Power Query Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Query
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 128 162
Rank change year-on-year +22 +34 +47
Contract jobs citing Power Query 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 1.20% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £501 - £368
25th Percentile £503 £275 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -14.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £603 £438 £449
90th Percentile £624 - £456
England median daily rate £413 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -2.94% -15.00% +21.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the Midlands

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the Midlands

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +13 3 £575 +58.62% 6
East Midlands +11 2 £500 - 4
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Storytelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks