Power Automate Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Power Automate (Formerly Microsoft Flow)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Power Automate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Automate 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 184 196 320
Rank change year-on-year +12 +124 +67
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 120 155 160
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 1.01% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 2.79% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 96 113
10th Percentile £405 £375 £409
25th Percentile £450 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -5.37% -2.38%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £630 £650 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.88 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.75 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +245.59% -15.00% -39.39%
75th Percentile £60.63 £17.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £17.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +245.59% -52.78% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Power Automate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Automate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power Automate trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Power Automate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Automate.

Power Automate daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Automate
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power Automate over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Power Automate daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Power Automate
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Automate.

Power Automate hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Automate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 53 (44.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.83%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.83%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 109 (90.83%) Power Platform
2 98 (81.67%) PowerApps
3 60 (50.00%) Azure
4 50 (41.67%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (24.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 26 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.67%) GitHub
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.00%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.33%) AWS
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.33%) GCP
12 3 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.83%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) HTTP
1 1 (0.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (36.67%) Power BI
2 18 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.67%) Power Query
9 1 (0.83%) DTS
9 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.83%) Metadata
9 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.83%) MySQL
9 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (18.33%) JIRA
2 19 (15.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Hudson
3 1 (0.83%) JMeter
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Finance
5 4 (3.33%) Marketing
5 4 (3.33%) Retail
6 3 (2.50%) Banking
6 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Back Office
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Military
7 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (56.67%) Developer
2 27 (22.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 15 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 13 (10.83%) Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Senior
6 10 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Consultant
8 8 (6.67%) Automation Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Power Apps Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 5 (4.17%) Lead
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.17%) SharePoint Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Analyst
12 4 (3.33%) Applications Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (24.17%) REST
2 23 (19.17%) SOAP
3 16 (13.33%) HTML
4 14 (11.67%) CSS
5 8 (6.67%) .NET
6 7 (5.83%) React
6 7 (5.83%) SPFx
7 6 (5.00%) Middleware
7 6 (5.00%) Web Services
8 5 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (4.17%) JSON
9 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.67%) OAuth
9 2 (1.67%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.83%) ADO
10 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.83%) jQuery
10 1 (0.83%) WCF
10 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Low-Code
2 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.67%) e-Learning
3 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.67%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.67%) Robotics
4 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.83%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Windows
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (33.33%) Agile
3 37 (30.83%) DevOps
4 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.17%) CRM
6 19 (15.83%) CI/CD
6 19 (15.83%) Migration
7 15 (12.50%) Logistics
8 11 (9.17%) Data Modelling
9 10 (8.33%) Web Development
10 9 (7.50%) Data Governance
10 9 (7.50%) Data Migration
10 9 (7.50%) Task Automation
11 8 (6.67%) Data Management
11 8 (6.67%) Visualisation
12 7 (5.83%) Data Integration
12 7 (5.83%) ERP
12 7 (5.83%) Project Management
12 7 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (5.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.33%) SQL
2 31 (25.83%) C#
3 29 (24.17%) JavaScript
4 24 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.50%) Python
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) Bicep
7 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.83%) Java
7 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) GCFA
6 1 (0.83%) GCIH
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Grafana
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (60.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.33%) Databricks
2 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.67%) Blue Prism
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe
4 1 (0.83%) DocuSign
4 1 (0.83%) Veeam
4 1 (0.83%) VMware