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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 225 281
Rank change year-on-year -20 +56 +119
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 415 283 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 1.16% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 3.12% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 199 191
10th Percentile £383 £394 £311
25th Percentile £415 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £627 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £26.46 - -
25th Percentile £30.35 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £64.13 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% - -
75th Percentile £98.75 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.13 £58.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +9.15% +245.59% -52.78%

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 14,314 9,067 11,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.50% 37.27% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,862 6,351 8,548
10th Percentile £318 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 194 323
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.75 £41.85 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +27 260 £500 -4.76% 62
North of England -79 42 £500 +6.38% 23
South East -31 36 £505 +12.22% 44
Midlands -63 35 £450 -2.17% 22
North West -38 26 £500 +7.53% 13
West Midlands -61 25 £438 -5.91% 16
South West -20 22 £463 +1.37% 8
Yorkshire -62 10 £500 +5.26% 6
East Midlands -20 9 £450 - 6
North East -19 6 £370 -20.43% 4
East of England -41 6 £488 -2.50% 12
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
1 132 (31.81%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.61%) HCL Notes
3 12 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.41%) Mendix
5 8 (1.93%) Appian
6 7 (1.69%) Confluence
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.24%) Camunda
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.48%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (16.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 333 (80.24%) Power Platform
2 261 (62.89%) PowerApps
3 212 (51.08%) Azure
4 131 (31.57%) Dynamics 365
5 128 (30.84%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (18.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 76 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (13.73%) Copilot Studio
9 54 (13.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 47 (11.33%) Serverless
11 46 (11.08%) Azure Functions
12 36 (8.67%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 34 (8.19%) Entra ID
15 27 (6.51%) GitHub
16 24 (5.78%) OneDrive
17 21 (5.06%) Azure AI
18 11 (2.65%) AWS
19 10 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
20 9 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) DNS
2 3 (0.72%) Firewall
2 3 (0.72%) SMS
2 3 (0.72%) VPN
3 2 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (43.61%) Power BI
2 32 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.61%) Power Query
5 11 (2.65%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.17%) Metadata
7 8 (1.93%) Pinecone
8 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.45%) Tableau
9 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.96%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.72%) MySQL
10 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.48%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.13%) Git
1 13 (3.13%) JIRA
2 8 (1.93%) MLflow
3 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.48%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) gulp
5 1 (0.24%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
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
1 141 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 101 (24.34%) Finance
3 62 (14.94%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.02%) Banking
6 15 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.13%) Marketing
8 11 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.41%) Law
10 9 (2.17%) Legal
11 6 (1.45%) Back Office
12 5 (1.20%) Local Government
12 5 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Retail
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.72%) Police
14 3 (0.72%) Publishing
15 2 (0.48%) Automotive
16 1 (0.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 178 (42.89%) Developer
2 68 (16.39%) Power Platform Developer
3 48 (11.57%) Consultant
4 40 (9.64%) Senior
5 32 (7.71%) Architect
6 31 (7.47%) Microsoft Developer
7 29 (6.99%) Analyst
7 29 (6.99%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 22 (5.30%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Power Platform Architect
11 16 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) Platform Architect
12 15 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (3.61%) Power Apps Developer
13 14 (3.37%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Applications Developer
14 13 (3.13%) SharePoint Developer
15 12 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.89%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.33%) .NET
2 31 (7.47%) REST
3 29 (6.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 25 (6.02%) React
5 24 (5.78%) HTML5 Canvas
6 21 (5.06%) JSON
7 20 (4.82%) HTML
8 19 (4.58%) RESTful
9 18 (4.34%) CSS
10 16 (3.86%) OAuth
11 14 (3.37%) SPFx
12 11 (2.65%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.65%) Flask
12 11 (2.65%) NumPy
12 11 (2.65%) Pandas
13 9 (2.17%) Web Services
14 8 (1.93%) Django
14 8 (1.93%) pytest
14 8 (1.93%) scikit-learn
14 8 (1.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.33%) Low-Code
2 23 (5.54%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.82%) AI Agents
4 19 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.45%) IVR
9 5 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.96%) PKI
10 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.72%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.48%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Licensing
13 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) 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
1 180 (43.37%) Business Intelligence
2 115 (27.71%) DevOps
3 90 (21.69%) Data Modelling
4 79 (19.04%) Agile
5 78 (18.80%) AI
6 75 (18.07%) CI/CD
7 70 (16.87%) CRM
8 61 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (14.22%) Analytics
10 50 (12.05%) Workflow
11 41 (9.88%) API Integration
12 39 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (8.92%) Integration Patterns
14 36 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (7.71%) ETL
16 31 (7.47%) Data Governance
17 30 (7.23%) User Experience
18 29 (6.99%) Change Management
18 29 (6.99%) Decision-Making
18 29 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.96%) SQL
2 79 (19.04%) JavaScript
3 74 (17.83%) C#
4 36 (8.67%) Python
5 31 (7.47%) PowerShell
6 22 (5.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.89%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.65%) Formula Language
9 11 (2.65%) LotusScript
10 8 (1.93%) Java
11 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.69%) X++
12 6 (1.45%) R
13 4 (0.96%) VBA
14 3 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.48%) Bicep
16 1 (0.24%) COBOL
16 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 68 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.19%) Degree
4 26 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.48%) MBA
8 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CIMA
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.93%) QA
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.45%) GDPR
4 6 (1.45%) GRC
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.13%) Terraform
3 4 (0.96%) Grafana
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 285 (68.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.02%) Oracle
3 21 (5.06%) UiPath
4 20 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.10%) OpenAI
6 15 (3.61%) Lotus
7 13 (3.13%) SAP
8 11 (2.65%) Automation Anywhere
9 10 (2.41%) Kofax
10 6 (1.45%) Foundry
11 5 (1.20%) Blue Prism
11 5 (1.20%) Brio
11 5 (1.20%) Google
11 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.72%) Genesys
13 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.72%) Pega