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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 392 454
Rank change year-on-year -34 +62 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 126 86 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.01% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 43 77
10th Percentile £323 £314 £275
25th Percentile £381 £368 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £608 £593
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% -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 10,398 8,500 11,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.72% 33.49% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,959 5,540 7,960
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £658
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 206 467
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £35.51
25th Percentile £54.06 £41.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.16%

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 24 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 24 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 -23 71 £500 +11.11% 15
Midlands -51 12 £395 -14.59% 19
North of England -69 11 £431 -6.76% 13
South West -22 8 £560 +24.44% 5
West Midlands -51 8 £395 -21.00% 12
East of England - 8 £375 - 6
North West -35 7 £431 -13.75% 5
East Midlands -27 4 £375 -15.25% 7
South East -33 4 £475 +11.76% 20
Yorkshire -53 4 £413 - 5
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 8 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.59%) Apache
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (15.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.79%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 62 (49.21%) Azure
3 26 (20.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (17.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (15.87%) Power Automate
6 15 (11.90%) PowerApps
7 11 (8.73%) AWS
8 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (5.56%) Serverless
11 6 (4.76%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.76%) GCP
12 5 (3.97%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (2.38%) Azure Storage
14 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (2.38%) SaaS
15 2 (1.59%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (96.03%) Power BI
2 51 (40.48%) Power Query
3 26 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 15 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 12 (9.52%) Star Schema
7 11 (8.73%) Relational Database
7 11 (8.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (6.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (5.56%) Tableau
11 6 (4.76%) Metadata
12 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (3.17%) Delta Lake
13 4 (3.17%) ZAP BI
14 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
15 1 (0.79%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Git
2 3 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) ERwin
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (27.78%) Finance
3 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.38%) Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Law
6 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Legal
7 2 (1.59%) Local Government
7 2 (1.59%) Marketing
7 2 (1.59%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (35.71%) Developer
2 38 (30.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 34 (26.98%) Power BI Developer
4 31 (24.60%) Data Engineer
5 19 (15.08%) Analyst
6 11 (8.73%) Senior
7 10 (7.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 7 (5.56%) Power BI Specialist
10 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Power BI Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Lead
11 5 (3.97%) Report Developer
12 4 (3.17%) Consultant
12 4 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
12 4 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) SQL BI Developer
12 4 (3.17%) SQL Developer
13 3 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.32%) PySpark
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.97%) YAML
3 4 (3.17%) Pandas
4 3 (2.38%) JSON
4 3 (2.38%) XML
5 2 (1.59%) HTML
5 2 (1.59%) HTML5
5 2 (1.59%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.59%) REST
5 2 (1.59%) SVG
6 1 (0.79%) .NET
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.79%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.79%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.79%) MDX
6 1 (0.79%) NumPy
6 1 (0.79%) RESTful
6 1 (0.79%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.76%) Wiki
2 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.59%) FMCG
3 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.79%) AS400
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.79%) DataPower
4 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.79%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (98.41%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (73.81%) Data Modelling
3 73 (57.94%) Analytics
4 48 (38.10%) ETL
5 39 (30.95%) Visualisation
6 32 (25.40%) Actionable Insight
7 31 (24.60%) Data Governance
7 31 (24.60%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (23.81%) Decision-Making
8 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 24 (19.05%) Agile
11 23 (18.25%) Dashboard Development
12 21 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (15.87%) Translating Business Requirements
14 19 (15.08%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (14.29%) AI
15 18 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
15 18 (14.29%) Validation
16 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (71.43%) SQL
2 34 (26.98%) Python
3 15 (11.90%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.76%) R
4 6 (4.76%) VBA
5 4 (3.17%) Bicep
6 3 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.94%) QA
3 6 (4.76%) PMO
4 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.84%) Databricks
3 4 (3.17%) Sage
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle
4 2 (1.59%) Planview
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.79%) Google
5 1 (0.79%) Remedy
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce