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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 222 270
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 +140
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 487 350 363
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.19% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 3.15% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 241 246
10th Percentile £347 £375 £313
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 £605 £630 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -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% -52.78%
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 16,741 11,123 14,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.38% 37.89% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 7,742 10,076
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.16% -2.86% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 244 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £19.79 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%
75th Percentile £68.29 £50.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.35 £60.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.83%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -28 405 £500 - 186
London -6 248 £500 -4.76% 70
UK excluding London -37 181 £450 -2.70% 144
Work from Home -11 140 £500 - 83
North of England -70 43 £490 +4.26% 28
Midlands -67 35 £450 -4.26% 25
Scotland +17 34 £360 -15.29% 8
South East -39 32 £505 +12.22% 51
North West -32 27 £500 +7.53% 18
West Midlands -59 26 £450 -4.26% 16
South West -14 25 £425 -8.36% 14
Yorkshire -57 10 £500 +5.82% 5
Wales -3 9 £300 +14.29% 4
East Midlands -25 9 £450 -14.29% 9
North East -20 6 £370 -20.43% 5
East of England -31 4 - - 19

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
1 163 (33.47%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.08%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.05%) Mendix
4 10 (2.05%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (1.64%) Appian
6 7 (1.44%) Confluence
7 3 (0.62%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) Camunda
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.21%) Orchard CMS
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 33 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 83 (17.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.41%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (81.31%) Power Platform
2 313 (64.27%) PowerApps
3 256 (52.57%) Azure
4 156 (32.03%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (31.01%) Dynamics 365
6 94 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (18.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 69 (14.17%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (12.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 52 (10.68%) Serverless
11 51 (10.47%) Azure Functions
12 50 (10.27%) Entra ID
13 38 (7.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 37 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (6.16%) Azure AI
15 30 (6.16%) GitHub
16 27 (5.54%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.05%) AWS
18 10 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.23%) HTTP
2 3 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.62%) SMS
3 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (46.61%) Power BI
2 30 (6.16%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.08%) Power Query
5 11 (2.26%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.85%) Metadata
7 8 (1.64%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.44%) Tableau
9 5 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.62%) MySQL
11 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.41%) PowerPivot
13 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (4.72%) JIRA
2 18 (3.70%) Git
3 8 (1.64%) MLflow
4 5 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.62%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Gatling
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) gulp
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 162 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.12%) Finance
3 76 (15.61%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.16%) Banking
6 27 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.49%) Marketing
8 11 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.05%) Law
9 10 (2.05%) Legal
10 7 (1.44%) Retail
11 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.03%) Back Office
12 5 (1.03%) Police
13 4 (0.82%) Local Government
14 2 (0.41%) German Language
14 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 220 (45.17%) Developer
2 80 (16.43%) Power Platform Developer
3 53 (10.88%) Consultant
4 44 (9.03%) Analyst
5 39 (8.01%) Senior
6 32 (6.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 29 (5.95%) Architect
7 29 (5.95%) Microsoft Developer
8 26 (5.34%) Power Apps Developer
9 25 (5.13%) SharePoint Developer
10 24 (4.93%) Applications Developer
11 22 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 19 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (3.90%) Senior Developer
13 17 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 16 (3.29%) Platform Architect
14 16 (3.29%) Power Platform Architect
15 14 (2.87%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.67%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.67%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.91%) .NET
2 54 (11.09%) REST
3 37 (7.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 36 (7.39%) HTML
5 33 (6.78%) React
6 30 (6.16%) CSS
7 23 (4.72%) HTML5 Canvas
8 22 (4.52%) SPFx
9 21 (4.31%) JSON
10 19 (3.90%) OAuth
11 18 (3.70%) RESTful
12 12 (2.46%) NumPy
12 12 (2.46%) Pandas
13 11 (2.26%) FastAPI
13 11 (2.26%) Flask
14 9 (1.85%) Swagger
14 9 (1.85%) Web Services
15 8 (1.64%) Django
15 8 (1.64%) scikit-learn
15 8 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.29%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.13%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.23%) IVR
8 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.82%) PKI
10 3 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.62%) IoT
10 3 (0.62%) NHS
10 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
11 2 (0.41%) State Machine
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (46.20%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (26.28%) DevOps
3 98 (20.12%) Agile
4 97 (19.92%) Data Modelling
5 93 (19.10%) CI/CD
6 89 (18.28%) AI
7 86 (17.66%) CRM
8 75 (15.40%) Analytics
9 73 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (13.14%) Workflow
11 43 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (8.62%) API Integration
13 40 (8.21%) Data Governance
14 38 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.60%) Integration Patterns
15 37 (7.60%) User Experience
16 33 (6.78%) Decision-Making
17 32 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 31 (6.37%) ETL
18 31 (6.37%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 108 (22.18%) JavaScript
2 100 (20.53%) SQL
3 88 (18.07%) C#
4 43 (8.83%) PowerShell
5 41 (8.42%) Python
6 34 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.26%) Formula Language
8 11 (2.26%) LotusScript
8 11 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.64%) Java
9 8 (1.64%) R
10 6 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.82%) X++
12 3 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
13 2 (0.41%) Bash
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.80%) Degree
4 29 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) MBA
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.26%) QA
3 9 (1.85%) GDPR
4 6 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.23%) GRC
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (7.60%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 333 (68.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.75%) OpenAI
3 24 (4.93%) Oracle
3 24 (4.93%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.72%) UiPath
5 15 (3.08%) Lotus
5 15 (3.08%) SAP
6 11 (2.26%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.05%) Kofax
8 8 (1.64%) Blue Prism
8 8 (1.64%) Foundry
9 5 (1.03%) Brio
9 5 (1.03%) Google
9 5 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.62%) Databricks
11 3 (0.62%) Genesys
11 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.41%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.41%) Workday