Data Analysis Expressions Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 428 433
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 202 95 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.04% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 72 58
10th Percentile £351 £327 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £502 £538
90th Percentile £650 £698 £588
UK median daily rate £470 £438 £470
% change year-on-year +7.43% -6.91% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £28.85 £27.25 -
25th Percentile £43.25 £36.25 £25.26
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% +38.63%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.88 -
90th Percentile - £60.35 -
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -0.95% +75.00% +38.63%

All Programming Languages
England

Data Analysis Expressions falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,243 9,174 10,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.14% 32.61% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,916 6,144 6,872
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £635 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 264 289
10th Percentile £21.33 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.64 £42.25 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -29 128 £475 +8.57% 49
North of England -57 29 £439 +6.42% 22
North West -36 21 £440 +11.39% 15
South East -51 14 £500 +31.15% 16
Midlands -50 13 £475 +2.70% 16
South West -27 10 £320 -26.86% 7
West Midlands -44 9 £413 -23.26% 11
Yorkshire -35 6 £438 +0.57% 5
East Midlands -18 4 £525 +27.27% 5
East of England -27 4 £275 -31.25% 16
North East - 2 £388 - 2
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (20.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Primavera
2 1 (0.50%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 188 (93.07%) Power Platform
2 96 (47.52%) Azure
3 25 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (11.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (10.40%) AWS
6 20 (9.90%) Power Automate
7 19 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.43%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.95%) GCP
9 10 (4.95%) SaaS
10 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.47%) dbt
13 6 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.48%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (1.98%) Azure Stack
15 4 (1.98%) GitHub
15 4 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (93.07%) Power BI
2 102 (50.50%) Power Query
3 41 (20.30%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (18.81%) Star Schema
5 17 (8.42%) Data Lake
6 16 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.92%) Semantic Layer
6 16 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.93%) PowerPivot
8 12 (5.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.94%) Metadata
9 9 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.47%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (2.48%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (2.48%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.48%) GIS
12 5 (2.48%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 14 (6.93%) Git
2 4 (1.98%) Selenium
3 3 (1.49%) JIRA
4 2 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 59 (29.21%) Finance
3 44 (21.78%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.94%) Retail
6 9 (4.46%) Banking
7 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Local Government
8 6 (2.97%) Publishing
9 5 (2.48%) Billing
9 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.49%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (40.59%) Developer
2 77 (38.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 67 (33.17%) Power BI Developer
4 35 (17.33%) Analyst
5 29 (14.36%) Data Engineer
6 23 (11.39%) Data Analyst
7 21 (10.40%) Senior
8 19 (9.41%) Consultant
8 19 (9.41%) Lead
9 15 (7.43%) Architect
10 10 (4.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.46%) Power BI Consultant
11 9 (4.46%) Report Developer
12 8 (3.96%) Power BI Analyst
12 8 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Architect
14 6 (2.97%) Data Architect
14 6 (2.97%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
14 6 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.87%) PySpark
2 13 (6.44%) REST
3 7 (3.47%) HTML
3 7 (3.47%) Terraform
4 6 (2.97%) React
5 5 (2.48%) Great Expectations
6 4 (1.98%) Pandas
6 4 (1.98%) Playwright
6 4 (1.98%) pytest
7 3 (1.49%) HTML5
8 2 (0.99%) .NET
8 2 (0.99%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.99%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.99%) Apache Beam
8 2 (0.99%) Kafka
8 2 (0.99%) Redux
8 2 (0.99%) RESTful
9 1 (0.50%) MDX
9 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.43%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
3 4 (1.98%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.98%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.98%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.49%) NHS
5 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.50%) FMCG
6 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.50%) Life Science
6 1 (0.50%) Mashup
6 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
1 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (97.03%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (69.31%) Data Modelling
3 95 (47.03%) Analytics
4 67 (33.17%) Visualisation
5 66 (32.67%) Decision-Making
6 56 (27.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (24.75%) Data Visualisation
8 46 (22.77%) Data Governance
8 46 (22.77%) ETL
9 44 (21.78%) CI/CD
10 42 (20.79%) Data Engineering
11 36 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (17.33%) Lakehouse
13 32 (15.84%) DevOps
14 31 (15.35%) Dashboard Development
15 28 (13.86%) Actionable Insight
15 28 (13.86%) Data Transformation
15 28 (13.86%) Validation
16 27 (13.37%) Agile
17 26 (12.87%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 138 (68.32%) SQL
2 57 (28.22%) Python
3 13 (6.44%) JavaScript
3 13 (6.44%) T-SQL
4 6 (2.97%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.98%) C#
6 3 (1.49%) R
6 3 (1.49%) XMLA
7 2 (0.99%) Java
7 2 (0.99%) Scala
7 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.50%) VB
8 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.97%) Degree
3 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (33.17%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.44%) GDPR
3 12 (5.94%) QA
4 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.98%) PMO
6 2 (0.99%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (1.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.98%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 103 (50.99%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.85%) Databricks
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle
3 4 (1.98%) SAP
4 3 (1.49%) Sage
4 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.99%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.99%) Workday
6 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.50%) Braze
6 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.50%) Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) Google
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.50%) Palantir
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow