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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 271 269
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 +149
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 504 291 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.97% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 2.56% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 194 239
10th Percentile £320 £366 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £555 £581
90th Percentile £613 £618 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £28.87 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £33.73 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £38.25 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £40.23 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.73 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -2.03% +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 18,044 11,362 14,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.83% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,061 7,650 9,974
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £621 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 285 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.19 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -21.56%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +13 428 £500 - 170
London +23 255 £513 +2.50% 55
UK excluding London -5 206 £450 -3.23% 154
Work from Home +10 145 £500 - 86
North of England -57 57 £500 +8.11% 33
South East -30 42 £505 +12.22% 49
Scotland +3 34 £320 -28.89% 5
North West -34 33 £450 - 21
Midlands -43 32 £435 -10.77% 29
South West -19 22 £538 +17.49% 18
West Midlands -52 22 £425 -12.82% 19
Yorkshire -45 20 £500 +5.26% 11
Wales -4 9 £300 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -11 9 £435 - 10
East of England -27 9 £510 +2.00% 10
North East -34 4 £365 -2.67% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 9

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
1 161 (31.94%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.17%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.59%) Confluence
5 7 (1.39%) Appian
6 6 (1.19%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.99%) Mendix
8 4 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.40%) CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 38 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 72 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.40%) 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
1 408 (80.95%) Power Platform
2 327 (64.88%) PowerApps
3 266 (52.78%) Azure
4 155 (30.75%) Microsoft 365
5 150 (29.76%) Dynamics 365
6 114 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (20.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 71 (14.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 70 (13.89%) Copilot Studio
10 64 (12.70%) Entra ID
11 51 (10.12%) Serverless
12 50 (9.92%) Azure Functions
13 36 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (6.75%) GitHub
15 29 (5.75%) OneDrive
16 25 (4.96%) Azure AI
17 22 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (3.17%) AWS
18 16 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) DNS
1 6 (1.19%) Firewall
1 6 (1.19%) VPN
2 4 (0.79%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.60%) Network Security
3 3 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (41.07%) Power BI
2 38 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.98%) Metadata
4 14 (2.78%) Power Query
5 7 (1.39%) Pinecone
6 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.79%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.79%) MySQL
7 4 (0.79%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.40%) Tableau
10 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (3.57%) JIRA
2 13 (2.58%) Git
3 11 (2.18%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.39%) MLflow
5 5 (0.99%) Postman
5 5 (0.99%) Selenium
6 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.79%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Protractor
8 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 160 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 109 (21.63%) Finance
3 77 (15.28%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (5.36%) Banking
7 13 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.38%) Marketing
9 11 (2.18%) Law
9 11 (2.18%) Legal
10 9 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.19%) Back Office
12 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.19%) Police
13 5 (0.99%) Local Government
13 5 (0.99%) Retail
14 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.60%) Military
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (42.66%) Developer
2 82 (16.27%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.29%) Consultant
4 51 (10.12%) Architect
5 47 (9.33%) Senior
6 42 (8.33%) Analyst
7 33 (6.55%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.75%) SharePoint Developer
9 28 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 25 (4.96%) Senior Developer
10 25 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (4.37%) Lead
12 19 (3.77%) Power Apps Developer
13 18 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 17 (3.37%) Power Platform Architect
14 17 (3.37%) Power Platform Consultant
15 15 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 15 (2.98%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.30%) .NET
2 50 (9.92%) REST
3 41 (8.13%) Microsoft Graph
3 41 (8.13%) React
4 37 (7.34%) CSS
4 37 (7.34%) HTML
5 36 (7.14%) JSON
6 35 (6.94%) SPFx
7 28 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (3.77%) RESTful
9 13 (2.58%) OAuth
10 9 (1.79%) Web Services
11 7 (1.39%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (1.39%) Django
11 7 (1.39%) Flask
11 7 (1.39%) HTML5
11 7 (1.39%) NumPy
11 7 (1.39%) Pandas
11 7 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.71%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.56%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.39%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Licensing
10 4 (0.79%) NHS
11 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
11 3 (0.60%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.99%) Windows
2 3 (0.60%) 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
1 207 (41.07%) Business Intelligence
2 150 (29.76%) DevOps
3 119 (23.61%) AI
4 116 (23.02%) Agile
5 109 (21.63%) CI/CD
6 97 (19.25%) Data Modelling
7 78 (15.48%) CRM
8 72 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (13.29%) Workflow
10 62 (12.30%) Analytics
11 48 (9.52%) Migration
12 46 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 45 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (8.33%) API Integration
16 41 (8.13%) Translating Business Requirements
17 36 (7.14%) User Experience
18 35 (6.94%) Integration Patterns
19 32 (6.35%) ETL
20 31 (6.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (24.01%) JavaScript
2 98 (19.44%) C#
3 90 (17.86%) SQL
4 49 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 39 (7.74%) Python
6 32 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.38%) X++
9 10 (1.98%) Java
10 8 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.99%) Formula Language
11 5 (0.99%) LotusScript
12 4 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.60%) Bicep
13 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.60%) VBA
14 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.94%) Degree
3 35 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.19%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) TOGAF 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 40 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.38%) GDPR
3 12 (2.38%) QA
4 8 (1.59%) WCAG
5 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.19%) GRC
6 6 (1.19%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (8.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.98%) Docker
3 5 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.57%) Terraform
2 17 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.39%) Grafana
5 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 342 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.76%) UiPath
3 20 (3.97%) OpenAI
3 20 (3.97%) SAP
4 18 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.37%) Oracle
6 10 (1.98%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.59%) Foundry
7 8 (1.59%) Google
7 8 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.39%) Databricks
9 6 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.19%) Lotus
9 6 (1.19%) Splunk
10 5 (0.99%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.99%) Kofax
11 4 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.79%) Brio
12 3 (0.60%) Pega