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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 269 281
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 +94
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 533 313 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 0.95% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.55% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 199 225
10th Percentile £320 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year - +0.91% -0.90%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £575
90th Percentile £614 £603 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 4
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £36.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £58.15 £50.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.01% +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 18,544 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.94 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 July 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 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 17 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 July 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 +23 466 £500 - 193
London +24 273 £513 +2.50% 74
UK excluding London -4 214 £475 - 159
Work from Home -5 151 £500 - 103
North of England -43 65 £500 - 39
Midlands -32 49 £435 -10.77% 28
North West -25 42 £495 -1.00% 20
West Midlands -40 38 £425 -12.82% 21
South East -40 35 £525 -4.55% 48
Scotland -3 31 £320 -28.89% 7
Yorkshire -39 20 £500 +2.56% 14
South West -37 19 £490 +5.38% 19
East of England -15 11 £510 +7.37% 19
East Midlands -4 10 £455 - 7
Wales -12 3 £550 +100.00% 5
North East -45 3 £550 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 1

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
1 180 (33.77%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.50%) SharePoint Server
3 21 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.13%) Confluence
5 4 (0.75%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) Appian
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Liferay
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 46 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 73 (13.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.31%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 439 (82.36%) Power Platform
2 360 (67.54%) PowerApps
3 276 (51.78%) Azure
4 166 (31.14%) Dynamics 365
5 164 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (21.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 109 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (12.38%) Copilot Studio
9 61 (11.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 60 (11.26%) Entra ID
11 43 (8.07%) Serverless
12 42 (7.88%) Azure Functions
13 39 (7.32%) OneDrive
14 33 (6.19%) GitHub
15 29 (5.44%) Azure AI
16 22 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (3.38%) AWS
17 18 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.50%) DNS
2 7 (1.31%) Firewall
2 7 (1.31%) VPN
3 5 (0.94%) Intranet
4 3 (0.56%) HTTP
4 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.56%) Network Security
4 3 (0.56%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (42.40%) Power BI
2 38 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.50%) Power Query
4 19 (3.56%) Metadata
5 17 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.94%) MySQL
7 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.75%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.75%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.75%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.56%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.56%) Tableau
9 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (3.56%) JIRA
2 15 (2.81%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.25%) Git
4 9 (1.69%) Postman
4 9 (1.69%) Selenium
5 8 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.50%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.56%) Protractor
8 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.38%) JUnit
8 2 (0.38%) MLflow
8 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.38%) TestRail
9 1 (0.19%) GitLab
9 1 (0.19%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 184 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 115 (21.58%) Finance
3 87 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (5.25%) Banking
7 21 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.00%) Marketing
9 14 (2.63%) Law
10 9 (1.69%) Legal
10 9 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.31%) Local Government
12 7 (1.31%) Retail
13 6 (1.13%) Back Office
14 5 (0.94%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.94%) Military
15 4 (0.75%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.75%) Police
16 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (42.59%) Developer
2 89 (16.70%) Power Platform Developer
3 73 (13.70%) Consultant
4 65 (12.20%) Senior
5 47 (8.82%) Architect
6 44 (8.26%) Analyst
7 36 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 31 (5.82%) SharePoint Developer
9 28 (5.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 28 (5.25%) Microsoft Developer
10 27 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (4.88%) Lead
12 23 (4.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 19 (3.56%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.38%) Power Platform Consultant
15 16 (3.00%) Power Platform Engineer
16 14 (2.63%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.63%) Power Apps Developer
17 13 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
17 13 (2.44%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.07%) .NET
2 52 (9.76%) REST
3 40 (7.50%) JSON
4 38 (7.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 37 (6.94%) HTML
5 37 (6.94%) React
6 36 (6.75%) CSS
6 36 (6.75%) SPFx
7 27 (5.07%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (2.25%) RESTful
9 10 (1.88%) OAuth
10 8 (1.50%) Gherkin
10 8 (1.50%) jQuery
10 8 (1.50%) Middleware
11 7 (1.31%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.31%) FIDO
11 7 (1.31%) XML
12 6 (1.13%) YAML
13 5 (0.94%) HTML5
13 5 (0.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.44%) Low-Code
2 26 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.32%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.50%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.56%) Housing Association
10 3 (0.56%) IoT
10 3 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.31%) Windows
2 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (42.59%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (27.39%) DevOps
3 142 (26.64%) Agile
4 137 (25.70%) AI
5 124 (23.26%) CI/CD
6 99 (18.57%) Data Modelling
7 84 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (15.01%) CRM
9 73 (13.70%) Migration
9 73 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 70 (13.13%) Workflow
11 63 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (10.69%) Analytics
13 56 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (9.94%) Translating Business Requirements
15 42 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (7.50%) Integration Patterns
17 38 (7.13%) Scrum
18 36 (6.75%) Customer Service
19 35 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 133 (24.95%) JavaScript
2 109 (20.45%) C#
3 88 (16.51%) SQL
4 51 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 41 (7.69%) Python
6 29 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.19%) X++
9 12 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.69%) Java
11 8 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.94%) Bicep
13 4 (0.75%) Bash
13 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.75%) VBA
14 3 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.38%) AppleScript
15 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) Formula Language
16 1 (0.19%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 104 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 84 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (8.44%) Degree
5 24 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.75%) PMP
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
13 1 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.19%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.56%) QA
4 18 (3.38%) GDPR
5 11 (2.06%) WCAG
6 8 (1.50%) PMO
7 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.31%) NIST
8 6 (1.13%) GRC
9 5 (0.94%) SLA
10 3 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.19%) MiFID
12 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (3.75%) Terraform
2 14 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.69%) Grafana
4 9 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 381 (71.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.94%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.75%) SAP
4 16 (3.00%) UiPath
5 15 (2.81%) Oracle
6 11 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.88%) Foundry
8 9 (1.69%) Google
9 8 (1.50%) Databricks
10 7 (1.31%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.31%) Splunk
11 6 (1.13%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.75%) Brio
13 3 (0.56%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
13 3 (0.56%) Pega
13 3 (0.56%) Workday