Power Query Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Power Query
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 317 429
Rank change year-on-year +45 +112 +111
Contract jobs citing Power Query 33 24 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 0.82% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 17
10th Percentile £263 £281 £325
25th Percentile £300 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -13.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £476 £513 £525
90th Percentile £538 £525 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £463
% change year-on-year - -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.11 - £79.19

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,040 2,934 4,425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.90% 19.86% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,142 3,226
10th Percentile £363 £358 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 81
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.99 £22.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -39.45% +34.74%
75th Percentile £70.63 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £72.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%

Power Query
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Query as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power Query trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Power Query
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Query.

Power Query daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Query
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power Query over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Power Query daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Power Query
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power Query.

Power Query hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power Query
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) CMS
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.03%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Power Platform
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Salsify
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) dbt
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (66.67%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) Big Data
5 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.03%) PowerPivot
5 1 (3.03%) QlikView
5 1 (3.03%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.03%) Spotfire
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
4 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Environmental Health
6 1 (3.03%) French Language
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Italian Language
6 1 (3.03%) Local Government
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Data Steward
3 5 (15.15%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Report Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Report Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Power BI Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Power BI Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Telecoms Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Support Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.03%) CSS
2 1 (3.03%) HTML
2 1 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (3.03%) jQuery
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) MDX
2 1 (3.03%) Pandas
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (42.42%) Data Modelling
3 10 (30.30%) Data Management
3 10 (30.30%) Visualisation
4 8 (24.24%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Data Governance
5 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.18%) ETL
7 5 (15.15%) E-Commerce
7 5 (15.15%) Information Management
7 5 (15.15%) Product Information Management
8 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) Data Mapping
9 3 (9.09%) Agile
9 3 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
9 3 (9.09%) Data Integration
9 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 14 (42.42%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) VBA
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) Formula Language
6 1 (3.03%) IronPython
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) R
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) COSHH
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Ansible
1 1 (3.03%) Grafana
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Informatica
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) MicroStrategy