Power Query Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Query
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 311 370 423
Rank change year-on-year +59 +53 +55
Contract jobs citing Power Query 25 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.24% 1.12% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 24
10th Percentile £373 £275 £316
25th Percentile £413 £306 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £445
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.30% +18.67%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £534
90th Percentile £535 £570 £584
UK median daily rate £438 £443 £475
% change year-on-year -1.24% -6.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
UK median hourly rate £33.59 - £79.19

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Power Query as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Query in the UK excluding London

Power Query
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Query in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power Query in the UK excluding London

Power Query
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Query in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Query in the UK excluding London

Power Query
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Query in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Query in the UK excluding London

Power Query
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +42 6 £425 +21.86% 16
North of England +22 6 £425 +15.25% 10
Scotland +17 6 £489 +22.25% 1
Midlands +22 5 £538 +48.28% 11
Yorkshire +10 4 £425 +13.33% 6
West Midlands +13 3 £575 +58.62% 6
South West +46 2 £438 -7.89% 6
East Midlands +11 2 £500 - 4
North West +17 1 £425 +17.24% 3
North East - 1 £375 - 1
Power Query
UK

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (36.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (8.00%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (76.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Redis
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Report Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Oracle Specialist
7 2 (8.00%) Power BI Specialist
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Telecoms Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Embedded Developer
8 1 (4.00%) HR Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) YAML
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (8.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (36.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Analytics
5 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (24.00%) ETL
6 4 (16.00%) Budget Management
6 4 (16.00%) Budgeting
6 4 (16.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 4 (16.00%) Business Forecasting
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (16.00%) Data Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) VBA
4 4 (16.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) Bicep
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) R
5 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) CIMA
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Workday