Power Query Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Power Query
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Power Query skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Power Query 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.76% 0.22% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.55% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £381 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £420 £438 -
90th Percentile £437 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £388 £425 -
% change year-on-year -8.82% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 159 91 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.38% 20.09% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 61 20
10th Percentile £317 £413 £268
25th Percentile £396 £500 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £549 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +17.03% -14.77%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £569
90th Percentile £600 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -4.76%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Power Query job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Power Query
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Power Query.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Power Query

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Sheffield -18 11 £394 -7.35% 1
Doncaster - 1 £445 -
Power Query
Yorkshire

Power Query
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 9 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Excel Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Finance Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Budgeting
2 5 (41.67%) Business Case
2 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (16.67%) Data Collection
5 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) VBA
4 1 (8.33%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cognos
2 1 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (8.33%) SAP