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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 404 461
Rank change year-on-year -21 +57 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 176 75 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 0.91% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 47 71
10th Percentile £352 £349 £306
25th Percentile £399 £388 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £435
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +0.57% -8.42%
75th Percentile £564 £488 £525
90th Percentile £600 £615 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £17.33 £30.25 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £18.31 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.12% - -
75th Percentile £19.02 £55.81 -
90th Percentile £19.34 £59.53 -
UK median hourly rate £18.31 £52.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -65.12% +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 11,088 8,197 11,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.61% 34.04% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,280 5,685 8,036
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 194 471
10th Percentile £37.03 £28.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -4 103 £488 +8.33% 38
Midlands -50 20 £488 +9.86% 11
North of England -74 15 £440 +3.53% 20
North West -33 12 £440 +3.53% 10
South East -51 12 £469 +20.97% 24
West Midlands -57 11 £513 +7.89% 8
East Midlands -24 9 £463 +5.71% 3
East of England - 9 £375 - 5
South West -26 8 £545 +24.51% 4
Yorkshire -64 3 £388 -9.88% 10
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 7 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Appian
5 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (17.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 173 (98.30%) Power Platform
2 84 (47.73%) Azure
3 34 (19.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (15.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (10.23%) Power Automate
6 16 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.68%) AWS
8 8 (4.55%) GCP
9 7 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.84%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.27%) GitHub
13 3 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (96.59%) Power BI
2 74 (42.05%) Power Query
3 48 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (16.48%) Star Schema
5 23 (13.07%) SQL Server
6 15 (8.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (8.52%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.95%) Relational Database
8 13 (7.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (5.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (5.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (5.11%) Tableau
11 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.41%) Metadata
12 6 (3.41%) PowerPivot
12 6 (3.41%) ZAP BI
13 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.84%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (2.27%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.57%) ERwin
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.98%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (28.41%) Finance
4 16 (9.09%) Banking
5 12 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.27%) Marketing
7 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Local Government
9 2 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Publishing
9 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (36.93%) Developer
2 58 (32.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 55 (31.25%) Power BI Developer
4 36 (20.45%) Data Engineer
5 28 (15.91%) Analyst
6 23 (13.07%) Senior
7 14 (7.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 11 (6.25%) Report Developer
9 9 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 9 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.11%) Power BI Analyst
9 9 (5.11%) Power BI Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Power BI Specialist
10 8 (4.55%) Consultant
10 8 (4.55%) Lead
10 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.41%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.80%) PySpark
2 9 (5.11%) REST
3 6 (3.41%) Pandas
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Beam
4 4 (2.27%) HTML
4 4 (2.27%) HTML5
4 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.27%) YAML
5 3 (1.70%) .NET
5 3 (1.70%) JSON
5 3 (1.70%) Kafka
5 3 (1.70%) MDX
5 3 (1.70%) NumPy
5 3 (1.70%) XML
6 2 (1.14%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.14%) PyArrow
6 2 (1.14%) React
6 2 (1.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.14%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.98%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.41%) Wiki
3 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.14%) FMCG
4 2 (1.14%) SCADA
5 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.57%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.57%) IoT
5 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.57%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (98.30%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (71.59%) Data Modelling
3 94 (53.41%) Analytics
4 68 (38.64%) ETL
5 51 (28.98%) Visualisation
6 46 (26.14%) Decision-Making
7 44 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (22.73%) Data Engineering
9 38 (21.59%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (21.02%) AI
11 34 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
13 32 (18.18%) Agile
14 31 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (17.05%) Dashboard Development
16 29 (16.48%) Data Governance
17 28 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
18 27 (15.34%) DevOps
18 27 (15.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 123 (69.89%) SQL
2 47 (26.70%) Python
3 20 (11.36%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.11%) VBA
5 7 (3.98%) C#
5 7 (3.98%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.27%) Java
6 4 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.27%) R
6 4 (2.27%) Scala
7 3 (1.70%) Bicep
8 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.25%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.14%) ACCA
6 2 (1.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.68%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.52%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) GRC
4 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.27%) PMO
5 3 (1.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.27%) Terraform
2 2 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 68 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.18%) Databricks
3 6 (3.41%) Oracle
3 6 (3.41%) Sage
3 6 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.84%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.70%) SAP
6 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.14%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) Planview
7 1 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.57%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.57%) Foundry
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica
7 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir
7 1 (0.57%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.57%) Remedy