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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 227 275
Rank change year-on-year -8 +48 +132
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 479 353 348
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.20% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 3.17% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 241 236
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £630 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile £27.71 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £17.00
75th Percentile £100.00 - £17.50
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £17.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 16,126 11,152 14,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.27% 38.04% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,743 10,306
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £632
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 205 357
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £20.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +40.79% +24.01% -16.88%
75th Percentile £61.44 £41.97 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.95 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £17.80
% change year-on-year +76.53% +35.84% -20.13%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -28 398 £500 +3.09% 169
London +4 242 £500 -2.91% 60
UK excluding London -27 178 £450 -2.17% 133
Work from Home -21 144 £525 +5.00% 92
North of England -47 50 £500 +6.38% 25
North West -19 36 £450 -4.26% 15
South East -31 32 £505 +12.22% 47
Midlands -57 30 £450 -2.17% 26
Scotland +15 28 £425 - 7
West Midlands -54 24 £425 -7.61% 20
South West -7 23 £425 -8.36% 10
Wales +5 14 £308 +17.14% 6
Yorkshire -63 10 £525 +11.70% 9
East Midlands -36 6 £450 -5.26% 6
North East -13 4 £365 -21.51% 2
East of England -29 2 - - 17

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
1 156 (32.57%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.13%) HCL Notes
3 13 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.09%) Mendix
5 8 (1.67%) Appian
6 4 (0.84%) Confluence
6 4 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.42%) Camunda
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) IIS
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 88 (18.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.63%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 393 (82.05%) Power Platform
2 315 (65.76%) PowerApps
3 265 (55.32%) Azure
4 150 (31.32%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (29.44%) Microsoft 365
6 99 (20.67%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (16.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 63 (13.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 63 (13.15%) Copilot Studio
9 58 (12.11%) Azure Functions
9 58 (12.11%) Serverless
10 46 (9.60%) Entra ID
11 39 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 38 (7.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (5.85%) OneDrive
14 27 (5.64%) Azure AI
15 22 (4.59%) GitHub
16 13 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
2 1 (0.21%) LAN
2 1 (0.21%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.21%) Skype
2 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (49.06%) Power BI
2 24 (5.01%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.13%) Power Query
5 11 (2.30%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.67%) Metadata
6 8 (1.67%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.04%) Tableau
9 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.42%) GIS
11 2 (0.42%) MySQL
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.42%) PowerPivot
12 1 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.21%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 22 (4.59%) Git
1 22 (4.59%) JIRA
2 8 (1.67%) MLflow
3 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.63%) Postman
5 2 (0.42%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.42%) JUnit
5 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.21%) Gatling
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) gulp
6 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) Maven
6 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 164 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 95 (19.83%) Finance
3 87 (18.16%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.01%) Banking
6 20 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.97%) Marketing
8 10 (2.09%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.09%) Law
9 9 (1.88%) Legal
10 7 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.46%) Retail
11 5 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.04%) Police
12 4 (0.84%) Back Office
12 4 (0.84%) Local Government
12 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.42%) German Language
13 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (43.84%) Developer
2 85 (17.75%) Power Platform Developer
3 52 (10.86%) Analyst
4 44 (9.19%) Consultant
5 42 (8.77%) Senior
6 35 (7.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 33 (6.89%) Architect
8 30 (6.26%) Power Apps Developer
9 26 (5.43%) Microsoft Developer
10 25 (5.22%) Applications Developer
11 23 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 23 (4.80%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (4.18%) Lead
13 17 (3.55%) Platform Architect
13 17 (3.55%) Power Platform Architect
14 16 (3.34%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 14 (2.92%) SharePoint Developer
16 13 (2.71%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (10.86%) .NET
2 45 (9.39%) REST
3 30 (6.26%) HTML5 Canvas
4 28 (5.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 27 (5.64%) HTML
6 20 (4.18%) JSON
7 19 (3.97%) React
7 19 (3.97%) RESTful
8 18 (3.76%) CSS
8 18 (3.76%) OAuth
9 12 (2.51%) NumPy
9 12 (2.51%) Pandas
10 11 (2.30%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.30%) Flask
10 11 (2.30%) Web Services
11 10 (2.09%) SPFx
12 9 (1.88%) Swagger
13 8 (1.67%) pytest
13 8 (1.67%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.32%) Low-Code
2 22 (4.59%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.04%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.84%) NHS
11 3 (0.63%) IVR
11 3 (0.63%) PKI
12 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.42%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.42%) State Machine
13 1 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.21%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.63%) Windows
2 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (49.27%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (26.30%) DevOps
3 100 (20.88%) Agile
4 96 (20.04%) Data Modelling
5 92 (19.21%) CRM
6 76 (15.87%) CI/CD
7 73 (15.24%) Analytics
8 72 (15.03%) AI
9 71 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (11.48%) Workflow
11 46 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (7.93%) User Experience
13 37 (7.72%) Data Governance
14 36 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (7.31%) API Integration
15 35 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (7.31%) Integration Patterns
16 32 (6.68%) Decision-Making
17 31 (6.47%) Migration
17 31 (6.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.46%) JavaScript
2 97 (20.25%) SQL
3 83 (17.33%) C#
4 49 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 41 (8.56%) Python
6 31 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 29 (6.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.30%) Formula Language
8 11 (2.30%) LotusScript
9 8 (1.67%) R
10 6 (1.25%) Java
10 6 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.84%) VBA
13 3 (0.63%) Bicep
13 3 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.63%) X++
14 2 (0.42%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.42%) Bash
15 1 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 100 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 79 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.56%) Degree
4 29 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
9 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.51%) QA
3 9 (1.88%) GDPR
4 6 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.63%) GRC
6 2 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (7.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.09%) Terraform
3 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 345 (72.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.43%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.80%) UiPath
4 20 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.34%) Oracle
6 15 (3.13%) Lotus
6 15 (3.13%) SAP
7 11 (2.30%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.09%) Kofax
9 8 (1.67%) Blue Prism
10 7 (1.46%) Foundry
11 6 (1.25%) Google
11 6 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.63%) Brio
12 3 (0.63%) Databricks
12 3 (0.63%) Genesys
13 2 (0.42%) ESRI
13 2 (0.42%) Intel
13 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.42%) Pega