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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 426 446
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 204 91 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.02% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 69 49
10th Percentile £350 £316 £315
25th Percentile £400 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £525
90th Percentile £661 £700 £578
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £465
% change year-on-year +8.57% -5.91% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £22.45 £30.25 -
25th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £36.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £45.75 £55.81 -
90th Percentile £50.55 £59.53 -
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 11,954 8,955 10,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.00% 32.74% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,734 6,083 7,327
10th Percentile £363 £348 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £526
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.76% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 260 305
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.50 £42.44 £51.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £80.30 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +2 131 £494 +12.86% 56
North of England -61 26 £440 +3.53% 16
North West -39 20 £440 +17.33% 14
Midlands -51 16 £475 +10.47% 17
South East -58 16 £469 +21.03% 23
West Midlands -40 11 £463 -6.33% 13
South West -42 7 £325 -25.71% 8
East Midlands -14 5 £475 +15.15% 4
Yorkshire -44 5 £475 +7.95% 2
East of England -22 3 £246 -38.44% 17
South Coast - 1 £450 -
North East - 1 £350 -
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 13 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.94%) Confluence
3 5 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Appian
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 40 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 193 (94.61%) Power Platform
2 93 (45.59%) Azure
3 31 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (14.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 20 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.86%) AWS
7 14 (6.86%) PowerApps
8 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.41%) GCP
10 7 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.94%) SaaS
12 5 (2.45%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (2.45%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.96%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.96%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (1.96%) GitHub
13 4 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (94.61%) Power BI
2 98 (48.04%) Power Query
3 49 (24.02%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (20.10%) Star Schema
5 19 (9.31%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (8.82%) Data Lake
7 15 (7.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.35%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (6.37%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.88%) Metadata
9 12 (5.88%) PowerPivot
10 8 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (2.94%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.94%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.45%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.88%) Git
2 7 (3.43%) JIRA
3 4 (1.96%) Selenium
4 2 (0.98%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 64 (31.37%) Finance
3 43 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.35%) Banking
6 13 (6.37%) Retail
7 7 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.45%) Publishing
9 4 (1.96%) Local Government
9 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.98%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (40.69%) Developer
2 76 (37.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 70 (34.31%) Power BI Developer
4 32 (15.69%) Analyst
5 31 (15.20%) Data Engineer
6 26 (12.75%) Senior
7 22 (10.78%) Data Analyst
8 19 (9.31%) Lead
9 15 (7.35%) Architect
10 13 (6.37%) Consultant
11 10 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.41%) Power BI Engineer
12 9 (4.41%) Report Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 8 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Specialist
13 8 (3.92%) Power BI Analyst
13 8 (3.92%) Power BI Consultant
13 8 (3.92%) Power BI Specialist
13 8 (3.92%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.73%) PySpark
2 13 (6.37%) REST
3 9 (4.41%) Terraform
4 6 (2.94%) Great Expectations
4 6 (2.94%) HTML
4 6 (2.94%) React
5 4 (1.96%) Apache Avro
5 4 (1.96%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.96%) Playwright
5 4 (1.96%) pytest
6 3 (1.47%) Kafka
7 2 (0.98%) .NET
7 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.98%) HTML5
7 2 (0.98%) MDX
7 2 (0.98%) NumPy
7 2 (0.98%) Pandas
7 2 (0.98%) Redux
7 2 (0.98%) RESTful
8 1 (0.49%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.47%) FMCG
4 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.98%) IoT
5 2 (0.98%) NHS
5 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.49%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (96.57%) Business Intelligence
2 141 (69.12%) Data Modelling
3 96 (47.06%) Analytics
4 64 (31.37%) Decision-Making
5 61 (29.90%) Visualisation
6 56 (27.45%) ETL
7 51 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 44 (21.57%) Data Engineering
10 41 (20.10%) Data Governance
11 40 (19.61%) Data Visualisation
12 37 (18.14%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (17.16%) Lakehouse
14 34 (16.67%) AI
15 33 (16.18%) Dashboard Development
15 33 (16.18%) DevOps
16 30 (14.71%) Data Transformation
17 29 (14.22%) Actionable Insight
17 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 28 (13.73%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 140 (68.63%) SQL
2 56 (27.45%) Python
3 13 (6.37%) T-SQL
4 12 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.96%) C#
6 4 (1.96%) Java
6 4 (1.96%) R
6 4 (1.96%) Scala
7 3 (1.47%) XMLA
8 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.90%) Degree
4 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.98%) ACCA
8 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (28.43%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.37%) QA
3 12 (5.88%) GDPR
4 6 (2.94%) GRC
5 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (2.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.96%) Ansible
2 2 (0.98%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (0.49%) Control-M
Vendors
1 100 (49.02%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.75%) Databricks
3 6 (2.94%) Atlassian
3 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.45%) SAP
5 4 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.96%) Oracle
6 3 (1.47%) Sage
7 2 (0.98%) Google
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.49%) Foundry
8 1 (0.49%) Informatica
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.49%) Palantir
8 1 (0.49%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.49%) Workday