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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 365 411
Rank change year-on-year +57 +46 +57
Contract jobs citing Power Query 31 29 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 1.13% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 18
10th Percentile £358 £268 £309
25th Percentile £413 £281 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £385 £431
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -10.72% +6.48%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £553
90th Percentile £530 £570 £579
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -2.56%
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 2,048 2,561 3,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.85% 12.64% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,816 2,518
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.67% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 102 108
10th Percentile £19.10 £13.52 £21.14
25th Percentile £23.13 £17.50 £30.54
Median hourly rate £31.85 £39.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -28.64% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.90 £60.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.75 £76.43
UK median hourly rate £34.83 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.94% -30.43% +27.78%

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 21 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 21 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 +39 8 £350 -6.67% 36
North of England +26 8 £406 +10.17% 28
Scotland +8 7 £489 +77.82% 5
Yorkshire +18 6 £406 +8.33% 11
Midlands +17 5 £538 +79.17% 49
South West +38 3 £438 +9.38% 15
West Midlands +10 3 £575 +91.67% 33
East Midlands +12 2 £500 - 14
North West +9 1 £425 +17.24% 13
North East - 1 £375 - 4
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 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Power Platform
2 12 (38.71%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
5 3 (9.68%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.45%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (70.97%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Tableau
3 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.68%) MariaDB
3 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.68%) Redis
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.23%) QlikView
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Sisense
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) French Language
6 1 (3.23%) Italian Language
6 1 (3.23%) Publishing
6 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Report Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Power BI Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Power BI Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Telecoms Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
2 3 (9.68%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (9.68%) JSON
2 3 (9.68%) YAML
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.68%) Low-Code
2 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (35.48%) Data Modelling
3 9 (29.03%) Analytics
3 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
3 9 (29.03%) Visualisation
4 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Data Analysis
5 7 (22.58%) ETL
6 6 (19.35%) Budgeting
7 5 (16.13%) Budget Management
7 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.13%) Data Management
7 5 (16.13%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (16.13%) DevOps
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 4 (12.90%) Business Forecasting
8 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (9.68%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) VBA
4 6 (19.35%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) Bicep
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.45%) R
6 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.23%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) CIMA
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Grafana
1 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
1 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.23%) Cognos
5 1 (3.23%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Workday