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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 271 275
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +138
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 442 256 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 2.53% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 170 211
10th Percentile £363 £363 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £575 £572 £588
90th Percentile £625 £615 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile - £25.55 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £29.96 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% - -
75th Percentile £38.25 £36.00 -
90th Percentile - £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -11.88% +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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 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
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 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 +30 269 £513 +2.50% 64
North of England -56 62 £500 +5.26% 24
North West -24 37 £450 -5.26% 13
Midlands -41 36 £435 -13.00% 34
South East -34 35 £505 -8.18% 52
West Midlands -59 26 £425 -15.00% 23
Yorkshire -42 21 £500 +5.26% 7
South West -29 18 £490 +10.11% 22
East Midlands -7 9 £435 - 11
East of England -34 9 £510 +2.00% 12
North East -36 4 £365 -2.67% 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
1 133 (30.09%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.36%) Confluence
4 4 (0.90%) Appian
4 4 (0.90%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.68%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Mendix
7 1 (0.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 33 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.45%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (14.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.58%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.23%) Primavera
5 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 360 (81.45%) Power Platform
2 289 (65.38%) PowerApps
3 235 (53.17%) Azure
4 135 (30.54%) Dynamics 365
5 125 (28.28%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (21.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 62 (14.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (13.35%) Copilot Studio
10 44 (9.95%) Entra ID
11 43 (9.73%) Serverless
12 42 (9.50%) Azure Functions
13 32 (7.24%) GitHub
14 28 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (5.20%) OneDrive
16 19 (4.30%) Azure AI
17 18 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (3.62%) AWS
19 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) DNS
1 7 (1.58%) Firewall
1 7 (1.58%) VPN
2 4 (0.90%) Intranet
3 3 (0.68%) SMS
4 2 (0.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (40.50%) Power BI
2 34 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.85%) Power Query
4 15 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.71%) Metadata
6 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.90%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.90%) MySQL
7 4 (0.90%) Pinecone
7 4 (0.90%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.68%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.68%) Tableau
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (2.49%) JIRA
2 10 (2.26%) Git
2 10 (2.26%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.36%) Selenium
4 5 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.13%) Postman
4 5 (1.13%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.90%) MLflow
6 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.45%) Protractor
6 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) GitLab
7 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 147 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 99 (22.40%) Finance
3 72 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.88%) Banking
6 15 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.71%) Law
8 11 (2.49%) Legal
9 10 (2.26%) Marketing
10 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.36%) Local Government
12 5 (1.13%) Retail
13 4 (0.90%) Back Office
13 4 (0.90%) Military
14 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 176 (39.82%) Developer
2 76 (17.19%) Power Platform Developer
3 61 (13.80%) Consultant
4 49 (11.09%) Architect
5 48 (10.86%) Senior
6 35 (7.92%) Analyst
7 33 (7.47%) Microsoft Developer
8 27 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (5.66%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.43%) Lead
11 22 (4.98%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 17 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 16 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (3.39%) Power Platform Consultant
15 14 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 14 (3.17%) Power Platform Architect
16 13 (2.94%) Power Apps Developer
16 13 (2.94%) Power Platform Engineer
17 12 (2.71%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.99%) .NET
2 37 (8.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 34 (7.69%) JSON
4 26 (5.88%) REST
5 25 (5.66%) HTML5 Canvas
6 22 (4.98%) React
7 19 (4.30%) SPFx
8 18 (4.07%) CSS
9 15 (3.39%) HTML
10 12 (2.71%) RESTful
11 9 (2.04%) OAuth
12 7 (1.58%) FIDO
13 6 (1.36%) .NET Framework
13 6 (1.36%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.36%) jQuery
13 6 (1.36%) Middleware
13 6 (1.36%) XML
14 5 (1.13%) HTML5
14 5 (1.13%) Web Services
14 5 (1.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.28%) Low-Code
2 23 (5.20%) AI Agents
3 22 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.13%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.68%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.68%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.68%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.68%) IoT
12 3 (0.68%) IVR
12 3 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) Android
2 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (40.50%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (31.67%) DevOps
3 120 (27.15%) AI
4 108 (24.43%) Agile
5 96 (21.72%) CI/CD
6 90 (20.36%) Data Modelling
7 69 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (14.48%) CRM
9 59 (13.35%) Workflow
10 50 (11.31%) Analytics
10 50 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (10.63%) Migration
12 47 (10.63%) Translating Business Requirements
13 45 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (7.92%) Integration Patterns
16 34 (7.69%) API Integration
17 31 (7.01%) User Experience
18 27 (6.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 92 (20.81%) JavaScript
2 83 (18.78%) C#
3 76 (17.19%) SQL
4 38 (8.60%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.47%) Python
6 22 (4.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.71%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.71%) X++
9 8 (1.81%) Java
9 8 (1.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.90%) VBA
11 3 (0.68%) Bicep
11 3 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.45%) Formula Language
12 2 (0.45%) LotusScript
12 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) COBOL
13 1 (0.23%) Korn
13 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (7.24%) Degree
5 13 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.13%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CISM
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) IIBA
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.37%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.17%) QA
4 12 (2.71%) GDPR
5 8 (1.81%) WCAG
6 7 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.36%) GRC
8 5 (1.13%) NIST
8 5 (1.13%) PMO
9 4 (0.90%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.58%) Docker
3 5 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 19 (4.30%) Terraform
2 15 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.81%) Grafana
4 8 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.23%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 312 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.52%) SAP
3 17 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 17 (3.85%) UiPath
4 15 (3.39%) Oracle
5 11 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.81%) Google
7 7 (1.58%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.58%) Databricks
7 7 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.58%) Foundry
7 7 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.58%) Splunk
8 5 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
9 4 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.90%) Brio
10 3 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.68%) Blue Prism
10 3 (0.68%) Lotus
10 3 (0.68%) Workday