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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 552 609
Rank change year-on-year +81 +57 -52
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 109 163 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 0.84% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 127 197
10th Percentile £309 £360 £356
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £630 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £461 £425
% change year-on-year -13.28% +8.53% +11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.67% +75.98% +66.67%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 £45.00
% change year-on-year -72.67% +75.98% -

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 12,802 19,463 31,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.00% 34.30% 36.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,124 14,013 23,091
10th Percentile £350 £388 £386
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £657
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 442 483
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.27 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +16.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £71.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +23.83%

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 26 May 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 26 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
England +59 92 £438 -7.89% 102
UK excluding London +38 50 £400 -13.28% 65
Work from Home +92 49 £450 -2.70% 29
London +64 47 £500 - 48
North of England +35 15 £375 -11.76% 13
North West +26 12 £375 -11.76% 7
South East +13 11 £420 -23.64% 27
Midlands +25 10 £338 -29.32% 16
West Midlands +11 7 £375 -23.47% 11
Scotland +29 6 £525 +5.00% 2
South West +3 6 £475 +3.26% 6
Yorkshire +18 3 £406 -26.14% 4
East Midlands +16 2 - - 5
Wales - 2 £396 -
East of England +6 1 £375 -9.09% 1

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 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Primavera
2 1 (0.92%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 108 (99.08%) Power Platform
2 33 (30.28%) Azure
3 10 (9.17%) Power Automate
3 10 (9.17%) PowerApps
4 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.67%) Serverless
7 4 (3.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.75%) GitHub
8 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.83%) AWS
9 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.92%) GCP
10 1 (0.92%) IaaS
10 1 (0.92%) OCI
10 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (99.08%) Power BI
2 34 (31.19%) Power Query
3 22 (20.18%) SQL Server
4 20 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (17.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (14.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (11.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (7.34%) Data Lake
9 7 (6.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (6.42%) PostHog
10 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.67%) MySQL
12 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.75%) Big Data
12 3 (2.75%) Data Mining
12 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.75%) Tableau
13 2 (1.83%) Metadata
13 2 (1.83%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (1.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (33.03%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.51%) Finance
4 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.34%) Retail
6 6 (5.50%) Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 3 (2.75%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.83%) Automotive
9 2 (1.83%) Law
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Billing
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Electronics
10 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (53.21%) Developer
2 50 (45.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 50 (45.87%) Power BI Developer
3 20 (18.35%) Analyst
4 12 (11.01%) Consultant
5 10 (9.17%) Power BI Consultant
6 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 8 (7.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (7.34%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior
9 4 (3.67%) Alteryx Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Digital Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Product Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Report Analyst
10 3 (2.75%) Applications Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Healthcare Analyst
10 3 (2.75%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.92%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.92%) FMCG
4 1 (0.92%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.92%) NHS
4 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (96.33%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (43.12%) Data Modelling
3 46 (42.20%) Visualisation
4 36 (33.03%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (31.19%) Data Visualisation
6 31 (28.44%) Analytics
7 27 (24.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (20.18%) ETL
9 18 (16.51%) Data Analysis
10 16 (14.68%) Actionable Insight
11 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
12 13 (11.93%) Agile
13 11 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
14 8 (7.34%) Data Analytics
14 8 (7.34%) Data Integration
14 8 (7.34%) DevOps
15 7 (6.42%) Data Transformation
15 7 (6.42%) Product Analysis
16 6 (5.50%) Data Science
16 6 (5.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (61.47%) SQL
2 17 (15.60%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.59%) VBA
5 4 (3.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.67%) R
5 4 (3.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (7.34%) Degree
2 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.75%) CIMA
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.75%) PMO
2 3 (2.75%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Databricks
3 6 (5.50%) Alteryx
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 6 (5.50%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) Google
5 1 (0.92%) Ariba
5 1 (0.92%) Civica
5 1 (0.92%) TikTok