Power Query Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Power Query
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 160 182 214
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 +24
Contract jobs citing Power Query 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.065% 0.071%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 0.42% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £368 £339 £194
25th Percentile £377 £342 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £369 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -20.27% -11.90%
75th Percentile £438 £402 £481
90th Percentile - £408 -
England median daily rate £413 £420 £475
% change year-on-year -1.79% -11.58% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 572 711 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.26% 15.34% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 535 587
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +0.50%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £605
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.15
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -10.56% +45.16%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.50
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.22% +27.78%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the North of England

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the North of England

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +17 6 £406 +8.33% 12
North West +14 1 £425 +17.24% 13
North East - 1 £375 - 4
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) QlikView
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Excel Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) HR Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) HR Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
5 2 (25.00%) Business Case
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Data Management
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cognos
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Workday