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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 256 270
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +168
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 492 304 366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.03% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 2.72% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 204 244
10th Percentile £338 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £560 £567 £588
90th Percentile £615 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.88% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £29.60 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £38.63 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £41.18 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.01% +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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -12 414 £500 - 187
London +25 254 £513 +2.50% 66
UK excluding London -31 195 £456 -1.88% 155
Work from Home -20 143 £500 - 114
North of England -39 55 £480 +1.05% 38
South East -36 39 £505 +12.22% 41
Scotland +3 35 £320 -28.89% 6
North West -25 29 £450 - 24
Midlands -56 26 £475 - 32
South West -12 21 £523 +13.08% 17
Yorkshire -46 20 £500 +5.26% 12
West Midlands -58 16 £500 +5.26% 20
Wales -5 9 £300 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -13 9 £435 - 12
East of England -27 9 £510 +2.00% 9
North East -31 6 £370 -1.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 11

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 (31.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.05%) SharePoint Server
3 12 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.63%) Appian
4 8 (1.63%) Confluence
5 7 (1.42%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.22%) Mendix
7 4 (0.81%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.41%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Camunda
10 1 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (14.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 390 (79.27%) Power Platform
2 310 (63.01%) PowerApps
3 263 (53.46%) Azure
4 152 (30.89%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (30.69%) Dynamics 365
6 106 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (20.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 67 (13.62%) Copilot Studio
9 66 (13.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 63 (12.80%) Entra ID
11 47 (9.55%) Serverless
12 46 (9.35%) Azure Functions
13 40 (8.13%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.50%) GitHub
15 29 (5.89%) OneDrive
16 26 (5.28%) Azure AI
17 24 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (2.85%) AWS
20 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) DNS
1 5 (1.02%) Firewall
1 5 (1.02%) VPN
2 4 (0.81%) Intranet
3 3 (0.61%) HTTP
3 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.61%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (39.63%) Power BI
2 34 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.05%) Power Query
4 14 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.64%) Metadata
6 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.81%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.81%) MySQL
9 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.41%) Tableau
12 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.46%) JIRA
2 12 (2.44%) Git
2 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
3 8 (1.63%) MLflow
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.20%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 159 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 112 (22.76%) Finance
3 75 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 35 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.08%) Banking
7 11 (2.24%) Law
7 11 (2.24%) Marketing
8 10 (2.03%) Legal
9 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.22%) Back Office
10 6 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.22%) Police
11 5 (1.02%) Local Government
11 5 (1.02%) Retail
12 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.61%) Military
12 3 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (42.28%) Developer
2 77 (15.65%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.62%) Consultant
4 47 (9.55%) Senior
5 44 (8.94%) Architect
6 43 (8.74%) Analyst
7 35 (7.11%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.89%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 26 (5.28%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 20 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Lead
11 20 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 18 (3.66%) Power Apps Developer
13 17 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) Power Platform Consultant
14 16 (3.25%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.25%) Power Platform Architect
15 15 (3.05%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.20%) .NET
2 51 (10.37%) REST
3 42 (8.54%) React
4 40 (8.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 37 (7.52%) CSS
6 36 (7.32%) HTML
7 34 (6.91%) SPFx
8 31 (6.30%) JSON
9 24 (4.88%) HTML5 Canvas
10 20 (4.07%) RESTful
11 13 (2.64%) OAuth
12 10 (2.03%) Web Services
13 8 (1.63%) Django
13 8 (1.63%) Flask
13 8 (1.63%) NumPy
13 8 (1.63%) Pandas
13 8 (1.63%) pytest
13 8 (1.63%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.63%) Swagger
13 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.77%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.67%) AI Agents
3 19 (3.86%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.81%) NHS
9 4 (0.81%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.61%) IoT
10 3 (0.61%) IVR
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
11 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.41%) State Machine
11 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.02%) Windows
2 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (39.63%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (29.67%) DevOps
3 109 (22.15%) AI
4 107 (21.75%) Agile
5 102 (20.73%) CI/CD
6 89 (18.09%) Data Modelling
7 77 (15.65%) CRM
8 67 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (12.60%) Workflow
10 60 (12.20%) Analytics
11 46 (9.35%) Migration
12 42 (8.54%) API Integration
13 41 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
14 40 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (7.93%) Translating Business Requirements
16 35 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (7.11%) User Experience
17 32 (6.50%) ETL
18 31 (6.30%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 114 (23.17%) JavaScript
2 101 (20.53%) C#
3 85 (17.28%) SQL
4 56 (11.38%) PowerShell
5 37 (7.52%) Python
6 30 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.85%) X++
9 12 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.03%) Java
11 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.22%) Formula Language
12 6 (1.22%) LotusScript
13 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.91%) Degree
4 30 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISM
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.63%) GDPR
3 8 (1.63%) QA
4 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 6 (1.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.81%) PMO
6 4 (0.81%) WCAG
7 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.61%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (7.93%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) Docker
3 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.46%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.46%) Terraform
2 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
4 6 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 331 (67.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.67%) UiPath
3 22 (4.47%) OpenAI
4 18 (3.66%) SAP
4 18 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.46%) Oracle
6 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.63%) Foundry
7 8 (1.63%) Google
8 7 (1.42%) Lotus
8 7 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.22%) Databricks
9 6 (1.22%) Kofax
10 5 (1.02%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.02%) Splunk
11 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.81%) Brio
12 3 (0.61%) Pega