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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 261 287
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +85
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 465 268 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.98% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 2.61% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 172 190
10th Percentile £351 £363 £312
25th Percentile £417 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £571 £558 £575
90th Percentile £625 £613 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £498
% change year-on-year +1.01% -0.55% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 0
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £29.60 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £53.25 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -54.05%

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 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
London +15 276 £516 +3.25% 73
North of England -46 63 £500 +2.56% 38
Midlands -25 48 £435 -10.77% 27
North West -26 40 £498 +4.74% 19
West Midlands -34 37 £425 -12.82% 18
South East -43 35 £525 -4.55% 47
Yorkshire -36 20 £500 +2.56% 14
South West -35 18 £490 +5.38% 19
East of England -17 11 £510 +7.37% 18
East Midlands -4 10 £455 - 9
North East -40 3 £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
1 150 (32.26%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.51%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (1.29%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.43%) Appian
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.43%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 63 (13.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.51%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 380 (81.72%) Power Platform
2 307 (66.02%) PowerApps
3 240 (51.61%) Azure
4 149 (32.04%) Dynamics 365
5 136 (29.25%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (22.37%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (22.37%) Microsoft Copilot
7 61 (13.12%) Copilot Studio
8 60 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (9.25%) Entra ID
9 43 (9.25%) Serverless
10 42 (9.03%) Azure Functions
11 34 (7.31%) OneDrive
12 33 (7.10%) GitHub
13 25 (5.38%) Azure AI
14 23 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.66%) AWS
17 14 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) DNS
1 7 (1.51%) Firewall
1 7 (1.51%) VPN
2 4 (0.86%) Intranet
3 3 (0.65%) SMS
4 2 (0.43%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (40.00%) Power BI
2 35 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.30%) Power Query
4 16 (3.44%) Metadata
5 15 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.86%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.86%) MySQL
7 4 (0.86%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.65%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.65%) Tableau
9 2 (0.43%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.43%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.22%) GIS
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (3.44%) JIRA
2 15 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.15%) Git
4 9 (1.94%) Selenium
5 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.72%) Postman
5 8 (1.72%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.29%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.65%) Protractor
8 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.43%) MLflow
8 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.43%) TestRail
9 1 (0.22%) GitLab
9 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 157 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 106 (22.80%) Finance
3 79 (16.99%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.59%) Banking
6 20 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.01%) Marketing
8 13 (2.80%) Law
9 11 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.51%) Legal
11 7 (1.51%) Local Government
12 6 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.08%) Back Office
13 5 (1.08%) Retail
14 4 (0.86%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.86%) Military
15 2 (0.43%) Police
15 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (40.65%) Developer
2 81 (17.42%) Power Platform Developer
3 64 (13.76%) Consultant
4 56 (12.04%) Senior
5 45 (9.68%) Architect
6 41 (8.82%) Analyst
7 31 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
8 30 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 26 (5.59%) Lead
10 26 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (4.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 16 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.23%) Power Platform Consultant
14 14 (3.01%) Power Platform Engineer
15 13 (2.80%) Automation Engineer
15 13 (2.80%) Business Analyst
15 13 (2.80%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 13 (2.80%) SharePoint Developer
16 12 (2.58%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.83%) .NET
2 36 (7.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 35 (7.53%) JSON
4 29 (6.24%) REST
5 26 (5.59%) HTML5 Canvas
6 22 (4.73%) React
7 21 (4.52%) CSS
8 20 (4.30%) SPFx
9 19 (4.09%) HTML
10 12 (2.58%) RESTful
11 9 (1.94%) OAuth
12 8 (1.72%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.72%) jQuery
12 8 (1.72%) Middleware
13 7 (1.51%) FIDO
14 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET
14 6 (1.29%) XML
15 5 (1.08%) .NET Framework
15 5 (1.08%) XSLT
15 5 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.39%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.95%) AI Agents
4 21 (4.52%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.29%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.65%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.65%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.65%) IoT
13 3 (0.65%) IVR
13 3 (0.65%) Life Science
13 3 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.22%) Android
2 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (40.22%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (29.89%) DevOps
3 130 (27.96%) Agile
4 126 (27.10%) AI
5 100 (21.51%) CI/CD
6 89 (19.14%) Data Modelling
7 75 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (14.19%) CRM
8 66 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (13.33%) Workflow
10 61 (13.12%) Migration
11 59 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (11.18%) Translating Business Requirements
13 50 (10.75%) Analytics
13 50 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (8.17%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (7.96%) Integration Patterns
16 36 (7.74%) Scrum
17 34 (7.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 33 (7.10%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.80%) JavaScript
2 97 (20.86%) C#
3 81 (17.42%) SQL
4 41 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 34 (7.31%) Python
6 21 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.66%) X++
8 14 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.58%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.51%) Java
12 4 (0.86%) VBA
13 3 (0.65%) Bicep
13 3 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) COBOL
15 1 (0.22%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
15 1 (0.22%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (8.82%) Degree
5 13 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.86%) PMP
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.22%) CISM
13 1 (0.22%) CISSP
13 1 (0.22%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.09%) QA
4 17 (3.66%) GDPR
5 11 (2.37%) WCAG
6 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.51%) PMO
7 6 (1.29%) GRC
8 5 (1.08%) NIST
9 4 (0.86%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.87%) Terraform
2 12 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.51%) Grafana
4 7 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
6 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 337 (72.47%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.30%) SAP
3 19 (4.09%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.23%) Oracle
5 14 (3.01%) UiPath
6 10 (2.15%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.94%) Google
8 8 (1.72%) Foundry
8 8 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.51%) Splunk
10 6 (1.29%) Databricks
11 4 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.86%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.86%) Brio
12 3 (0.65%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.65%) Workday
13 2 (0.43%) Pega