Power Query Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Power Query
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Power Query skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Power Query 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% - 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - +236.36%
75th Percentile - - £478
90th Percentile - - £484
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

Power Query falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 94 62 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.33% 14.00% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 43 34
10th Percentile £305 £316 -
25th Percentile £350 £358 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +5.95% -6.57%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £534
90th Percentile £686 £588 £564
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -10.53% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £44.60 - -
25th Percentile £51.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £14.00
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile £81.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £52.50
% change year-on-year +172.83% -51.56% -19.23%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Query relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Power Query job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Power Query
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Power Query.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Power Query

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Query within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Crewe - 1 - - 4
Power Query
North West

Power Query
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sage
1 1 (100.00%) SAP