Data Analysis Expressions Contracts

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis Expressions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 539 594
Rank change year-on-year +51 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 110 181 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.86% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 141 201
10th Percentile £306 £363 £356
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.67% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 -
% change year-on-year -72.67% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Data Analysis Expressions is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +55 89 £450 -7.69% 73
Work from Home +103 54 £473 -0.53% 27
London +61 48 £500 - 35
UK excluding London +33 45 £400 -15.79% 41
North of England +26 13 £375 -16.67% 10
North West +14 11 £381 -10.29% 7
South East +24 10 £425 -25.93% 13
Midlands +16 9 £375 -21.47% 11
Scotland +30 7 £525 +5.00% 1
West Midlands +22 6 £375 -23.47% 8
South West +13 4 £538 +13.16% 2
East Midlands +18 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +17 2 £375 -21.05% 1
Wales - 2 £396 - 1
East of England +9 1 £375 -9.09% 4

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Primavera
2 1 (0.91%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 40 (36.36%) Azure
3 12 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (10.91%) Power Automate
4 10 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.45%) Serverless
7 5 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.64%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.82%) AWS
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub
10 2 (1.82%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.91%) IaaS
11 1 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (100.00%) Power BI
2 34 (30.91%) Power Query
3 21 (19.09%) SQL Server
4 20 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (16.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (11.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (10.91%) Data Lake
7 12 (10.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 11 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 7 (6.36%) PostHog
10 5 (4.55%) MySQL
11 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.64%) Tableau
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.82%) Big Data
13 2 (1.82%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.82%) Metadata
14 1 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) JIRA
1 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.36%) Finance
4 15 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.27%) Retail
6 6 (5.45%) Banking
7 5 (4.55%) Marketing
8 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.73%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.82%) Electronics
10 2 (1.82%) Law
10 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.91%) Automotive
11 1 (0.91%) Billing
11 1 (0.91%) French Language
11 1 (0.91%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.91%) Local Government
11 1 (0.91%) Publishing
11 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 52 (47.27%) Developer
2 43 (39.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 41 (37.27%) Power BI Developer
4 22 (20.00%) Analyst
5 12 (10.91%) Consultant
6 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 10 (9.09%) Power BI Consultant
7 9 (8.18%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (8.18%) Data Analyst
8 8 (7.27%) Senior
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Power BI Analyst
10 5 (4.55%) Power BI Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Alteryx Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Digital Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Product Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Report Analyst
12 3 (2.73%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) MDX
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.91%) JSON
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.91%) FMCG
3 1 (0.91%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (0.91%) NHS
3 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (97.27%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 43 (39.09%) Visualisation
4 34 (30.91%) Analytics
5 32 (29.09%) Data Visualisation
5 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.91%) ETL
6 23 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.36%) Data Analysis
8 14 (12.73%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (12.73%) Agile
9 13 (11.82%) Dashboard Development
9 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
10 11 (10.00%) Data Analytics
10 11 (10.00%) DevOps
11 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
12 8 (7.27%) CI/CD
13 7 (6.36%) Data Integration
13 7 (6.36%) Data Transformation
13 7 (6.36%) Product Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (62.73%) SQL
2 22 (20.00%) Python
3 13 (11.82%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.55%) R
5 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.64%) VB
6 3 (2.73%) VBA
7 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.45%) Degree
2 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.73%) CIMA
4 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) PMO
3 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.82%) QA
Vendors
1 36 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) Databricks
3 7 (6.36%) Oracle
3 7 (6.36%) SAP
4 6 (5.45%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.82%) Google
5 2 (1.82%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.91%) Ariba
6 1 (0.91%) Civica
6 1 (0.91%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.91%) QAD
6 1 (0.91%) TikTok