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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 449 460
Rank change year-on-year +31 +11 +136
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 94 79 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.74% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 50 97
10th Percentile £319 £300 £395
25th Percentile £375 £364 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -20.45% +6.80%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £615
90th Percentile £698 £576 £681
UK median daily rate £428 £450 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.25% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £30.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -62.12% +75.98%
75th Percentile £55.81 - -
90th Percentile £59.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +75.00% -62.12% +216.76%

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 9,106 10,710 13,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.77% 32.52% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,161 7,340 9,801
10th Percentile £350 £351 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 307 411
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.69 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.50 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions 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 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +38 55 £438 -12.50% 35
North of England -12 16 £419 +1.52% 34
Midlands -11 11 £430 +25.55% 13
Yorkshire -8 10 £435 +0.87% 8
East Midlands +3 6 £413 +7.14% 5
North West -20 6 £395 +5.33% 25
West Midlands -9 5 £494 +64.58% 8
South West +19 4 £438 -5.41% 4
South East +15 2 £388 -1.59% 24
East of England +6 2 £400 +6.67% 2
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.26%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (31.91%) Azure
3 13 (13.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.45%) Power Automate
5 7 (7.45%) PowerApps
6 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
7 5 (5.32%) AWS
7 5 (5.32%) dbt
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (98.94%) Power BI
2 57 (60.64%) Power Query
3 34 (36.17%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
5 12 (12.77%) Relational Database
6 10 (10.64%) Tableau
7 9 (9.57%) Data Lake
8 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
11 4 (4.26%) Parquet
11 4 (4.26%) PowerPivot
12 3 (3.19%) Apache Hive
12 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
12 3 (3.19%) Flink
12 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.19%) RDBMS
12 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 42 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.85%) Finance
3 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.64%) Retail
5 7 (7.45%) Banking
5 7 (7.45%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.45%) Local Government
6 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Environmental Health
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (44.68%) Developer
2 34 (36.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 29 (30.85%) Power BI Developer
4 25 (26.60%) Analyst
5 16 (17.02%) Data Analyst
6 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 10 (10.64%) Power BI Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Power BI Specialist
8 7 (7.45%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior
10 5 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Analyst Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Report Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.19%) Consultant
12 3 (3.19%) Performance Analyst
12 3 (3.19%) Report Developer
12 3 (3.19%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) Apache Avro
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.06%) .NET
3 1 (1.06%) JSON
3 1 (1.06%) MDX
3 1 (1.06%) ODBC
3 1 (1.06%) PySpark
3 1 (1.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Reference Data
2 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.13%) Replication
3 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.06%) Derivative
4 1 (1.06%) Equities
4 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.06%) FMCG
4 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.06%) NHS
4 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (91.49%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (71.28%) Data Modelling
3 45 (47.87%) ETL
3 45 (47.87%) Visualisation
4 37 (39.36%) Analytics
5 31 (32.98%) Decision-Making
6 24 (25.53%) Actionable Insight
7 22 (23.40%) Data Visualisation
7 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (22.34%) Data Analysis
9 20 (21.28%) Data Governance
10 16 (17.02%) Data Engineering
11 15 (15.96%) Dashboard Development
11 15 (15.96%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (13.83%) Agile
12 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (12.77%) Data Integration
13 12 (12.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (11.70%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 65 (69.15%) SQL
2 29 (30.85%) Python
3 8 (8.51%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.32%) R
5 4 (4.26%) Java
6 3 (3.19%) C#
6 3 (3.19%) Scala
7 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.19%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) COSHH
5 1 (1.06%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Databricks
3 4 (4.26%) Alteryx
3 4 (4.26%) Google
3 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.26%) Workday
4 3 (3.19%) Cognos
4 3 (3.19%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) Capita
6 1 (1.06%) Denodo
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.06%) Northgate
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Tagetik