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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 256 250
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 +148
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 499 287 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.79% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 179 209
10th Percentile £317 £363 £333
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £546 £575 £598
90th Percentile £600 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £496
% change year-on-year -2.50% +0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 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 £54.87 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £57.83 £50.78 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +100.00% -38.18%

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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +3 286 £500 -4.76% 61
Midlands -14 66 £425 -19.05% 30
North of England -41 63 £498 +4.74% 28
West Midlands -34 48 £425 -17.07% 23
North West -22 41 £490 +8.89% 15
South East -39 39 £500 -9.09% 22
South West -44 19 £425 -5.56% 15
Yorkshire -36 18 £500 +2.56% 7
East Midlands -1 17 £472 -21.42% 7
East of England -15 16 £475 +5.56% 16
North East -39 4 £550 - 8
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
1 162 (32.46%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.80%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (1.40%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.60%) Mendix
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 42 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 74 (14.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 407 (81.56%) Power Platform
2 328 (65.73%) PowerApps
3 260 (52.10%) Azure
4 181 (36.27%) Dynamics 365
5 135 (27.05%) Microsoft 365
6 121 (24.25%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (21.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (12.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 58 (11.62%) Copilot Studio
10 52 (10.42%) Serverless
11 51 (10.22%) Azure Functions
12 43 (8.62%) Entra ID
13 36 (7.21%) GitHub
14 35 (7.01%) OneDrive
15 27 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (4.41%) Azure AI
17 19 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (3.61%) AWS
19 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
20 15 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.60%) Firewall
2 7 (1.40%) DNS
2 7 (1.40%) VPN
3 4 (0.80%) Intranet
4 3 (0.60%) SMS
5 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.40%) Skype
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (38.88%) Power BI
2 38 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.21%) Power Query
4 18 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.21%) Metadata
6 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.40%) Star Schema
8 6 (1.20%) PowerPivot
9 5 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.80%) GIS
10 4 (0.80%) MySQL
10 4 (0.80%) Tableau
11 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (4.01%) JIRA
1 20 (4.01%) Visual Studio
2 12 (2.40%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) Selenium
4 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.80%) Postman
4 9 (1.80%) WebDriver
5 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.60%) Protractor
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.40%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 181 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 115 (23.05%) Finance
3 85 (17.03%) Public Sector
4 60 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.81%) Banking
5 24 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.21%) Marketing
7 14 (2.81%) Law
8 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.80%) Local Government
10 8 (1.60%) Legal
10 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.60%) Retail
11 7 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Back Office
13 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.80%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (42.89%) Developer
2 82 (16.43%) Power Platform Developer
3 65 (13.03%) Consultant
4 57 (11.42%) Senior
5 52 (10.42%) Analyst
6 46 (9.22%) Architect
7 44 (8.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 32 (6.41%) Microsoft Developer
9 30 (6.01%) Senior Developer
10 29 (5.81%) Lead
11 26 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 17 (3.41%) Data Analyst
14 16 (3.21%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.21%) Power Platform Engineer
14 16 (3.21%) SharePoint Developer
15 14 (2.81%) Power Platform Architect
15 14 (2.81%) Power Platform Consultant
16 13 (2.61%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 13 (2.61%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (13.43%) .NET
2 36 (7.21%) JSON
3 34 (6.81%) REST
4 31 (6.21%) Microsoft Graph
5 29 (5.81%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (4.61%) React
7 22 (4.41%) HTML
8 21 (4.21%) CSS
8 21 (4.21%) SPFx
9 17 (3.41%) Terraform
10 12 (2.40%) Middleware
11 11 (2.20%) RESTful
12 10 (2.00%) OAuth
13 9 (1.80%) Gherkin
13 9 (1.80%) jQuery
14 7 (1.40%) .NET Framework
14 7 (1.40%) FIDO
15 6 (1.20%) ASP.NET
15 6 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
15 6 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.02%) Low-Code
2 30 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.61%) AI Agents
4 21 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.80%) BYOD
10 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
11 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.60%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
11 3 (0.60%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (39.48%) Business Intelligence
2 158 (31.66%) DevOps
3 153 (30.66%) Agile
4 133 (26.65%) AI
5 109 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 92 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (17.23%) Data Modelling
8 83 (16.63%) CRM
8 83 (16.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 73 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (13.23%) Migration
10 66 (13.23%) Workflow
11 61 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (11.82%) Translating Business Requirements
13 56 (11.22%) Analytics
14 49 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (9.22%) Scrum
16 41 (8.22%) Decision-Making
17 37 (7.41%) Customer Service
17 37 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 121 (24.25%) JavaScript
2 118 (23.65%) C#
3 95 (19.04%) SQL
4 37 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 30 (6.01%) Python
6 27 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (4.01%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.41%) X++
9 15 (3.01%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Java
12 4 (0.80%) Bicep
12 4 (0.80%) VBA
13 2 (0.40%) Korn
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) COBOL
14 1 (0.20%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.20%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 107 (21.44%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 57 (11.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (8.62%) Degree
5 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.80%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.00%) PMP
10 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) CISM
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.21%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.81%) QA
4 21 (4.21%) GDPR
5 13 (2.61%) WCAG
6 8 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.40%) GRC
7 7 (1.40%) PMO
8 5 (1.00%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.20%) Kubernetes
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.40%) Grafana
2 7 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 6 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.20%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 368 (73.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.61%) ServiceNow
3 20 (4.01%) Oracle
4 15 (3.01%) SAP
5 13 (2.61%) Databricks
6 9 (1.80%) UiPath
7 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.40%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.40%) Foundry
8 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.40%) Splunk
9 6 (1.20%) Google
10 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.80%) Brio
11 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.60%) Pega
11 3 (0.60%) Workday
12 2 (0.40%) OutSystems