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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 203 319
Rank change year-on-year -29 +116 +81
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 440 401 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.24% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 3.42% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 270 204
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £568 £597 £608
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -5.66%
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 14,043 11,709 14,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 36.28% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,648 7,800 10,403
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
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 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 172 251
10th Percentile £14.49 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £25.34 £20.64
% change year-on-year +7.38% +22.80% +5.82%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -13 386 £500 +3.09% 110
London +12 238 £500 - 47
UK excluding London -56 147 £500 +6.38% 88
Work from Home -12 137 £525 +7.69% 53
Midlands -43 40 £475 +4.40% 15
North of England -44 40 £450 -4.76% 18
West Midlands -45 32 £478 +6.11% 11
North West -11 26 £438 -6.91% 7
South West -12 21 £535 -19.55% 7
South East -19 19 £505 +6.32% 29
Scotland +6 17 £463 +2.78% 8
Yorkshire -50 12 £525 +5.00% 9
East Midlands -23 8 £450 -10.00% 4
Wales 0 6 £398 -0.63% 5
East of England -19 4 £500 +21.21% 6
North East -13 2 £375 -20.21% 2

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
1 140 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.86%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.27%) Confluence
4 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.82%) Mendix
6 3 (0.68%) Appian
7 2 (0.45%) CMS
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Moodle
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.23%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 84 (19.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.68%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 378 (85.91%) Power Platform
2 304 (69.09%) PowerApps
3 243 (55.23%) Azure
4 160 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
5 118 (26.82%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (13.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 61 (13.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 52 (11.82%) Azure Functions
8 52 (11.82%) Serverless
9 47 (10.68%) Copilot Studio
10 39 (8.86%) Entra ID
11 34 (7.73%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (5.45%) GitHub
14 22 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (4.55%) Azure AI
16 19 (4.32%) OneDrive
17 15 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.05%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) DKIM
2 1 (0.23%) DMARC
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Intranet
2 1 (0.23%) LAN
2 1 (0.23%) PSTN
2 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.23%) Skype
2 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (53.86%) Power BI
2 20 (4.55%) Power Query
3 19 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.05%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.36%) Metadata
7 6 (1.36%) Tableau
8 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.68%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.45%) GIS
10 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 34 (7.73%) JIRA
2 24 (5.45%) Git
3 7 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.91%) Postman
4 4 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.68%) MLflow
6 2 (0.45%) GitLab
6 2 (0.45%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Gatling
7 1 (0.23%) gulp
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 167 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.86%) Finance
2 83 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 35 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.05%) Banking
5 21 (4.77%) Marketing
6 14 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.27%) Retail
8 8 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.82%) Law
9 7 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.36%) Legal
11 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.91%) Local Government
12 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.68%) Back Office
13 3 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 191 (43.41%) Developer
2 68 (15.45%) Power Platform Developer
3 44 (10.00%) Analyst
3 44 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 39 (8.86%) Architect
5 36 (8.18%) Consultant
6 28 (6.36%) Power Apps Developer
7 26 (5.91%) Lead
8 25 (5.68%) Senior
9 22 (5.00%) Applications Developer
10 20 (4.55%) Microsoft Developer
11 19 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (3.64%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.41%) Power Platform Architect
14 14 (3.18%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.18%) Platform Architect
15 13 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 12 (2.73%) Dynamics 365 Architect
17 11 (2.50%) Functional Consultant
18 10 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.55%) .NET
2 43 (9.77%) REST
3 30 (6.82%) HTML
3 30 (6.82%) HTML5 Canvas
4 26 (5.91%) JSON
5 19 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 16 (3.64%) React
7 13 (2.95%) OAuth
8 12 (2.73%) CSS
8 12 (2.73%) RESTful
9 10 (2.27%) XML
10 9 (2.05%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.05%) SOAP
11 8 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (1.59%) NumPy
12 7 (1.59%) Pandas
13 6 (1.36%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.36%) Flask
13 6 (1.36%) Web Services
14 5 (1.14%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.00%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 19 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.59%) IVR
8 6 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.91%) Derivative
10 4 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.68%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.68%) PKI
12 2 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.91%) Windows
2 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (53.41%) Business Intelligence
2 127 (28.86%) Agile
3 116 (26.36%) DevOps
4 87 (19.77%) CRM
5 81 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (16.59%) CI/CD
6 73 (16.59%) Data Modelling
7 63 (14.32%) Analytics
8 53 (12.05%) AI
9 44 (10.00%) Workflow
10 41 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (7.05%) Customer Engagement
14 29 (6.59%) API Integration
14 29 (6.59%) Migration
14 29 (6.59%) Scrum
15 28 (6.36%) Decision-Making
16 27 (6.14%) Customer Service
16 27 (6.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.68%) JavaScript
2 89 (20.23%) C#
3 87 (19.77%) SQL
4 50 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 41 (9.32%) Python
6 27 (6.14%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.05%) Formula Language
8 9 (2.05%) LotusScript
8 9 (2.05%) R
9 6 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.14%) VBA
10 5 (1.14%) X++
11 3 (0.68%) Bicep
11 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.45%) Korn
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) Java
13 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.00%) Degree
4 34 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CIMA
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.64%) QA
2 13 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.27%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) PMO
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.68%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) P3O
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.91%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.05%) Terraform
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 327 (74.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 20 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 17 (3.86%) Lotus
4 16 (3.64%) SAP
5 14 (3.18%) Oracle
6 13 (2.95%) UiPath
7 12 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.50%) Blue Prism
9 8 (1.82%) Kofax
10 7 (1.59%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.36%) DocuSign
12 4 (0.91%) Foundry
13 3 (0.68%) Brio
13 3 (0.68%) Genesys
13 3 (0.68%) Google
13 3 (0.68%) Pega
14 2 (0.45%) Adobe
14 2 (0.45%) ESRI
14 2 (0.45%) Intel