Data Analysis Expressions Contracts in England

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 465 491
Rank change year-on-year +56 +26 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 85 89 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.98% 0.78% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 70 112
10th Percentile £336 £318 £363
25th Percentile £388 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £436 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -9.35% -7.45%
75th Percentile £513 £525 £575
90th Percentile £685 £539 £622
UK median daily rate £438 £438 £488
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £30.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -62.12% +75.98%
75th Percentile £55.81 - -
90th Percentile £59.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +75.00% -62.12% +75.98%

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 8,648 11,405 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 30.72% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,975 8,150 11,755
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 484 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.37 £75.88 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +44 43 £450 -10.00% 141
North of England +12 16 £425 +13.33% 43
Midlands +18 11 £444 +31.48% 45
North West +6 8 £410 +9.33% 28
Yorkshire +5 7 £435 +7.08% 12
West Midlands +8 6 £475 +26.67% 32
South East +47 5 £388 -7.74% 37
South West +33 5 £438 -5.41% 14
East Midlands +8 5 £438 - 13
East of England +24 2 £400 +6.67% 24
North East - 1 £375 - 3
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.18%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (35.29%) Azure
3 10 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.06%) AWS
5 6 (7.06%) GCP
5 6 (7.06%) Power Automate
5 6 (7.06%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.71%) dbt
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.35%) GitHub
8 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (98.82%) Power BI
2 47 (55.29%) Power Query
3 29 (34.12%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.41%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.24%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.88%) Tableau
7 4 (4.71%) Parquet
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.53%) Apache Hive
8 3 (3.53%) Flink
8 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.53%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.35%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Git
1 1 (1.18%) JIRA
1 1 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 32 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.06%) Finance
3 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Retail
5 4 (4.71%) Local Government
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Environmental Health
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Developer
2 30 (35.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 27 (31.76%) Power BI Developer
4 19 (22.35%) Analyst
5 12 (14.12%) Data Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Power BI Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Senior
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 4 (4.71%) Power BI Specialist
10 4 (4.71%) Report Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 3 (3.53%) Lead
11 3 (3.53%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Apache Avro
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Beam
3 2 (2.35%) .NET
3 2 (2.35%) MDX
4 1 (1.18%) JSON
4 1 (1.18%) ODBC
4 1 (1.18%) PySpark
4 1 (1.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.53%) NHS
2 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
2 2 (2.35%) Replication
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.18%) Derivative
3 1 (1.18%) Equities
3 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.18%) FMCG
3 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (88.24%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (67.06%) Data Modelling
3 41 (48.24%) Visualisation
4 39 (45.88%) ETL
5 32 (37.65%) Analytics
6 30 (35.29%) Decision-Making
7 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (24.71%) Data Analysis
9 20 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (16.47%) Agile
11 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
12 12 (14.12%) DevOps
12 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
13 11 (12.94%) Data Integration
14 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (10.59%) Migration
15 8 (9.41%) Collaborative Working
15 8 (9.41%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 57 (67.06%) SQL
2 28 (32.94%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) R
3 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.88%) C#
5 4 (4.71%) Java
5 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.53%) Scala
7 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.18%) VBA
7 1 (1.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) Degree
2 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.18%) COSHH
5 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Databricks
3 6 (7.06%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.71%) Workday
5 3 (3.53%) Cognos
5 3 (3.53%) Dataiku
5 3 (3.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.18%) Northgate
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce