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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 231 343
Rank change year-on-year -9 +112 +72
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 401 398 300
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.09% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 3.09% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 266 218
10th Percentile £350 £334 £354
25th Percentile £401 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -1.75% -5.66%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £27.70 - -
25th Percentile £32.94 - -
Median hourly rate £34.98 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile £102.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.49 - -

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 13,781 12,889 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.42% 35.33% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,489 11,658
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 179 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.88 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.36% +15.30%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -14 355 £500 +3.09% 354
London -9 208 £504 +3.87% 177
UK excluding London -37 143 £475 - 200
Work from Home -11 133 £525 +11.70% 186
North of England -34 42 £500 +6.38% 43
Midlands -28 40 £500 +6.38% 47
West Midlands -26 31 £500 +7.53% 32
North West -7 25 £450 -4.26% 27
South West -8 24 £375 -37.50% 9
Yorkshire -38 17 £525 +5.00% 15
Scotland -4 14 £450 +5.88% 6
South East -1 12 £463 -19.57% 81
East Midlands -9 8 £500 - 15
Wales +2 6 £398 +6.00% 2
East of England -16 6 £438 +4.17% 10

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
1 134 (33.42%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.49%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.00%) Confluence
5 2 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Moodle
6 1 (0.25%) Camunda
6 1 (0.25%) Mendix
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.25%) Orchard CMS
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (18.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.75%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 352 (87.78%) Power Platform
2 287 (71.57%) PowerApps
3 208 (51.87%) Azure
4 138 (34.41%) Dynamics 365
5 119 (29.68%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (13.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 52 (12.97%) Microsoft Copilot
9 39 (9.73%) Azure Functions
9 39 (9.73%) Serverless
10 37 (9.23%) Copilot Studio
11 36 (8.98%) Entra ID
12 22 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.99%) GitHub
14 19 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (3.99%) OneDrive
17 15 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 13 (3.24%) Azure AI
19 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.24%) HTTP
2 2 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) DKIM
3 1 (0.25%) DMARC
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
3 1 (0.25%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) LAN
3 1 (0.25%) PSTN
3 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.25%) Skype
3 1 (0.25%) WAN
3 1 (0.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (50.37%) Power BI
2 18 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.99%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.49%) Power Query
5 12 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.24%) Tableau
7 6 (1.50%) Metadata
8 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.50%) GIS
10 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.50%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.25%) MySQL
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.98%) JIRA
2 28 (6.98%) Git
3 7 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.00%) GitLab
4 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 152 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.71%) Public Sector
3 63 (15.71%) Finance
4 31 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (7.23%) Banking
6 18 (4.49%) Marketing
7 11 (2.74%) Retail
8 9 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.00%) Law
10 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.75%) Legal
11 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) German Language
13 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (43.89%) Developer
2 67 (16.71%) Power Platform Developer
3 39 (9.73%) Consultant
4 36 (8.98%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 34 (8.48%) Analyst
6 31 (7.73%) Lead
7 29 (7.23%) Power Apps Developer
8 26 (6.48%) Architect
9 25 (6.23%) Senior
10 24 (5.99%) Applications Developer
11 19 (4.74%) Microsoft Developer
12 18 (4.49%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.24%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (2.74%) Functional Consultant
16 10 (2.49%) Administrator
16 10 (2.49%) Integration Developer
16 10 (2.49%) Power Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.49%) Software Developer
16 10 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.71%) .NET
2 42 (10.47%) HTML
3 39 (9.73%) REST
4 29 (7.23%) HTML5 Canvas
5 22 (5.49%) JSON
6 21 (5.24%) CSS
7 20 (4.99%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (3.99%) SOAP
9 14 (3.49%) XML
10 12 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.99%) React
11 9 (2.24%) JMS
11 9 (2.24%) OAuth
11 9 (2.24%) XSD
12 7 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (1.50%) SPFx
14 5 (1.25%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.25%) LangChain
14 5 (1.25%) RESTful
14 5 (1.25%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.23%) Low-Code
2 18 (4.49%) AI Agents
3 13 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.00%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.00%) Derivative
9 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.00%) IVR
9 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.75%) IoT
10 3 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.75%) PKI
10 3 (0.75%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.00%) Windows
2 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (49.63%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (31.92%) Agile
3 98 (24.44%) DevOps
4 80 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (19.20%) CRM
6 60 (14.96%) Data Modelling
7 56 (13.97%) CI/CD
8 48 (11.97%) Analytics
9 45 (11.22%) AI
10 40 (9.98%) Workflow
11 39 (9.73%) Migration
12 35 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (7.73%) Visualisation
16 28 (6.98%) Data Protection
16 28 (6.98%) Scrum
17 26 (6.48%) Customer Service
18 25 (6.23%) Translating Business Requirements
19 24 (5.99%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 92 (22.94%) JavaScript
2 82 (20.45%) C#
3 81 (20.20%) SQL
4 45 (11.22%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.23%) Python
6 19 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.25%) Formula Language
9 5 (1.25%) LotusScript
9 5 (1.25%) X++
10 4 (1.00%) Bicep
11 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.75%) R
11 3 (0.75%) VBA
12 2 (0.50%) Bash
12 2 (0.50%) Java
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.23%) Degree
4 29 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CIMA
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
9 1 (0.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.49%) QA
2 12 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.99%) GDPR
3 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.75%) PMO
5 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.50%) WCAG
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) P3O
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.24%) Terraform
2 8 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.50%) Grafana
5 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 303 (75.56%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.74%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.24%) SAP
4 14 (3.49%) Blue Prism
5 13 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.49%) Lotus
6 10 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.50%) DocuSign
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle
8 5 (1.25%) UiPath
9 3 (0.75%) Brio
9 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.75%) Nintex
9 3 (0.75%) Pega
10 2 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) ESRI
10 2 (0.50%) Foundry
10 2 (0.50%) Google
10 2 (0.50%) HubSpot