Power Query Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Query
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Power Query skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Query over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 407 495
Rank change year-on-year +37 +88 -88
Contract jobs citing Power Query 30 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.095%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 0.92% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 24
10th Percentile £269 £320 £277
25th Percentile £288 £350 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -3.03% +91.86%
75th Percentile £456 £563 £505
90th Percentile £563 £581 £534
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +55.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £79.19 -
UK median hourly rate - £79.19 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Power Query is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,582 3,386 5,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.40% 14.87% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 2,410 3,831
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 109 127
10th Percentile £13.61 £21.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59.50 £73.71 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 +11 11 £375 -32.40% 6
Wales - 6 £550 -
Midlands +25 5 £350 -3.45% 4
West Midlands +16 4 £350 -3.45% 1
North of England +22 3 £369 -20.27% 8
South West +5 3 £400 +10.34% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £375 - 2
Scotland +36 1 £275 -42.11% 1
North West +19 1 £363 -21.62% 5
East Midlands +12 1 - - 3
East of England -1 1 £375 +7.14% 2
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:

Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) Power Platform
2 8 (26.67%) Power Automate
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.33%) AWS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (96.67%) Power BI
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (10.00%) PowerPivot
5 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Electronics
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 17 (56.67%) Power BI Developer
3 10 (33.33%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Excel Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) HR Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) HR Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Power BI Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Process Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Process Mapping Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Report Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) FMCG
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (46.67%) Data Modelling
3 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) Visualisation
4 9 (30.00%) Analytics
4 9 (30.00%) ETL
5 7 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.00%) Data Collection
8 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 2 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
9 2 (6.67%) Data Integration
9 2 (6.67%) Data Interpretation
9 2 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
9 2 (6.67%) Scrum
9 2 (6.67%) User Experience
9 2 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Workday
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow