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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 276 275
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +105
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 543 312 342
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 0.95% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 2.55% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 199 231
10th Percentile £320 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £603 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £58.15 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.01% +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 18,718 12,228 13,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,357 8,194 9,320
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 284
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +16 477 £500 - 192
London +23 280 £510 +2.00% 78
UK excluding London +13 218 £475 - 153
Work from Home +14 153 £500 - 108
North of England -39 66 £500 - 34
Midlands -25 50 £435 -13.00% 29
North West -27 43 £495 -1.00% 18
West Midlands -42 38 £425 -12.82% 21
South East -38 35 £525 -4.55% 50
Scotland +5 31 £320 -28.89% 5
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 +2.56% 11
South West -40 19 £490 +5.38% 18
East of England -14 13 £488 +2.63% 18
East Midlands -4 11 £455 -24.17% 8
Wales -13 3 £550 +100.00% 4
North East -42 3 £550 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 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
1 186 (34.25%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.42%) SharePoint Server
3 21 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.10%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.37%) Appian
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) Liferay
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 46 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 74 (13.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 448 (82.50%) Power Platform
2 370 (68.14%) PowerApps
3 280 (51.57%) Azure
4 171 (31.49%) Dynamics 365
5 165 (30.39%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (21.73%) Microsoft Copilot
7 111 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (12.15%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (10.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (10.87%) Entra ID
10 44 (8.10%) Serverless
11 43 (7.92%) Azure Functions
12 39 (7.18%) OneDrive
13 33 (6.08%) GitHub
14 29 (5.34%) Azure AI
15 23 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (3.31%) AWS
16 18 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.47%) DNS
2 7 (1.29%) Firewall
2 7 (1.29%) VPN
3 5 (0.92%) Intranet
4 3 (0.55%) HTTP
4 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.55%) Network Security
4 3 (0.55%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (41.99%) Power BI
2 40 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.79%) Power Query
4 19 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.31%) Metadata
6 6 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.10%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.92%) MySQL
8 4 (0.74%) EDRMS
8 4 (0.74%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.55%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.55%) Tableau
10 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (3.50%) JIRA
2 17 (3.13%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.39%) Git
4 9 (1.66%) Postman
4 9 (1.66%) Selenium
5 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.47%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.55%) Protractor
8 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.37%) JUnit
8 2 (0.37%) MLflow
8 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 121 (22.28%) Finance
3 88 (16.21%) Public Sector
4 52 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.16%) Banking
7 21 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.31%) Marketing
9 14 (2.58%) Law
10 9 (1.66%) Legal
10 9 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.66%) Retail
11 8 (1.47%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.29%) Local Government
13 6 (1.10%) Back Office
14 5 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.92%) Military
15 4 (0.74%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.74%) Police
16 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (43.46%) Developer
2 90 (16.57%) Power Platform Developer
3 72 (13.26%) Consultant
4 65 (11.97%) Senior
5 46 (8.47%) Analyst
5 46 (8.47%) Architect
6 36 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.08%) SharePoint Developer
8 31 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 30 (5.52%) Microsoft Developer
10 27 (4.97%) Lead
10 27 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.24%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 19 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.31%) Power Platform Consultant
14 16 (2.95%) Power Apps Developer
14 16 (2.95%) Power Platform Engineer
15 14 (2.58%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.39%) Data Analyst
16 13 (2.39%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.05%) .NET
2 53 (9.76%) REST
3 40 (7.37%) JSON
4 37 (6.81%) HTML
4 37 (6.81%) React
5 36 (6.63%) CSS
5 36 (6.63%) Microsoft Graph
5 36 (6.63%) SPFx
6 29 (5.34%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (2.21%) RESTful
8 11 (2.03%) OAuth
9 9 (1.66%) Middleware
10 8 (1.47%) Gherkin
10 8 (1.47%) jQuery
11 7 (1.29%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.29%) FIDO
11 7 (1.29%) XML
12 6 (1.10%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.10%) YAML
13 5 (0.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.29%) Low-Code
2 27 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.24%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.47%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.55%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.55%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.55%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.55%) IoT
11 3 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.29%) Windows
2 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (42.36%) Business Intelligence
2 150 (27.62%) DevOps
3 145 (26.70%) Agile
4 139 (25.60%) AI
5 128 (23.57%) CI/CD
6 101 (18.60%) Data Modelling
7 86 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (15.10%) CRM
9 76 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (13.44%) Migration
11 71 (13.08%) Workflow
12 64 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (10.50%) Analytics
15 56 (10.31%) Translating Business Requirements
16 42 (7.73%) Integration Patterns
16 42 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (7.18%) Scrum
18 37 (6.81%) Customer Service
18 37 (6.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 135 (24.86%) JavaScript
2 112 (20.63%) C#
3 92 (16.94%) SQL
4 49 (9.02%) PowerShell
5 41 (7.55%) Python
6 30 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.13%) X++
9 14 (2.58%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.66%) Java
11 8 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.92%) Bicep
13 4 (0.74%) Bash
13 4 (0.74%) VBA
14 3 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.37%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.18%) Formula Language
16 1 (0.18%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 106 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (8.29%) Degree
5 24 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.74%) PMP
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISM
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.50%) QA
4 18 (3.31%) GDPR
5 11 (2.03%) WCAG
6 8 (1.47%) PMO
7 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.29%) NIST
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
9 5 (0.92%) SLA
10 3 (0.55%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.18%) MiFID
12 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (3.68%) Terraform
2 14 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.66%) Grafana
4 9 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 390 (71.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.87%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.68%) SAP
4 16 (2.95%) Oracle
4 16 (2.95%) UiPath
5 11 (2.03%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.84%) Databricks
6 10 (1.84%) Foundry
7 9 (1.66%) Google
8 7 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.29%) Splunk
9 6 (1.10%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.92%) Brio
11 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.55%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.55%) Pega
12 3 (0.55%) Workday