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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 205 313
Rank change year-on-year -25 +108 +83
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 461 405 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.30% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 3.50% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 271 213
10th Percentile £361 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -1.88% -7.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile £27.71 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 14,840 11,586 14,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.91% 37.20% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,196 7,703 10,613
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 174 322
10th Percentile £14.43 £16.83 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.46 £16.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +49.01% +18.32% +5.72%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -22 392 £500 +3.09% 145
London +1 243 £510 +2.00% 74
UK excluding London -36 163 £456 -1.88% 126
Work from Home -2 143 £520 +4.00% 84
North of England -51 45 £450 -4.26% 23
Midlands -62 38 £475 +3.26% 20
West Midlands -47 31 £478 +4.95% 14
North West -16 29 £425 -9.57% 16
South East -18 25 £505 +9.19% 45
Scotland +18 23 £450 +5.88% 12
South West -17 18 £400 -39.85% 11
Wales +12 13 £308 -7.17% 11
Yorkshire -59 12 £525 +11.70% 3
East Midlands -21 7 £450 -10.00% 5
North East -14 4 £365 -21.51% 4
East of England -27 2 - - 6

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
1 137 (29.72%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.47%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.17%) Confluence
4 9 (1.95%) Mendix
5 7 (1.52%) Appian
6 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.22%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.95%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 88 (19.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.65%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (85.68%) Power Platform
2 311 (67.46%) PowerApps
3 257 (55.75%) Azure
4 165 (35.79%) Dynamics 365
5 120 (26.03%) Microsoft 365
6 94 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (15.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 67 (14.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 58 (12.58%) Azure Functions
9 58 (12.58%) Copilot Studio
9 58 (12.58%) Serverless
10 40 (8.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 37 (8.03%) Entra ID
12 34 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (5.86%) Azure AI
14 25 (5.42%) GitHub
15 20 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (3.69%) OneDrive
17 15 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) Intranet
2 1 (0.22%) LAN
2 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.22%) Skype
2 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (53.36%) Power BI
2 22 (4.77%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.34%) Power Query
4 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.52%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.30%) Tableau
8 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.87%) Metadata
9 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 32 (6.94%) JIRA
2 20 (4.34%) Git
3 7 (1.52%) MLflow
3 7 (1.52%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.87%) Postman
6 2 (0.43%) GitLab
6 2 (0.43%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.22%) Gatling
7 1 (0.22%) gulp
7 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) Maven
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 171 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.52%) Finance
3 88 (19.09%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.42%) Banking
6 18 (3.90%) Marketing
7 15 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.95%) Retail
10 8 (1.74%) Legal
11 7 (1.52%) Law
12 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
15 3 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Local Government
16 2 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 200 (43.38%) Developer
2 73 (15.84%) Power Platform Developer
3 50 (10.85%) Analyst
4 44 (9.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 42 (9.11%) Architect
6 37 (8.03%) Consultant
7 30 (6.51%) Power Apps Developer
7 30 (6.51%) Senior
8 26 (5.64%) Applications Developer
9 25 (5.42%) Lead
9 25 (5.42%) Microsoft Developer
10 22 (4.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 20 (4.34%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.12%) Power Platform Architect
13 18 (3.90%) Platform Architect
14 14 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 11 (2.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (14.53%) .NET
2 45 (9.76%) REST
3 27 (5.86%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (5.21%) HTML
5 22 (4.77%) Microsoft Graph
6 20 (4.34%) JSON
7 17 (3.69%) OAuth
7 17 (3.69%) RESTful
8 13 (2.82%) CSS
8 13 (2.82%) React
9 11 (2.39%) NumPy
9 11 (2.39%) Pandas
9 11 (2.39%) Web Services
10 10 (2.17%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.17%) Flask
11 9 (1.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (1.74%) Swagger
12 8 (1.74%) XML
13 7 (1.52%) Django
13 7 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.58%) Low-Code
2 26 (5.64%) AI Agents
3 18 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.30%) IVR
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.87%) NHS
12 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.65%) Data Fabric
12 3 (0.65%) PKI
12 3 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.43%) Derivative
13 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.87%) Windows
2 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (53.58%) Business Intelligence
2 127 (27.55%) DevOps
3 125 (27.11%) Agile
4 91 (19.74%) CRM
5 83 (18.00%) Data Modelling
6 82 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (16.49%) CI/CD
8 71 (15.40%) Analytics
9 65 (14.10%) AI
10 50 (10.85%) Workflow
11 45 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (7.81%) API Integration
13 36 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 34 (7.38%) Data Governance
15 33 (7.16%) Scrum
16 31 (6.72%) Roadmaps
17 30 (6.51%) User Experience
18 29 (6.29%) Customer Engagement
18 29 (6.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 95 (20.61%) JavaScript
2 93 (20.17%) C#
3 90 (19.52%) SQL
4 49 (10.63%) PowerShell
5 41 (8.89%) Python
6 28 (6.07%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (2.17%) Formula Language
8 10 (2.17%) LotusScript
9 8 (1.74%) R
10 6 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.08%) VBA
11 5 (1.08%) X++
12 4 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.43%) Bicep
13 2 (0.43%) Java
14 1 (0.22%) Bash
14 1 (0.22%) C
14 1 (0.22%) Korn
14 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.33%) Degree
4 32 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CIMA
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.39%) QA
4 8 (1.74%) GDPR
5 7 (1.52%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.65%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) P3O
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.39%) Terraform
3 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 340 (73.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.86%) OpenAI
3 19 (4.12%) SAP
4 18 (3.90%) UiPath
5 16 (3.47%) Lotus
5 16 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.25%) Oracle
7 12 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.95%) Automation Anywhere
8 9 (1.95%) Kofax
9 8 (1.74%) Blue Prism
10 6 (1.30%) DocuSign
11 5 (1.08%) Foundry
12 3 (0.65%) Brio
12 3 (0.65%) Databricks
12 3 (0.65%) Genesys
12 3 (0.65%) Google
12 3 (0.65%) Pega
13 2 (0.43%) ESRI
13 2 (0.43%) Intel