Power Query Contracts in England

Microsoft Power Query
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Power Query skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Query over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 492 566
Rank change year-on-year +81 +74 +135
Contract jobs citing Power Query 67 39 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 0.63% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 49
10th Percentile £274 £275 £323
25th Percentile £325 £342 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -11.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £524 £575
90th Percentile £513 £532 £678
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.07 - -
Median hourly rate £33.59 - £79.19
75th Percentile £49.84 - -
90th Percentile £53.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.59 - £79.19

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,642 6,240 8,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 17.13% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,243 4,505 6,175
10th Percentile £363 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.67% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 134 159
10th Percentile £20.21 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £32.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.22% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.68 £73.73
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -15.49% -31.73% +27.37%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Power Query as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in England

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in England

Power Query
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Query in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Query in England

Power Query
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Query in England

Power Query
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Query in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Query in England

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London +69 39 £364 -27.20% 45
South East +34 8 £350 -6.67% 35
North of England +22 8 £406 +10.17% 29
Yorkshire +17 6 £406 +8.33% 12
Midlands +19 5 £538 +79.17% 50
South West +40 3 £438 +9.38% 13
West Midlands +5 3 £575 +91.67% 33
East Midlands +13 2 £500 - 15
North West +14 1 £425 +17.24% 13
North East - 1 £375 - 4
Power Query
UK

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (11.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (49.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) Raiser’s Edge
1 1 (1.49%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (80.60%) Power Platform
2 17 (25.37%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) Power Automate
4 7 (10.45%) AWS
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.46%) Salsify
7 4 (5.97%) GCP
7 4 (5.97%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.49%) Collibra
9 1 (1.49%) dbt
9 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (80.60%) Power BI
2 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (11.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.96%) PowerPivot
4 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.96%) Tableau
5 4 (5.97%) MS Access
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.99%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.99%) Flink
7 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.99%) Parquet
7 2 (2.99%) QlikView
7 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Git
1 1 (1.49%) JIRA
1 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (22.39%) Finance
4 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Back Office
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) French Language
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Publishing
7 1 (1.49%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Analyst
3 15 (22.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 15 (22.39%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Data Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Data Steward
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Information Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Power BI Specialist
6 4 (5.97%) Report Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Power BI Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Report Developer
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Email Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) .NET
1 2 (2.99%) Apache Avro
1 2 (2.99%) Apache Beam
1 2 (2.99%) Bootstrap
1 2 (2.99%) CSS
1 2 (2.99%) HTML
1 2 (2.99%) jQuery
1 2 (2.99%) MDX
1 2 (2.99%) Web Services
2 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.49%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.99%) NHS
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.49%) FMCG
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (76.12%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (56.72%) Data Modelling
3 26 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (35.82%) Visualisation
5 19 (28.36%) Decision-Making
6 17 (25.37%) ETL
7 16 (23.88%) Data Analysis
7 16 (23.88%) Data Management
8 13 (19.40%) Analytics
9 12 (17.91%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (16.42%) Data Governance
11 10 (14.93%) Computer Science
12 8 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (10.45%) Data Engineering
14 6 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
14 6 (8.96%) Data Transformation
14 6 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
15 5 (7.46%) Data Integration
15 5 (7.46%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 33 (49.25%) SQL
3 14 (20.90%) Python
4 11 (16.42%) VBA
5 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.99%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) R
6 2 (2.99%) Scala
7 1 (1.49%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.49%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) HNC
4 3 (4.48%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Informatica
3 4 (5.97%) Alteryx
3 4 (5.97%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Adobe
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.49%) Cognos
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Workday