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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 199 329
Rank change year-on-year -27 +130 +73
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 449 402 306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.28% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 3.48% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 271 209
10th Percentile £353 £363 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £564 £594 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £470 £506
% change year-on-year +2.13% -7.16% -3.57%
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 14,341 11,539 14,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.65% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,890 7,673 10,491
10th Percentile £306 £313 £290
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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 170 288
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%
75th Percentile £57.75 £43.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £79.75 £68.75 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -20 389 £500 +5.26% 119
London +5 242 £500 +2.04% 41
UK excluding London -44 155 £480 +2.13% 118
Work from Home -17 138 £511 +4.34% 89
North of England -41 42 £450 -4.26% 22
Midlands -51 40 £478 +3.80% 19
West Midlands -45 32 £480 +5.49% 12
North West -21 27 £450 -4.26% 12
South East -19 22 £505 +6.32% 35
South West -13 20 £400 -39.85% 10
Scotland +14 19 £463 +2.78% 7
Wales +6 11 £308 -23.13% 13
Yorkshire -56 11 £525 +2.94% 6
East Midlands -26 8 £450 -10.00% 7
North East -15 4 £365 -21.51% 4
East of England -22 2 - - 11

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
1 138 (30.73%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.79%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.23%) Confluence
4 9 (2.00%) Mendix
5 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.45%) CMS
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Moodle
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%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 87 (19.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.67%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (84.63%) Power Platform
2 300 (66.82%) PowerApps
3 254 (56.57%) Azure
4 164 (36.53%) Dynamics 365
5 117 (26.06%) Microsoft 365
6 92 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (14.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 63 (14.03%) Microsoft Copilot
9 57 (12.69%) Azure Functions
9 57 (12.69%) Serverless
10 51 (11.36%) Copilot Studio
11 39 (8.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 38 (8.46%) Entra ID
13 27 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (5.79%) GitHub
15 24 (5.35%) Azure AI
16 22 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.79%) OneDrive
18 15 (3.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.00%) 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
1 235 (52.34%) Power BI
2 20 (4.45%) Power Query
2 20 (4.45%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.23%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.34%) Tableau
7 5 (1.11%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.89%) Metadata
8 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.45%) GIS
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 34 (7.57%) JIRA
2 25 (5.57%) Git
3 7 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.11%) MLflow
4 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.89%) Postman
6 2 (0.45%) GitLab
6 2 (0.45%) 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
1 169 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.38%) Finance
3 84 (18.71%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.01%) Banking
6 20 (4.45%) Marketing
7 14 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.00%) Retail
10 8 (1.78%) Law
11 7 (1.56%) Legal
11 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.67%) Back Office
15 3 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.67%) Local Government
16 2 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (44.10%) Developer
2 69 (15.37%) Power Platform Developer
3 49 (10.91%) Analyst
4 46 (10.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 40 (8.91%) Architect
6 34 (7.57%) Consultant
7 26 (5.79%) Lead
7 26 (5.79%) Power Apps Developer
7 26 (5.79%) Senior
8 23 (5.12%) Applications Developer
8 23 (5.12%) Microsoft Developer
9 21 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 17 (3.79%) Power Platform Architect
10 17 (3.79%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.56%) Platform Architect
12 14 (3.12%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 12 (2.67%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (2.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 10 (2.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (14.92%) .NET
2 45 (10.02%) REST
3 29 (6.46%) HTML5 Canvas
4 26 (5.79%) HTML
5 23 (5.12%) JSON
6 20 (4.45%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (4.01%) React
8 17 (3.79%) RESTful
9 15 (3.34%) OAuth
10 12 (2.67%) CSS
11 10 (2.23%) XML
12 9 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.00%) NumPy
12 9 (2.00%) Pandas
12 9 (2.00%) SOAP
12 9 (2.00%) Web Services
13 8 (1.78%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.78%) Flask
14 6 (1.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.36%) Low-Code
2 21 (4.68%) AI Agents
3 18 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.34%) IVR
10 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.67%) Derivative
11 3 (0.67%) NHS
11 3 (0.67%) PKI
12 2 (0.45%) FMCG
12 2 (0.45%) IoT
12 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.89%) Windows
2 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (52.56%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (28.06%) DevOps
3 125 (27.84%) Agile
4 90 (20.04%) CRM
5 78 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (16.93%) CI/CD
7 75 (16.70%) Data Modelling
8 68 (15.14%) Analytics
9 56 (12.47%) AI
10 47 (10.47%) Workflow
11 42 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 33 (7.35%) Scrum
15 31 (6.90%) API Integration
16 30 (6.68%) Data Governance
17 28 (6.24%) Customer Engagement
17 28 (6.24%) Decision-Making
17 28 (6.24%) Roadmaps
18 27 (6.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (20.94%) JavaScript
2 93 (20.71%) SQL
3 92 (20.49%) C#
4 49 (10.91%) PowerShell
5 44 (9.80%) Python
6 29 (6.46%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (2.23%) Formula Language
8 10 (2.23%) LotusScript
9 9 (2.00%) R
10 6 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.11%) VBA
11 5 (1.11%) X++
12 3 (0.67%) Bicep
12 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.45%) Java
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 1 (0.22%) Bash
14 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.80%) Degree
4 30 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
8 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CIMA
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.34%) QA
2 14 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.78%) GDPR
5 7 (1.56%) PMO
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.67%) WCAG
8 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
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 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.23%) Terraform
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.45%) Grafana
4 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 332 (73.94%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.57%) OpenAI
3 19 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.79%) Lotus
4 17 (3.79%) SAP
5 16 (3.56%) UiPath
6 15 (3.34%) Oracle
7 12 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.45%) Blue Prism
9 9 (2.00%) Automation Anywhere
9 9 (2.00%) Kofax
10 6 (1.34%) DocuSign
11 4 (0.89%) Foundry
12 3 (0.67%) Brio
12 3 (0.67%) Databricks
12 3 (0.67%) Genesys
12 3 (0.67%) Google
12 3 (0.67%) Pega
13 2 (0.45%) ESRI
13 2 (0.45%) Intel