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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 238 281
Rank change year-on-year -8 +43 +133
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 423 263 296
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 2.91% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 174 195
10th Percentile £400 £394 £309
25th Percentile £423 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £582 £588
90th Percentile £625 £632 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £26.21 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £27.71 £30.72 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% - -
75th Percentile £29.50 £41.39 -
90th Percentile £34.75 £52.93 -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £34.43 £17.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% +102.53% -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 14,776 9,024 11,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.56% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,069 6,187 8,492
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
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 £745
UK median daily rate £508 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 210 325
10th Percentile £15.69 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £18.13 £15.98
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.63 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%

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 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 30 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 +18 261 £505 -3.81% 39
North of England -58 53 £500 +5.26% 32
South East -42 37 £505 +12.22% 19
Midlands -53 32 £450 +2.86% 23
North West -35 29 £500 +11.11% 18
South West -25 22 £500 +9.59% 5
West Midlands -70 21 £456 - 15
Yorkshire -59 18 £500 +5.26% 10
East Midlands -14 10 £435 - 8
East of England -32 8 £499 -0.25% 5
North East -21 6 £370 -1.33% 4
Power Automate
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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 (32.15%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.31%) HCL Notes
3 11 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.36%) Mendix
5 8 (1.89%) Appian
5 8 (1.89%) Confluence
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.24%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (6.86%) 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 63 (14.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.65%) 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
1 332 (78.49%) Power Platform
2 262 (61.94%) PowerApps
3 216 (51.06%) Azure
4 130 (30.73%) Dynamics 365
5 121 (28.61%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (21.04%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (20.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 63 (14.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 58 (13.71%) Copilot Studio
10 44 (10.40%) Serverless
11 43 (10.17%) Azure Functions
12 42 (9.93%) Entra ID
13 41 (9.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (7.33%) GitHub
15 24 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (5.67%) OneDrive
16 17 (4.02%) Azure AI
17 14 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (3.07%) AWS
19 8 (1.89%) Azure API Management
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
1 163 (38.53%) Power BI
2 35 (8.27%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.55%) Power Query
5 10 (2.36%) Metadata
5 10 (2.36%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.89%) 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%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 10 (2.36%) JIRA
1 10 (2.36%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.13%) Git
3 8 (1.89%) MLflow
4 2 (0.47%) JDeveloper
4 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) HP UFT
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 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.82%) Finance
3 68 (16.08%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.20%) Banking
6 19 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.84%) Law
7 12 (2.84%) Marketing
8 11 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.13%) Legal
10 6 (1.42%) Back Office
10 6 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.42%) Local Government
11 4 (0.95%) Police
11 4 (0.95%) Retail
12 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.71%) Military
12 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Publishing
13 2 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 174 (41.13%) Developer
2 66 (15.60%) Power Platform Developer
3 58 (13.71%) Consultant
4 44 (10.40%) Senior
5 42 (9.93%) Architect
6 33 (7.80%) Microsoft Developer
7 31 (7.33%) Analyst
8 25 (5.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 25 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.73%) Automation Engineer
9 20 (4.73%) Lead
10 16 (3.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 16 (3.78%) Power Platform Architect
11 15 (3.55%) Platform Architect
11 15 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.31%) Power Platform Consultant
13 13 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.07%) Power Apps Developer
13 13 (3.07%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.29%) .NET
2 35 (8.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 30 (7.09%) React
4 28 (6.62%) REST
5 27 (6.38%) HTML5 Canvas
6 25 (5.91%) JSON
7 20 (4.73%) RESTful
8 18 (4.26%) CSS
8 18 (4.26%) SPFx
9 15 (3.55%) HTML
10 12 (2.84%) OAuth
11 9 (2.13%) Web Services
12 8 (1.89%) Django
12 8 (1.89%) Flask
12 8 (1.89%) NumPy
12 8 (1.89%) Pandas
12 8 (1.89%) pytest
12 8 (1.89%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.89%) Swagger
12 8 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.82%) Low-Code
2 21 (4.96%) AI Agents
2 21 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.18%) IVR
6 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.71%) IoT
8 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.47%) BYOD
9 2 (0.47%) Life Science
9 2 (0.47%) NHS
9 2 (0.47%) PKI
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
1 163 (38.53%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (29.79%) DevOps
3 90 (21.28%) Agile
3 90 (21.28%) AI
4 87 (20.57%) Data Modelling
5 83 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 66 (15.60%) CRM
7 60 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (13.00%) Workflow
9 51 (12.06%) Analytics
10 44 (10.40%) API Integration
11 39 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (8.98%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (8.04%) Migration
14 33 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
16 31 (7.33%) ETL
17 30 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 28 (6.62%) Change Management
19 27 (6.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 85 (20.09%) JavaScript
2 82 (19.39%) C#
3 79 (18.68%) SQL
4 42 (9.93%) PowerShell
5 34 (8.04%) Python
6 21 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.60%) X++
9 10 (2.36%) Formula Language
9 10 (2.36%) LotusScript
10 8 (1.89%) Java
10 8 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.95%) VBA
12 3 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.71%) R
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) COBOL
14 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 61 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (6.86%) Degree
5 10 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.65%) 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 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.89%) QA
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 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.60%) Docker
3 4 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.55%) Terraform
3 8 (1.89%) 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
1 286 (67.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.67%) Oracle
3 23 (5.44%) UiPath
4 17 (4.02%) SAP
5 16 (3.78%) OpenAI
5 16 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.31%) Lotus
7 11 (2.60%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.36%) Kofax
9 8 (1.89%) 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