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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 272 278
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +113
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 527 315 336
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 2.56% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 202 226
10th Percentile £320 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -0.55% -0.45%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £600 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £50.88 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +8.92% +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 18,656 12,322 13,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,322 8,252 9,412
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 317 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.02 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.18% -10.14% -20.75%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +23 464 £500 - 186
London +24 274 £520 +4.00% 75
UK excluding London -11 210 £463 -2.63% 148
Work from Home +8 148 £500 - 89
North of England -48 63 £500 +2.56% 37
Midlands -26 48 £435 -10.77% 25
North West -27 40 £498 +4.74% 19
West Midlands -33 37 £425 -12.82% 17
South East -46 35 £525 -4.55% 45
Scotland +8 30 £320 -28.89% 8
Yorkshire -42 20 £500 +2.56% 13
South West -40 18 £490 +5.38% 18
East of England -16 11 £510 +7.37% 18
East Midlands -4 10 £455 - 8
Wales -10 4 £430 +56.36% 4
North East -39 3 £550 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 -

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
1 177 (33.59%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
3 19 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.14%) Confluence
5 4 (0.76%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) Appian
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Liferay
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 42 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 73 (13.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 434 (82.35%) Power Platform
2 356 (67.55%) PowerApps
3 271 (51.42%) Azure
4 166 (31.50%) Dynamics 365
5 161 (30.55%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (21.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 107 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (12.14%) Copilot Studio
9 62 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 59 (11.20%) Entra ID
11 43 (8.16%) Serverless
12 42 (7.97%) Azure Functions
13 36 (6.83%) OneDrive
14 32 (6.07%) GitHub
15 26 (4.93%) Azure AI
16 24 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (3.42%) AWS
17 18 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
19 16 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.52%) DNS
2 7 (1.33%) Firewall
2 7 (1.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.95%) Intranet
4 3 (0.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.57%) Network Security
4 3 (0.57%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (41.75%) Power BI
2 36 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.98%) Power Query
4 19 (3.61%) Metadata
5 15 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.95%) MySQL
7 4 (0.76%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.76%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.57%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.57%) Tableau
9 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (3.61%) JIRA
2 15 (2.85%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.28%) Git
4 9 (1.71%) Postman
4 9 (1.71%) Selenium
5 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.52%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.57%) Protractor
8 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.38%) JUnit
8 2 (0.38%) MLflow
8 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.38%) TestRail
9 1 (0.19%) GitLab
9 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 180 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 113 (21.44%) Finance
3 86 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.31%) Banking
7 21 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.04%) Marketing
9 13 (2.47%) Law
10 9 (1.71%) Legal
10 9 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.33%) Local Government
13 6 (1.14%) Back Office
14 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.95%) Retail
15 4 (0.76%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.76%) Military
15 4 (0.76%) Police
16 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (41.94%) Developer
2 89 (16.89%) Power Platform Developer
3 73 (13.85%) Consultant
4 58 (11.01%) Senior
5 48 (9.11%) Architect
6 43 (8.16%) Analyst
7 31 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
7 31 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 29 (5.50%) SharePoint Developer
9 28 (5.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 27 (5.12%) Lead
10 27 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.36%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 19 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.42%) Power Platform Consultant
14 15 (2.85%) Power Apps Developer
15 14 (2.66%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 13 (2.47%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (2.47%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.39%) .NET
2 51 (9.68%) REST
3 39 (7.40%) JSON
3 39 (7.40%) Microsoft Graph
4 37 (7.02%) HTML
4 37 (7.02%) React
5 36 (6.83%) CSS
5 36 (6.83%) SPFx
6 26 (4.93%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (2.28%) RESTful
8 10 (1.90%) OAuth
9 8 (1.52%) Gherkin
9 8 (1.52%) jQuery
9 8 (1.52%) Middleware
10 7 (1.33%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.33%) FIDO
10 7 (1.33%) XML
11 6 (1.14%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.14%) YAML
12 5 (0.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.35%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.36%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.36%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.52%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.76%) NHS
11 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.57%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.57%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.57%) IVR
11 3 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.33%) Windows
2 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (41.94%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (27.51%) DevOps
3 141 (26.76%) Agile
4 134 (25.43%) AI
5 121 (22.96%) CI/CD
6 97 (18.41%) Data Modelling
7 86 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (15.18%) CRM
9 69 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 68 (12.90%) Workflow
11 67 (12.71%) Migration
12 61 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (10.44%) Analytics
15 54 (10.25%) Translating Business Requirements
16 40 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (7.40%) Integration Patterns
17 39 (7.40%) Scrum
18 34 (6.45%) Customer Service
18 34 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.05%) JavaScript
2 109 (20.68%) C#
3 87 (16.51%) SQL
4 51 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 41 (7.78%) Python
6 29 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.23%) X++
9 12 (2.28%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.71%) Java
11 8 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.95%) Bicep
13 4 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.76%) VBA
14 3 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.38%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) Formula Language
16 1 (0.19%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 107 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 87 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (8.16%) Degree
5 26 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.76%) PMP
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) CISM
14 1 (0.19%) CISSP
14 1 (0.19%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.42%) GDPR
3 18 (3.42%) QA
4 11 (2.09%) WCAG
5 8 (1.52%) PMO
6 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.33%) NIST
7 6 (1.14%) GRC
8 5 (0.95%) SLA
9 3 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.57%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (6.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.95%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (3.80%) Terraform
2 14 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.71%) Grafana
4 9 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 376 (71.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.80%) SAP
2 20 (3.80%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.04%) UiPath
4 15 (2.85%) Oracle
5 11 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.71%) Foundry
7 9 (1.71%) Google
8 7 (1.33%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.33%) Splunk
9 6 (1.14%) Databricks
10 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.76%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.76%) Brio
11 3 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
11 3 (0.57%) Pega
11 3 (0.57%) Workday