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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 242 275
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 +139
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 501 314 361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.09% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.89% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 211 238
10th Percentile £345 £390 £313
25th Percentile £413 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £612 £630 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £26.21 £34.10 -
25th Percentile £27.71 £34.43 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £34.98 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% +105.76% -47.29%
75th Percentile £29.50 £47.80 £17.50
90th Percentile £34.75 £55.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £34.98 £17.00
% change year-on-year -17.10% +105.76% -60.00%

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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 29 May 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
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 29 May 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 -10 421 £500 - 119
London +15 261 £505 -3.81% 42
UK excluding London -29 193 £450 -2.96% 94
Work from Home +11 144 £500 -3.85% 54
North of England -55 52 £500 +5.26% 33
South East -30 37 £505 +6.32% 19
Scotland +13 36 £320 -28.89% 1
Midlands -52 31 £450 +2.86% 23
North West -22 29 £500 +11.11% 18
South West -19 22 £500 +9.59% 7
West Midlands -62 21 £456 - 15
Yorkshire -50 17 £500 +5.26% 11
Wales -4 9 £300 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -18 9 £435 - 8
East of England -29 8 £499 -0.25% 5
North East -24 6 £370 -1.33% 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
1 167 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.99%) SharePoint Server
3 14 (2.79%) HCL Notes
4 10 (2.00%) Mendix
4 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.60%) Appian
5 8 (1.60%) Confluence
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (14.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 400 (79.84%) Power Platform
2 315 (62.87%) PowerApps
3 260 (51.90%) Azure
4 151 (30.14%) Dynamics 365
5 148 (29.54%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (20.56%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (19.16%) Microsoft Copilot
8 66 (13.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 65 (12.97%) Copilot Studio
10 58 (11.58%) Entra ID
11 46 (9.18%) Serverless
12 45 (8.98%) Azure Functions
13 43 (8.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (6.39%) GitHub
15 28 (5.59%) OneDrive
16 26 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (4.59%) Azure AI
18 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (2.59%) AWS
20 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) DNS
1 4 (0.80%) Firewall
1 4 (0.80%) VPN
2 3 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.60%) Intranet
2 3 (0.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.60%) SMS
3 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (40.72%) Power BI
2 37 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.59%) Power Query
4 12 (2.40%) Metadata
5 10 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.60%) Pinecone
7 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.00%) Tableau
9 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.60%) MySQL
10 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (3.39%) JIRA
2 15 (2.99%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.60%) MLflow
5 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) gulp
7 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
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 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.75%) Finance
3 78 (15.57%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.79%) Banking
7 13 (2.59%) Marketing
8 11 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.20%) Law
9 9 (1.80%) Legal
10 7 (1.40%) Back Office
11 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.20%) Police
12 5 (1.00%) Local Government
13 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Retail
14 3 (0.60%) Military
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 217 (43.31%) Developer
2 76 (15.17%) Power Platform Developer
3 67 (13.37%) Consultant
4 48 (9.58%) Senior
5 44 (8.78%) Analyst
6 43 (8.58%) Architect
7 32 (6.39%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.79%) SharePoint Developer
9 28 (5.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 27 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.19%) Lead
12 20 (3.99%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (3.99%) Power Apps Developer
13 19 (3.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 17 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 16 (3.19%) Applications Developer
15 16 (3.19%) Power Platform Architect
15 16 (3.19%) Power Platform Consultant
15 16 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.99%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.78%) .NET
2 52 (10.38%) REST
3 45 (8.98%) React
4 39 (7.78%) Microsoft Graph
5 35 (6.99%) CSS
5 35 (6.99%) HTML
6 33 (6.59%) SPFx
7 29 (5.79%) HTML5 Canvas
8 28 (5.59%) JSON
9 21 (4.19%) RESTful
10 13 (2.59%) OAuth
11 10 (2.00%) Web Services
12 9 (1.80%) NumPy
12 9 (1.80%) Pandas
12 9 (1.80%) Swagger
13 8 (1.60%) Flask
13 8 (1.60%) pytest
13 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.60%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.58%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.79%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.79%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.00%) IVR
9 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
12 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.40%) State Machine
12 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.80%) Windows
2 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (40.72%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (28.54%) DevOps
3 111 (22.16%) Agile
4 104 (20.76%) CI/CD
5 99 (19.76%) AI
6 95 (18.96%) Data Modelling
7 79 (15.77%) CRM
8 71 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (13.37%) Workflow
10 63 (12.57%) Analytics
11 45 (8.98%) API Integration
12 41 (8.18%) Migration
13 40 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.98%) Integration Patterns
14 36 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (6.59%) Translating Business Requirements
16 33 (6.59%) User Experience
17 32 (6.39%) ERP
17 32 (6.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 115 (22.95%) JavaScript
2 97 (19.36%) C#
3 89 (17.76%) SQL
4 53 (10.58%) PowerShell
5 39 (7.78%) Python
6 30 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.20%) X++
10 10 (2.00%) Formula Language
10 10 (2.00%) Java
10 10 (2.00%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.00%) R
13 4 (0.80%) VBA
14 3 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.40%) Bash
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
15 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (5.79%) Degree
5 23 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISM
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.60%) QA
4 7 (1.40%) GDPR
5 6 (1.20%) GRC
5 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) WCAG
8 3 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.20%) Docker
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.99%) Terraform
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.00%) Grafana
5 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 331 (66.07%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.99%) Oracle
2 25 (4.99%) UiPath
3 21 (4.19%) OpenAI
4 18 (3.59%) SAP
4 18 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.79%) Lotus
6 11 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.00%) Kofax
8 8 (1.60%) Google
9 7 (1.40%) Databricks
9 7 (1.40%) Foundry
10 5 (1.00%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.80%) Brio
11 4 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.80%) Splunk
12 3 (0.60%) Pega