Power Query Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Query
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Power Query skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 227 206
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 +97
Permanent jobs citing Power Query 20 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 2.13% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile - £39,350 £37,700
25th Percentile £29,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £64,500 £68,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £76,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -34.21% +60.00% -17.39%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Power Query falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 723 844 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.25% 12.74% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 537 478 878
10th Percentile £33,100 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Power Query
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power Query relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Power Query job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Power Query
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Power Query.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Power Query

Power Query
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power Query in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Power Query in the Midlands

Power Query
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power Query within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +24 10 £29,000 -48.44% 5
East Midlands -13 8 £45,000 +18.42% 7
Power Query
England

Power Query
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Business One
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) BigCommerce
6 1 (5.00%) Dataform
6 1 (5.00%) dbt
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Power BI Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Support
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) EDI
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) FMCG
1 6 (30.00%) Pricing Data
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) ERP
4 7 (35.00%) Data Management
5 6 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (25.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (15.00%) CRM
8 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) DataOps
9 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
9 2 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
9 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Magma
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.00%) SAP