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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 424 451
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +118
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 101 95 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.95% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 91
10th Percentile £321 £324 £300
25th Percentile £378 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £30.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% +38.63% -
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile - £42.30 -
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £30.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year -15.28% +38.63% -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 9,824 9,951 11,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.53% 32.55% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,528 6,460 8,509
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £669
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 256 398
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year - +4.97% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £63.00 £60.21
% change year-on-year +1.59% +4.63% -3.66%

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 4 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 4 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 -4 60 £450 -10.00% 27
North of England -39 15 £425 - 11
Midlands -19 13 £430 +11.69% 13
West Midlands -22 9 £463 - 7
North West -23 9 £419 -1.47% 11
Yorkshire -26 6 £445 +4.71%
East Midlands -10 4 £421 +9.42% 6
East of England - 4 £400 - 5
South East -10 2 £375 -11.76% 31
South West -19 2 £585 +30.00% 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 7 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.99%) 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 42 (41.58%) Azure
3 20 (19.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (16.83%) PowerApps
5 15 (14.85%) Power Automate
6 12 (11.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.94%) AWS
7 6 (5.94%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.95%) GCP
9 4 (3.96%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.96%) Serverless
10 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.97%) dbt
11 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.98%) GitHub
11 2 (1.98%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (98.02%) Power BI
2 58 (57.43%) Power Query
3 30 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (17.82%) SQL Server
5 15 (14.85%) Relational Database
6 12 (11.88%) Data Lake
7 11 (10.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (9.90%) Tableau
9 8 (7.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (5.94%) Star Schema
11 5 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.97%) Metadata
14 2 (1.98%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.98%) OLAP
14 2 (1.98%) OLAP Cube
14 2 (1.98%) PowerPivot
15 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (43.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (28.71%) Finance
3 22 (21.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
5 7 (6.93%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.95%) Local Government
6 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) Front Office
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (47.52%) Developer
2 37 (36.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 33 (32.67%) Power BI Developer
4 17 (16.83%) Analyst
5 13 (12.87%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 9 (8.91%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Power BI Specialist
8 7 (6.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Power BI Analyst
9 6 (5.94%) Senior
10 4 (3.96%) Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Power BI Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Analyst Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 3 (2.97%) Performance Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Report Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) PySpark
2 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.99%) MDX
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.99%) RESTful
2 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.96%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.98%) FMCG
4 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) AS400
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%) Derivative
5 1 (0.99%) Equities
5 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.99%) NHS
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (97.03%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (81.19%) Data Modelling
3 48 (47.52%) Analytics
4 47 (46.53%) Visualisation
5 36 (35.64%) ETL
6 33 (32.67%) Actionable Insight
6 33 (32.67%) Decision-Making
7 27 (26.73%) Data Governance
8 23 (22.77%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.80%) Data Analysis
11 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (14.85%) Dashboard Development
12 15 (14.85%) Data Transformation
13 14 (13.86%) Agile
13 14 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (13.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 14 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (11.88%) CI/CD
14 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 74 (73.27%) SQL
2 28 (27.72%) Python
3 7 (6.93%) R
4 6 (5.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.99%) Bicep
6 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.91%) 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 14 (13.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) GDPR
3 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.97%) PMO
5 2 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (36.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Databricks
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.98%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) Capita
5 1 (0.99%) Denodo
5 1 (0.99%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.99%) Tagetik
5 1 (0.99%) Workday