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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 417 461
Rank change year-on-year +145 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing Power Automate 350 303 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.53% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 1.44% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 215 319
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +9.12%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £597
90th Percentile £688 £658 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.20% +17.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile - £21.88 £34.40
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.69 £41.75
Median hourly rate £17.00 £32.25 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.29% -40.28% +184.21%
75th Percentile £17.50 £42.44 £68.25
90th Percentile - £52.23 £76.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +28.79% +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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 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 15 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 +124 286 £500 -2.44% 163
London +135 157 £525 -4.55% 50
UK excluding London +84 152 £475 -5.00% 113
Work from Home +122 150 £500 - 127
South East +31 37 £475 -9.52% 21
Midlands +44 30 £400 -5.88% 26
Scotland +66 29 £550 +10.00% 6
West Midlands +35 26 £400 -5.88% 19
North of England -4 23 £475 -5.00% 24
North West +10 22 £475 - 14
South West +24 20 £541 +29.25% 14
Wales +28 7 £550 +27.91% 5
East of England +17 7 £475 -5.00% 17
East Midlands +15 4 £413 -17.50% 6
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 8

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
1 107 (30.57%) 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 26 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
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
1 322 (92.00%) Power Platform
2 241 (68.86%) PowerApps
3 179 (51.14%) Azure
4 107 (30.57%) Dynamics 365
5 94 (26.86%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (22.29%) 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 56 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.43%) Metadata
7 11 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.86%) Big Data
8 10 (2.86%) Power Query
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
11 6 (1.71%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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 5 (1.43%) 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
1 120 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.14%) Finance
3 65 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.57%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.00%) Retail
6 27 (7.71%) General Ledger
7 22 (6.29%) Banking
8 14 (4.00%) Marketing
9 9 (2.57%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.29%) Legal
10 8 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.00%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.14%) Automotive
13 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Local Government
13 4 (1.14%) Military
14 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 164 (46.86%) Developer
2 62 (17.71%) Consultant
3 58 (16.57%) Power Platform Developer
4 44 (12.57%) Analyst
5 38 (10.86%) Applications Developer
6 34 (9.71%) Architect
6 34 (9.71%) Data Analyst
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%) Microsoft Consultant
14 19 (5.43%) Lead
15 17 (4.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 17 (4.86%) Functional Consultant
16 14 (4.00%) Power Platform Architect
16 14 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.14%) .NET
2 35 (10.00%) CSS
3 31 (8.86%) HTML
4 26 (7.43%) JSON
5 25 (7.14%) XML
6 24 (6.86%) REST
7 17 (4.86%) HTML5 Canvas
8 16 (4.57%) SPFx
9 15 (4.29%) Web Services
10 13 (3.71%) .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%) Entity Framework
15 3 (0.86%) SailPoint
15 3 (0.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.14%) 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%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
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 90 (25.71%) DevOps
3 80 (22.86%) Agile
4 54 (15.43%) CRM
5 46 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (11.43%) Customer Service
7 36 (10.29%) Data Analysis
7 36 (10.29%) Visualisation
8 29 (8.29%) Requirements Gathering
9 28 (8.00%) Migration
10 27 (7.71%) Accounts Payable
10 27 (7.71%) Accounts Receivable
10 27 (7.71%) Data Visualisation
10 27 (7.71%) Requirements Workshops
10 27 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (6.57%) Data Modelling
12 21 (6.00%) Analytics
13 20 (5.71%) Data Governance
14 19 (5.43%) User Stories
15 18 (5.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.29%) SQL
2 64 (18.29%) C#
3 57 (16.29%) JavaScript
4 36 (10.29%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.29%) Python
6 16 (4.57%) Java
7 12 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.00%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.43%) PHP
10 5 (1.43%) X++
11 4 (1.14%) C
11 4 (1.14%) R
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (14.00%) 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 11 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.14%) PMO
3 10 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (0.86%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) GxP
6 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 22 (6.29%) 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 5 (1.43%) Informatica
8 5 (1.43%) UiPath
9 4 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
9 4 (1.14%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.86%) Google
10 3 (0.86%) IBM
10 3 (0.86%) Pega
11 2 (0.57%) DocuSign
11 2 (0.57%) OneTrust