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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 226 291
Rank change year-on-year -10 +65 +122
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 501 347 351
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.18% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 3.14% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 238 234
10th Percentile £350 £390 £313
25th Percentile £413 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £630 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -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% -52.78%
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% -70.43%

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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -10 423 £500 - 160
London +21 263 £500 -4.76% 70
UK excluding London -48 183 £450 -2.17% 128
Work from Home -7 144 £500 - 85
North of England -78 42 £500 +6.38% 27
South East -43 36 £505 +12.22% 51
Midlands -59 36 £450 -2.17% 23
Scotland +10 33 £320 -24.71% 2
North West -33 26 £500 +7.53% 19
West Midlands -61 26 £438 -5.91% 15
South West -24 23 £463 +1.37% 8
Yorkshire -66 10 £500 +5.26% 5
East Midlands -28 9 £450 - 8
Wales -5 8 £300 +21.21% 5
North East -21 6 £370 -20.43% 3
East of England -34 6 £488 -2.50% 15

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
1 168 (33.53%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.99%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (2.00%) Mendix
6 8 (1.60%) Appian
7 7 (1.40%) Confluence
8 3 (0.60%) CMS
9 2 (0.40%) Camunda
9 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.20%) Orchard CMS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 81 (16.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 406 (81.04%) Power Platform
2 318 (63.47%) PowerApps
3 261 (52.10%) Azure
4 156 (31.14%) Microsoft 365
5 153 (30.54%) Dynamics 365
6 96 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (17.96%) Microsoft Copilot
8 68 (13.57%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (11.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 54 (10.78%) Serverless
11 53 (10.58%) Azure Functions
12 49 (9.78%) Entra ID
13 38 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 37 (7.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (5.99%) GitHub
16 28 (5.59%) Azure AI
16 28 (5.59%) OneDrive
17 13 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (2.20%) AWS
19 9 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) DNS
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.60%) SMS
2 3 (0.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (45.91%) Power BI
2 33 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.59%) Power Query
5 11 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.00%) Metadata
7 8 (1.60%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.40%) Tableau
9 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (4.39%) JIRA
2 20 (3.99%) Git
3 8 (1.60%) MLflow
3 8 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.60%) Postman
5 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) GitLab
6 1 (0.20%) gulp
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 166 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 108 (21.56%) Finance
3 74 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.79%) Banking
6 27 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.19%) Marketing
8 11 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.00%) Law
10 9 (1.80%) Legal
11 6 (1.20%) Back Office
11 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.20%) Retail
12 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.00%) Police
12 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Local Government
14 2 (0.40%) Automotive
14 2 (0.40%) German Language
14 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 224 (44.71%) Developer
2 82 (16.37%) Power Platform Developer
3 57 (11.38%) Consultant
4 45 (8.98%) Analyst
5 43 (8.58%) Senior
6 33 (6.59%) Architect
7 32 (6.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 31 (6.19%) Microsoft Developer
9 26 (5.19%) SharePoint Developer
10 24 (4.79%) Power Apps Developer
11 23 (4.59%) Applications Developer
11 23 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 21 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 17 (3.39%) Power Platform Architect
14 16 (3.19%) Platform Architect
14 16 (3.19%) Power Platform Consultant
15 14 (2.79%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.59%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.38%) .NET
2 54 (10.78%) REST
3 37 (7.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 36 (7.19%) HTML
4 36 (7.19%) React
5 31 (6.19%) CSS
6 25 (4.99%) SPFx
7 24 (4.79%) HTML5 Canvas
7 24 (4.79%) JSON
8 20 (3.99%) RESTful
9 18 (3.59%) OAuth
10 12 (2.40%) NumPy
10 12 (2.40%) Pandas
11 11 (2.20%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.20%) Flask
12 10 (2.00%) Web Services
13 9 (1.80%) Swagger
14 8 (1.60%) pytest
14 8 (1.60%) scikit-learn
14 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.38%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.79%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.59%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.20%) IVR
9 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) PKI
10 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
11 3 (0.60%) NHS
12 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) 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
1 229 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (27.35%) DevOps
3 104 (20.76%) Agile
4 97 (19.36%) Data Modelling
5 95 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 89 (17.76%) AI
7 85 (16.97%) CRM
8 73 (14.57%) Analytics
8 73 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (12.77%) Workflow
10 44 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (8.38%) API Integration
12 39 (7.78%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.58%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (7.58%) User Experience
14 34 (6.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.59%) Decision-Making
16 31 (6.19%) Translating Business Requirements
16 31 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (21.36%) JavaScript
2 101 (20.16%) SQL
3 90 (17.96%) C#
4 42 (8.38%) PowerShell
4 42 (8.38%) Python
5 35 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.20%) Formula Language
8 11 (2.20%) LotusScript
9 10 (2.00%) Java
10 8 (1.60%) R
11 7 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.40%) X++
12 5 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.80%) VBA
14 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.40%) Bash
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 93 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.78%) Degree
4 31 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.40%) MBA
9 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CIMA
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.40%) QA
3 9 (1.80%) GDPR
4 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.20%) GRC
6 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.59%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.80%) Grafana
4 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 337 (67.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.19%) Oracle
3 25 (4.99%) UiPath
4 24 (4.79%) OpenAI
4 24 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.99%) Lotus
5 15 (2.99%) SAP
6 11 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.00%) Kofax
8 8 (1.60%) Foundry
9 6 (1.20%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.00%) Brio
10 5 (1.00%) Google
10 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.80%) Databricks
11 4 (0.80%) Pega
12 3 (0.60%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft