Copilot Studio Contracts

Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Copilot Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Copilot Studio over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 534 691
Rank change year-on-year +44 +157 +138
Contract jobs citing Copilot Studio 30 48 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.34% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 18
10th Percentile £456 £419 £445
25th Percentile £500 £488 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +10.70%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £639
90th Percentile £670 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £675
% change year-on-year - -14.81% +54.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Copilot Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Copilot Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Copilot Studio in the UK

Copilot Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Copilot Studio.

Daily rate trend for Copilot Studio in the UK

Copilot Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Copilot Studio over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Copilot Studio in the UK

Copilot Studio
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +41 25 £550 -2.22% 23
London +29 20 £550 -7.41% 5
UK excluding London +54 8 £575 - 21
Work from Home +23 7 £500 -8.68% 26
Midlands +19 4 £575 +4.55% 5
West Midlands +11 4 £575 +4.55% 4
Scotland +11 3 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 5

Copilot Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) Drupal
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Power Platform
2 18 (60.00%) PowerApps
3 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 14 (46.67%) Power Automate
4 5 (16.67%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Lead
2 6 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Product Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Power Apps Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) YAML
2 3 (10.00%) React
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 2 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Conversational UI
5 5 (16.67%) API Integration
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Product Thinking
6 4 (13.33%) Break/Fix
6 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.33%) CRM
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) Product Management
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.00%) Data Science
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Migration
7 3 (10.00%) Server Management
8 2 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Bicep
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (6.67%) PHP
5 2 (6.67%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Planview
3 3 (10.00%) Sybase