Power Query Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Power Query
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 127 160
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing Power Query 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £462 £289 £340
25th Percentile £479 £328 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £501 £466 £481
90th Percentile £523 £501 £530
UK median daily rate £438 £443 £475
% change year-on-year -1.24% -6.74% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in Scotland

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in Scotland

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +10 6 £489 +77.82% 1
Power Query
UK

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Budget Management
1 4 (66.67%) Budgeting
1 4 (66.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 4 (66.67%) Business Forecasting
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CIMA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft