Power Query Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Power Query
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 195 210
Rank change year-on-year +42 +15 +37
Contract jobs citing Power Query 6 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.46% 1.64% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £363 £252 £469
25th Percentile £381 £281 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £349 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.86% -36.59% +57.14%
75th Percentile £481 £455 £586
90th Percentile £508 £579 £606
England median daily rate £413 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -2.94% -15.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
England median hourly rate £33.59 - £79.19

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Query in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Query in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Query in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Power Query in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +42 5 £350 +12.00% 8
Berkshire +30 4 £350 +12.00% 5
Surrey +14 1 £500 +29.87% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Report Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Telecoms Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) XMLA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk