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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 264 257
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +124
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 579 333 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.01% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 2.69% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 206 243
10th Percentile £313 £363 £328
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £589
90th Percentile £598 £638 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.56% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 0
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £31.28 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.43 -
% change year-on-year +11.09% - -

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 18,840 12,378 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 37.58% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,496 8,249 8,849
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 299 198
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £62.14
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -33.33% +11.11%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -4 512 £488 -2.50% 474
London -18 285 £497 -5.43% 236
UK excluding London +34 259 £472 -0.74% 322
Work from Home -21 139 £500 - 255
Midlands +5 78 £430 -14.00% 49
North of England -42 67 £500 +5.26% 74
West Midlands -17 61 £425 -13.27% 33
North West -15 46 £495 +10.00% 40
South East -37 37 £500 -13.04% 80
Scotland +4 34 £438 -2.78% 36
South West -45 20 £425 -5.56% 29
Yorkshire -42 17 £500 - 23
East Midlands +3 16 £472 -21.42% 16
East of England -13 16 £475 +5.56% 30
Northern Ireland - 6 £334 - 11
North East -37 4 £550 - 13
Wales - 3 £550 - 15
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 4

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
1 203 (35.06%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (4.49%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (1.38%) Confluence
5 4 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.69%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.52%) Mendix
7 2 (0.35%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.17%) Appian
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Liferay
Applications
1 44 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.73%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 86 (14.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 490 (84.63%) Power Platform
2 398 (68.74%) PowerApps
3 303 (52.33%) Azure
4 201 (34.72%) Dynamics 365
5 167 (28.84%) Microsoft 365
6 147 (25.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 125 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (13.82%) Copilot Studio
9 67 (11.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 65 (11.23%) Serverless
11 64 (11.05%) Azure Functions
12 60 (10.36%) Entra ID
13 45 (7.77%) OneDrive
14 39 (6.74%) GitHub
15 36 (6.22%) Azure AI
16 26 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (4.49%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (3.45%) AWS
17 20 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.38%) DNS
1 8 (1.38%) Firewall
2 7 (1.21%) VPN
3 5 (0.86%) Intranet
4 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.52%) SMS
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Skype
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (41.97%) Power BI
2 49 (8.46%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.70%) Power Query
4 21 (3.63%) Metadata
5 17 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.21%) Star Schema
8 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.86%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.69%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.69%) GIS
10 4 (0.69%) MySQL
10 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.69%) Tableau
11 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.52%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.35%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (3.80%) JIRA
2 21 (3.63%) Visual Studio
3 20 (3.45%) Git
4 12 (2.07%) Selenium
5 10 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.73%) Postman
5 10 (1.73%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.52%) Protractor
9 2 (0.35%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.35%) MSTest
9 2 (0.35%) NUnit
9 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.35%) TestRail
10 1 (0.17%) HP UFT
General
1 226 (39.03%) Social Skills
2 129 (22.28%) Finance
3 94 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 70 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.66%) Banking
7 24 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.15%) Marketing
8 11 (1.90%) Law
9 10 (1.73%) Legal
9 10 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.38%) Retail
11 7 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.21%) Local Government
12 6 (1.04%) Military
12 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.86%) Back Office
14 4 (0.69%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (44.39%) Developer
2 86 (14.85%) Power Platform Developer
3 66 (11.40%) Consultant
4 64 (11.05%) Senior
5 55 (9.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 54 (9.33%) Analyst
6 54 (9.33%) Architect
7 38 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 34 (5.87%) Lead
9 32 (5.53%) Microsoft Developer
10 31 (5.35%) SharePoint Developer
11 27 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (3.80%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 20 (3.45%) Power Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.11%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.11%) Power Platform Architect
15 16 (2.76%) Data Engineer
16 15 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (2.59%) Dynamics 365 Architect
17 14 (2.42%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (12.95%) .NET
2 55 (9.50%) REST
3 50 (8.64%) JSON
4 34 (5.87%) HTML
5 33 (5.70%) React
6 32 (5.53%) CSS
6 32 (5.53%) SPFx
7 31 (5.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 29 (5.01%) HTML5 Canvas
9 18 (3.11%) Terraform
10 17 (2.94%) XML
11 14 (2.42%) Middleware
12 13 (2.25%) XSLT
13 11 (1.90%) OAuth
13 11 (1.90%) RESTful
14 10 (1.73%) Gherkin
15 8 (1.38%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (1.38%) jQuery
16 7 (1.21%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.39%) Low-Code
2 34 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.53%) AI Agents
4 30 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 28 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.80%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.59%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.07%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.38%) BYOD
13 5 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.69%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.69%) NHS
15 3 (0.52%) Housing Association
15 3 (0.52%) IVR
15 3 (0.52%) Life Science
16 2 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Android
2 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (42.49%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (30.92%) Agile
3 170 (29.36%) AI
4 168 (29.02%) DevOps
5 139 (24.01%) CI/CD
6 113 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (16.75%) CRM
7 97 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 96 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (16.41%) Data Modelling
10 86 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (13.30%) Workflow
12 76 (13.13%) Migration
13 63 (10.88%) Analytics
14 59 (10.19%) Translating Business Requirements
15 57 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (8.12%) Scrum
17 46 (7.94%) Customer Service
17 46 (7.94%) Decision-Making
18 42 (7.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 153 (26.42%) JavaScript
2 144 (24.87%) C#
3 110 (19.00%) SQL
4 44 (7.60%) PowerShell
5 41 (7.08%) Python
6 37 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.94%) X++
9 14 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.38%) Java
10 8 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.69%) VBA
13 3 (0.52%) Bash
14 2 (0.35%) Korn
14 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.17%) COBOL
15 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 58 (10.02%) Degree
5 28 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (3.28%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.21%) PMP
10 6 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.69%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.17%) CISM
14 1 (0.17%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) IIBA
14 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 33 (5.70%) GDPR
4 28 (4.84%) QA
5 22 (3.80%) WCAG
6 9 (1.55%) PMO
7 7 (1.21%) NIST
8 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.69%) GRC
9 4 (0.69%) SLA
10 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.52%) Docker
4 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.55%) Grafana
3 9 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.17%) Argo
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.17%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 437 (75.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.15%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.63%) Oracle
4 17 (2.94%) SAP
5 14 (2.42%) Databricks
6 13 (2.25%) Foundry
7 12 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.73%) UiPath
10 7 (1.21%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.21%) Splunk
11 6 (1.04%) Blue Prism
11 6 (1.04%) Google
12 4 (0.69%) Brio
12 4 (0.69%) Pega
12 4 (0.69%) Workday
13 3 (0.52%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft