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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 259 252
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +123
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 573 337 364
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.02% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 2.72% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 208 244
10th Percentile £313 £363 £329
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £591 £638 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -2.11% -3.80% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 0
10th Percentile £28.19 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £53.00 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.43 -
% change year-on-year +11.09% - -

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 18,878 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 195
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -35.77% +15.38%

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 18 September 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 18 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 18 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 18 September 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 +8 506 £488 -2.50% 390
London -14 281 £499 -5.00% 205
UK excluding London +18 257 £465 -2.11% 274
Work from Home -35 135 £500 - 216
Midlands -3 77 £425 -15.00% 31
North of England -30 67 £500 +5.26% 60
West Midlands -11 60 £425 -13.27% 17
North West -20 46 £500 +11.11% 30
South East -32 36 £500 -13.04% 74
Scotland +3 33 £431 -4.17% 28
South West -36 20 £413 -8.33% 27
Yorkshire -34 17 £500 - 19
East Midlands -4 16 £472 -18.00% 14
East of England -20 16 £475 +5.56% 20
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 22
North East -44 4 £550 - 13
Wales - 3 £550 - 13
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 4

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
1 203 (35.43%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (4.71%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (1.57%) Confluence
5 4 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.70%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.52%) Mendix
7 2 (0.35%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.17%) Appian
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Liferay
Applications
1 44 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 85 (14.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 486 (84.82%) Power Platform
2 395 (68.94%) PowerApps
3 302 (52.71%) Azure
4 200 (34.90%) Dynamics 365
5 163 (28.45%) Microsoft 365
6 151 (26.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 124 (21.64%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (14.49%) Copilot Studio
9 65 (11.34%) Serverless
10 64 (11.17%) Azure Functions
10 64 (11.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 59 (10.30%) Entra ID
12 45 (7.85%) OneDrive
13 39 (6.81%) GitHub
14 37 (6.46%) Azure AI
15 25 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (3.32%) AWS
18 13 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.40%) DNS
1 8 (1.40%) Firewall
2 7 (1.22%) VPN
3 5 (0.87%) Intranet
4 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.52%) SMS
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Skype
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (42.06%) Power BI
2 48 (8.38%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.76%) Power Query
4 21 (3.66%) Metadata
5 17 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.22%) Star Schema
8 6 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.87%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.70%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.70%) GIS
10 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.52%) MySQL
11 3 (0.52%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.52%) Tableau
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.35%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (4.01%) JIRA
2 21 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 20 (3.49%) Git
4 12 (2.09%) Selenium
5 10 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.75%) Postman
5 10 (1.75%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.52%) Protractor
9 2 (0.35%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.35%) MSTest
9 2 (0.35%) NUnit
9 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.35%) TestRail
10 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
General
1 227 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 127 (22.16%) Finance
3 94 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 70 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.36%) Banking
7 23 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.01%) Marketing
8 11 (1.92%) Law
9 10 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.57%) Legal
11 8 (1.40%) Retail
12 7 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.22%) Local Government
13 6 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.05%) Military
13 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.87%) Back Office
15 4 (0.70%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (44.15%) Developer
2 86 (15.01%) Power Platform Developer
3 66 (11.52%) Consultant
4 64 (11.17%) Senior
5 55 (9.60%) Architect
5 55 (9.60%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 54 (9.42%) Analyst
7 38 (6.63%) Senior Developer
8 34 (5.93%) Lead
9 31 (5.41%) Microsoft Developer
10 30 (5.24%) SharePoint Developer
11 27 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (3.84%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 20 (3.49%) Power Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.32%) Power Platform Architect
15 18 (3.14%) Data Analyst
16 15 (2.62%) Dynamics 365 Architect
17 14 (2.44%) Data Engineer
17 14 (2.44%) Platform Architect
17 14 (2.44%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.91%) .NET
2 53 (9.25%) REST
3 49 (8.55%) JSON
4 34 (5.93%) HTML
5 32 (5.58%) CSS
6 30 (5.24%) React
6 30 (5.24%) SPFx
7 29 (5.06%) HTML5 Canvas
8 27 (4.71%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (3.14%) Terraform
10 17 (2.97%) XML
11 14 (2.44%) Middleware
12 13 (2.27%) XSLT
13 11 (1.92%) OAuth
13 11 (1.92%) RESTful
14 10 (1.75%) Gherkin
15 8 (1.40%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (1.40%) jQuery
16 7 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.46%) Low-Code
2 35 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.93%) AI Agents
4 30 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 29 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.09%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.40%) BYOD
13 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.70%) NHS
14 3 (0.52%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.52%) Housing Association
14 3 (0.52%) IVR
14 3 (0.52%) Life Science
15 2 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (42.58%) Business Intelligence
2 180 (31.41%) Agile
3 169 (29.49%) AI
4 165 (28.80%) DevOps
5 136 (23.73%) CI/CD
6 114 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 98 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 96 (16.75%) CRM
10 95 (16.58%) Data Modelling
11 86 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (13.09%) Workflow
13 74 (12.91%) Migration
14 61 (10.65%) Analytics
15 57 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
15 57 (9.95%) Translating Business Requirements
16 48 (8.38%) Scrum
17 45 (7.85%) Customer Service
18 42 (7.33%) Decision-Making
18 42 (7.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 153 (26.70%) JavaScript
2 143 (24.96%) C#
3 110 (19.20%) SQL
4 42 (7.33%) PowerShell
5 40 (6.98%) Python
6 36 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.97%) X++
9 13 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.05%) Java
12 5 (0.87%) Bicep
13 4 (0.70%) VBA
14 3 (0.52%) Bash
15 2 (0.35%) Korn
15 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.17%) COBOL
16 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (10.47%) Degree
5 28 (4.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.40%) PMP
10 6 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.17%) CISM
14 1 (0.17%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) IIBA
14 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.58%) GDPR
4 26 (4.54%) QA
5 21 (3.66%) WCAG
6 9 (1.57%) PMO
7 7 (1.22%) NIST
8 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.70%) GRC
9 4 (0.70%) SLA
10 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.57%) Grafana
3 9 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.17%) Argo
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 431 (75.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.19%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.32%) Oracle
4 16 (2.79%) SAP
5 15 (2.62%) Databricks
6 13 (2.27%) Foundry
7 12 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.92%) UiPath
9 7 (1.22%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.22%) Splunk
10 6 (1.05%) Google
11 5 (0.87%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.70%) Brio
12 4 (0.70%) Pega
12 4 (0.70%) Workday
13 3 (0.52%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.52%) Planview