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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 245 271
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 +150
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 484 314 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.09% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 2.87% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 211 239
10th Percentile £350 £381 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £613 £630 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +1.37% -3.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile - £25.04 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £30.72 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +102.53% -47.29%
75th Percentile £33.88 £41.39 £17.50
90th Percentile £36.50 £52.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% +102.53% -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 17,360 10,953 13,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.59% 37.85% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,460 9,928
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -3.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £706 £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 553 260 348
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.20 £71.38 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.28% +12.19% -36.04%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -10 407 £500 - 178
London +18 250 £511 +0.74% 61
UK excluding London -30 190 £463 +1.37% 141
Work from Home -1 139 £500 - 100
North of England -59 52 £500 +5.26% 49
Scotland +14 36 £320 -28.89% 4
South East -37 36 £505 +12.22% 26
Midlands -53 29 £463 +5.71% 29
North West -30 28 £500 +11.11% 27
South West -19 22 £500 +9.59% 8
West Midlands -64 19 £481 +5.48% 20
Yorkshire -56 18 £500 +5.26% 13
Wales -4 9 £300 +9.09% 7
East Midlands -20 9 £435 - 9
East of England -35 8 £499 -0.25% 6
North East -23 6 £370 -1.33% 9

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
1 157 (32.44%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.10%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.07%) HCL Notes
5 8 (1.65%) Appian
5 8 (1.65%) Confluence
5 8 (1.65%) Mendix
6 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (14.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 384 (79.34%) Power Platform
2 300 (61.98%) PowerApps
3 255 (52.69%) Azure
4 144 (29.75%) Dynamics 365
4 144 (29.75%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (20.87%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (19.83%) Microsoft Copilot
7 66 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 64 (13.22%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (12.19%) Entra ID
10 45 (9.30%) Serverless
11 44 (9.09%) Azure Functions
12 41 (8.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 32 (6.61%) GitHub
14 28 (5.79%) OneDrive
15 26 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (4.75%) Azure AI
17 15 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (2.69%) AWS
19 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) DNS
1 4 (0.83%) Firewall
1 4 (0.83%) VPN
2 3 (0.62%) HTTP
2 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.62%) Intranet
2 3 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.62%) SMS
3 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (39.88%) Power BI
2 37 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.69%) Power Query
5 11 (2.27%) Metadata
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.65%) Pinecone
7 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.83%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.83%) Tableau
10 3 (0.62%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.62%) MySQL
10 3 (0.62%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.51%) JIRA
2 11 (2.27%) Git
3 10 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.65%) MLflow
5 3 (0.62%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.21%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 156 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 110 (22.73%) Finance
3 78 (16.12%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.96%) Banking
7 12 (2.48%) Law
7 12 (2.48%) Marketing
8 10 (2.07%) Legal
9 9 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.24%) Back Office
10 6 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.24%) Police
11 5 (1.03%) Local Government
12 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.62%) Military
13 3 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.62%) Publishing
13 3 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 206 (42.56%) Developer
2 72 (14.88%) Power Platform Developer
3 66 (13.64%) Consultant
4 48 (9.92%) Senior
5 43 (8.88%) Analyst
6 42 (8.68%) Architect
7 33 (6.82%) Microsoft Developer
8 29 (5.99%) SharePoint Developer
9 27 (5.58%) Senior Developer
10 26 (5.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 20 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.13%) Lead
12 19 (3.93%) Power Apps Developer
13 18 (3.72%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 17 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 16 (3.31%) Power Platform Consultant
15 16 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.10%) Applications Developer
16 15 (3.10%) Power Platform Architect
17 14 (2.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.78%) .NET
2 53 (10.95%) REST
3 43 (8.88%) React
4 40 (8.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 35 (7.23%) CSS
5 35 (7.23%) HTML
6 33 (6.82%) SPFx
7 29 (5.99%) JSON
8 25 (5.17%) HTML5 Canvas
9 21 (4.34%) RESTful
10 13 (2.69%) OAuth
11 10 (2.07%) Web Services
12 9 (1.86%) NumPy
12 9 (1.86%) Pandas
12 9 (1.86%) Swagger
13 8 (1.65%) JWT
13 8 (1.65%) pytest
13 8 (1.65%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.65%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.95%) Low-Code
2 24 (4.96%) AI Agents
3 19 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.03%) IVR
10 4 (0.83%) NHS
10 4 (0.83%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.62%) IoT
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.41%) State Machine
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.83%) Windows
2 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.21%) Android
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (39.88%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (28.93%) DevOps
3 105 (21.69%) Agile
4 99 (20.45%) AI
5 98 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 90 (18.60%) Data Modelling
7 75 (15.50%) CRM
8 69 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (13.43%) Workflow
10 56 (11.57%) Analytics
11 43 (8.88%) API Integration
12 40 (8.26%) Migration
13 39 (8.06%) Integration Patterns
14 37 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (6.82%) User Experience
17 32 (6.61%) ETL
17 32 (6.61%) Translating Business Requirements
18 31 (6.40%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 108 (22.31%) JavaScript
2 93 (19.21%) C#
3 80 (16.53%) SQL
4 52 (10.74%) PowerShell
5 34 (7.02%) Python
6 30 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.27%) X++
10 10 (2.07%) Java
11 8 (1.65%) Formula Language
11 8 (1.65%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.62%) VBA
13 2 (0.41%) AppleScript
13 2 (0.41%) Bash
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.99%) Degree
3 29 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CISM
9 1 (0.21%) CISSP
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.65%) QA
4 7 (1.45%) GDPR
5 6 (1.24%) GRC
5 6 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.03%) NIST
7 4 (0.83%) WCAG
8 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.62%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
8 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.27%) Docker
3 4 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.10%) Terraform
3 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.03%) Grafana
5 5 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 317 (65.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.17%) UiPath
3 21 (4.34%) OpenAI
3 21 (4.34%) Oracle
4 18 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.51%) SAP
6 11 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.07%) Lotus
8 8 (1.65%) Google
8 8 (1.65%) Kofax
9 7 (1.45%) Databricks
9 7 (1.45%) Foundry
10 5 (1.03%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.83%) Brio
11 4 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.83%) Splunk
12 3 (0.62%) Pega