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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 259 256
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +144
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 563 333 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.01% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 2.73% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 207 241
10th Percentile £320 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +0.91% -0.90%
75th Percentile £540 £571 £575
90th Percentile £599 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 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% -38.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +11.09% +102.53% -38.18%

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 18,903 12,206 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.20% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,514 8,148 9,060
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 320 244
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £18.87 £21.46
% change year-on-year +77.53% -12.07% -18.25%

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 22 August 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 22 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 18 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 22 August 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 +14 497 £488 -2.50% 246
London +7 286 £500 -1.48% 104
UK excluding London +2 238 £450 -5.26% 186
Work from Home -7 147 £500 - 136
Midlands -12 65 £425 -19.05% 41
North of England -37 62 £493 +1.03% 45
West Midlands -24 47 £425 -17.07% 34
North West -23 40 £478 +0.53% 25
South East -37 38 £513 -6.82% 44
Scotland +5 35 £360 -20.00% 11
South West -40 20 £425 -5.56% 20
Yorkshire -36 18 £500 +2.56% 12
East Midlands -3 17 £472 -21.42% 7
East of England -14 15 £475 - 19
North East -41 4 £550 - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 7
Wales -18 2 £550 +100.00% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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
1 195 (34.64%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.26%) SharePoint Server
3 23 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.24%) Confluence
5 4 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.71%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.53%) Mendix
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) IIS
7 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.18%) Liferay
Applications
1 43 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.36%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 84 (14.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 464 (82.42%) Power Platform
2 383 (68.03%) PowerApps
3 292 (51.87%) Azure
4 193 (34.28%) Dynamics 365
5 168 (29.84%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (21.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 122 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (11.72%) Copilot Studio
9 65 (11.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 63 (11.19%) Entra ID
11 50 (8.88%) Serverless
12 49 (8.70%) Azure Functions
13 40 (7.10%) OneDrive
14 35 (6.22%) GitHub
15 26 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (4.44%) Azure AI
17 22 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
19 18 (3.20%) AWS
20 15 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.42%) DNS
1 8 (1.42%) Firewall
2 7 (1.24%) VPN
3 5 (0.89%) Intranet
4 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.53%) SMS
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 2 (0.36%) Network Security
5 2 (0.36%) Skype
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (41.39%) Power BI
2 39 (6.93%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.62%) Power Query
4 19 (3.37%) Metadata
5 18 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.24%) Star Schema
8 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.07%) PowerPivot
8 6 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.89%) MySQL
10 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.71%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.71%) GIS
11 3 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.53%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.53%) Tableau
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (3.55%) Visual Studio
2 19 (3.37%) JIRA
3 12 (2.13%) Git
4 10 (1.78%) Selenium
5 9 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.60%) Postman
5 9 (1.60%) WebDriver
6 7 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.53%) Protractor
8 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.36%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.36%) TestRail
10 1 (0.18%) GitLab
10 1 (0.18%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 208 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.85%) Finance
3 90 (15.99%) Public Sector
4 62 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.97%) Banking
5 28 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.09%) Marketing
8 16 (2.84%) Law
9 10 (1.78%) Legal
10 9 (1.60%) Local Government
10 9 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.42%) Retail
12 7 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.07%) Back Office
14 5 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.71%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.71%) Military
15 4 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 248 (44.05%) Developer
2 89 (15.81%) Power Platform Developer
3 70 (12.43%) Consultant
4 65 (11.55%) Senior
5 53 (9.41%) Analyst
6 47 (8.35%) Architect
7 44 (7.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 34 (6.04%) Senior Developer
9 33 (5.86%) Microsoft Developer
10 31 (5.51%) SharePoint Developer
11 28 (4.97%) Lead
12 27 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 20 (3.55%) Power Platform Engineer
15 18 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 17 (3.02%) Data Analyst
16 17 (3.02%) Power Platform Consultant
17 13 (2.31%) Dynamics 365 Architect
17 13 (2.31%) Power Apps Developer
17 13 (2.31%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.97%) .NET
2 54 (9.59%) REST
3 41 (7.28%) JSON
4 39 (6.93%) React
5 38 (6.75%) HTML
6 37 (6.57%) SPFx
7 36 (6.39%) CSS
8 32 (5.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 29 (5.15%) HTML5 Canvas
10 19 (3.37%) Terraform
11 13 (2.31%) Middleware
12 12 (2.13%) RESTful
13 11 (1.95%) OAuth
14 9 (1.60%) Gherkin
14 9 (1.60%) jQuery
15 8 (1.42%) XML
16 7 (1.24%) .NET Framework
16 7 (1.24%) ASP.NET
16 7 (1.24%) FIDO
16 7 (1.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.82%) Low-Code
2 31 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.09%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.09%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.07%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.71%) BYOD
10 4 (0.71%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.71%) NHS
11 3 (0.53%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.53%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.53%) IoT
11 3 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Android
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
2 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (41.92%) Business Intelligence
2 162 (28.77%) DevOps
3 158 (28.06%) Agile
4 146 (25.93%) AI
5 131 (23.27%) CI/CD
6 99 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (16.87%) CRM
8 92 (16.34%) Data Modelling
8 92 (16.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 80 (14.21%) Migration
10 79 (14.03%) Workflow
11 75 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 63 (11.19%) Translating Business Requirements
14 58 (10.30%) Analytics
15 53 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (8.17%) Decision-Making
17 45 (7.99%) Scrum
18 43 (7.64%) Customer Service
19 39 (6.93%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (25.75%) JavaScript
2 129 (22.91%) C#
3 101 (17.94%) SQL
4 44 (7.82%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.39%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.22%) Python
7 28 (4.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.02%) X++
9 15 (2.66%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.42%) Java
10 8 (1.42%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.07%) Bicep
12 4 (0.71%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) Bash
13 2 (0.36%) Korn
13 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.18%) COBOL
14 1 (0.18%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.18%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 47 (8.35%) Degree
5 26 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.89%) PMP
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.18%) CISM
13 1 (0.18%) CISSP
13 1 (0.18%) IIBA
13 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.44%) QA
4 24 (4.26%) GDPR
5 12 (2.13%) WCAG
6 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.42%) PMO
7 7 (1.24%) NIST
8 6 (1.07%) GRC
9 5 (0.89%) SLA
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.18%) MiFID
12 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.53%) Docker
4 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.60%) Grafana
3 9 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 408 (72.47%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.91%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.55%) Oracle
4 16 (2.84%) SAP
5 12 (2.13%) Databricks
6 11 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.95%) UiPath
7 9 (1.60%) Foundry
7 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.42%) Blue Prism
9 7 (1.24%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.24%) Google
9 7 (1.24%) Splunk
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.71%) Pega
11 3 (0.53%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.53%) Brio
11 3 (0.53%) Workday
12 2 (0.36%) OutSystems