yorkshire -60 12 £500 +5.26% 11
Wales -9 8 £300 +21.21% 6
East Midlands -22 8 £443 - 7
East of England -36 7 £488 -2.50% 11
North East -21 6 £370 -20.43% 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
1 161 (32.66%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.04%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.43%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.03%) Mendix
5 8 (1.62%) Appian
6 7 (1.42%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 77 (15.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (81.14%) Power Platform
2 309 (62.68%) PowerApps
3 259 (52.54%) Azure
4 154 (31.24%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (30.63%) Dynamics 365
6 95 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (18.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 66 (13.39%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (11.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 52 (10.55%) Serverless
11 51 (10.34%) Azure Functions
11 51 (10.34%) Entra ID
12 38 (7.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 36 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (5.88%) GitHub
15 28 (5.68%) OneDrive
16 27 (5.48%) Azure AI
17 13 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.43%) AWS
19 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) DNS
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.61%) SMS
2 3 (0.61%) VPN
3 2 (0.41%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (44.42%) Power BI
2 33 (6.69%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.65%) Power Query
5 11 (2.23%) Metadata
5 11 (2.23%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.62%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.22%) Tableau
8 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.61%) MySQL
10 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (4.06%) JIRA
2 19 (3.85%) Git
3 8 (1.62%) MLflow
3 8 (1.62%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.61%) Postman
5 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.41%) JUnit
5 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) GitLab
6 1 (0.20%) gulp
6 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 166 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 108 (21.91%) Finance
3 74 (15.01%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.27%) Banking
7 15 (3.04%) Marketing
8 11 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.03%) Law
10 9 (1.83%) Legal
11 6 (1.22%) Back Office
12 5 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.01%) Local Government
12 5 (1.01%) Police
12 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.81%) Retail
14 3 (0.61%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Automotive
15 2 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 218 (44.22%) Developer
2 80 (16.23%) Power Platform Developer
3 61 (12.37%) Consultant
4 47 (9.53%) Senior
5 39 (7.91%) Analyst
6 37 (7.51%) Architect
7 32 (6.49%) Microsoft Developer
8 31 (6.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 27 (5.48%) SharePoint Developer
10 26 (5.27%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.46%) Power Apps Developer
12 20 (4.06%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.85%) Applications Developer
14 18 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 18 (3.65%) Power Platform Consultant
15 17 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 17 (3.45%) Power Platform Architect
16 16 (3.25%) Platform Architect
17 15 (3.04%) Data Engineer
18 13 (2.64%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.16%) .NET
2 53 (10.75%) REST
3 38 (7.71%) React
4 36 (7.30%) Microsoft Graph
5 35 (7.10%) HTML
6 32 (6.49%) CSS
7 27 (5.48%) SPFx
8 26 (5.27%) HTML5 Canvas
9 25 (5.07%) JSON
10 21 (4.26%) RESTful
11 16 (3.25%) OAuth
12 12 (2.43%) NumPy
12 12 (2.43%) Pandas
13 11 (2.23%) FastAPI
13 11 (2.23%) Flask
14 10 (2.03%) Web Services
15 9 (1.83%) Swagger
16 8 (1.62%) pytest
16 8 (1.62%) PyTorch
16 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.36%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.67%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.22%) IVR
9 5 (1.01%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.81%) PKI
10 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
11 3 (0.61%) NHS
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (44.42%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (27.38%) DevOps
3 102 (20.69%) Agile
4 97 (19.68%) Data Modelling
5 96 (19.47%) CI/CD
6 89 (18.05%) AI
7 81 (16.43%) CRM
8 72 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (14.00%) Analytics
10 61 (12.37%) Workflow
11 42 (8.52%) API Integration
12 39 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.71%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.71%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (7.71%) User Experience
14 36 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.69%) Decision-Making
15 33 (6.69%) ETL
15 33 (6.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (21.10%) JavaScript
2 96 (19.47%) SQL
3 88 (17.85%) C#
4 44 (8.92%) PowerShell
5 40 (8.11%) Python
6 32 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.43%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.23%) Formula Language
9 11 (2.23%) LotusScript
10 10 (2.03%) Java
11 8 (1.62%) X++
12 7 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.42%) R
13 4 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.81%) VBA
14 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.41%) Bash
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 94 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.90%) Degree
4 30 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) MBA
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.83%) QA
3 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.62%) GDPR
4 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.61%) WCAG
7 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.03%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.04%) Terraform
3 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.81%) Grafana
5 4 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 330 (66.94%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.07%) Oracle
3 23 (4.67%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.67%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.67%) UiPath
4 15 (3.04%) Lotus
5 13 (2.64%) SAP
6 11 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.03%) Kofax
8 8 (1.62%) Foundry
9 7 (1.42%) Google
10 5 (1.01%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.81%) Brio
11 4 (0.81%) Databricks
11 4 (0.81%) Pega
12 3 (0.61%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.61%) Splunk