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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 218 332
Rank change year-on-year -21 +114 +80
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 411 402 301
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.12% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 3.14% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 273 218
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £400 £414 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £590 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.78 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 15 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 3 December 2025. 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 -9 365 £500 +1.78% 208
London -6 221 £510 +2.00% 85
UK excluding London -33 138 £475 - 171
Work from Home +7 136 £520 +10.64% 104
Midlands -27 40 £480 +4.35% 36
North of England -40 40 £475 +0.53% 29
West Midlands -34 29 £490 +7.69% 23
North West -17 25 £438 -6.91% 15
South West -1 23 £375 -44.44% 6
Yorkshire -32 15 £525 +5.00% 13
South East -6 12 £500 -13.04% 79
Scotland +3 11 £481 +13.24% 2
East Midlands -10 10 £450 -10.00% 13
Wales -3 6 £398 +6.00% 3
East of England -18 6 £438 +4.17% 20

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
1 136 (33.09%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.41%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.95%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) Mendix
6 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) IIS
6 2 (0.49%) Moodle
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 27 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.70%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 74 (18.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.73%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 359 (87.35%) Power Platform
2 296 (72.02%) PowerApps
3 227 (55.23%) Azure
4 147 (35.77%) Dynamics 365
5 119 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (13.38%) Microsoft Copilot
8 54 (13.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (10.95%) Azure Functions
9 45 (10.95%) Serverless
10 40 (9.73%) Copilot Studio
11 37 (9.00%) Entra ID
12 22 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (4.38%) GitHub
15 17 (4.14%) OneDrive
16 15 (3.65%) Azure AI
16 15 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) DKIM
3 1 (0.24%) DMARC
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) PSTN
3 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.24%) Skype
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (51.58%) Power BI
2 20 (4.87%) Power Query
3 16 (3.89%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.70%) Metadata
7 7 (1.70%) Tableau
8 6 (1.46%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.49%) GIS
10 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL
11 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.24%) QlikView
11 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.76%) JIRA
2 30 (7.30%) Git
3 7 (1.70%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.49%) GitLab
5 2 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) gulp
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 158 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.52%) Finance
3 68 (16.55%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.30%) Banking
5 20 (4.87%) Marketing
6 12 (2.92%) Retail
7 8 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.95%) Law
7 8 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.70%) Legal
9 5 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.73%) Back Office
11 3 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) German Language
Job Titles
1 183 (44.53%) Developer
2 67 (16.30%) Power Platform Developer
3 42 (10.22%) Consultant
4 40 (9.73%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 30 (7.30%) Architect
6 29 (7.06%) Analyst
6 29 (7.06%) Power Apps Developer
7 28 (6.81%) Lead
7 28 (6.81%) Senior
8 24 (5.84%) Applications Developer
9 19 (4.62%) Microsoft Developer
10 17 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 14 (3.41%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.41%) Functional Consultant
12 11 (2.68%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 10 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.43%) Power Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.36%) .NET
2 37 (9.00%) REST
3 32 (7.79%) HTML
3 32 (7.79%) HTML5 Canvas
4 25 (6.08%) JSON
5 20 (4.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 15 (3.65%) React
7 14 (3.41%) SOAP
7 14 (3.41%) XML
8 13 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.92%) CSS
10 10 (2.43%) OAuth
11 9 (2.19%) JMS
11 9 (2.19%) XSD
12 6 (1.46%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.22%) LangChain
13 5 (1.22%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.22%) RESTful
13 5 (1.22%) Semantic Kernel
14 4 (0.97%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.98%) Low-Code
2 20 (4.87%) AI Agents
3 17 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.68%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.22%) IVR
8 5 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.97%) Data Fabric
9 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.97%) Derivative
9 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.73%) IoT
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.95%) Windows
2 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (50.85%) Business Intelligence
2 132 (32.12%) Agile
3 102 (24.82%) DevOps
4 77 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (18.49%) CRM
6 66 (16.06%) CI/CD
7 63 (15.33%) Data Modelling
8 53 (12.90%) Analytics
9 48 (11.68%) AI
10 42 (10.22%) Workflow
11 40 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 36 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (8.27%) Migration
14 32 (7.79%) Visualisation
15 31 (7.54%) Customer Service
15 31 (7.54%) Scrum
16 28 (6.81%) Data Protection
17 26 (6.33%) Decision-Making
17 26 (6.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.90%) JavaScript
2 88 (21.41%) SQL
3 75 (18.25%) C#
4 39 (9.49%) PowerShell
5 38 (9.25%) Python
6 23 (5.60%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.19%) R
9 7 (1.70%) Formula Language
9 7 (1.70%) LotusScript
9 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.22%) X++
11 4 (0.97%) VBA
12 3 (0.73%) Bicep
12 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.49%) Java
13 2 (0.49%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Bash
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.46%) Degree
4 34 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) MBA
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CIMA
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.84%) QA
2 12 (2.92%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.92%) GDPR
3 7 (1.70%) PMO
4 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.49%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.24%) P3O
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.19%) Terraform
2 8 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 316 (76.89%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.38%) SAP
4 14 (3.41%) Blue Prism
4 14 (3.41%) Lotus
5 13 (3.16%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.19%) Oracle
8 6 (1.46%) DocuSign
8 6 (1.46%) UiPath
9 4 (0.97%) Foundry
10 3 (0.73%) Brio
10 3 (0.73%) Kofax
10 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.73%) Pega
11 2 (0.49%) Adobe
11 2 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco
11 2 (0.49%) ESRI
11 2 (0.49%) Google