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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 252 269
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +126
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 497 281 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.01% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.12% 2.72% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 182 205
10th Percentile £350 £363 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £574 £588
90th Percentile £613 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 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 £53.75 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £58.48 £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -47.29%

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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +8 283 £500 - 102
North of England -28 68 £500 +2.56% 36
Midlands -16 60 £435 -17.14% 37
North West -15 44 £495 +4.21% 17
West Midlands -30 44 £425 -17.07% 30
South East -42 37 £525 -4.55% 50
South West -40 21 £425 -5.56% 21
Yorkshire -37 20 £500 +2.56% 16
East Midlands +4 15 £473 -21.13% 7
East of England -10 15 £475 - 15
North East -40 4 £550 - 5
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
1 165 (33.20%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.81%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (1.21%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.60%) Mendix
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 44 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 71 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 409 (82.29%) Power Platform
2 330 (66.40%) PowerApps
3 255 (51.31%) Azure
4 166 (33.40%) Dynamics 365
5 145 (29.18%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (22.33%) Azure DevOps
7 110 (22.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 61 (12.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (11.87%) Copilot Studio
10 46 (9.26%) Serverless
11 45 (9.05%) Azure Functions
11 45 (9.05%) Entra ID
12 40 (8.05%) OneDrive
13 34 (6.84%) GitHub
14 24 (4.83%) Azure AI
14 24 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.42%) AWS
17 15 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.41%) DNS
1 7 (1.41%) Firewall
1 7 (1.41%) VPN
2 4 (0.80%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) SMS
4 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (39.44%) Power BI
2 38 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.03%) Power Query
4 19 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.22%) Metadata
6 8 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.21%) PowerPivot
7 6 (1.21%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
8 4 (0.80%) MySQL
8 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.60%) GIS
9 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.60%) Tableau
10 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (3.82%) Visual Studio
2 18 (3.62%) JIRA
3 11 (2.21%) Git
4 10 (2.01%) Selenium
5 9 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.81%) Postman
5 9 (1.81%) WebDriver
6 7 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.60%) Protractor
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
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.20%) GitLab
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 177 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.54%) Finance
3 84 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 56 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.63%) Banking
6 24 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.62%) Marketing
8 14 (2.82%) Law
9 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.81%) Retail
11 8 (1.61%) Local Government
11 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.41%) Legal
13 6 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.01%) Back Office
14 5 (1.01%) Military
15 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.80%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (42.25%) Developer
2 82 (16.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 65 (13.08%) Consultant
4 57 (11.47%) Senior
5 49 (9.86%) Analyst
6 45 (9.05%) Architect
7 38 (7.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 32 (6.44%) Microsoft Developer
9 28 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 27 (5.43%) Lead
11 26 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 18 (3.62%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.62%) SharePoint Developer
14 15 (3.02%) Power Platform Consultant
15 14 (2.82%) Data Analyst
15 14 (2.82%) Power Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.62%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.62%) Dynamics 365 Architect
17 12 (2.41%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.07%) .NET
2 38 (7.65%) JSON
3 34 (6.84%) Microsoft Graph
4 33 (6.64%) REST
5 29 (5.84%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (4.63%) React
7 21 (4.23%) SPFx
8 20 (4.02%) CSS
8 20 (4.02%) HTML
9 11 (2.21%) RESTful
10 10 (2.01%) Middleware
11 9 (1.81%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.61%) jQuery
12 8 (1.61%) OAuth
13 7 (1.41%) FIDO
14 6 (1.21%) .NET Framework
14 6 (1.21%) ASP.NET
14 6 (1.21%) XML
15 5 (1.01%) XSLT
15 5 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.05%) Low-Code
2 30 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.43%) AI Agents
4 21 (4.23%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.21%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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 7 (1.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (39.84%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (29.58%) DevOps
3 145 (29.18%) Agile
4 134 (26.96%) AI
5 106 (21.33%) CI/CD
6 91 (18.31%) Data Modelling
7 85 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 76 (15.29%) CRM
10 68 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (13.28%) Workflow
12 65 (13.08%) Migration
13 56 (11.27%) Translating Business Requirements
14 55 (11.07%) Analytics
15 54 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
17 40 (8.05%) Integration Patterns
17 40 (8.05%) Scrum
18 38 (7.65%) Decision-Making
19 33 (6.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 117 (23.54%) JavaScript
2 109 (21.93%) C#
3 90 (18.11%) SQL
4 42 (8.45%) PowerShell
5 33 (6.64%) Python
6 27 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.42%) X++
9 14 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.41%) Java
12 4 (0.80%) VBA
13 3 (0.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.40%) Korn
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.20%) COBOL
15 1 (0.20%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.20%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (9.05%) Degree
5 13 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.81%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.80%) PMP
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) CISM
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) IIBA
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.23%) QA
4 20 (4.02%) GDPR
5 12 (2.41%) WCAG
6 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.41%) PMO
7 6 (1.21%) GRC
8 5 (1.01%) NIST
9 4 (0.80%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.42%) Terraform
2 10 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.41%) Grafana
3 7 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) SCCM
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 369 (74.25%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.62%) Oracle
3 18 (3.62%) SAP
4 12 (2.41%) Databricks
4 12 (2.41%) UiPath
5 8 (1.61%) Foundry
5 8 (1.61%) Google
5 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.01%) Blue Prism
7 5 (1.01%) Brio
8 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.60%) Pega
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
10 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft