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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 274 283
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +141
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 501 291 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.96% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 2.54% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 193 241
10th Percentile £320 £365 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £556 £575
90th Percentile £613 £619 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £28.87 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £33.73 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £38.25 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £40.23 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.73 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -2.03% +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 18,048 11,456 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.87% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,047 7,701 10,004
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 286 363
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +6 426 £500 - 183
London +30 255 £513 +2.50% 66
UK excluding London -25 204 £450 -5.26% 152
Work from Home 0 144 £500 - 107
North of England -45 57 £500 +5.26% 33
South East -27 41 £505 -8.18% 48
Scotland +6 33 £320 -28.89% 5
North West -30 33 £450 - 20
Midlands -53 32 £435 -10.77% 30
West Midlands -54 22 £425 -12.82% 21
South West -24 21 £519 +13.39% 20
Yorkshire -40 20 £500 +5.26% 11
Wales -4 10 £300 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -3 9 £435 - 9
East of England -29 9 £510 +2.00% 10
North East -30 4 £365 -2.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 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
1 158 (31.54%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.19%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.40%) Confluence
5 6 (1.20%) Appian
6 5 (1.00%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.80%) Mendix
7 4 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.40%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Camunda
10 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 72 (14.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 406 (81.04%) Power Platform
2 327 (65.27%) PowerApps
3 262 (52.30%) Azure
4 152 (30.34%) Microsoft 365
5 150 (29.94%) Dynamics 365
6 111 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (20.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 69 (13.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 69 (13.77%) Copilot Studio
9 62 (12.38%) Entra ID
10 49 (9.78%) Serverless
11 48 (9.58%) Azure Functions
12 34 (6.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 32 (6.39%) GitHub
14 28 (5.59%) OneDrive
15 24 (4.79%) Azure AI
16 21 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (3.19%) AWS
17 16 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) DNS
1 6 (1.20%) Firewall
1 6 (1.20%) VPN
2 4 (0.80%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.60%) Network Security
3 3 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (40.72%) Power BI
2 37 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.99%) Metadata
4 14 (2.79%) Power Query
5 6 (1.20%) Pinecone
6 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.80%) MySQL
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.40%) Tableau
10 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.19%) JIRA
2 13 (2.59%) Git
3 11 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.20%) MLflow
5 5 (1.00%) Postman
5 5 (1.00%) Selenium
6 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.80%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Protractor
8 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) GitLab
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 160 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 108 (21.56%) Finance
3 76 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.59%) Banking
7 13 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.40%) Marketing
9 11 (2.20%) Law
9 11 (2.20%) Legal
10 9 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.00%) Back Office
12 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.00%) Local Government
12 5 (1.00%) Police
12 5 (1.00%) Retail
13 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 214 (42.71%) Developer
2 83 (16.57%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.37%) Consultant
4 51 (10.18%) Architect
5 47 (9.38%) Senior
6 40 (7.98%) Analyst
7 33 (6.59%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.79%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 26 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (4.99%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.39%) Lead
13 19 (3.79%) Power Apps Developer
14 18 (3.59%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.59%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 17 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (3.39%) Power Platform Consultant
16 16 (3.19%) Power Platform Architect
17 15 (2.99%) Applications Developer
18 14 (2.79%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.18%) .NET
2 49 (9.78%) REST
3 41 (8.18%) Microsoft Graph
4 40 (7.98%) React
5 36 (7.19%) CSS
5 36 (7.19%) HTML
6 35 (6.99%) JSON
6 35 (6.99%) SPFx
7 27 (5.39%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (3.59%) RESTful
9 12 (2.40%) OAuth
10 8 (1.60%) Web Services
11 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (1.40%) XML
12 6 (1.20%) Flask
12 6 (1.20%) Pandas
12 6 (1.20%) pytest
12 6 (1.20%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.20%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.58%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.59%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.19%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.60%) IoT
12 3 (0.60%) IVR
12 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.00%) Windows
2 3 (0.60%) 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
1 204 (40.72%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (29.34%) DevOps
3 120 (23.95%) AI
4 116 (23.15%) Agile
5 108 (21.56%) CI/CD
6 96 (19.16%) Data Modelling
7 78 (15.57%) CRM
8 72 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (12.97%) Workflow
10 60 (11.98%) Analytics
11 49 (9.78%) Migration
12 46 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 44 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (8.38%) Translating Business Requirements
15 40 (7.98%) API Integration
16 36 (7.19%) Integration Patterns
16 36 (7.19%) User Experience
17 31 (6.19%) ETL
17 31 (6.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 120 (23.95%) JavaScript
2 97 (19.36%) C#
3 87 (17.37%) SQL
4 47 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 38 (7.58%) Python
6 32 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.40%) X++
9 10 (2.00%) Java
10 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.80%) Formula Language
11 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.80%) LotusScript
12 3 (0.60%) Bicep
12 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.60%) VBA
13 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
13 2 (0.40%) Bash
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (6.79%) Degree
5 21 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.20%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.40%) GDPR
3 12 (2.40%) QA
4 8 (1.60%) WCAG
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) GRC
6 6 (1.20%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.80%) Docker
3 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.59%) Terraform
2 16 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.40%) Grafana
5 7 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 340 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.39%) UiPath
3 20 (3.99%) SAP
4 18 (3.59%) OpenAI
4 18 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.19%) Oracle
6 8 (1.60%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (1.60%) Foundry
6 8 (1.60%) Google
6 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.40%) Databricks
8 6 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.20%) Splunk
9 5 (1.00%) Lotus
10 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.80%) Brio
10 4 (0.80%) Kofax
11 3 (0.60%) Pega