Power Automate Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Power Automate skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 109 128
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +52
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 16 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.73% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.79% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 12
10th Percentile - £400 £366
25th Percentile £413 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £614
90th Percentile £535 £656 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.21%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 736 727 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.72% 30.23% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 460 769
10th Percentile £313 £310 £265
25th Percentile £379 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.74% -1.00%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.90
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% +16.62% +40.18%
75th Percentile £58.13 £70.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.60 £74.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Power Automate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Power Automate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Power Automate in the North West

Power Automate
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Automate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Automate

Power Automate
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Automate in the North West over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Automate in the North West

Power Automate
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. 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
Manchester -4 12 £438 +2.94% 25
Lancashire +3 3 £530 - 11
Cheshire - 1 - -
Power Automate
England

Power Automate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 10 (62.50%) PowerApps
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Low-Code
2 3 (18.75%) Shadow IT
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
5 1 (6.25%) API Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (6.25%) Demand Management
5 1 (6.25%) Resource Management
5 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media