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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 227 340
Rank change year-on-year -30 +113 +70
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 400 401 298
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.10% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 3.08% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 269 216
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +1.60% -6.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.63 - -
25th Percentile £32.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.49 - -
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 13,814 13,010 16,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.27% 35.54% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,358 8,562 11,528
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 £705 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 192 302
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.51 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.50%
75th Percentile £52.00 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.43 £22.00
% change year-on-year -17.96% +24.66% +15.79%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -11 356 £500 +3.09% 202
London +4 216 £509 +1.75% 89
UK excluding London -40 135 £478 +1.60% 159
Work from Home 0 133 £520 +13.04% 102
North of England -36 39 £500 +6.38% 21
Midlands -28 37 £500 +8.70% 39
West Midlands -46 27 £500 +9.89% 25
South West -2 24 £375 -44.44% 7
North West -12 24 £450 -4.26% 11
Yorkshire -41 15 £525 +5.00% 9
Scotland -2 12 £463 +8.82% 2
South East -4 11 £463 -17.41% 75
East Midlands -6 9 £450 -10.00% 14
Wales -1 6 £398 +6.00% 3
East of England -21 6 £438 +4.17% 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
1 133 (33.25%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.50%) HCL Notes
2 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Moodle
5 1 (0.25%) Camunda
5 1 (0.25%) Mendix
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.25%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (17.75%) 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%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 351 (87.75%) Power Platform
2 285 (71.25%) PowerApps
3 218 (54.50%) Azure
4 139 (34.75%) Dynamics 365
5 116 (29.00%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (17.25%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (13.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 52 (13.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 42 (10.50%) Azure Functions
9 42 (10.50%) Serverless
10 37 (9.25%) Copilot Studio
11 36 (9.00%) Entra ID
12 21 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.75%) GitHub
14 18 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (4.25%) OneDrive
16 15 (3.75%) Azure AI
16 15 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 11 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.50%) 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
1 203 (50.75%) Power BI
2 16 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.50%) Power Query
5 11 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.00%) Tableau
8 6 (1.50%) Metadata
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.00%) 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%) MySQL
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.25%) QlikView
11 1 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.00%) JIRA
2 28 (7.00%) Git
3 7 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.00%) GitLab
6 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 151 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 67 (16.75%) Finance
4 30 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.50%) Banking
5 19 (4.75%) Marketing
6 11 (2.75%) Retail
7 8 (2.00%) Law
7 8 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.75%) Legal
9 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Military
12 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (43.75%) Developer
2 66 (16.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 41 (10.25%) Consultant
4 37 (9.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 32 (8.00%) Analyst
6 30 (7.50%) Power Apps Developer
7 29 (7.25%) Architect
7 29 (7.25%) Lead
8 28 (7.00%) Senior
9 25 (6.25%) Applications Developer
10 19 (4.75%) Microsoft Developer
11 17 (4.25%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.50%) Functional Consultant
13 13 (3.25%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.50%) Integration Developer
14 10 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.50%) Power Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.50%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.75%) .NET
2 41 (10.25%) REST
3 38 (9.50%) HTML
4 29 (7.25%) HTML5 Canvas
5 25 (6.25%) JSON
6 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 17 (4.25%) CSS
8 15 (3.75%) SOAP
9 14 (3.50%) XML
10 12 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.00%) React
11 10 (2.50%) OAuth
12 9 (2.25%) JMS
12 9 (2.25%) XSD
13 6 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (1.50%) SPFx
14 5 (1.25%) LangChain
14 5 (1.25%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.25%) RESTful
14 5 (1.25%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.25%) Low-Code
2 20 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 14 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.25%) IVR
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%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.75%) IoT
10 3 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.00%) Windows
2 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 127 (31.75%) Agile
3 101 (25.25%) DevOps
4 77 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (18.25%) CRM
6 57 (14.25%) CI/CD
6 57 (14.25%) Data Modelling
7 48 (12.00%) Analytics
8 47 (11.75%) AI
9 40 (10.00%) Workflow
10 37 (9.25%) Migration
11 36 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (7.50%) Customer Service
13 30 (7.50%) Scrum
14 29 (7.25%) Visualisation
15 28 (7.00%) Data Protection
16 26 (6.50%) User Experience
17 25 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.75%) JavaScript
2 77 (19.25%) SQL
3 75 (18.75%) C#
4 40 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.00%) Python
6 22 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.00%) 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 3 (0.75%) Bicep
10 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.75%) R
10 3 (0.75%) VBA
11 2 (0.50%) Java
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) Bash
12 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.50%) Degree
4 30 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.50%) MBA
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMP
10 1 (0.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.00%) QA
2 12 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.00%) GDPR
3 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.75%) PMO
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) P3O
6 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.00%) Terraform
2 7 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.50%) SCCM
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 304 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.25%) SAP
4 14 (3.50%) Blue Prism
5 13 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.50%) Lotus
8 6 (1.50%) DocuSign
8 6 (1.50%) UiPath
9 5 (1.25%) Oracle
10 4 (1.00%) Foundry
11 3 (0.75%) Brio
11 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.75%) Nintex
11 3 (0.75%) Pega
12 2 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
12 2 (0.50%) Cisco
12 2 (0.50%) ESRI
12 2 (0.50%) Google
12 2 (0.50%) HubSpot