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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 234 262
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +147
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 490 318 351
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.90% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 217 234
10th Percentile £350 £398 £313
25th Percentile £413 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £613 £630 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £25.71 - -
25th Percentile £26.46 £56.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £58.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +245.59% -47.29%
75th Percentile £32.98 £60.63 £17.50
90th Percentile £36.14 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.83 £58.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -45.82% +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 17,053 10,966 13,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.55% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,507 7,533 9,862
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 249 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.81 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -31.49%

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 19 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
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 19 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 -2 411 £500 - 162
London +15 260 £500 -4.76% 64
UK excluding London -32 181 £450 - 118
Work from Home +1 144 £500 - 92
North of England -51 46 £500 +11.11% 31
Scotland +15 35 £320 -26.86% 6
South East -43 34 £505 +12.22% 38
Midlands -53 32 £450 +2.86% 25
North West -29 26 £500 +17.65% 11
West Midlands -56 21 £456 +4.29% 16
South West -16 20 £523 +14.63% 7
Yorkshire -48 14 £500 +5.26% 15
East Midlands -21 10 £443 - 9
Wales -4 8 £300 +9.09% 7
East of England -30 7 £488 -2.50% 7
North East -19 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
1 162 (33.06%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.86%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.45%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.04%) Mendix
4 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.63%) Appian
6 7 (1.43%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 81 (16.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.43%) 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
1 393 (80.20%) Power Platform
2 309 (63.06%) PowerApps
3 259 (52.86%) Azure
4 155 (31.63%) Dynamics 365
5 142 (28.98%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (21.02%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (18.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 65 (13.27%) Copilot Studio
9 61 (12.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 53 (10.82%) Entra ID
11 50 (10.20%) Serverless
12 49 (10.00%) Azure Functions
13 39 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (6.33%) GitHub
15 28 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (5.71%) OneDrive
16 25 (5.10%) Azure AI
17 15 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (2.24%) AWS
19 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) DNS
2 4 (0.82%) Firewall
2 4 (0.82%) VPN
3 3 (0.61%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) SMS
4 2 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.41%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (42.45%) Power BI
2 37 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.67%) Power Query
4 10 (2.04%) Metadata
4 10 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
6 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.22%) Tableau
7 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.82%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.61%) MySQL
9 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (3.27%) Git
1 16 (3.27%) JIRA
2 10 (2.04%) Visual Studio
3 8 (1.63%) MLflow
4 3 (0.61%) Postman
5 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) JUnit
5 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) GitLab
6 1 (0.20%) gulp
6 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 159 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 114 (23.27%) Finance
3 78 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.31%) Banking
7 15 (3.06%) Marketing
8 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.24%) Law
9 9 (1.84%) Legal
10 7 (1.43%) Back Office
11 5 (1.02%) Local Government
11 5 (1.02%) Police
11 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Retail
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
14 2 (0.41%) Military
14 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (44.08%) Developer
2 79 (16.12%) Power Platform Developer
3 68 (13.88%) Consultant
4 46 (9.39%) Senior
5 42 (8.57%) Architect
6 40 (8.16%) Analyst
7 32 (6.53%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.92%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 27 (5.51%) SharePoint Developer
10 24 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.08%) Power Apps Developer
12 19 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 18 (3.67%) Power Platform Consultant
14 17 (3.47%) Applications Developer
14 17 (3.47%) Lead
14 17 (3.47%) Power Platform Architect
15 16 (3.27%) Platform Architect
16 15 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.84%) .NET
2 52 (10.61%) REST
3 40 (8.16%) React
4 38 (7.76%) Microsoft Graph
5 34 (6.94%) HTML
6 31 (6.33%) CSS
7 29 (5.92%) SPFx
8 28 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
8 28 (5.71%) JSON
9 21 (4.29%) RESTful
10 15 (3.06%) OAuth
11 10 (2.04%) Web Services
12 9 (1.84%) NumPy
12 9 (1.84%) Pandas
12 9 (1.84%) Swagger
13 8 (1.63%) Flask
13 8 (1.63%) pytest
13 8 (1.63%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.43%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.90%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.22%) IVR
9 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.82%) NHS
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
12 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) State Machine
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (42.45%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (28.57%) DevOps
3 105 (21.43%) Agile
4 100 (20.41%) CI/CD
5 96 (19.59%) Data Modelling
6 91 (18.57%) AI
7 85 (17.35%) CRM
8 70 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (12.45%) Workflow
10 60 (12.24%) Analytics
11 42 (8.57%) API Integration
12 39 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (7.76%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (7.76%) User Experience
14 37 (7.55%) Migration
15 32 (6.53%) Change Management
15 32 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (6.33%) ETL
16 31 (6.33%) Translating Business Requirements
17 30 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 112 (22.86%) JavaScript
2 96 (19.59%) C#
3 89 (18.16%) SQL
4 47 (9.59%) PowerShell
5 35 (7.14%) Python
6 30 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.65%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.04%) Formula Language
9 10 (2.04%) Java
9 10 (2.04%) LotusScript
9 10 (2.04%) X++
10 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.22%) R
12 4 (0.82%) VBA
13 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (6.12%) Degree
5 21 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) MBA
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.04%) QA
3 7 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.43%) GDPR
4 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.82%) WCAG
6 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.61%) NIST
6 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.61%) SLA
6 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) Docker
3 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.06%) Terraform
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.02%) Grafana
5 5 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 326 (66.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.10%) Oracle
3 22 (4.49%) UiPath
4 21 (4.29%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.86%) Lotus
6 14 (2.86%) SAP
7 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.04%) Kofax
9 8 (1.63%) Foundry
10 7 (1.43%) Google
11 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.82%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.82%) Brio
12 4 (0.82%) Databricks
12 4 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.82%) Splunk
13 3 (0.61%) Pega