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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 394 444
Rank change year-on-year -47 +50 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 121 89 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.02% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 43 79
10th Percentile £319 £311 £275
25th Percentile £396 £368 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £608 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £17.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £36.93 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £51.22 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -58.46%

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 10,287 8,746 11,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.14% 33.56% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,837 5,647 8,009
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £658
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 201 473
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 72 £500 +11.11% 16
North of England -59 12 £431 +1.47% 11
Midlands -50 10 £438 +2.94% 20
South West -18 7 £570 +26.67% 4
North West -37 7 £431 -6.76% 7
West Midlands -46 6 £438 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire -59 5 £413 - 2
East of England - 5 £395 - 5
East Midlands -27 4 £375 -2.60% 7
South East -41 4 £475 +7.04% 23
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 7 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.65%) Apache
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.83%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.83%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 61 (50.41%) Azure
3 27 (22.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (19.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (15.70%) Power Automate
6 14 (11.57%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.09%) AWS
8 9 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.79%) Serverless
10 6 (4.96%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.96%) GCP
11 4 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.31%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.48%) dbt
12 3 (2.48%) SaaS
12 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (96.69%) Power BI
2 52 (42.98%) Power Query
3 24 (19.83%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 15 (12.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (10.74%) Data Lake
7 11 (9.09%) Star Schema
8 10 (8.26%) Relational Database
9 9 (7.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (7.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (7.44%) Tableau
10 7 (5.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.96%) Metadata
11 6 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.48%) OLAP
13 3 (2.48%) OLAP Cube
14 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Git
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (23.14%) Finance
4 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.13%) Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Local Government
8 3 (2.48%) Law
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (33.06%) Developer
2 31 (25.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 31 (25.62%) Data Engineer
3 30 (24.79%) Power BI Developer
4 20 (16.53%) Analyst
5 10 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 9 (7.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 9 (7.44%) Power BI Specialist
6 9 (7.44%) Senior
7 8 (6.61%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.79%) Power BI Analyst
9 5 (4.13%) Lead
9 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Report Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.31%) Report Developer
10 4 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) Analyst Developer
11 3 (2.48%) PMO Analyst
11 3 (2.48%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.74%) PySpark
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (4.13%) YAML
3 3 (2.48%) JSON
3 3 (2.48%) Pandas
3 3 (2.48%) XML
4 2 (1.65%) HTML
4 2 (1.65%) HTML5
4 2 (1.65%) PyArrow
4 2 (1.65%) REST
4 2 (1.65%) SVG
5 1 (0.83%) .NET
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.83%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.83%) MDX
5 1 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.96%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.13%) Wiki
3 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.65%) FMCG
4 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) AS400
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) DataPower
5 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (98.35%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (71.90%) Data Modelling
3 65 (53.72%) Analytics
4 41 (33.88%) ETL
5 40 (33.06%) Visualisation
6 32 (26.45%) Actionable Insight
7 30 (24.79%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (23.97%) Data Governance
8 29 (23.97%) Decision-Making
8 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (22.31%) Data Engineering
10 24 (19.83%) Dashboard Development
11 22 (18.18%) Agile
12 20 (16.53%) Translating Business Requirements
13 18 (14.88%) CI/CD
13 18 (14.88%) Performance Optimisation
14 17 (14.05%) Data Visualisation
14 17 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (69.42%) SQL
2 34 (28.10%) Python
3 15 (12.40%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.96%) R
5 4 (3.31%) Bicep
6 3 (2.48%) C#
6 3 (2.48%) VBA
7 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.44%) QA
3 5 (4.13%) PMO
4 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (38.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.18%) Databricks
3 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle
4 2 (1.65%) Planview
4 2 (1.65%) SAP
5 1 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) Sage
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow