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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 417 461
Rank change year-on-year -24 +44 +111
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 96 95 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 0.95% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 50 93
10th Percentile £352 £324 £301
25th Percentile £393 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £445 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -11.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year - +38.63% -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year - +38.63% -5.91%

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 9,665 10,004 12,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.64% 32.45% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,429 6,490 8,747
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 264 401
10th Percentile £31.43 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £44.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.14
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.34% -0.18%

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 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
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 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 +13 58 £450 -10.00% 33
North of England -43 15 £425 - 9
Midlands -21 10 £463 +20.13% 16
North West -22 9 £419 -1.47% 9
West Midlands -15 7 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -26 6 £445 +4.71%
South East -10 3 £381 -10.29% 34
East Midlands -15 3 £421 +9.42% 7
East of England - 3 £400 - 8
South West -5 2 £585 +30.00% 4
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.04%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (40.63%) Azure
3 20 (20.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (14.58%) PowerApps
5 12 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.25%) AWS
7 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.21%) GCP
7 5 (5.21%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.17%) Serverless
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.13%) dbt
10 2 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.08%) GitHub
10 2 (2.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (97.92%) Power BI
2 55 (57.29%) Power Query
3 30 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 14 (14.58%) Relational Database
6 12 (12.50%) Data Lake
7 11 (11.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (8.33%) Tableau
9 5 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.13%) Metadata
12 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.08%) OLAP
12 2 (2.08%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.08%) PowerPivot
13 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 1 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.21%) Finance
3 21 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Banking
5 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.21%) Local Government
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.13%) Law
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Front Office
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (46.88%) Developer
2 35 (36.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 31 (32.29%) Power BI Developer
4 16 (16.67%) Analyst
5 13 (13.54%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 8 (8.33%) Data Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Power BI Specialist
8 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Power BI Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Senior
10 4 (4.17%) Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Power BI Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Analyst Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Performance Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Report Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Report Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.04%) MDX
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.04%) ODBC
2 1 (1.04%) RESTful
2 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.08%) FMCG
4 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) AS400
5 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) DataPower
5 1 (1.04%) Derivative
5 1 (1.04%) Equities
5 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (96.88%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (81.25%) Data Modelling
3 42 (43.75%) Analytics
3 42 (43.75%) Visualisation
4 37 (38.54%) ETL
5 31 (32.29%) Actionable Insight
6 27 (28.13%) Decision-Making
7 26 (27.08%) Data Governance
8 20 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.79%) Data Visualisation
10 18 (18.75%) Data Analysis
11 15 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
11 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (12.50%) Agile
13 12 (12.50%) Data Transformation
13 12 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 11 (11.46%) Data Engineering
14 11 (11.46%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.92%) SQL
2 23 (23.96%) Python
3 6 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.21%) R
5 1 (1.04%) Bicep
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) CIMA
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) PMO
4 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (36.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Databricks
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.08%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.08%) Google
4 2 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.04%) Capita
5 1 (1.04%) Denodo
5 1 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.04%) Workday