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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 203 317
Rank change year-on-year -23 +114 +84
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 437 402 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.28% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 3.50% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 272 202
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £566 £598 £611
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile £27.71 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 13,788 11,490 14,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.46% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,471 7,633 10,499
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 168 258
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £80.50 £64.83 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +8.40%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -18 383 £500 +3.63% 103
London +8 237 £500 - 39
UK excluding London -35 145 £500 +6.38% 95
Work from Home -14 135 £525 +7.14% 64
Midlands -47 41 £475 +3.26% 16
North of England -41 40 £450 -4.76% 23
West Midlands -39 33 £478 +4.95% 12
North West -20 26 £438 -6.91% 13
South East -12 21 £505 +6.32% 29
South West -20 19 £454 -32.28% 5
Scotland +7 17 £463 +2.78% 6
Yorkshire -43 12 £525 +5.00% 8
East Midlands -17 8 £450 -10.00% 4
Wales +1 6 £398 -0.63% 8
North East -10 2 £375 -20.21% 2
East of England -21 2 - - 7

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
1 140 (32.04%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.12%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.29%) Confluence
4 9 (2.06%) Mendix
4 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.92%) Appian
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Moodle
7 1 (0.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.23%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 81 (18.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.69%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 373 (85.35%) Power Platform
2 300 (68.65%) PowerApps
3 241 (55.15%) Azure
4 158 (36.16%) Dynamics 365
5 118 (27.00%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (18.76%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (14.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 61 (13.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 53 (12.13%) Azure Functions
9 53 (12.13%) Serverless
10 47 (10.76%) Copilot Studio
11 38 (8.70%) Entra ID
12 35 (8.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 26 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (5.49%) GitHub
15 22 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (4.81%) Azure AI
17 19 (4.35%) OneDrive
18 15 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 14 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) DKIM
2 1 (0.23%) DMARC
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Intranet
2 1 (0.23%) LAN
2 1 (0.23%) PSTN
2 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.23%) Skype
2 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (53.55%) Power BI
2 20 (4.58%) Power Query
2 20 (4.58%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.52%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.29%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.37%) Metadata
6 6 (1.37%) Tableau
7 4 (0.92%) Pinecone
7 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 34 (7.78%) JIRA
2 24 (5.49%) Git
3 7 (1.60%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.92%) MLflow
5 4 (0.92%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) GitLab
6 2 (0.46%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Gatling
7 1 (0.23%) gulp
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.68%) Finance
3 82 (18.76%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.86%) Banking
6 20 (4.58%) Marketing
7 14 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.06%) Retail
9 8 (1.83%) Law
10 7 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.37%) Legal
12 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.69%) Back Office
14 3 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Local Government
15 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 190 (43.48%) Developer
2 67 (15.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 45 (10.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 43 (9.84%) Analyst
5 40 (9.15%) Architect
6 34 (7.78%) Consultant
7 27 (6.18%) Power Apps Developer
8 25 (5.72%) Lead
9 24 (5.49%) Senior
10 21 (4.81%) Applications Developer
10 21 (4.81%) Microsoft Developer
11 20 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (3.66%) Power Platform Architect
13 15 (3.43%) Platform Architect
13 15 (3.43%) Senior Developer
14 13 (2.97%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (2.75%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 11 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
17 10 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (14.87%) .NET
2 44 (10.07%) REST
3 30 (6.86%) HTML5 Canvas
4 29 (6.64%) HTML
5 25 (5.72%) JSON
6 18 (4.12%) Microsoft Graph
7 17 (3.89%) React
8 14 (3.20%) OAuth
8 14 (3.20%) RESTful
9 12 (2.75%) CSS
10 10 (2.29%) XML
11 9 (2.06%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.06%) SOAP
12 8 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (1.83%) NumPy
12 8 (1.83%) Pandas
13 7 (1.60%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.60%) Flask
13 7 (1.60%) Web Services
14 5 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.53%) Low-Code
2 19 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 18 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.52%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.37%) IVR
8 5 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.92%) Derivative
9 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.69%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.69%) PKI
11 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.46%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.92%) Windows
2 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (53.09%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (28.38%) Agile
3 115 (26.32%) DevOps
4 84 (19.22%) CRM
5 81 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (16.93%) Data Modelling
7 73 (16.70%) CI/CD
8 64 (14.65%) Analytics
9 53 (12.13%) AI
10 45 (10.30%) Workflow
11 40 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (6.86%) API Integration
13 30 (6.86%) Scrum
14 28 (6.41%) Customer Engagement
14 28 (6.41%) Decision-Making
15 27 (6.18%) Data Governance
15 27 (6.18%) Data Protection
16 26 (5.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.82%) C#
1 91 (20.82%) JavaScript
2 88 (20.14%) SQL
3 49 (11.21%) PowerShell
4 42 (9.61%) Python
5 27 (6.18%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.29%) Formula Language
7 10 (2.29%) LotusScript
8 9 (2.06%) R
9 6 (1.37%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.14%) VBA
10 5 (1.14%) X++
11 3 (0.69%) Bicep
11 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.46%) Korn
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) Java
13 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 92 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.30%) Degree
4 31 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CIMA
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.43%) QA
2 13 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.60%) PMO
6 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.69%) WCAG
7 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) P3O
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.06%) Terraform
3 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 323 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.81%) OpenAI
3 20 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.12%) Lotus
5 16 (3.66%) SAP
6 15 (3.43%) Oracle
7 14 (3.20%) UiPath
8 12 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.52%) Blue Prism
10 9 (2.06%) Kofax
11 8 (1.83%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.37%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.92%) Foundry
14 3 (0.69%) Brio
14 3 (0.69%) Genesys
14 3 (0.69%) Google
14 3 (0.69%) Pega
15 2 (0.46%) ESRI
15 2 (0.46%) Intel
15 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft