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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 404 475
Rank change year-on-year +39 +71 -76
Contract jobs citing Power Query 30 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 0.95% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 25
10th Percentile £269 £320 £284
25th Percentile £288 £350 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +14.20% +92.86%
75th Percentile £531 £563 £498
90th Percentile £569 £581 £533
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +60.49%
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 2,558 3,474 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.63% 15.16% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 2,489 3,856
10th Percentile £313 £338 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £586
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £549
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.55% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 131
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.14 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +43.44%
75th Percentile £60.50 £69.06 £61.08
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +68.35%

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 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 21 May 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 +17 11 £375 -31.82% 7
Wales - 6 £550 -
Midlands +24 5 £350 -3.45% 7
West Midlands +17 4 £350 -3.45% 3
North of England +27 3 £369 -20.27% 10
South West +9 3 £400 +10.34% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £375 - 3
Scotland +39 1 £275 -42.11%
North West +25 1 £363 -21.62% 6
East Midlands +18 1 - - 4
East of England +6 1 £375 +7.14% 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:

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 Reporting Services
4 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (10.00%) PowerPivot
6 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.33%) Big Data
7 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (40.00%) 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 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 16 (53.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 16 (53.33%) 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%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Excel Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) HR Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Power BI Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
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 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
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 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (36.67%) Visualisation
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
7 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
10 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (10.00%) Data Collection
10 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 3 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 2 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
11 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
11 2 (6.67%) Data Integration
11 2 (6.67%) Data Interpretation
11 2 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
11 2 (6.67%) Scrum
11 2 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 15 (50.00%) 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