Power Automate Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Power Automate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 246 252
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +133
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 500 298 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.08% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.89% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 188 213
10th Percentile £313 £363 £318
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £544 £577 £590
90th Percentile £600 £638 £673
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 0
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £54.87 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £57.83 £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -38.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

Power Automate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Automate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Power Automate job vacancy trend in England

Power Automate
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Automate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Automate in England over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Automate in England

Power Automate
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Automate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Automate in England over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Automate in England

Power Automate
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
London -8 285 £500 -4.76% 127
Midlands -16 69 £430 -16.10% 39
North of England -40 63 £498 +2.05% 42
West Midlands -23 52 £425 -15.00% 31
North West -29 41 £490 +8.89% 22
South East -31 37 £500 -9.09% 43
South West -38 20 £425 -10.53% 21
Yorkshire -36 18 £500 - 14
East Midlands -1 16 £472 -21.42% 8
East of England -13 16 £475 +5.56% 25
North East -43 4 £550 - 7
Power Automate
UK

Power Automate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 163 (32.60%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.80%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (1.40%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Mendix
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 42 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 77 (15.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 411 (82.20%) Power Platform
2 331 (66.20%) PowerApps
3 262 (52.40%) Azure
4 181 (36.20%) Dynamics 365
5 136 (27.20%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (23.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (12.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 63 (12.60%) Copilot Studio
10 52 (10.40%) Serverless
11 51 (10.20%) Azure Functions
12 43 (8.60%) Entra ID
13 36 (7.20%) OneDrive
14 34 (6.80%) GitHub
15 27 (5.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (4.60%) Azure AI
17 19 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (3.60%) AWS
19 16 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.60%) Firewall
2 7 (1.40%) DNS
2 7 (1.40%) VPN
3 4 (0.80%) Intranet
4 3 (0.60%) SMS
5 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.40%) Skype
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (39.20%) Power BI
2 41 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.20%) Power Query
4 19 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.40%) Metadata
6 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.40%) Star Schema
8 6 (1.20%) PowerPivot
9 5 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.80%) GIS
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.80%) Tableau
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (4.00%) JIRA
1 20 (4.00%) Visual Studio
2 14 (2.80%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) Selenium
4 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.80%) Postman
4 9 (1.80%) WebDriver
5 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.60%) Protractor
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 183 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 115 (23.00%) Finance
3 88 (17.60%) Public Sector
4 62 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (4.80%) Banking
7 20 (4.00%) Marketing
8 13 (2.60%) Law
9 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.80%) Local Government
11 8 (1.60%) Legal
11 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.60%) Retail
12 7 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.20%) Military
13 6 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Back Office
15 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.80%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 213 (42.60%) Developer
2 78 (15.60%) Power Platform Developer
3 63 (12.60%) Consultant
4 56 (11.20%) Senior
5 52 (10.40%) Analyst
6 46 (9.20%) Architect
6 46 (9.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 33 (6.60%) Microsoft Developer
8 31 (6.20%) Senior Developer
9 29 (5.80%) Lead
10 26 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 17 (3.40%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.20%) Power Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.00%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.00%) SharePoint Developer
15 14 (2.80%) Power Platform Consultant
16 13 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 13 (2.60%) Power Apps Developer
16 13 (2.60%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (13.60%) .NET
2 39 (7.80%) JSON
3 33 (6.60%) REST
4 30 (6.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 29 (5.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 23 (4.60%) HTML
7 22 (4.40%) CSS
7 22 (4.40%) React
8 20 (4.00%) SPFx
9 17 (3.40%) Terraform
10 12 (2.40%) Middleware
11 11 (2.20%) RESTful
12 9 (1.80%) Gherkin
12 9 (1.80%) OAuth
12 9 (1.80%) XML
13 8 (1.60%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.60%) jQuery
14 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (1.40%) FIDO
14 7 (1.40%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.80%) Low-Code
2 30 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 21 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 6 (1.20%) BYOD
10 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.60%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.60%) IoT
12 3 (0.60%) IVR
12 3 (0.60%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (39.80%) Business Intelligence
2 156 (31.20%) DevOps
3 154 (30.80%) Agile
4 141 (28.20%) AI
5 110 (22.00%) CI/CD
6 95 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (17.20%) CRM
8 85 (17.00%) Data Modelling
8 85 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 76 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (13.20%) Workflow
11 65 (13.00%) Migration
12 61 (12.20%) Translating Business Requirements
13 55 (11.00%) Analytics
14 49 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (9.00%) Scrum
16 39 (7.80%) Decision-Making
17 38 (7.60%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 37 (7.40%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 124 (24.80%) JavaScript
2 122 (24.40%) C#
3 99 (19.80%) SQL
4 37 (7.40%) PowerShell
5 31 (6.20%) Python
6 26 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (4.20%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.40%) X++
9 16 (3.20%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Java
12 4 (0.80%) Bicep
12 4 (0.80%) VBA
13 2 (0.40%) Korn
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) Bash
14 1 (0.20%) COBOL
14 1 (0.20%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.20%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 85 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 60 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (9.00%) Degree
5 14 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.80%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.00%) PMP
11 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) CISM
14 1 (0.20%) CISSP
14 1 (0.20%) IIBA
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.80%) QA
4 22 (4.40%) GDPR
5 15 (3.00%) WCAG
6 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.40%) PMO
7 6 (1.20%) GRC
8 5 (1.00%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.40%) Grafana
3 7 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) SCCM
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 375 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.80%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.40%) Oracle
4 16 (3.20%) SAP
5 13 (2.60%) Databricks
6 9 (1.80%) UiPath
7 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.40%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.40%) Foundry
8 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.40%) Splunk
9 6 (1.20%) Google
10 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.80%) Brio
10 4 (0.80%) Workday
11 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.60%) Pega
12 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft