Copilot Studio Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Copilot Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Copilot Studio 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.16% - 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile £800 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.47%
75th Percentile £900 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
England median daily rate £525 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -1.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

Copilot Studio 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 970 577 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.59% 29.80% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 394 492
10th Percentile £325 £213 £238
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £730 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 38 46
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.13 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £30.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £46.42 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £98.82 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

Copilot Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Copilot Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Copilot Studio job vacancy trend in the South West

Copilot Studio
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Copilot Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Copilot Studio within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Bristol - 4 - - 2
Wiltshire - 2 £850 - 1
Copilot Studio
England

Copilot Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) Azure AI
4 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Military
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (33.33%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Innovation
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Culture Change
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Foundry
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAI