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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 421 456
Rank change year-on-year +150 +35 +38
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 360 282 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 1.38% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 196 317
10th Percentile £313 £388 £384
25th Percentile £400 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £489
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.30% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - £21.88 £39.30
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £32.25 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.29% -40.28% -
75th Percentile £17.50 £42.44 £82.50
90th Percentile - £52.23 £84.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +28.79% -

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +144 296 £500 - 183
London +142 163 £519 -5.68% 63
UK excluding London +89 157 £475 -5.00% 126
Work from Home +122 155 £500 - 133
South East +21 35 £475 -9.52% 27
Scotland +60 32 £515 +3.00% 10
Midlands +33 27 £400 -5.88% 22
South West +19 25 £519 +25.76% 19
West Midlands +28 24 £400 -5.88% 18
North of England +3 22 £475 -5.00% 29
North West +14 21 £475 - 15
East of England +13 10 £450 -10.00% 13
Wales +23 7 £550 +27.91% 2
East Midlands +12 3 £400 +10.34% 4
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 11

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
1 116 (32.22%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.61%) Confluence
4 7 (1.94%) SAS
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.83%) IIS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Mendix
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 24 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (11.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (7.50%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.83%) Maximo
3 3 (0.83%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 332 (92.22%) Power Platform
2 256 (71.11%) PowerApps
3 178 (49.44%) Azure
4 115 (31.94%) Dynamics 365
5 97 (26.94%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (7.78%) OneDrive
8 26 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.67%) Azure Functions
9 24 (6.67%) Serverless
10 19 (5.28%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.72%) GitHub
12 15 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 12 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (3.06%) Azure Storage
16 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 8 (2.22%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.67%) Unified Communications
2 5 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (61.67%) Power BI
2 58 (16.11%) Data Lake
3 55 (15.28%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.06%) Metadata
7 10 (2.78%) Big Data
7 10 (2.78%) Power Query
8 9 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.94%) Ataccama
10 7 (1.94%) OLTP
10 7 (1.94%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (1.67%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.11%) KNIME
12 4 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (10.83%) JIRA
2 13 (3.61%) Git
3 12 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (2.50%) GitLab
5 7 (1.94%) Visual Studio Team System
6 6 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.28%) NUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 121 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.22%) Finance
3 64 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (14.72%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.78%) Retail
6 27 (7.50%) General Ledger
7 23 (6.39%) Banking
8 14 (3.89%) Marketing
9 9 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.22%) Legal
10 8 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.39%) Local Government
13 4 (1.11%) Automotive
13 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Billing
15 2 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (47.78%) Developer
2 69 (19.17%) Power Platform Developer
3 65 (18.06%) Consultant
4 45 (12.50%) Analyst
5 42 (11.67%) Applications Developer
6 37 (10.28%) Power Apps Developer
7 36 (10.00%) Architect
8 33 (9.17%) Data Analyst
9 28 (7.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 25 (6.94%) Senior
11 23 (6.39%) Automation Developer
12 21 (5.83%) Microsoft Consultant
13 20 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 20 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
14 18 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 18 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
14 18 (5.00%) Lead
15 15 (4.17%) Power Platform Architect
16 14 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (12.22%) .NET
2 39 (10.83%) CSS
3 34 (9.44%) HTML
4 26 (7.22%) JSON
4 26 (7.22%) XML
5 25 (6.94%) REST
6 23 (6.39%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (4.44%) Web Services
8 15 (4.17%) .NET Framework
9 11 (3.06%) SPFx
10 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (1.94%) ARM Templates
11 7 (1.94%) RESTful
12 5 (1.39%) ADO
13 4 (1.11%) ASP.NET
13 4 (1.11%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.11%) React
13 4 (1.11%) SOAP
13 4 (1.11%) XSLT
14 3 (0.83%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.17%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.72%) Low-Code
3 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.67%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.67%) NHS
5 6 (1.67%) PKI
6 5 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.56%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.50%) Windows
2 6 (1.67%) Windows Server
2 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (59.44%) Business Intelligence
2 90 (25.00%) DevOps
3 83 (23.06%) Agile
4 53 (14.72%) CRM
5 46 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 37 (10.28%) Data Analysis
8 35 (9.72%) Visualisation
9 32 (8.89%) Migration
9 32 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
10 28 (7.78%) Requirements Workshops
11 27 (7.50%) Accounts Payable
11 27 (7.50%) Accounts Receivable
11 27 (7.50%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (6.11%) Data Modelling
13 21 (5.83%) Scrum
14 20 (5.56%) Data Governance
14 20 (5.56%) Data Management
15 19 (5.28%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 75 (20.83%) SQL
2 63 (17.50%) C#
3 60 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 33 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 27 (7.50%) Python
6 16 (4.44%) Java
7 13 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (2.22%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.39%) X++
12 4 (1.11%) C
12 4 (1.11%) PHP
12 4 (1.11%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) Scala
14 1 (0.28%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (13.06%) Degree
1 47 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.83%) CIMA
7 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.72%) QA
2 11 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.06%) PMO
3 10 (2.78%) SLA
4 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) GxP
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.94%) Terraform
3 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 250 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.11%) Oracle
3 15 (4.17%) Databricks
3 15 (4.17%) SAP
4 14 (3.89%) Alteryx
5 11 (3.06%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.22%) Nintex
7 7 (1.94%) Dataiku
7 7 (1.94%) Trillium
8 5 (1.39%) Informatica
8 5 (1.39%) UiPath
9 4 (1.11%) Automation Anywhere
9 4 (1.11%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.83%) Google
10 3 (0.83%) IBM
10 3 (0.83%) Pega
11 2 (0.56%) DocuSign
11 2 (0.56%) OneTrust