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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 266 270
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +136
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 445 265 303
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.97% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 2.61% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 173 210
10th Percentile £363 £365 £300
25th Percentile £423 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £574 £564 £584
90th Percentile £619 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.45% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £28.50 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £28.87 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £29.96 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% - -
75th Percentile £38.25 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £39.73 £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £33.73 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +22 270 £520 +4.00% 71
North of England -57 61 £500 +5.26% 30
Midlands -45 38 £435 -10.77% 33
North West -33 37 £450 -5.26% 18
South East -36 34 £505 -8.18% 52
West Midlands -49 27 £425 -12.82% 20
Yorkshire -46 21 £500 +5.26% 8
South West -28 18 £490 +5.38% 24
East Midlands -3 10 £455 - 13
East of England -24 10 £510 +2.00% 12
North East -37 3 £458 - 4
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
1 136 (30.56%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.35%) Confluence
4 4 (0.90%) Appian
4 4 (0.90%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.45%) Mendix
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 34 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (14.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.57%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) 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
1 364 (81.80%) Power Platform
2 288 (64.72%) PowerApps
3 237 (53.26%) Azure
4 137 (30.79%) Dynamics 365
5 128 (28.76%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (22.92%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (21.80%) Microsoft Copilot
8 61 (13.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 61 (13.71%) Copilot Studio
9 44 (9.89%) Entra ID
10 42 (9.44%) Serverless
11 41 (9.21%) Azure Functions
12 32 (7.19%) GitHub
13 27 (6.07%) Azure Service Bus
14 24 (5.39%) OneDrive
15 20 (4.49%) Azure AI
16 18 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (3.60%) AWS
19 13 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.57%) DNS
1 7 (1.57%) Firewall
1 7 (1.57%) VPN
2 4 (0.90%) Intranet
3 3 (0.67%) SMS
4 2 (0.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (40.45%) Power BI
2 35 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.04%) Power Query
4 15 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.70%) Metadata
6 5 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.90%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.90%) MySQL
7 4 (0.90%) Pinecone
7 4 (0.90%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.67%) Tableau
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.70%) JIRA
2 11 (2.47%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.25%) Git
4 7 (1.57%) Selenium
5 6 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.35%) Postman
5 6 (1.35%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.90%) MLflow
7 3 (0.67%) Protractor
8 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) GitLab
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
1 148 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 99 (22.25%) Finance
3 72 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.84%) Banking
6 16 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.70%) Law
8 10 (2.25%) Legal
8 10 (2.25%) Marketing
9 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.35%) Local Government
11 5 (1.12%) Back Office
11 5 (1.12%) Retail
12 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.90%) Military
13 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
14 2 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 181 (40.67%) Developer
2 78 (17.53%) Power Platform Developer
3 61 (13.71%) Consultant
4 49 (11.01%) Senior
5 48 (10.79%) Architect
6 35 (7.87%) Analyst
7 34 (7.64%) Microsoft Developer
8 27 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.17%) Lead
11 21 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 17 (3.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 16 (3.60%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (3.37%) Power Platform Consultant
15 14 (3.15%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 13 (2.92%) Power Platform Architect
16 13 (2.92%) Power Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.92%) SharePoint Developer
17 12 (2.70%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.13%) .NET
2 37 (8.31%) Microsoft Graph
3 35 (7.87%) JSON
4 26 (5.84%) REST
5 25 (5.62%) HTML5 Canvas
6 22 (4.94%) React
7 19 (4.27%) CSS
7 19 (4.27%) SPFx
8 16 (3.60%) HTML
9 12 (2.70%) RESTful
10 9 (2.02%) OAuth
11 7 (1.57%) FIDO
11 7 (1.57%) jQuery
11 7 (1.57%) XML
12 6 (1.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.35%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.35%) Gherkin
12 6 (1.35%) Middleware
13 5 (1.12%) HTML5
13 5 (1.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.54%) Low-Code
2 25 (5.62%) AI Agents
3 22 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (4.27%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.35%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.67%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.67%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.67%) IoT
12 3 (0.67%) IVR
12 3 (0.67%) Life Science
13 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.35%) 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
1 180 (40.45%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (31.24%) DevOps
3 122 (27.42%) AI
4 109 (24.49%) Agile
5 98 (22.02%) CI/CD
6 91 (20.45%) Data Modelling
7 71 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (14.61%) CRM
9 60 (13.48%) Workflow
10 52 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (11.46%) Migration
12 50 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (11.01%) Analytics
14 48 (10.79%) Translating Business Requirements
15 43 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (7.87%) Integration Patterns
18 34 (7.64%) API Integration
19 31 (6.97%) User Experience
20 27 (6.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.90%) JavaScript
2 85 (19.10%) C#
3 78 (17.53%) SQL
4 40 (8.99%) PowerShell
5 34 (7.64%) Python
6 22 (4.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (2.92%) X++
8 12 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.80%) Java
9 8 (1.80%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.90%) VBA
11 3 (0.67%) Bicep
11 3 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.45%) Formula Language
12 2 (0.45%) LotusScript
12 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) COBOL
13 1 (0.22%) Korn
13 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 76 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (6.97%) Degree
5 13 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.35%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISM
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) IIBA
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.15%) QA
4 13 (2.92%) GDPR
5 9 (2.02%) WCAG
6 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.35%) GRC
7 6 (1.35%) PMO
8 5 (1.12%) NIST
9 4 (0.90%) 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 35 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.57%) Docker
3 5 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.04%) Terraform
2 14 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.57%) Grafana
4 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
6 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 318 (71.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.72%) SAP
3 17 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.60%) Oracle
4 16 (3.60%) UiPath
5 12 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.80%) Google
7 7 (1.57%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.57%) Foundry
7 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.57%) Splunk
8 6 (1.35%) Databricks
9 5 (1.12%) Automation Anywhere
10 4 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.90%) Brio
11 3 (0.67%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.67%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.67%) Workday
12 2 (0.45%) Pega