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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 406 441
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 +121
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 101 94 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.02% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 48 80
10th Percentile £330 £311 £281
25th Percentile £381 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -6.75% -
75th Percentile £556 £541 £600
90th Percentile £600 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £450 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -
75th Percentile £25.62 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - £48.45 -
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -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 9,790 9,185 11,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.96% 32.55% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,514 5,952 8,061
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 219 391
10th Percentile £36.86 £25.26 £35.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.25 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.13%

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 December 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 December 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 -15 59 £463 -7.50% 31
Midlands -34 13 £430 +11.69% 52
North of England -53 12 £425 - 50
West Midlands -22 9 £463 - 22
North West -28 7 £425 +1.19% 30
Yorkshire -40 5 £413 -2.94% 17
South West -10 4 £585 +30.00% 22
East Midlands -16 4 £421 +9.42% 28
South East -16 3 £400 -5.88% 59
East of England - 2 - - 31
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 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.99%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 47 (46.53%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (16.83%) PowerApps
5 16 (15.84%) Power Automate
6 15 (14.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.93%) AWS
8 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.95%) GCP
9 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.96%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.96%) Serverless
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.97%) dbt
11 3 (2.97%) SaaS
12 2 (1.98%) GitHub
12 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (98.02%) Power BI
2 50 (49.50%) Power Query
3 24 (23.76%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (17.82%) SQL Server
5 13 (12.87%) Relational Database
6 12 (11.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (9.90%) Data Lake
8 9 (8.91%) Tableau
9 7 (6.93%) Star Schema
10 6 (5.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (5.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (4.95%) Metadata
11 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.97%) OLAP
12 3 (2.97%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.98%) PowerPivot
13 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (0.99%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.72%) Finance
3 25 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Local Government
6 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.97%) Law
8 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Legal
9 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Developer
2 32 (31.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 30 (29.70%) Power BI Developer
4 18 (17.82%) Analyst
4 18 (17.82%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 9 (8.91%) Data Analyst
6 9 (8.91%) Power BI Specialist
7 6 (5.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (5.94%) Power BI Analyst
7 6 (5.94%) Senior
8 4 (3.96%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (3.96%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (2.97%) Consultant
9 3 (2.97%) Lead
9 3 (2.97%) Power BI Consultant
9 3 (2.97%) Report Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) PySpark
2 2 (1.98%) MDX
2 2 (1.98%) YAML
3 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.99%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) HTML5
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.99%) Pandas
3 1 (0.99%) PyArrow
3 1 (0.99%) RESTful
3 1 (0.99%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.98%) FMCG
4 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) AS400
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) DataPower
5 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.99%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (98.02%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (82.18%) Data Modelling
3 50 (49.50%) Analytics
4 44 (43.56%) Visualisation
5 36 (35.64%) ETL
6 34 (33.66%) Actionable Insight
7 31 (30.69%) Decision-Making
8 30 (29.70%) Data Governance
9 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.80%) Data Visualisation
11 18 (17.82%) Dashboard Development
11 18 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (14.85%) CI/CD
13 15 (14.85%) Data Analysis
13 15 (14.85%) Data Transformation
14 14 (13.86%) Data Engineering
14 14 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (13.86%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 72 (71.29%) SQL
2 26 (25.74%) Python
3 9 (8.91%) T-SQL
4 6 (5.94%) R
5 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.98%) VBA
6 1 (0.99%) Bicep
6 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) Degree
4 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.99%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) GDPR
3 4 (3.96%) PMO
4 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.84%) Databricks
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.99%) Capita
5 1 (0.99%) Denodo
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) Planview
5 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.99%) Tagetik