Power Query Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Power Query
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Power Query skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Power Query 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.22% 0.63% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.43% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £403 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £395 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% - -
75th Percentile £437 £398 -
90th Percentile £437 - -
North West median daily rate £437 £395 £363
% change year-on-year +10.51% +8.97% -21.62%

All Database & BI Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23 34 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.30% 21.25% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 25
10th Percentile £324 £404 £115
25th Percentile £406 £450 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £545 £375
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +45.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £475
90th Percentile £705 £775 £494
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.27 -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +116.40% -32.59% +6.25%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Power Query job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Power Query
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. 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
Liverpool -9 7 £435 +10.13% 4
Power Query
North West

Power Query
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (14.29%) QlikView
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 7 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Data Transformation
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (42.86%) Coaching
4 3 (42.86%) User Experience
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft