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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 214 276
Rank change year-on-year -21 +62 +141
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 493 353 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.21% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 3.17% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 244 242
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £427 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £623 £630 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -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 16,654 11,122 14,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.42% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,758 9,985
10th Percentile £314 £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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 344
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.98 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -24.08%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -23 410 £500 - 191
London -8 249 £500 -4.76% 60
UK excluding London -41 183 £450 -2.96% 152
Work from Home -25 143 £513 +2.50% 91
North of England -68 48 £490 +4.26% 32
Scotland +14 33 £400 -5.88% 9
North West -26 32 £500 +7.53% 15
South East -35 32 £505 +12.22% 46
Midlands -64 32 £450 -4.26% 30
South West -14 25 £425 -8.36% 16
West Midlands -62 25 £438 -6.91% 18
Wales -5 10 £300 +14.29% 8
Yorkshire -64 10 £500 +5.82% 10
East Midlands -29 7 £450 -10.00% 11
North East -20 6 £370 -20.43% 7
East of England -32 4 - - 18

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
1 166 (33.67%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.04%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.03%) Mendix
5 9 (1.83%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (1.62%) Appian
7 6 (1.22%) Confluence
8 3 (0.61%) CMS
9 2 (0.41%) Camunda
9 2 (0.41%) 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 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.61%) InfoPath
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 81 (16.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.61%) 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
1 402 (81.54%) Power Platform
2 318 (64.50%) PowerApps
3 258 (52.33%) Azure
4 155 (31.44%) Microsoft 365
5 148 (30.02%) Dynamics 365
6 95 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (17.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 67 (13.59%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (11.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 53 (10.75%) Serverless
11 52 (10.55%) Azure Functions
12 50 (10.14%) Entra ID
13 38 (7.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (7.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 32 (6.49%) Azure AI
16 30 (6.09%) GitHub
17 27 (5.48%) OneDrive
18 14 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (2.23%) AWS
20 10 (2.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.22%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) Network Security
3 2 (0.41%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (47.26%) Power BI
2 30 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.84%) Power Query
5 11 (2.23%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.83%) Metadata
7 8 (1.62%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.42%) Tableau
9 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.61%) MySQL
11 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.41%) PowerPivot
13 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.46%) JIRA
2 19 (3.85%) Git
3 8 (1.62%) MLflow
4 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.61%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) 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
1 165 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 97 (19.68%) Finance
3 83 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.09%) Banking
6 26 (5.27%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.45%) Marketing
8 11 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.23%) Law
9 10 (2.03%) Legal
10 8 (1.62%) Retail
11 7 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.22%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Police
14 4 (0.81%) Back Office
14 4 (0.81%) Local Government
15 2 (0.41%) German Language
15 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 217 (44.02%) Developer
2 79 (16.02%) Power Platform Developer
3 51 (10.34%) Consultant
4 46 (9.33%) Analyst
5 39 (7.91%) Senior
6 33 (6.69%) Architect
7 32 (6.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 28 (5.68%) Microsoft Developer
8 28 (5.68%) Power Apps Developer
9 25 (5.07%) Applications Developer
10 23 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 23 (4.67%) SharePoint Developer
11 21 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (3.85%) Senior Developer
13 17 (3.45%) Platform Architect
13 17 (3.45%) Power Platform Architect
14 16 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (3.04%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.84%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.36%) .NET
2 53 (10.75%) REST
3 36 (7.30%) HTML
3 36 (7.30%) Microsoft Graph
4 31 (6.29%) React
5 29 (5.88%) CSS
6 26 (5.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (4.26%) JSON
8 20 (4.06%) SPFx
9 19 (3.85%) OAuth
10 17 (3.45%) RESTful
11 12 (2.43%) NumPy
11 12 (2.43%) Pandas
12 11 (2.23%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.23%) Flask
13 9 (1.83%) Swagger
13 9 (1.83%) Web Services
14 8 (1.62%) Django
14 8 (1.62%) scikit-learn
14 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.56%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.07%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.01%) IVR
9 5 (1.01%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.81%) NHS
10 4 (0.81%) PKI
11 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.41%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
1 3 (0.61%) 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
1 231 (46.86%) Business Intelligence
2 127 (25.76%) DevOps
3 100 (20.28%) Agile
4 96 (19.47%) Data Modelling
5 93 (18.86%) CI/CD
6 88 (17.85%) AI
7 84 (17.04%) CRM
8 74 (15.01%) Analytics
8 74 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (13.18%) Workflow
10 45 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (8.32%) API Integration
12 40 (8.11%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.71%) User Experience
14 37 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (7.51%) Integration Patterns
15 33 (6.69%) Decision-Making
16 32 (6.49%) ETL
16 32 (6.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 31 (6.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 108 (21.91%) JavaScript
2 99 (20.08%) SQL
3 85 (17.24%) C#
4 43 (8.72%) PowerShell
4 43 (8.72%) Python
5 34 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (2.23%) Formula Language
7 11 (2.23%) LotusScript
8 10 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.62%) Java
9 8 (1.62%) R
10 6 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.81%) VBA
13 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.61%) X++
14 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 91 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.91%) Degree
4 29 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.41%) MBA
9 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CIMA
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.23%) QA
3 9 (1.83%) GDPR
4 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.22%) GRC
6 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) 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 37 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.23%) Terraform
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 342 (69.37%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.68%) OpenAI
3 24 (4.87%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.67%) UiPath
5 22 (4.46%) Oracle
6 15 (3.04%) Lotus
6 15 (3.04%) SAP
7 11 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.03%) Kofax
9 9 (1.83%) Foundry
10 8 (1.62%) Blue Prism
11 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.01%) Brio
12 5 (1.01%) Google
13 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.61%) Databricks
14 3 (0.61%) Genesys
14 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
15 2 (0.41%) Pega
15 2 (0.41%) Workday