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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 242 278
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +147
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 422 256 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.07% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 2.86% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 172 197
10th Percentile £400 £394 £310
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £586 £588
90th Percentile £625 £634 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £26.21 £36.18 -
25th Percentile £27.71 £39.63 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £46.32 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% - -
75th Percentile £29.50 £53.94 -
90th Percentile £34.75 £57.95 -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £46.32 £17.00
% change year-on-year -37.39% +172.44% -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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 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 28 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 +19 261 £505 -3.81% 45
North of England -55 52 £500 +5.26% 42
South East -33 37 £505 +6.32% 22
Midlands -52 32 £456 +4.29% 27
North West -27 29 £500 +11.11% 23
South West -13 22 £500 +9.59% 8
West Midlands -59 22 £463 +1.37% 21
Yorkshire -54 17 £500 +5.26% 13
East Midlands -18 9 £435 - 6
East of England -30 8 £499 -0.25% 5
North East -25 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
1 135 (31.99%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.32%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.37%) Mendix
3 10 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.90%) Appian
4 8 (1.90%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 64 (15.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.66%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.24%) Primavera
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 331 (78.44%) Power Platform
2 261 (61.85%) PowerApps
3 214 (50.71%) Azure
4 129 (30.57%) Dynamics 365
5 120 (28.44%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (20.38%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (20.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 61 (14.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 58 (13.74%) Copilot Studio
9 43 (10.19%) Serverless
10 42 (9.95%) Azure Functions
11 41 (9.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 41 (9.72%) Entra ID
12 32 (7.58%) GitHub
13 24 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (5.45%) OneDrive
15 17 (4.03%) Azure AI
16 15 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (3.08%) AWS
18 8 (1.90%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) DNS
1 4 (0.95%) Firewall
1 4 (0.95%) VPN
2 3 (0.71%) Intranet
2 3 (0.71%) SMS
3 2 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (39.10%) Power BI
2 35 (8.29%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.79%) Power Query
5 10 (2.37%) Metadata
5 10 (2.37%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.90%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.18%) Tableau
9 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.95%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.71%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.71%) MySQL
10 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (2.37%) Git
1 10 (2.37%) JIRA
1 10 (2.37%) Visual Studio
2 8 (1.90%) MLflow
3 2 (0.47%) JDeveloper
3 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.24%) gulp
4 1 (0.24%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
4 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 140 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 104 (24.64%) Finance
3 66 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.21%) Banking
6 19 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.84%) Marketing
8 11 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.61%) Law
9 8 (1.90%) Legal
10 6 (1.42%) Back Office
11 5 (1.18%) Local Government
12 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Police
12 4 (0.95%) Retail
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.71%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Publishing
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 173 (41.00%) Developer
2 66 (15.64%) Power Platform Developer
3 59 (13.98%) Consultant
4 42 (9.95%) Senior
5 41 (9.72%) Architect
6 32 (7.58%) Microsoft Developer
7 31 (7.35%) Analyst
8 24 (5.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 23 (5.45%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (4.50%) Lead
12 16 (3.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 16 (3.79%) Power Platform Architect
13 15 (3.55%) Platform Architect
14 14 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (3.32%) Power Platform Consultant
14 14 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (3.08%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.08%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (12.09%) .NET
2 34 (8.06%) Microsoft Graph
3 29 (6.87%) React
4 27 (6.40%) HTML5 Canvas
5 26 (6.16%) REST
6 22 (5.21%) JSON
7 20 (4.74%) RESTful
8 18 (4.27%) CSS
9 17 (4.03%) SPFx
10 15 (3.55%) HTML
11 12 (2.84%) OAuth
12 9 (2.13%) Web Services
13 8 (1.90%) Django
13 8 (1.90%) Faiss
13 8 (1.90%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.90%) Flask
13 8 (1.90%) Hugging Face
13 8 (1.90%) NumPy
13 8 (1.90%) OpenAPI
13 8 (1.90%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.85%) Low-Code
2 21 (4.98%) AI Agents
3 19 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 18 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.18%) IVR
7 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.71%) IoT
9 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.47%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.95%) 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
1 165 (39.10%) Business Intelligence
2 122 (28.91%) DevOps
3 89 (21.09%) AI
3 89 (21.09%) Data Modelling
4 87 (20.62%) Agile
5 83 (19.67%) CI/CD
6 67 (15.88%) CRM
7 59 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (13.27%) Workflow
9 52 (12.32%) Analytics
10 45 (10.66%) API Integration
11 38 (9.00%) Integration Patterns
12 36 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (8.06%) Migration
13 34 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (7.58%) Translating Business Requirements
15 31 (7.35%) ETL
16 29 (6.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 28 (6.64%) Change Management
18 27 (6.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (19.67%) JavaScript
2 81 (19.19%) SQL
3 80 (18.96%) C#
4 42 (9.95%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.29%) Python
6 23 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.61%) X++
10 10 (2.37%) Formula Language
10 10 (2.37%) LotusScript
11 8 (1.90%) Java
11 8 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.95%) R
12 4 (0.95%) VBA
13 3 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.47%) Bicep
14 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.24%) Korn
15 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (6.64%) Degree
5 9 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.90%) QA
3 7 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.42%) GDPR
4 6 (1.42%) GRC
5 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) NIST
6 3 (0.71%) SLA
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.82%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.61%) Docker
3 4 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.79%) Terraform
3 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.18%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 285 (67.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.69%) Oracle
3 23 (5.45%) UiPath
4 17 (4.03%) SAP
5 16 (3.79%) OpenAI
5 16 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.32%) Lotus
7 11 (2.61%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.37%) Kofax
9 8 (1.90%) Google
10 5 (1.18%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.18%) Databricks
10 5 (1.18%) Foundry
11 4 (0.95%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.95%) Brio
11 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.95%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) Workday