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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 231 275
Rank change year-on-year -12 +44 +140
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 412 259 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.07% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 2.87% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 178 192
10th Percentile £400 £400 £301
25th Percentile £420 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £578
90th Percentile £625 £636 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £25.71 - -
25th Percentile £26.46 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £27.71 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% - -
75th Percentile £32.98 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £36.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.71 £58.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -52.83% +245.59% -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 14,385 9,028 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,245 8,435
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 203 327
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £17.96 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -38.94%

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 20 May 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
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 20 May 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 +26 260 £500 -4.76% 55
North of England -47 47 £500 +8.11% 35
South East -46 34 £505 +12.22% 30
Midlands -56 32 £443 +1.14% 25
North West -30 26 £500 +17.65% 12
West Midlands -52 21 £438 - 18
South West -28 20 £523 +14.63% 7
Yorkshire -53 15 £500 +5.26% 17
East Midlands -20 10 £443 - 7
East of England -31 7 £488 -2.50% 4
North East -20 6 £370 -1.33% 6
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
1 134 (32.52%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.40%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.43%) Mendix
3 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.94%) Appian
5 7 (1.70%) Confluence
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.24%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.49%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (16.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.24%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 327 (79.37%) Power Platform
2 256 (62.14%) PowerApps
3 214 (51.94%) Azure
4 131 (31.80%) Dynamics 365
5 117 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (20.87%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (20.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 57 (13.83%) Copilot Studio
9 55 (13.35%) Azure Logic Apps
10 43 (10.44%) Serverless
11 42 (10.19%) Azure Functions
12 39 (9.47%) Entra ID
13 37 (8.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (7.52%) GitHub
15 25 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (5.58%) OneDrive
17 19 (4.61%) Azure AI
18 15 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (2.91%) AWS
20 8 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) DNS
1 4 (0.97%) Firewall
1 4 (0.97%) VPN
2 3 (0.73%) SMS
3 2 (0.49%) Intranet
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (40.53%) Power BI
2 35 (8.50%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.88%) Power Query
5 10 (2.43%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.94%) Metadata
6 8 (1.94%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.46%) Tableau
8 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.97%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.73%) MySQL
10 3 (0.73%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.49%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.43%) Git
1 10 (2.43%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.18%) JIRA
3 8 (1.94%) MLflow
4 2 (0.49%) JDeveloper
4 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 133 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 105 (25.49%) Finance
3 66 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.58%) Banking
6 16 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.16%) Marketing
8 11 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.67%) Law
9 8 (1.94%) Legal
10 6 (1.46%) Back Office
11 5 (1.21%) Local Government
11 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.97%) Retail
13 3 (0.73%) Police
13 3 (0.73%) Publishing
14 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 173 (41.99%) Developer
2 68 (16.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 56 (13.59%) Consultant
4 43 (10.44%) Architect
5 42 (10.19%) Senior
6 32 (7.77%) Microsoft Developer
7 28 (6.80%) Analyst
8 25 (6.07%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 22 (5.34%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
11 17 (4.13%) Power Platform Architect
12 16 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (3.88%) Lead
12 16 (3.88%) Platform Architect
13 15 (3.64%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 14 (3.40%) Power Platform Consultant
14 14 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.16%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) Power Apps Developer
15 13 (3.16%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.41%) .NET
2 32 (7.77%) Microsoft Graph
3 27 (6.55%) React
4 26 (6.31%) HTML5 Canvas
4 26 (6.31%) REST
5 21 (5.10%) JSON
6 20 (4.85%) RESTful
7 17 (4.13%) CSS
8 16 (3.88%) HTML
8 16 (3.88%) SPFx
9 13 (3.16%) OAuth
10 9 (2.18%) Web Services
11 8 (1.94%) Django
11 8 (1.94%) Faiss
11 8 (1.94%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.94%) Flask
11 8 (1.94%) Hugging Face
11 8 (1.94%) NumPy
11 8 (1.94%) Pandas
11 8 (1.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.41%) Low-Code
2 21 (5.10%) AI Agents
3 20 (4.85%) Data Structures
4 18 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.46%) IVR
7 5 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.73%) IoT
9 3 (0.73%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.49%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.49%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (0.49%) NHS
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (40.53%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (28.88%) DevOps
3 88 (21.36%) Data Modelling
4 83 (20.15%) AI
5 82 (19.90%) Agile
6 80 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 70 (16.99%) CRM
8 57 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (11.89%) Workflow
10 48 (11.65%) Analytics
11 41 (9.95%) API Integration
12 37 (8.98%) Integration Patterns
13 36 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.28%) Change Management
14 30 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (7.28%) ETL
14 30 (7.28%) Migration
14 30 (7.28%) Translating Business Requirements
14 30 (7.28%) User Experience
15 27 (6.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.66%) JavaScript
2 78 (18.93%) SQL
3 77 (18.69%) C#
4 37 (8.98%) PowerShell
5 30 (7.28%) Python
6 22 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.43%) Formula Language
9 10 (2.43%) LotusScript
9 10 (2.43%) X++
10 8 (1.94%) Java
10 8 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.97%) R
11 4 (0.97%) VBA
12 3 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.49%) Bicep
13 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.80%) Degree
4 27 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.49%) MBA
7 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.18%) QA
3 6 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.46%) GDPR
3 6 (1.46%) GRC
4 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 3 (0.73%) WCAG
5 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
5 1 (0.24%) NCSC
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.24%) PMO
5 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.67%) Docker
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.88%) Terraform
3 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.21%) Grafana
4 5 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 277 (67.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.83%) Oracle
3 20 (4.85%) UiPath
4 16 (3.88%) OpenAI
4 16 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.40%) Lotus
6 13 (3.16%) SAP
7 11 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.43%) Kofax
9 8 (1.94%) Google
10 6 (1.46%) Foundry
11 5 (1.21%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.97%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.97%) Brio
12 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.97%) Splunk
13 3 (0.73%) Genesys
13 3 (0.73%) Workday