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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 220 283
Rank change year-on-year -18 +63 +110
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 501 353 359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.21% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 3.18% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 243 242
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £436 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £615 £630 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -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 16,733 11,092 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.56% 37.96% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,425 7,746 10,122
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £702 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 236 343
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £61.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.94% -22.20%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -18 414 £500 - 201
London -3 252 £500 -4.76% 63
UK excluding London -39 188 £450 -3.74% 156
Work from Home -16 146 £513 +2.50% 94
North of England -57 51 £500 +6.38% 34
Scotland +20 35 £360 -15.29% 4
North West -17 35 £500 +6.38% 22
South East -37 32 £505 +12.22% 51
Midlands -62 32 £450 -4.26% 40
West Midlands -63 25 £438 -6.91% 24
South West -15 24 £425 -8.36% 12
Wales +1 12 £308 +17.14% 3
Yorkshire -55 10 £500 +5.82% 9
East Midlands -36 7 £450 -10.00% 15
North East -18 6 £370 -20.43% 4
East of England -33 3 - - 17

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
1 172 (34.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.99%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.00%) Mendix
5 9 (1.80%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (1.60%) Appian
7 6 (1.20%) 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%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.20%) Orchard CMS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.60%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 84 (16.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.60%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 410 (81.84%) Power Platform
2 326 (65.07%) PowerApps
3 262 (52.30%) Azure
4 158 (31.54%) Microsoft 365
5 150 (29.94%) Dynamics 365
6 97 (19.36%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (17.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 67 (13.37%) Copilot Studio
9 61 (12.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 56 (11.18%) Serverless
11 55 (10.98%) Azure Functions
12 52 (10.38%) Entra ID
13 38 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.39%) Azure AI
15 30 (5.99%) GitHub
16 27 (5.39%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (2.20%) AWS
19 10 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Network Security
3 2 (0.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (46.91%) Power BI
2 30 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.59%) Power Query
5 11 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.80%) 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%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.20%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 22 (4.39%) JIRA
2 19 (3.79%) Git
3 8 (1.60%) MLflow
4 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) gulp
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Maven
7 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 167 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.56%) Finance
3 85 (16.97%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.19%) Banking
6 26 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.79%) Marketing
8 11 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.20%) Law
9 10 (2.00%) Legal
10 8 (1.60%) Retail
11 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.00%) Police
14 4 (0.80%) Back Office
14 4 (0.80%) Local Government
15 2 (0.40%) German Language
15 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 221 (44.11%) Developer
2 81 (16.17%) Power Platform Developer
3 53 (10.58%) Consultant
4 46 (9.18%) Analyst
5 40 (7.98%) Senior
6 33 (6.59%) Architect
7 32 (6.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 28 (5.59%) Microsoft Developer
8 28 (5.59%) Power Apps Developer
9 25 (4.99%) Applications Developer
10 24 (4.79%) SharePoint Developer
11 23 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 21 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
13 20 (3.99%) Senior Developer
14 17 (3.39%) Platform Architect
14 17 (3.39%) Power Platform Architect
15 16 (3.19%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 14 (2.79%) Data Engineer
16 14 (2.79%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.58%) .NET
2 57 (11.38%) REST
3 37 (7.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 36 (7.19%) HTML
5 32 (6.39%) React
6 29 (5.79%) CSS
7 27 (5.39%) HTML5 Canvas
8 23 (4.59%) SPFx
9 21 (4.19%) JSON
10 19 (3.79%) OAuth
11 17 (3.39%) RESTful
12 12 (2.40%) NumPy
12 12 (2.40%) Pandas
13 11 (2.20%) FastAPI
13 11 (2.20%) Flask
14 9 (1.80%) Swagger
14 9 (1.80%) Web Services
15 8 (1.60%) Django
15 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
15 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.38%) Low-Code
2 25 (4.99%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.79%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.00%) IVR
9 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
10 4 (0.80%) PKI
11 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.40%) IoT
12 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.40%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
1 3 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (46.71%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (25.75%) DevOps
3 103 (20.56%) Agile
4 96 (19.16%) Data Modelling
5 95 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 88 (17.56%) AI
7 87 (17.37%) CRM
8 75 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (14.77%) Analytics
10 68 (13.57%) Workflow
11 46 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (8.18%) API Integration
13 40 (7.98%) Data Governance
14 38 (7.58%) User Experience
15 37 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.39%) Integration Patterns
16 33 (6.59%) Decision-Making
17 32 (6.39%) ETL
17 32 (6.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 31 (6.19%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 111 (22.16%) JavaScript
2 100 (19.96%) SQL
3 88 (17.56%) C#
4 47 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 43 (8.58%) Python
6 36 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.20%) Formula Language
8 11 (2.20%) LotusScript
9 10 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.60%) Java
10 8 (1.60%) R
11 6 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.80%) VBA
14 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.60%) X++
15 2 (0.40%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.40%) Bash
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 92 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 72 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.98%) Degree
4 30 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
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%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CIMA
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.20%) QA
3 10 (2.00%) GDPR
4 8 (1.60%) 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%) HIPAA
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 38 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.20%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 347 (69.26%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.59%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.59%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.59%) UiPath
4 22 (4.39%) Oracle
5 15 (2.99%) Lotus
5 15 (2.99%) SAP
6 11 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.00%) Kofax
8 9 (1.80%) Foundry
9 8 (1.60%) Blue Prism
10 6 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.00%) Brio
11 5 (1.00%) Google
12 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.60%) Databricks
13 3 (0.60%) Genesys
13 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.40%) Pega
14 2 (0.40%) Workday