Power Query Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Query
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Power Query skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 108 130
Rank change year-on-year -46 +22 +66
Contract jobs citing Power Query 8 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.61% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 3.56% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £291 £333 £303
25th Percentile £331 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £418 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% -1.76% -
75th Percentile £453 £450 £556
90th Percentile £474 £454 £628
England median daily rate £423 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 - -
Median hourly rate £25.42 - -
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.71 £39.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -24.31% -3.09% -

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 529 393 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.80% 17.10% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 254 290
10th Percentile £364 £355 £318
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £575
90th Percentile £648 £684 £698
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £16.32 - £11.46
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.00 £11.83
Median hourly rate £25.42 £20.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -9.09% -39.87%
75th Percentile £36.00 £26.56 £31.04
90th Percentile £56.40 £31.63 £32.37
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Power Query job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Power Query
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Power Query

Power Query
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram 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 19 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
East Midlands -16 4 £421 +27.65% 11
West Midlands -40 4 £348 -22.78% 7
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) PowerApps
3 4 (50.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (37.50%) Copilot Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
4 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
5 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Data Management
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) ETL
7 1 (12.50%) Information Security
7 1 (12.50%) Statistical Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) R
4 2 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks