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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 414 425
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 199 96 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.05% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 72 53
10th Percentile £350 £327 £304
25th Percentile £400 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £465
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -6.99% -15.45%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £538
90th Percentile £650 £698 £588
UK median daily rate £473 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.89% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £22.45 £27.25 -
25th Percentile £27.25 £36.25 £25.26
Median hourly rate £36.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £45.75 £57.88 -
90th Percentile £50.55 £60.35 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +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 12,094 9,156 10,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.98% 33.00% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,840 6,169 7,000
10th Percentile £363 £345 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 260 299
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £76.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -15 126 £475 +8.57% 42
North of England -70 26 £440 +6.67% 25
North West -35 19 £440 +17.33% 20
South East -46 15 £469 +21.03% 16
Midlands -38 14 £450 -2.70% 24
South West -33 10 £325 -25.71% 6
West Midlands -44 9 £413 -23.26% 16
East Midlands -18 5 £500 +21.21% 8
Yorkshire -48 5 £475 +9.20% 4
East of England -24 4 £275 -31.25% 15
North East - 2 £388 - 1
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 (7.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Appian
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (20.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.52%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 186 (93.47%) Power Platform
2 93 (46.73%) Azure
3 27 (13.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (12.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.05%) Power Automate
6 17 (8.54%) AWS
7 15 (7.54%) PowerApps
8 10 (5.03%) GCP
9 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (4.02%) SaaS
11 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.02%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.01%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (2.01%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.01%) dbt
14 4 (2.01%) GitHub
14 4 (2.01%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (93.47%) Power BI
2 98 (49.25%) Power Query
3 41 (20.60%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (19.60%) Star Schema
5 18 (9.05%) Data Lake
6 17 (8.54%) Semantic Layer
7 16 (8.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (7.54%) SQL Server
9 13 (6.53%) PowerPivot
10 12 (6.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 12 (6.03%) Metadata
11 11 (5.53%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.51%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (2.51%) Data Hub
14 5 (2.51%) GIS
14 5 (2.51%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (6.03%) Git
2 4 (2.01%) Selenium
3 3 (1.51%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.15%) Finance
3 40 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.03%) Retail
6 8 (4.02%) Banking
6 8 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.02%) Local Government
8 5 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.51%) Publishing
9 3 (1.51%) Billing
9 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (41.21%) Developer
2 76 (38.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 68 (34.17%) Power BI Developer
4 35 (17.59%) Analyst
5 29 (14.57%) Data Engineer
6 23 (11.56%) Data Analyst
7 22 (11.06%) Senior
8 19 (9.55%) Lead
9 15 (7.54%) Architect
9 15 (7.54%) Consultant
10 10 (5.03%) Report Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 8 (4.02%) Power BI Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) Power BI Consultant
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 7 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
14 6 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Specialist
14 6 (3.02%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.56%) PySpark
2 14 (7.04%) REST
3 8 (4.02%) Terraform
4 6 (3.02%) HTML
4 6 (3.02%) React
5 5 (2.51%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.01%) Pandas
6 4 (2.01%) Playwright
6 4 (2.01%) pytest
7 3 (1.51%) Apache Avro
7 3 (1.51%) Apache Beam
8 2 (1.01%) .NET
8 2 (1.01%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.01%) HTML5
8 2 (1.01%) Kafka
8 2 (1.01%) NumPy
8 2 (1.01%) Redux
8 2 (1.01%) RESTful
9 1 (0.50%) MDX
9 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.01%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.01%) FMCG
6 2 (1.01%) NHS
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.50%) EPoS
7 1 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.50%) IoT
7 1 (0.50%) Life Science
7 1 (0.50%) Mashup
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (96.48%) Business Intelligence
2 134 (67.34%) Data Modelling
3 92 (46.23%) Analytics
4 67 (33.67%) Decision-Making
5 66 (33.17%) Visualisation
6 51 (25.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (24.62%) Data Visualisation
8 47 (23.62%) ETL
9 44 (22.11%) CI/CD
10 43 (21.61%) Data Governance
11 38 (19.10%) Data Engineering
12 34 (17.09%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (17.09%) Lakehouse
13 33 (16.58%) DevOps
14 29 (14.57%) Agile
14 29 (14.57%) Dashboard Development
15 27 (13.57%) Actionable Insight
15 27 (13.57%) Data Transformation
16 26 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (13.07%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 134 (67.34%) SQL
2 57 (28.64%) Python
3 12 (6.03%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.53%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.01%) C#
6 4 (2.01%) R
7 3 (1.51%) Java
7 3 (1.51%) Scala
7 3 (1.51%) XMLA
8 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.01%) VBA
9 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.52%) Degree
4 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.50%) ACCA
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (31.16%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.53%) GDPR
3 12 (6.03%) QA
4 5 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.01%) PMO
6 2 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (2.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.01%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.50%) Control-M
2 1 (0.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 101 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.56%) Databricks
3 4 (2.01%) Oracle
3 4 (2.01%) SAP
4 3 (1.51%) Sage
5 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.01%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.01%) 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%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.50%) Palantir
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
136 Data Analysis Expressions jobs in England