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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 411 453
Rank change year-on-year -21 +42 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 207 90 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.00% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 67 54
10th Percentile £350 £314 £321
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £470
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -8.51% -10.48%
75th Percentile £565 £481 £525
90th Percentile £650 £700 £568
UK median daily rate £475 £436 £475
% change year-on-year +8.88% -8.16% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.81 -
90th Percentile - £59.53 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%

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 11,988 9,028 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.21% 32.70% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 6,177 7,549
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £753 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -5.25% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 249 347
10th Percentile £31.83 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.00 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.27 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 18 August 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
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 18 August 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 +3 126 £500 +14.29% 47
North of England -66 25 £440 +3.53% 9
Midlands -44 21 £450 +5.26% 18
North West -32 20 £440 +17.33% 9
South East -62 17 £438 +13.03% 18
West Midlands -39 14 £425 -8.11% 12
South West -38 8 £350 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -17 7 £463 +12.12% 6
East of England -20 5 £375 -6.25% 6
Yorkshire -47 4 £475 +9.20%
North East - 1 £350 -
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 12 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.90%) Confluence
3 5 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Appian
4 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.38%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 199 (96.14%) Power Platform
2 94 (45.41%) Azure
3 33 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (14.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (13.53%) Power Automate
6 15 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.25%) PowerApps
7 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (4.83%) AWS
9 8 (3.86%) GCP
10 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.42%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.93%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.93%) GitHub
13 4 (1.93%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.45%) Intacct
14 3 (1.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (96.14%) Power BI
2 98 (47.34%) Power Query
3 58 (28.02%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (18.84%) Star Schema
5 19 (9.18%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.21%) Data Lake
7 15 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (7.25%) Relational Database
8 13 (6.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (5.80%) PowerPivot
9 12 (5.80%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (4.83%) Metadata
11 9 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.90%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.90%) Tableau
14 5 (2.42%) GIS
14 5 (2.42%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Git
1 6 (2.90%) JIRA
2 2 (0.97%) GitLab
2 2 (0.97%) Selenium
3 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 63 (30.43%) Finance
3 46 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.25%) Banking
6 12 (5.80%) Retail
7 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.93%) Publishing
9 3 (1.45%) Local Government
9 3 (1.45%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 87 (42.03%) Developer
2 80 (38.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 74 (35.75%) Power BI Developer
4 32 (15.46%) Analyst
5 26 (12.56%) Senior
6 25 (12.08%) Data Engineer
7 20 (9.66%) Data Analyst
8 18 (8.70%) Lead
9 15 (7.25%) Architect
10 13 (6.28%) Consultant
11 11 (5.31%) Report Developer
12 10 (4.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (4.83%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Specialist
13 9 (4.35%) Power BI Consultant
13 9 (4.35%) Power BI Specialist
14 8 (3.86%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 8 (3.86%) Power BI Analyst
14 8 (3.86%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
15 7 (3.38%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.63%) PySpark
2 12 (5.80%) REST
3 6 (2.90%) HTML
4 4 (1.93%) Apache Avro
4 4 (1.93%) Apache Beam
4 4 (1.93%) React
5 3 (1.45%) Great Expectations
5 3 (1.45%) Kafka
5 3 (1.45%) NumPy
5 3 (1.45%) Pandas
6 2 (0.97%) .NET
6 2 (0.97%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.97%) HTML5
6 2 (0.97%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.97%) MDX
6 2 (0.97%) Playwright
6 2 (0.97%) pytest
6 2 (0.97%) Redux
6 2 (0.97%) RESTful
6 2 (0.97%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.45%) FMCG
4 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.97%) SCADA
6 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.48%) Life Science
6 1 (0.48%) Mashup
6 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (96.62%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (70.05%) Data Modelling
3 103 (49.76%) Analytics
4 66 (31.88%) Decision-Making
4 66 (31.88%) Visualisation
5 65 (31.40%) ETL
6 52 (25.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 41 (19.81%) Data Visualisation
8 40 (19.32%) Data Engineering
9 39 (18.84%) CI/CD
10 38 (18.36%) Data Governance
11 35 (16.91%) Dashboard Development
11 35 (16.91%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (16.43%) Data Transformation
13 33 (15.94%) AI
14 32 (15.46%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (15.46%) Translating Business Requirements
15 29 (14.01%) DevOps
16 28 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (13.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 140 (67.63%) SQL
2 52 (25.12%) Python
3 12 (5.80%) T-SQL
4 10 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.90%) VBA
6 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.42%) R
7 4 (1.93%) C#
7 4 (1.93%) Java
7 4 (1.93%) Scala
8 3 (1.45%) XMLA
9 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) Degree
4 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.97%) ACCA
7 2 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (26.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.31%) QA
3 10 (4.83%) GDPR
4 6 (2.90%) GRC
5 5 (2.42%) PMO
6 3 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.97%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.38%) Terraform
2 2 (0.97%) Ansible
2 2 (0.97%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (0.48%) Control-M
Vendors
1 97 (46.86%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.98%) Databricks
3 7 (3.38%) Sage
4 6 (2.90%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.42%) Oracle
5 5 (2.42%) SAP
6 4 (1.93%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.97%) Google
7 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.48%) Foundry
8 1 (0.48%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.48%) Palantir
8 1 (0.48%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.48%) Workday