Power Query Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Power Query
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 148
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +38
Contract jobs citing Power Query 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.080% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 0.57% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £327 £362 -
25th Percentile £340 £370 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £394 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -14.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £398 £420 £488
90th Percentile £399 £431 £525
England median daily rate £413 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -2.94% -15.00% +7.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 316 352 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.40% 14.06% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 246 362
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £368 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £593
90th Percentile £612 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 16
10th Percentile £21.02 £27.40 £28.55
25th Percentile £21.76 £36.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £44.74 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +11.03% -13.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £55.35
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.03 £64.50
England median hourly rate £34.82 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.38% -30.91% +35.04%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the North West

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the North West

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Manchester +14 2 £369 -13.24% 3
Cheshire -15 1 £355 -2.07% 2
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Merseyside - 1 £395 - 2
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft