Power Automate Contracts

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Power Automate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Automate over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 405 450
Rank change year-on-year +133 +45 +19
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 350 318 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.55% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.49% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 229 318
10th Percentile £313 £403 £379
25th Percentile £400 £431 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +10.79%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £653 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £23.40 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £28.50 £29.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £37.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% +12.12% +73.68%
75th Percentile £17.50 £47.88 £36.50
90th Percentile - £54.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £57.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -70.43% +74.24% +73.68%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Power Automate is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

Power Automate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power Automate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Automate.

Daily rate trend for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Automate.

Hourly rate trend for Power Automate in the UK

Power Automate
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +116 285 £500 -4.76% 175
London +125 158 £525 -5.41% 53
Work from Home +108 150 £485 -3.00% 147
UK excluding London +84 150 £475 -5.00% 128
South East +33 37 £475 -9.52% 23
Scotland +59 30 £515 +3.00% 11
Midlands +35 28 £400 -5.88% 31
West Midlands +31 24 £388 -8.82% 25
North of England +5 22 £475 -5.00% 27
North West +12 21 £475 - 18
South West +22 20 £541 +17.03% 11
Wales +22 7 £550 +27.91% 6
East of England +20 7 £475 -5.00% 19
East Midlands +22 4 £413 -17.50% 5
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 7

Power Automate
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
1 106 (30.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.00%) Confluence
4 7 (2.00%) SAS
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) IIS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 27 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 41 (11.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (7.71%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.86%) Maximo
3 3 (0.86%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 321 (91.71%) Power Platform
2 240 (68.57%) PowerApps
3 178 (50.86%) Azure
4 106 (30.29%) Dynamics 365
5 95 (27.14%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (7.43%) Azure Functions
8 26 (7.43%) Serverless
9 24 (6.86%) OneDrive
10 18 (5.14%) GitHub
11 17 (4.86%) Entra ID
12 15 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (4.00%) Azure Storage
14 13 (3.71%) Snowflake
15 12 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 8 (2.29%) ShareGate
18 7 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.00%) Intranet
2 6 (1.71%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.29%) DHCP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) LAN
3 1 (0.29%) WAN
3 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (61.14%) Power BI
2 59 (16.86%) Data Lake
3 55 (15.71%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.43%) Metadata
6 12 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (3.14%) Power Query
8 10 (2.86%) Big Data
9 9 (2.57%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.00%) Ataccama
10 7 (2.00%) OLTP
10 7 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.71%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.14%) KNIME
12 4 (1.14%) Tableau
13 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.14%) JIRA
2 14 (4.00%) Git
3 12 (3.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 10 (2.86%) GitLab
5 7 (2.00%) Visual Studio Team System
6 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.57%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) JMeter
9 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.29%) NUnit
9 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 118 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.43%) Finance
3 65 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (15.14%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.00%) Retail
6 27 (7.71%) General Ledger
7 22 (6.29%) Banking
8 15 (4.29%) Marketing
9 9 (2.57%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.00%) Legal
10 7 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.43%) Local Government
13 4 (1.14%) Automotive
13 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Military
14 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 163 (46.57%) Developer
2 62 (17.71%) Consultant
3 56 (16.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 43 (12.29%) Analyst
5 38 (10.86%) Applications Developer
6 34 (9.71%) Data Analyst
7 32 (9.14%) Architect
7 32 (9.14%) Power Apps Developer
8 27 (7.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 26 (7.43%) Senior
10 24 (6.86%) Automation Developer
11 23 (6.57%) Power BI Developer
12 22 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 20 (5.71%) Lead
13 20 (5.71%) Microsoft Consultant
14 17 (4.86%) Functional Consultant
15 16 (4.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 14 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
17 13 (3.71%) Power Platform Architect
18 11 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.86%) .NET
2 34 (9.71%) CSS
3 30 (8.57%) HTML
4 28 (8.00%) JSON
5 25 (7.14%) XML
6 24 (6.86%) REST
7 18 (5.14%) HTML5 Canvas
8 16 (4.57%) SPFx
9 14 (4.00%) Web Services
10 12 (3.43%) .NET Framework
11 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (2.00%) ARM Templates
13 5 (1.43%) ADO
14 4 (1.14%) ASP.NET
14 4 (1.14%) jQuery
14 4 (1.14%) RESTful
14 4 (1.14%) SOAP
15 3 (0.86%) SailPoint
15 3 (0.86%) XHTML
16 2 (0.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.86%) Data Structures
2 14 (4.00%) Low-Code
3 9 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.71%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.71%) NHS
5 6 (1.71%) PKI
6 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.14%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.29%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.29%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.00%) Windows
1 7 (2.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (58.86%) Business Intelligence
2 89 (25.43%) DevOps
3 79 (22.57%) Agile
4 54 (15.43%) CRM
5 47 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (11.71%) Customer Service
7 36 (10.29%) Data Analysis
7 36 (10.29%) Visualisation
8 29 (8.29%) Requirements Gathering
9 27 (7.71%) Accounts Payable
9 27 (7.71%) Accounts Receivable
9 27 (7.71%) Data Visualisation
9 27 (7.71%) Migration
9 27 (7.71%) Requirements Workshops
10 25 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (6.86%) Data Modelling
12 22 (6.29%) Analytics
13 20 (5.71%) Data Governance
14 19 (5.43%) User Experience
14 19 (5.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.29%) SQL
2 62 (17.71%) C#
3 57 (16.29%) JavaScript
4 37 (10.57%) PowerShell
5 31 (8.86%) Python
6 16 (4.57%) Java
7 13 (3.71%) T-SQL
8 11 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (2.86%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.00%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.43%) PHP
11 5 (1.43%) R
11 5 (1.43%) X++
12 4 (1.14%) C
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) Scala
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) VB
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (13.71%) Degree
2 46 (13.14%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.86%) CIMA
8 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.57%) QA
2 12 (3.43%) PMO
3 11 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.86%) SLA
5 3 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) GxP
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.00%) Terraform
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 236 (67.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.71%) Oracle
3 15 (4.29%) SAP
4 14 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 14 (4.00%) Databricks
5 11 (3.14%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.29%) Nintex
7 7 (2.00%) Dataiku
7 7 (2.00%) Trillium
8 6 (1.71%) UiPath
9 5 (1.43%) Automation Anywhere
9 5 (1.43%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.43%) Informatica
10 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.86%) Google
11 3 (0.86%) IBM
11 3 (0.86%) Pega
12 2 (0.57%) DocuSign
13 1 (0.29%) OneTrust