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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 230 281
Rank change year-on-year -7 +51 +136
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 494 323 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.11% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 2.96% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 221 231
10th Percentile £350 £393 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £612 £630 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £26.46 - -
25th Percentile £30.35 £56.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.13 £58.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% +245.59% -47.29%
75th Percentile £98.75 £60.63 £17.50
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 £58.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +53.19% +245.59% -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 17,001 10,920 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.57% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,473 7,513 9,833
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 247 347
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £36.81
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +95.76% +20.71% -29.12%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -24 414 £500 - 170
London +13 259 £500 -4.76% 75
UK excluding London -23 185 £450 - 115
Work from Home +7 144 £500 - 103
North of England -49 44 £500 +11.11% 28
South East -35 38 £505 +12.22% 37
Scotland +21 35 £320 -26.86% 6
Midlands -59 32 £450 +2.86% 23
North West -23 26 £500 +17.65% 10
South West -20 21 £500 +9.59% 8
West Midlands -63 21 £456 +4.29% 14
Yorkshire -55 12 £500 +5.26% 13
East Midlands -19 10 £443 - 9
Wales -1 8 £300 +21.21% 7
East of England -33 8 £488 -2.50% 8
North East -17 6 £370 -1.33% 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
1 159 (32.19%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.83%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.43%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.02%) Mendix
5 8 (1.62%) Appian
6 7 (1.42%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (15.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (80.16%) Power Platform
2 308 (62.35%) PowerApps
3 259 (52.43%) Azure
4 153 (30.97%) Dynamics 365
5 143 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (18.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (12.96%) Copilot Studio
9 60 (12.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 52 (10.53%) Entra ID
11 48 (9.72%) Serverless
12 47 (9.51%) Azure Functions
13 38 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (6.28%) GitHub
15 29 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (5.47%) OneDrive
17 25 (5.06%) Azure AI
18 15 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (2.83%) AWS
20 11 (2.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) HTTP
2 4 (0.81%) DNS
2 4 (0.81%) Firewall
2 4 (0.81%) VPN
3 3 (0.61%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) SMS
4 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (42.51%) Power BI
2 36 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.64%) Power Query
4 10 (2.02%) Metadata
4 10 (2.02%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.62%) Pinecone
6 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.21%) Tableau
7 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.61%) MySQL
9 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (3.85%) JIRA
2 16 (3.24%) Git
3 10 (2.02%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.62%) MLflow
5 3 (0.61%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 161 (32.59%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.87%) Finance
3 74 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.26%) Banking
7 14 (2.83%) Marketing
8 11 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.23%) Law
9 10 (2.02%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Back Office
11 5 (1.01%) Local Government
11 5 (1.01%) Police
11 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Retail
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
14 2 (0.40%) Automotive
14 2 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 211 (42.71%) Developer
2 78 (15.79%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.56%) Consultant
4 46 (9.31%) Senior
5 43 (8.70%) Architect
6 40 (8.10%) Analyst
7 31 (6.28%) Microsoft Developer
8 27 (5.47%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 27 (5.47%) SharePoint Developer
9 24 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.05%) Power Apps Developer
11 19 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 18 (3.64%) Power Platform Consultant
13 17 (3.44%) Applications Developer
13 17 (3.44%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 17 (3.44%) Lead
13 17 (3.44%) Power Platform Architect
14 16 (3.24%) Platform Architect
15 15 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.54%) .NET
2 52 (10.53%) REST
3 39 (7.89%) React
4 37 (7.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 34 (6.88%) HTML
6 31 (6.28%) CSS
7 28 (5.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 28 (5.67%) SPFx
8 26 (5.26%) JSON
9 21 (4.25%) RESTful
10 15 (3.04%) OAuth
11 10 (2.02%) Web Services
12 9 (1.82%) NumPy
12 9 (1.82%) Pandas
12 9 (1.82%) Swagger
13 8 (1.62%) Flask
13 8 (1.62%) pytest
13 8 (1.62%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.62%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.54%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.86%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.21%) IVR
9 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.01%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.81%) PKI
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
11 3 (0.61%) NHS
12 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.40%) State Machine
12 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (42.51%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (28.14%) DevOps
3 106 (21.46%) Agile
4 102 (20.65%) CI/CD
5 94 (19.03%) Data Modelling
6 90 (18.22%) AI
7 82 (16.60%) CRM
8 70 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (13.16%) Workflow
10 61 (12.35%) Analytics
11 42 (8.50%) API Integration
12 40 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (7.69%) User Experience
14 37 (7.49%) Migration
15 34 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (6.68%) Change Management
16 33 (6.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 32 (6.48%) ETL
17 32 (6.48%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 109 (22.06%) JavaScript
2 93 (18.83%) C#
3 90 (18.22%) SQL
4 46 (9.31%) PowerShell
5 35 (7.09%) Python
6 29 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.02%) Formula Language
9 10 (2.02%) Java
9 10 (2.02%) LotusScript
9 10 (2.02%) X++
10 8 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.21%) R
12 4 (0.81%) VBA
13 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 90 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.48%) Degree
4 30 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.40%) MBA
9 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.02%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.21%) GDPR
3 6 (1.21%) GRC
4 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.61%) NIST
5 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.61%) SLA
5 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.61%) WCAG
6 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.02%) Docker
3 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.04%) Terraform
3 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.01%) Grafana
5 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 328 (66.40%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.06%) Oracle
3 22 (4.45%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.45%) UiPath
4 21 (4.25%) OpenAI
5 15 (3.04%) SAP
6 14 (2.83%) Lotus
7 11 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.02%) Kofax
9 8 (1.62%) Foundry
9 8 (1.62%) Google
10 5 (1.01%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.81%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.81%) Brio
11 4 (0.81%) Databricks
11 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.81%) Pega
11 4 (0.81%) Splunk