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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 424 455
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 103 93 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 0.92% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 49 97
10th Percentile £349 £305 £306
25th Percentile £390 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £438 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £25.33 - -
25th Percentile £31.44 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £42.25 £30.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +40.83% +38.63% -51.91%
75th Percentile £52.44 - -
90th Percentile £58.18 £42.30 -
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £30.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +40.83% +38.63% -13.44%

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 9,712 10,063 12,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.32% 32.33% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 6,557 9,144
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 250 421
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +5 60 £450 -10.00% 50
North of England -30 17 £419 -1.47% 15
Midlands -26 12 £446 +15.91% 19
North West -23 10 £413 -2.94% 12
Yorkshire -33 7 £445 +4.71% 3
East Midlands -4 6 £413 +7.14% 3
West Midlands -21 6 £550 +83.33% 16
South East -2 3 £381 -1.61% 24
South West -4 3 £585 +30.00% 4
East of England - 3 £400 - 7
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 6 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (18.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.97%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.97%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 36 (34.95%) Azure
3 18 (17.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (13.59%) PowerApps
5 11 (10.68%) Power Automate
6 10 (9.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.83%) AWS
7 6 (5.83%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.85%) GCP
8 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.85%) Serverless
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.91%) dbt
11 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.94%) GitHub
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (97.09%) Power BI
2 58 (56.31%) Power Query
3 34 (33.01%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (17.48%) SQL Server
5 15 (14.56%) Relational Database
6 12 (11.65%) Data Lake
7 11 (10.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (8.74%) Tableau
9 8 (7.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (4.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (3.88%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.91%) Metadata
13 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.94%) OLAP
13 2 (1.94%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (1.94%) PowerPivot
14 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.10%) Finance
3 22 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.80%) Banking
5 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.80%) Local Government
5 7 (6.80%) Retail
6 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Law
9 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Environmental Health
10 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.97%) Front Office
10 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (44.66%) Developer
2 36 (34.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 31 (30.10%) Power BI Developer
4 22 (21.36%) Analyst
5 14 (13.59%) Data Analyst
6 13 (12.62%) Data Engineer
7 11 (10.68%) Power BI Analyst
8 9 (8.74%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 8 (7.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (7.77%) Power BI Specialist
10 6 (5.83%) Senior
11 4 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Consultant
11 4 (3.88%) Lead
11 4 (3.88%) Power BI Consultant
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 3 (2.91%) Report Analyst
12 3 (2.91%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) PySpark
2 1 (0.97%) .NET
2 1 (0.97%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.97%) JSON
2 1 (0.97%) MDX
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.97%) ODBC
2 1 (0.97%) REST
2 1 (0.97%) RESTful
2 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.88%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.94%) FMCG
4 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) AS400
5 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) DataPower
5 1 (0.97%) Derivative
5 1 (0.97%) Equities
5 1 (0.97%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (93.20%) Business Intelligence
2 79 (76.70%) Data Modelling
3 46 (44.66%) Analytics
4 44 (42.72%) ETL
5 43 (41.75%) Visualisation
6 30 (29.13%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (28.16%) Decision-Making
8 23 (22.33%) Data Governance
8 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (21.36%) Data Analysis
10 20 (19.42%) Data Visualisation
11 16 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (14.56%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (13.59%) Agile
13 14 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (13.59%) Data Transformation
13 14 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (12.62%) Data Engineering
15 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (10.68%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 71 (68.93%) SQL
2 26 (25.24%) Python
3 7 (6.80%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.85%) R
5 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.97%) Bicep
6 1 (0.97%) C#
6 1 (0.97%) Java
6 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
4 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.91%) PMO
4 2 (1.94%) QA
5 1 (0.97%) COSHH
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (33.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) Databricks
3 4 (3.88%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.91%) Dataiku
4 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.91%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) Workday
5 2 (1.94%) Cognos
5 2 (1.94%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) Capita
6 1 (0.97%) Denodo
6 1 (0.97%) IBM
6 1 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.97%) Northgate
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Tagetik