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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 256 277
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +152
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 490 304 365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.03% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 2.73% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 204 240
10th Percentile £344 £377 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £567 £588
90th Percentile £613 £627 £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 7 4 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £31.88 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.09% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £39.00 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £41.65 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +11.09% +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 17,713 11,130 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,857 7,532 9,982
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 £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 270 357
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +95.98% +0.26% -30.60%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -8 412 £500 - 184
London +15 255 £511 +2.25% 66
UK excluding London -24 194 £456 -1.88% 151
Work from Home -6 141 £500 - 140
North of England -58 53 £490 +3.16% 39
South East -34 39 £505 +12.22% 44
Scotland +5 36 £320 -28.89% 4
North West -34 27 £450 - 26
Midlands -64 26 £475 - 28
South West -15 21 £523 +13.08% 18
Yorkshire -45 20 £500 +5.26% 11
West Midlands -64 16 £500 +5.26% 16
Wales -4 9 £300 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -21 9 £435 - 12
East of England -24 9 £510 +2.00% 9
North East -25 6 £370 -1.33% 2
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
1 157 (32.04%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.06%) SharePoint Server
3 12 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.63%) Appian
4 8 (1.63%) Confluence
5 7 (1.43%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.22%) Mendix
7 4 (0.82%) 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 39 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 73 (14.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.43%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 388 (79.18%) Power Platform
2 306 (62.45%) PowerApps
3 261 (53.27%) Azure
4 152 (31.02%) Dynamics 365
5 149 (30.41%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (21.63%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (20.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 67 (13.67%) Copilot Studio
9 66 (13.47%) Azure Logic Apps
10 62 (12.65%) Entra ID
11 47 (9.59%) Serverless
12 46 (9.39%) Azure Functions
13 40 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.53%) GitHub
15 29 (5.92%) OneDrive
16 26 (5.31%) Azure AI
17 24 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (2.86%) AWS
20 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) DNS
1 5 (1.02%) Firewall
1 5 (1.02%) VPN
2 4 (0.82%) 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
1 194 (39.59%) Power BI
2 34 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.06%) Power Query
4 14 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.45%) Metadata
6 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.82%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.82%) MySQL
9 4 (0.82%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.82%) 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 16 (3.27%) JIRA
2 12 (2.45%) Git
2 12 (2.45%) Visual Studio
3 8 (1.63%) MLflow
4 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.41%) Postman
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%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
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
1 160 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 112 (22.86%) Finance
3 75 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
5 34 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.31%) Banking
7 13 (2.65%) Marketing
8 11 (2.24%) Law
9 10 (2.04%) Legal
10 7 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.22%) Back Office
11 6 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.22%) Police
12 5 (1.02%) Local Government
12 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.02%) Retail
13 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.61%) Military
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (42.45%) Developer
2 76 (15.51%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.67%) Consultant
4 47 (9.59%) Senior
5 44 (8.98%) Analyst
6 42 (8.57%) Architect
7 35 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
8 28 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 28 (5.71%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.08%) Lead
11 18 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 18 (3.67%) Power Apps Developer
11 18 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 17 (3.47%) Power Platform Consultant
13 16 (3.27%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.06%) Power Platform Architect
15 14 (2.86%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.24%) .NET
2 51 (10.41%) REST
3 42 (8.57%) React
4 40 (8.16%) Microsoft Graph
5 37 (7.55%) CSS
6 36 (7.35%) HTML
7 34 (6.94%) SPFx
8 32 (6.53%) JSON
9 24 (4.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 21 (4.29%) RESTful
11 13 (2.65%) OAuth
12 10 (2.04%) Web Services
13 8 (1.63%) Django
13 8 (1.63%) Faiss
13 8 (1.63%) Flask
13 8 (1.63%) Hugging Face
13 8 (1.63%) NumPy
13 8 (1.63%) Pandas
13 8 (1.63%) pytest
13 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.41%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.90%) AI Agents
3 19 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.82%) NHS
9 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
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
1 194 (39.59%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (29.80%) DevOps
3 108 (22.04%) Agile
4 107 (21.84%) AI
5 101 (20.61%) CI/CD
6 89 (18.16%) Data Modelling
7 80 (16.33%) CRM
8 69 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (12.86%) Workflow
10 60 (12.24%) Analytics
11 45 (9.18%) Migration
12 43 (8.78%) API Integration
13 40 (8.16%) Integration Patterns
13 40 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (7.76%) Translating Business Requirements
15 36 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (6.94%) User Experience
17 31 (6.33%) ERP
17 31 (6.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 114 (23.27%) JavaScript
2 101 (20.61%) C#
3 84 (17.14%) SQL
4 56 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 37 (7.55%) Python
6 30 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.86%) X++
9 12 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.04%) 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 96 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.94%) Degree
4 32 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.65%) 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 35 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.63%) GDPR
3 8 (1.63%) QA
4 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 6 (1.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.82%) WCAG
7 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.61%) PMO
7 3 (0.61%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
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 38 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) Docker
3 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.47%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.47%) Terraform
2 10 (2.04%) 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
1 328 (66.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.69%) UiPath
3 22 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 18 (3.67%) SAP
5 17 (3.47%) Oracle
6 16 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.63%) Foundry
8 8 (1.63%) Google
9 7 (1.43%) Lotus
10 6 (1.22%) Databricks
10 6 (1.22%) Kofax
10 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.02%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
11 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.02%) Splunk
12 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.82%) Brio
13 3 (0.61%) Pega