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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 261 272
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +117
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 484 265 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.96% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 2.58% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 168 198
10th Percentile £345 £363 £311
25th Percentile £414 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £552 £575
90th Percentile £625 £613 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -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% -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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +22 281 £505 +1.00% 91
North of England -36 67 £500 - 41
Midlands -23 52 £435 -13.00% 28
North West -25 43 £495 -1.00% 23
West Midlands -41 40 £425 -12.82% 20
South East -37 36 £525 -4.55% 52
Yorkshire -33 20 £500 +2.56% 13
South West -36 20 £458 +1.67% 23
East of England -11 14 £481 +1.32% 18
East Midlands -7 11 £455 -24.17% 8
North East -37 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
1 159 (32.85%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.86%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (1.24%) Confluence
5 4 (0.83%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.41%) Appian
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) Mendix
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 44 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.41%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 66 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 398 (82.23%) Power Platform
2 324 (66.94%) PowerApps
3 253 (52.27%) Azure
4 158 (32.64%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (29.13%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (22.93%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (21.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 60 (12.40%) Copilot Studio
9 59 (12.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 45 (9.30%) Serverless
11 44 (9.09%) Azure Functions
12 43 (8.88%) Entra ID
13 36 (7.44%) OneDrive
14 33 (6.82%) GitHub
15 27 (5.58%) Azure AI
16 23 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.51%) AWS
19 14 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.45%) DNS
1 7 (1.45%) Firewall
1 7 (1.45%) VPN
2 4 (0.83%) Intranet
3 3 (0.62%) SMS
4 2 (0.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.21%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (40.08%) Power BI
2 40 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.17%) Power Query
4 19 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (3.10%) Metadata
6 6 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.24%) Star Schema
7 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.83%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.83%) MySQL
7 4 (0.83%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.62%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.62%) Tableau
9 2 (0.41%) GIS
9 2 (0.41%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.51%) Visual Studio
2 16 (3.31%) JIRA
3 11 (2.27%) Git
4 10 (2.07%) Selenium
5 9 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.86%) Postman
5 9 (1.86%) WebDriver
6 7 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.62%) Protractor
8 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.41%) MLflow
8 2 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.41%) TestRail
9 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 167 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 115 (23.76%) Finance
3 83 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 51 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.37%) Banking
6 22 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.31%) Marketing
8 14 (2.89%) Law
9 11 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.86%) Retail
11 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.45%) Legal
12 7 (1.45%) Local Government
13 6 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.24%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.03%) Back Office
14 5 (1.03%) Military
15 4 (0.83%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.62%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 206 (42.56%) Developer
2 83 (17.15%) Power Platform Developer
3 63 (13.02%) Consultant
4 61 (12.60%) Senior
5 44 (9.09%) Analyst
5 44 (9.09%) Architect
6 33 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 32 (6.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 31 (6.40%) Microsoft Developer
9 27 (5.58%) Lead
10 26 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (4.34%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 17 (3.51%) SharePoint Developer
13 16 (3.31%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.10%) Power Platform Consultant
15 14 (2.89%) Power Apps Developer
15 14 (2.89%) Power Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (2.69%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.69%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.57%) .NET
2 37 (7.64%) JSON
3 34 (7.02%) Microsoft Graph
4 31 (6.40%) REST
5 29 (5.99%) HTML5 Canvas
6 22 (4.55%) React
7 21 (4.34%) CSS
8 20 (4.13%) HTML
8 20 (4.13%) SPFx
9 12 (2.48%) RESTful
10 10 (2.07%) Middleware
10 10 (2.07%) OAuth
11 9 (1.86%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.65%) jQuery
13 7 (1.45%) FIDO
14 6 (1.24%) .NET Framework
14 6 (1.24%) ASP.NET
14 6 (1.24%) XML
15 5 (1.03%) XSLT
15 5 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.26%) Low-Code
2 28 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 22 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.24%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.83%) NHS
12 3 (0.62%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.62%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.62%) IoT
12 3 (0.62%) IVR
12 3 (0.62%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) Android
2 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (40.50%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (30.37%) DevOps
3 138 (28.51%) Agile
4 130 (26.86%) AI
5 107 (22.11%) CI/CD
6 93 (19.21%) Data Modelling
7 78 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 70 (14.46%) CRM
10 63 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (13.02%) Migration
10 63 (13.02%) Workflow
11 55 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (11.36%) Translating Business Requirements
12 53 (10.95%) Analytics
13 40 (8.26%) Integration Patterns
13 40 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (8.06%) Scrum
15 35 (7.23%) User Acceptance Testing
16 34 (7.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 113 (23.35%) JavaScript
2 103 (21.28%) C#
3 88 (18.18%) SQL
4 41 (8.47%) PowerShell
5 34 (7.02%) Python
6 26 (5.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.51%) X++
8 15 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.89%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.45%) Java
12 4 (0.83%) VBA
13 3 (0.62%) Bicep
13 3 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.21%) COBOL
15 1 (0.21%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.21%) Korn
15 1 (0.21%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (9.30%) Degree
5 13 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.86%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.83%) PMP
10 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.20%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.13%) QA
4 19 (3.93%) GDPR
5 12 (2.48%) WCAG
6 7 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.45%) PMO
7 6 (1.24%) GRC
8 5 (1.03%) NIST
9 4 (0.83%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.03%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.72%) Terraform
2 12 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.45%) Grafana
4 7 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 357 (73.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.13%) SAP
3 19 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.31%) Oracle
5 14 (2.89%) UiPath
6 10 (2.07%) Databricks
6 10 (2.07%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.86%) Google
8 8 (1.65%) Foundry
8 8 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.45%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.45%) Splunk
10 5 (1.03%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.03%) Brio
11 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.62%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.62%) Workday
13 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft