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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 418 452
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 100 94 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 0.93% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 98
10th Percentile £330 £320 £307
25th Percentile £375 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £695 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £25.33 £25.26 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £26.44 -
Median hourly rate £42.25 £30.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +40.83% +38.63% -51.91%
75th Percentile £52.44 - -
90th Percentile £58.18 £45.38 -
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £30.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +40.83% +38.63% -13.44%

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 9,433 10,072 12,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.43% 32.36% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,265 6,595 9,209
10th Percentile £340 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 254 417
10th Percentile £31.22 £30.00 £34.70
25th Percentile £44.88 £46.20 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £75.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +0.81% +0.81%

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 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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 +17 59 £438 -14.63% 58
North of England -34 16 £413 -2.94% 16
Midlands -13 13 £463 +20.13% 26
North West -29 9 £404 -5.00% 12
West Midlands -22 7 £538 +79.17% 22
Yorkshire -25 7 £445 +3.19% 4
East Midlands -6 6 £413 +7.14% 4
South East +3 3 £381 -1.61% 46
South West -2 3 £585 +30.00% 4
East of England - 3 £400 - 1
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 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (1.00%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 35 (35.00%) Azure
3 16 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (14.00%) PowerApps
5 12 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.00%) AWS
7 7 (7.00%) Snowflake
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (6.00%) GCP
9 5 (5.00%) Serverless
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.00%) dbt
11 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.00%) GitHub
13 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (97.00%) Power BI
2 57 (57.00%) Power Query
3 33 (33.00%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (18.00%) SQL Server
5 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
6 11 (11.00%) Data Lake
7 10 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (9.00%) Tableau
9 8 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.00%) Star Schema
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 2 (2.00%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.00%) Metadata
12 2 (2.00%) OLAP
12 2 (2.00%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.00%) PowerPivot
13 1 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Git
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
1 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.00%) Finance
3 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.00%) Retail
6 7 (7.00%) Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Local Government
7 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Law
10 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Environmental Health
11 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.00%) Front Office
11 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Legal
11 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (43.00%) Developer
2 32 (32.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 27 (27.00%) Power BI Developer
4 25 (25.00%) Analyst
5 15 (15.00%) Data Analyst
6 11 (11.00%) Power BI Analyst
7 10 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 10 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (9.00%) Power BI Specialist
9 6 (6.00%) Senior
10 4 (4.00%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Lead
10 4 (4.00%) Power BI Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Report Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) PySpark
2 1 (1.00%) .NET
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.00%) JSON
2 1 (1.00%) MDX
2 1 (1.00%) ODBC
2 1 (1.00%) REST
2 1 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.00%) AS400
4 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.00%) DataPower
4 1 (1.00%) Derivative
4 1 (1.00%) Equities
4 1 (1.00%) FMCG
4 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.00%) NHS
4 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (93.00%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 44 (44.00%) Analytics
4 41 (41.00%) ETL
5 40 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 31 (31.00%) Decision-Making
7 28 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
8 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (23.00%) Data Analysis
10 20 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 20 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
11 17 (17.00%) Dashboard Development
12 16 (16.00%) Agile
12 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (14.00%) Data Transformation
15 13 (13.00%) Data Engineering
15 13 (13.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 12 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 67 (67.00%) SQL
2 27 (27.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.00%) R
5 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
6 1 (1.00%) C#
6 1 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) PMO
4 1 (1.00%) COSHH
4 1 (1.00%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (33.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Databricks
3 4 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.00%) Cognos
4 3 (3.00%) Dataiku
4 3 (3.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.00%) Workday
5 1 (1.00%) Capita
5 1 (1.00%) Denodo
5 1 (1.00%) IBM
5 1 (1.00%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.00%) Northgate
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) Tagetik