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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 201 330
Rank change year-on-year -31 +129 +72
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 455 404 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.30% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 3.48% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 271 212
10th Percentile £358 £363 £332
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -0.54% -7.00% -2.91%
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 14,823 11,611 15,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.89% 37.34% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,180 7,737 10,787
10th Percentile £309 £313 £281
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 £632
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% -0.95% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 171 325
10th Percentile £14.46 £16.75 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £50.25
90th Percentile £79.50 £73.75 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.97
% change year-on-year +53.02% +15.31% +4.85%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -36 385 £500 +3.09% 144
London +5 244 £510 +2.00% 67
UK excluding London -47 158 £463 -0.54% 124
Work from Home -10 142 £525 +5.00% 80
North of England -58 43 £438 -6.91% 24
Midlands -55 34 £475 +3.26% 22
North West -18 28 £425 -9.57% 15
West Midlands -55 27 £475 +4.40% 14
South East -17 26 £505 +9.19% 39
Scotland +12 23 £450 +5.88% 12
South West -19 18 £400 -39.85% 14
Wales +10 13 £308 -7.17% 9
Yorkshire -60 11 £525 +11.70% 4
East Midlands -22 7 £450 -10.00% 7
North East -16 4 £365 -21.51% 5
East of England -26 2 - - 5

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
1 135 (29.67%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.30%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.20%) Confluence
4 9 (1.98%) Mendix
5 7 (1.54%) Appian
6 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
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%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (8.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 84 (18.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.66%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 389 (85.49%) Power Platform
2 305 (67.03%) PowerApps
3 250 (54.95%) Azure
4 157 (34.51%) Dynamics 365
5 121 (26.59%) Microsoft 365
6 93 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (15.82%) Microsoft Copilot
8 65 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (12.97%) Copilot Studio
10 58 (12.75%) Azure Functions
10 58 (12.75%) Serverless
11 39 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 36 (7.91%) Entra ID
13 34 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (5.93%) Azure AI
15 25 (5.49%) GitHub
16 19 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.74%) OneDrive
18 15 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
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
1 245 (53.85%) Power BI
2 20 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.18%) Power Query
4 10 (2.20%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.54%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.32%) Tableau
8 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.88%) Metadata
9 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.44%) GIS
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 32 (7.03%) JIRA
2 20 (4.40%) Git
3 7 (1.54%) MLflow
3 7 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.66%) Postman
6 2 (0.44%) GitLab
6 2 (0.44%) 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
1 168 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.12%) Finance
3 86 (18.90%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.27%) Banking
6 18 (3.96%) Marketing
7 15 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.76%) Legal
9 8 (1.76%) Retail
10 7 (1.54%) Law
11 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.66%) Back Office
14 3 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 197 (43.30%) Developer
2 74 (16.26%) Power Platform Developer
3 51 (11.21%) Analyst
4 41 (9.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 39 (8.57%) Architect
6 37 (8.13%) Consultant
7 31 (6.81%) Senior
8 30 (6.59%) Power Apps Developer
9 26 (5.71%) Applications Developer
10 25 (5.49%) Microsoft Developer
11 23 (5.05%) Lead
12 22 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (4.62%) Senior Developer
14 19 (4.18%) Power Platform Architect
15 18 (3.96%) Platform Architect
16 15 (3.30%) Business Analyst
17 12 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
17 12 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 11 (2.42%) Administrator
19 10 (2.20%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.19%) .NET
2 44 (9.67%) REST
3 27 (5.93%) HTML5 Canvas
4 23 (5.05%) HTML
5 22 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (4.18%) JSON
7 17 (3.74%) RESTful
8 16 (3.52%) OAuth
9 13 (2.86%) React
10 12 (2.64%) CSS
11 11 (2.42%) NumPy
11 11 (2.42%) Pandas
11 11 (2.42%) Web Services
12 10 (2.20%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.20%) Flask
13 9 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (1.76%) Swagger
15 7 (1.54%) JWT
15 7 (1.54%) PyTorch
15 7 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.75%) Low-Code
2 27 (5.93%) AI Agents
3 18 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.32%) IVR
11 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.88%) NHS
12 3 (0.66%) Data Fabric
12 3 (0.66%) PKI
12 3 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.44%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
14 1 (0.22%) AS400
14 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.88%) Windows
2 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (54.07%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (27.69%) DevOps
3 125 (27.47%) Agile
4 88 (19.34%) CRM
5 84 (18.46%) Data Modelling
6 79 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (16.04%) CI/CD
8 71 (15.60%) Analytics
9 66 (14.51%) AI
10 49 (10.77%) Workflow
11 46 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (7.91%) Data Governance
13 36 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (7.69%) API Integration
15 34 (7.47%) Scrum
16 31 (6.81%) Roadmaps
16 31 (6.81%) User Experience
17 30 (6.59%) ERP
18 29 (6.37%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 89 (19.56%) JavaScript
2 88 (19.34%) C#
2 88 (19.34%) SQL
3 48 (10.55%) PowerShell
4 41 (9.01%) Python
5 28 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.20%) Formula Language
7 10 (2.20%) LotusScript
8 8 (1.76%) R
9 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.10%) X++
10 4 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.88%) VBA
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) Java
12 1 (0.22%) Bash
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 96 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.23%) Degree
4 30 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) MBA
9 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.42%) QA
4 9 (1.98%) GDPR
5 7 (1.54%) PMO
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) P3O
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.42%) Terraform
3 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
5 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 335 (73.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.93%) OpenAI
3 18 (3.96%) SAP
3 18 (3.96%) UiPath
4 16 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.30%) Lotus
5 15 (3.30%) Oracle
6 12 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.98%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (1.98%) Kofax
8 8 (1.76%) Blue Prism
9 6 (1.32%) DocuSign
10 5 (1.10%) Foundry
11 3 (0.66%) Brio
11 3 (0.66%) Databricks
11 3 (0.66%) Genesys
11 3 (0.66%) Google
11 3 (0.66%) Pega
12 2 (0.44%) ESRI
12 2 (0.44%) Intel