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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 236 264
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +164
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 491 322 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.11% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 2.92% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 216 239
10th Percentile £350 £386 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £577 £588
90th Percentile £613 £630 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £456 £475
% change year-on-year - -3.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £27.95 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £28.30 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £31.69 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £35.63 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% +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 17,428 11,025 13,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.84% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,704 7,509 9,922
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 261 348
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.25 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.58% +12.19% -35.27%

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 1 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
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 1 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 -11 414 £500 - 192
London +13 256 £505 -3.81% 72
UK excluding London -19 191 £456 - 142
Work from Home -6 141 £500 - 103
North of England -55 52 £500 +5.26% 48
Scotland +14 36 £320 -28.89% 4
South East -40 36 £505 +12.22% 25
Midlands -48 30 £456 +4.29% 31
North West -34 28 £500 +11.11% 26
South West -17 22 £500 +9.59% 8
West Midlands -58 20 £463 +1.37% 22
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 +5.26% 12
Wales -3 9 £300 +9.09% 7
East Midlands -19 9 £435 - 9
East of England -33 8 £499 -0.25% 7
North East -23 6 £370 -1.33% 10

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 (32.79%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.05%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (2.65%) HCL Notes
4 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (2.04%) Mendix
6 8 (1.63%) Appian
6 8 (1.63%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 73 (14.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 390 (79.43%) Power Platform
2 306 (62.32%) PowerApps
3 259 (52.75%) Azure
4 147 (29.94%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (29.74%) Dynamics 365
6 103 (20.98%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (19.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 68 (13.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 65 (13.24%) Copilot Studio
10 59 (12.02%) Entra ID
11 47 (9.57%) Serverless
12 46 (9.37%) Azure Functions
13 43 (8.76%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.52%) GitHub
15 28 (5.70%) OneDrive
16 26 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (4.68%) Azure AI
18 15 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (2.65%) AWS
20 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) DNS
1 4 (0.81%) Firewall
1 4 (0.81%) VPN
2 3 (0.61%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.61%) Intranet
2 3 (0.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.61%) SMS
3 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (40.12%) Power BI
2 37 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.85%) Power Query
5 11 (2.24%) Metadata
6 10 (2.04%) Oracle Database
7 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.81%) Tableau
11 3 (0.61%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.61%) MySQL
11 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.46%) JIRA
2 12 (2.44%) Git
3 10 (2.04%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.63%) MLflow
5 3 (0.61%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 159 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 113 (23.01%) Finance
3 78 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.54%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.89%) Banking
7 12 (2.44%) Law
7 12 (2.44%) Marketing
8 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.04%) Legal
10 7 (1.43%) Back Office
11 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.22%) Local Government
11 6 (1.22%) Police
12 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.61%) Military
13 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
13 3 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 212 (43.18%) Developer
2 76 (15.48%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.65%) Consultant
4 48 (9.78%) Senior
5 43 (8.76%) Analyst
6 42 (8.55%) Architect
7 33 (6.72%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.91%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 27 (5.50%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.07%) Lead
11 19 (3.87%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 19 (3.87%) Power Apps Developer
12 17 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 16 (3.26%) Power Platform Consultant
13 16 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.05%) Applications Developer
14 15 (3.05%) Power Platform Architect
15 14 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (12.02%) .NET
2 53 (10.79%) REST
3 45 (9.16%) React
4 40 (8.15%) Microsoft Graph
5 35 (7.13%) CSS
5 35 (7.13%) HTML
6 33 (6.72%) SPFx
7 29 (5.91%) JSON
8 28 (5.70%) HTML5 Canvas
9 21 (4.28%) RESTful
10 13 (2.65%) OAuth
11 10 (2.04%) Web Services
12 9 (1.83%) NumPy
12 9 (1.83%) Pandas
12 9 (1.83%) Swagger
13 8 (1.63%) Django
13 8 (1.63%) Hugging Face
13 8 (1.63%) pytest
13 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.81%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.89%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.02%) IVR
10 4 (0.81%) NHS
10 4 (0.81%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) State Machine
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.81%) 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
1 197 (40.12%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (29.12%) DevOps
3 108 (22.00%) Agile
4 101 (20.57%) CI/CD
5 100 (20.37%) AI
6 92 (18.74%) Data Modelling
7 77 (15.68%) CRM
8 70 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (13.24%) Workflow
10 57 (11.61%) Analytics
11 45 (9.16%) API Integration
12 40 (8.15%) Integration Patterns
12 40 (8.15%) Migration
13 38 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (6.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.72%) User Experience
16 32 (6.52%) ETL
16 32 (6.52%) Translating Business Requirements
17 31 (6.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 112 (22.81%) JavaScript
2 96 (19.55%) C#
3 84 (17.11%) SQL
4 52 (10.59%) PowerShell
5 35 (7.13%) Python
6 30 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.65%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.24%) X++
10 10 (2.04%) Formula Language
10 10 (2.04%) Java
10 10 (2.04%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.61%) VBA
13 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
13 2 (0.41%) Bash
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (5.91%) Degree
5 23 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
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%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.63%) QA
4 7 (1.43%) GDPR
5 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.02%) NIST
7 4 (0.81%) WCAG
8 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.61%) SLA
8 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) Docker
3 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.05%) Terraform
3 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.02%) Grafana
5 5 (1.02%) 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
1 323 (65.78%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.09%) UiPath
3 24 (4.89%) Oracle
4 21 (4.28%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.46%) SAP
7 13 (2.65%) Lotus
8 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
9 10 (2.04%) Kofax
10 8 (1.63%) Google
11 7 (1.43%) Databricks
11 7 (1.43%) Foundry
12 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
13 4 (0.81%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.81%) Brio
13 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.81%) Splunk
14 3 (0.61%) Pega