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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 246 270
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +146
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 492 307 357
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.83% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 209 239
10th Percentile £350 £399 £312
25th Percentile £413 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £617 £630 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -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 17,144 10,856 13,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.68% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,542 7,455 9,874
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 £620 £633
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 240 347
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%
75th Percentile £66.25 £48.19 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.65 £21.28 £17.72
% change year-on-year +81.60% +20.09% -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 22 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 22 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 -1 413 £500 - 161
London +24 259 £500 -4.76% 56
UK excluding London -33 184 £450 -2.70% 125
Work from Home +11 142 £500 - 82
North of England -52 48 £500 +8.11% 41
Scotland +16 35 £320 -26.86% 6
South East -38 34 £505 +12.22% 29
Midlands -56 31 £450 -1.37% 27
North West -33 26 £500 +17.65% 17
South West -17 21 £523 +14.63% 8
West Midlands -53 20 £450 -5.26% 21
Yorkshire -47 16 £500 +5.26% 18
East Midlands -15 10 £443 - 6
Wales -7 8 £300 +9.09% 5
East of England -29 8 £499 -0.25% 4
North East -25 6 £370 -1.33% 6

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
1 163 (33.13%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.85%) HCL Notes
3 13 (2.64%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.03%) Mendix
4 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.63%) Appian
6 7 (1.42%) 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 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 77 (15.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (80.28%) Power Platform
2 309 (62.80%) PowerApps
3 258 (52.44%) Azure
4 151 (30.69%) Dynamics 365
5 143 (29.07%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (19.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 66 (13.41%) Copilot Studio
9 61 (12.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 55 (11.18%) Entra ID
11 48 (9.76%) Serverless
12 47 (9.55%) Azure Functions
13 40 (8.13%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.50%) GitHub
15 28 (5.69%) OneDrive
16 27 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (5.08%) Azure AI
18 16 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (2.44%) AWS
20 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) DNS
1 4 (0.81%) Firewall
1 4 (0.81%) HTTP
1 4 (0.81%) VPN
2 3 (0.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.61%) SMS
3 2 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.41%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (41.67%) Power BI
2 37 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.86%) Power Query
4 18 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.03%) Metadata
5 10 (2.03%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 7 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.22%) Tableau
9 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.61%) MySQL
11 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.25%) Git
1 16 (3.25%) JIRA
2 10 (2.03%) 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%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 156 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 114 (23.17%) Finance
3 77 (15.65%) Public Sector
4 42 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.08%) Banking
7 14 (2.85%) Marketing
8 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.24%) Law
9 9 (1.83%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Back Office
11 6 (1.22%) Police
12 5 (1.02%) Local Government
12 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.81%) Retail
14 3 (0.61%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Automotive
15 2 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (43.70%) Developer
2 78 (15.85%) Power Platform Developer
3 64 (13.01%) Consultant
4 48 (9.76%) Senior
5 44 (8.94%) Architect
6 42 (8.54%) Analyst
7 32 (6.50%) Microsoft Developer
8 27 (5.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 27 (5.49%) SharePoint Developer
9 24 (4.88%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.07%) Power Apps Developer
11 19 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 17 (3.46%) Applications Developer
12 17 (3.46%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 17 (3.46%) Lead
12 17 (3.46%) Power Platform Architect
12 17 (3.46%) Power Platform Consultant
13 16 (3.25%) Platform Architect
14 15 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.59%) .NET
2 52 (10.57%) REST
3 41 (8.33%) React
4 38 (7.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 34 (6.91%) HTML
6 32 (6.50%) CSS
7 30 (6.10%) SPFx
8 28 (5.69%) HTML5 Canvas
9 26 (5.28%) JSON
10 21 (4.27%) RESTful
11 14 (2.85%) OAuth
12 10 (2.03%) Web Services
13 9 (1.83%) NumPy
13 9 (1.83%) Pandas
13 9 (1.83%) Swagger
14 8 (1.63%) JWT
14 8 (1.63%) pytest
14 8 (1.63%) PyTorch
14 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
14 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.38%) Low-Code
2 26 (5.28%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.42%) 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 (0.81%) NHS
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
12 2 (0.41%) BYOD
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
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
1 205 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (28.25%) DevOps
3 103 (20.93%) Agile
4 100 (20.33%) CI/CD
5 96 (19.51%) AI
5 96 (19.51%) Data Modelling
6 81 (16.46%) CRM
7 70 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (12.20%) Analytics
8 60 (12.20%) Workflow
9 43 (8.74%) API Integration
10 38 (7.72%) Integration Patterns
10 38 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (7.52%) Migration
12 35 (7.11%) User Experience
13 33 (6.71%) Change Management
13 33 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (6.50%) Translating Business Requirements
15 31 (6.30%) ETL
16 29 (5.89%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 110 (22.36%) JavaScript
2 94 (19.11%) C#
3 90 (18.29%) SQL
4 49 (9.96%) PowerShell
5 36 (7.32%) Python
6 29 (5.89%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.64%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.24%) X++
10 10 (2.03%) Formula Language
10 10 (2.03%) Java
10 10 (2.03%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.22%) R
13 4 (0.81%) VBA
14 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.41%) Bash
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
15 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.89%) Degree
3 29 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.41%) MBA
8 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.63%) QA
3 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.42%) GDPR
4 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.81%) 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
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) Docker
3 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.25%) Terraform
3 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.42%) 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 (66.26%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.08%) Oracle
3 22 (4.47%) UiPath
4 21 (4.27%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.85%) Lotus
6 14 (2.85%) SAP
7 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.03%) Kofax
9 9 (1.83%) Foundry
10 8 (1.63%) Google
11 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.81%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.81%) Brio
12 4 (0.81%) Databricks
12 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.81%) Splunk
13 3 (0.61%) Pega
186 Power Automate jobs Nationwide