Power Query Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Power Query
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 139 142
Rank change year-on-year +42 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing Power Query 5 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.16% 1.76% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile - £281 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £313 £555
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -43.67% +0.86%
75th Percentile - £575 £598
90th Percentile - £583 £613
South East median daily rate £425 £349 £550
% change year-on-year +21.86% -36.59% +57.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
South East median hourly rate - - £79.19

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the Thames Valley

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Query in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the Thames Valley

Power Query
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Query in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Power Query in the Thames Valley

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 4 £350 +12.00% 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Power Query
South East

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Report Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms Developer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) XMLA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft