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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 244 278
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +119
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 490 322 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.11% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.94% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 221 230
10th Percentile £350 £393 £312
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £612 £630 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -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% -54.05%
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 16,972 10,936 13,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.58% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,497 7,556 9,907
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 251 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.70%

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 8 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 8 May 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 8 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 -7 414 £500 - 168
London +26 259 £500 -4.76% 79
UK excluding London -32 182 £450 - 118
Work from Home +4 142 £500 - 93
North of England -50 44 £500 +5.26% 27
South East -44 39 £505 +12.22% 48
Scotland +10 34 £320 -24.71% 3
Midlands -64 30 £443 +1.14% 21
North West -30 26 £500 +14.29% 9
South West -27 21 £500 +9.59% 6
West Midlands -58 21 £438 - 14
Yorkshire -47 12 £500 +5.26% 13
Wales -3 8 £300 +21.21% 6
East Midlands -21 8 £443 - 7
East of England -32 7 £488 -2.50% 9
North East -14 6 £370 -1.33% 5

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
1 158 (32.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.86%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.45%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.04%) Mendix
5 8 (1.63%) Appian
6 7 (1.43%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (15.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 398 (81.22%) Power Platform
2 307 (62.65%) PowerApps
3 258 (52.65%) Azure
4 152 (31.02%) Dynamics 365
5 149 (30.41%) Microsoft 365
6 94 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (17.96%) Microsoft Copilot
8 65 (13.27%) Copilot Studio
9 57 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 50 (10.20%) Entra ID
11 49 (10.00%) Serverless
12 48 (9.80%) Azure Functions
13 37 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 29 (5.92%) GitHub
16 28 (5.71%) OneDrive
17 26 (5.31%) Azure AI
18 13 (2.65%) AWS
18 13 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) DNS
2 4 (0.82%) Firewall
2 4 (0.82%) VPN
3 3 (0.61%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) SMS
4 2 (0.41%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (44.29%) Power BI
2 33 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.67%) Power Query
5 10 (2.04%) Metadata
5 10 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.22%) Tableau
8 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.82%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.61%) MySQL
10 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (3.88%) JIRA
2 17 (3.47%) Git
3 9 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.63%) MLflow
5 3 (0.61%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
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%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 163 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 108 (22.04%) Finance
3 74 (15.10%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.31%) Banking
7 14 (2.86%) Marketing
8 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.04%) Law
10 9 (1.84%) Legal
11 6 (1.22%) Back Office
12 5 (1.02%) Local Government
12 5 (1.02%) Police
12 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.82%) Retail
14 3 (0.61%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Automotive
15 2 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (43.88%) Developer
2 79 (16.12%) Power Platform Developer
3 62 (12.65%) Consultant
4 47 (9.59%) Senior
5 39 (7.96%) Architect
6 38 (7.76%) Analyst
7 32 (6.53%) Microsoft Developer
8 30 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 27 (5.51%) SharePoint Developer
10 25 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.49%) Power Apps Developer
12 20 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.88%) Applications Developer
14 18 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 18 (3.67%) Power Platform Consultant
15 17 (3.47%) Power Platform Architect
16 16 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 16 (3.27%) Platform Architect
17 14 (2.86%) Lead
17 14 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.22%) .NET
2 51 (10.41%) REST
3 38 (7.76%) React
4 35 (7.14%) HTML
4 35 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
5 32 (6.53%) CSS
6 28 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
7 27 (5.51%) SPFx
8 25 (5.10%) JSON
9 22 (4.49%) RESTful
10 15 (3.06%) OAuth
11 10 (2.04%) NumPy
11 10 (2.04%) Pandas
11 10 (2.04%) Web Services
12 9 (1.84%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.84%) Flask
12 9 (1.84%) Swagger
13 8 (1.63%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.43%) Low-Code
2 23 (4.69%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.22%) IVR
9 5 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.82%) PKI
10 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
11 3 (0.61%) NHS
12 2 (0.41%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (44.29%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (27.35%) DevOps
3 104 (21.22%) Agile
4 98 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 96 (19.59%) Data Modelling
6 87 (17.76%) AI
7 79 (16.12%) CRM
8 73 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (13.47%) Analytics
10 62 (12.65%) Workflow
11 43 (8.78%) API Integration
12 38 (7.76%) Integration Patterns
12 38 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (7.76%) User Experience
13 35 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.14%) Data Governance
13 35 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 34 (6.94%) ETL
14 34 (6.94%) Migration
15 31 (6.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (21.22%) JavaScript
2 92 (18.78%) SQL
3 88 (17.96%) C#
4 43 (8.78%) PowerShell
5 37 (7.55%) Python
6 31 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.45%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.04%) Formula Language
9 10 (2.04%) Java
9 10 (2.04%) LotusScript
10 9 (1.84%) X++
11 7 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.43%) R
12 4 (0.82%) VBA
13 3 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
14 2 (0.41%) Bash
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 93 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.94%) Degree
4 29 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
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%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.84%) QA
3 7 (1.43%) GDPR
4 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.22%) GRC
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.61%) WCAG
7 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.04%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.27%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.02%) Grafana
4 5 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 323 (65.92%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.90%) Oracle
3 23 (4.69%) UiPath
4 22 (4.49%) OpenAI
5 21 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.86%) Lotus
7 13 (2.65%) SAP
8 11 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
9 10 (2.04%) Kofax
10 8 (1.63%) Foundry
11 7 (1.43%) Google
12 5 (1.02%) Blue Prism
12 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.82%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.82%) Brio
13 4 (0.82%) Databricks
13 4 (0.82%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.82%) Pega
13 4 (0.82%) Splunk