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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 277 277
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 +130
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 519 314 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 2.57% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 202 236
10th Percentile £320 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £575
90th Percentile £622 £611 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.23 £32.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +100.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £42.13 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £55.70 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.98% +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 18,607 12,201 13,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,161 9,644
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 313 316
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.87%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +9 452 £500 - 194
London +23 271 £520 +4.00% 78
UK excluding London -12 204 £450 -5.26% 143
Work from Home -3 149 £500 - 104
North of England -46 61 £500 +2.56% 37
Midlands -34 43 £435 -10.77% 26
North West -27 37 £450 -5.26% 21
South East -42 35 £525 -4.55% 41
West Midlands -47 32 £425 -12.82% 18
Scotland +9 31 £320 -28.89% 6
Yorkshire -43 21 £500 +2.56% 11
South West -38 17 £490 +5.38% 18
East of England -23 11 £510 +2.00% 17
East Midlands -4 10 £455 - 8
Wales -12 5 £310 +12.73% 4
North East -37 3 £550 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 1

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
1 171 (32.95%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.08%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.16%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.58%) Appian
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Liferay
8 1 (0.19%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.39%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (13.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.35%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 426 (82.08%) Power Platform
2 348 (67.05%) PowerApps
3 267 (51.45%) Azure
4 163 (31.41%) Dynamics 365
5 154 (29.67%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (20.81%) Microsoft Copilot
7 104 (20.04%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (12.52%) Copilot Studio
9 61 (11.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 59 (11.37%) Entra ID
11 41 (7.90%) Serverless
12 40 (7.71%) Azure Functions
13 31 (5.97%) GitHub
14 29 (5.59%) OneDrive
15 24 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (4.05%) Azure AI
17 17 (3.28%) AWS
17 17 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) DNS
2 7 (1.35%) Firewall
2 7 (1.35%) VPN
3 5 (0.96%) Intranet
4 3 (0.58%) HTTP
4 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.58%) Network Security
4 3 (0.58%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (42.20%) Power BI
2 36 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.85%) Power Query
4 16 (3.08%) Metadata
5 15 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.96%) MySQL
7 4 (0.77%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.77%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.58%) Pinecone
8 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.58%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.58%) Tableau
9 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (3.28%) JIRA
2 14 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.31%) Git
4 8 (1.54%) Postman
4 8 (1.54%) Selenium
5 7 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.35%) WebDriver
6 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.58%) MLflow
7 3 (0.58%) Protractor
8 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.19%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 178 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.16%) Finance
3 82 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.39%) Banking
7 19 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.08%) Marketing
9 12 (2.31%) Law
10 11 (2.12%) Legal
11 10 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.35%) Local Government
14 6 (1.16%) Back Office
15 5 (0.96%) Retail
16 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.77%) Military
16 4 (0.77%) Police
17 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
18 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (42.00%) Developer
2 88 (16.96%) Power Platform Developer
3 74 (14.26%) Consultant
4 55 (10.60%) Senior
5 48 (9.25%) Architect
6 41 (7.90%) Analyst
7 29 (5.59%) Microsoft Developer
7 29 (5.59%) Senior Developer
7 29 (5.59%) SharePoint Developer
8 28 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (5.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 26 (5.01%) Lead
10 24 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 19 (3.66%) Data Engineer
12 18 (3.47%) Power Platform Consultant
13 17 (3.28%) Power Apps Developer
14 14 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 13 (2.50%) Business Analyst
15 13 (2.50%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.18%) .NET
2 51 (9.83%) REST
3 39 (7.51%) JSON
3 39 (7.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 38 (7.32%) HTML
5 37 (7.13%) CSS
5 37 (7.13%) React
6 36 (6.94%) SPFx
7 25 (4.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (2.31%) RESTful
9 11 (2.12%) OAuth
10 8 (1.54%) jQuery
10 8 (1.54%) XML
11 7 (1.35%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.35%) FIDO
11 7 (1.35%) Gherkin
12 6 (1.16%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.16%) Middleware
12 6 (1.16%) YAML
13 5 (0.96%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.48%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.82%) AI Agents
3 24 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.54%) Taxonomies
9 8 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.77%) NHS
11 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.58%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.58%) IVR
11 3 (0.58%) Life Science
11 3 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.35%) Windows
2 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (42.39%) Business Intelligence
2 142 (27.36%) DevOps
3 135 (26.01%) AI
4 132 (25.43%) Agile
5 118 (22.74%) CI/CD
6 97 (18.69%) Data Modelling
7 87 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (15.03%) CRM
9 67 (12.91%) Workflow
10 65 (12.52%) Migration
11 63 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 57 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (10.60%) Analytics
13 55 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 52 (10.02%) Translating Business Requirements
15 40 (7.71%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (7.51%) Integration Patterns
17 34 (6.55%) API Integration
17 34 (6.55%) Scrum
17 34 (6.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 128 (24.66%) JavaScript
2 104 (20.04%) C#
3 86 (16.57%) SQL
4 52 (10.02%) PowerShell
5 40 (7.71%) Python
6 28 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.89%) X++
9 12 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.73%) Java
11 8 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.96%) Bicep
13 4 (0.77%) Bash
13 4 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.77%) VBA
14 3 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.39%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) Formula Language
16 1 (0.19%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 102 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 82 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (7.13%) Degree
5 21 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.73%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.58%) PMP
11 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISM
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.28%) QA
4 16 (3.08%) GDPR
5 10 (1.93%) WCAG
6 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.35%) NIST
6 7 (1.35%) PMO
7 6 (1.16%) GRC
8 5 (0.96%) SLA
9 3 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.58%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.16%) Docker
3 5 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (3.85%) Terraform
2 15 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.73%) Grafana
4 9 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 367 (70.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.85%) SAP
3 19 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.28%) UiPath
5 15 (2.89%) Oracle
6 11 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.93%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.73%) Foundry
9 8 (1.54%) Google
10 7 (1.35%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.35%) Splunk
11 6 (1.16%) Databricks
12 4 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
12 4 (0.77%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.77%) Brio
13 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.58%) Pega
13 3 (0.58%) Workday