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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 406 453
Rank change year-on-year -32 +47 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 150 67 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 0.82% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 40 71
10th Percentile £347 £310 £288
25th Percentile £400 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £613 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £17.54 £30.46 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £38.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% +142.61% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £57.25 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £59.35 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -63.10% +142.61% -72.67%

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 10,837 8,195 10,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.54% 33.79% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,209 5,609 7,877
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 216 436
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.66 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -5 87 £494 +9.72% 31
Midlands -66 16 £425 -8.11% 24
West Midlands -53 10 £400 -5.88% 12
North of England -64 10 £438 +9.38% 28
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
South West -20 9 £550 +22.22% 2
North West -34 8 £438 +2.94% 14
South East -51 7 £431 -4.17% 26
East Midlands -28 6 £450 -10.00% 12
Yorkshire -54 2 £388 - 12
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 5 (3.33%) Confluence
2 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.33%) Apache
3 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 78 (52.00%) Azure
3 34 (22.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (16.00%) Power Automate
6 14 (9.33%) PowerApps
7 10 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.33%) AWS
8 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
9 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.00%) Serverless
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Storage
10 5 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.67%) GCP
11 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (97.33%) Power BI
2 58 (38.67%) Power Query
3 43 (28.67%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (15.33%) SQL Server
5 21 (14.00%) Star Schema
6 17 (11.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (10.67%) Data Lake
8 13 (8.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (8.00%) Relational Database
10 11 (7.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (6.00%) Tableau
13 8 (5.33%) Metadata
14 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (4.00%) ZAP BI
15 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 4 (2.67%) Delta Lake
17 3 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 3 (2.00%) OLAP
17 3 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (9.33%) Git
2 6 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (30.00%) Finance
3 10 (6.67%) Banking
3 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.67%) Marketing
7 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Law
7 2 (1.33%) Local Government
7 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.67%) Billing
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Developer
2 47 (31.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 42 (28.00%) Power BI Developer
4 36 (24.00%) Data Engineer
5 20 (13.33%) Analyst
6 18 (12.00%) Senior
7 11 (7.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 9 (6.00%) Power BI Specialist
9 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Power BI Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Report Developer
11 6 (4.00%) Lead
11 6 (4.00%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.00%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (4.00%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Consultant
12 5 (3.33%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) PySpark
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.33%) YAML
3 4 (2.67%) Pandas
4 3 (2.00%) JSON
4 3 (2.00%) REST
4 3 (2.00%) XML
5 2 (1.33%) HTML
5 2 (1.33%) HTML5
5 2 (1.33%) MDX
5 2 (1.33%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.33%) SVG
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.67%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.67%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.67%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.67%) NumPy
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.00%) Wiki
3 5 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.00%) FMCG
5 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.33%) SCADA
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) AS400
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) DataPower
7 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (98.67%) Business Intelligence
2 113 (75.33%) Data Modelling
3 93 (62.00%) Analytics
4 61 (40.67%) ETL
5 47 (31.33%) Visualisation
6 41 (27.33%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (26.00%) Data Engineering
8 37 (24.67%) Decision-Making
9 36 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
10 32 (21.33%) Data Governance
11 30 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (19.33%) AI
12 29 (19.33%) Translating Business Requirements
13 27 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (17.33%) Dashboard Development
14 26 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (16.00%) Validation
16 23 (15.33%) CI/CD
17 21 (14.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 115 (76.67%) SQL
2 43 (28.67%) Python
3 19 (12.67%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.33%) VBA
5 7 (4.67%) R
6 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.67%) Bicep
8 3 (2.00%) C#
9 1 (0.67%) Java
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Degree
4 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.33%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.67%) ACCA
7 1 (0.67%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.00%) QA
3 5 (3.33%) GRC
3 5 (3.33%) PMO
4 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.67%) Databricks
3 6 (4.00%) Sage
4 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.00%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.33%) Planview
7 2 (1.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.67%) Remedy