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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 408 457
Rank change year-on-year -6 +49 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 192 82 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 0.98% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 54 66
10th Percentile £357 £348 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +1.74% -11.79%
75th Percentile £560 £485 £525
90th Percentile £600 £617 £544
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £17.54 £30.25 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £36.66 £55.81 -
90th Percentile £46.91 £59.53 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £25.82
% change year-on-year -63.10% +103.33% -67.39%

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 11,412 8,364 11,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.87% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,460 5,798 8,122
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.30% -4.31%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 197 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 16 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

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 16 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 -11 112 £488 +9.86% 37
North of England -63 22 £445 +4.71% 11
Midlands -49 21 £475 +7.04% 8
North West -28 19 £445 +4.71% 10
South East -48 14 £469 +21.03% 23
West Midlands -54 12 £500 +5.26% 7
East Midlands -19 9 £463 +5.71% 1
East of England -23 8 £375 -6.25% 6
South West -24 8 £545 +24.51% 6
Yorkshire -57 3 £388 -9.88% 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 (3.65%) Confluence
2 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Appian
3 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.52%) Primavera
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 189 (98.44%) Power Platform
2 89 (46.35%) Azure
3 33 (17.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (13.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 16 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.69%) AWS
8 8 (4.17%) GCP
9 7 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.08%) GitHub
13 3 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.56%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.56%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (96.88%) Power BI
2 88 (45.83%) Power Query
3 56 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (16.67%) Star Schema
5 22 (11.46%) SQL Server
6 18 (9.38%) Data Lake
7 15 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
8 13 (6.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (5.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (5.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (4.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (4.17%) Tableau
12 7 (3.65%) PowerPivot
13 6 (3.13%) ZAP BI
14 5 (2.60%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.60%) Metadata
14 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.21%) Git
2 8 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.52%) ERwin
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.65%) Finance
3 51 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.85%) Banking
5 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.08%) Marketing
7 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.08%) Retail
8 3 (1.56%) Local Government
8 3 (1.56%) Publishing
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (39.58%) Developer
2 69 (35.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 66 (34.38%) Power BI Developer
4 34 (17.71%) Data Engineer
5 30 (15.63%) Analyst
6 21 (10.94%) Senior
7 15 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 12 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.73%) Report Developer
10 10 (5.21%) Lead
10 10 (5.21%) Power BI Analyst
11 9 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 9 (4.69%) Consultant
11 9 (4.69%) Power BI Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Power BI Specialist
12 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.65%) SQL BI Developer
13 7 (3.65%) SQL Developer
14 6 (3.13%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.90%) PySpark
2 9 (4.69%) REST
3 5 (2.60%) Pandas
4 4 (2.08%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.08%) Apache Beam
4 4 (2.08%) HTML
4 4 (2.08%) HTML5
4 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.56%) .NET
5 3 (1.56%) JSON
5 3 (1.56%) Kafka
5 3 (1.56%) NumPy
5 3 (1.56%) XML
5 3 (1.56%) YAML
6 2 (1.04%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.04%) MDX
6 2 (1.04%) React
6 2 (1.04%) RESTful
6 2 (1.04%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.04%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.21%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.13%) Wiki
3 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.04%) FMCG
5 2 (1.04%) SCADA
6 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.52%) IoT
6 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.52%) Mashup
6 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (97.92%) Business Intelligence
2 131 (68.23%) Data Modelling
3 102 (53.13%) Analytics
4 72 (37.50%) ETL
5 61 (31.77%) Visualisation
6 49 (25.52%) Decision-Making
7 44 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
8 41 (21.35%) Data Engineering
9 38 (19.79%) AI
10 37 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 34 (17.71%) Data Visualisation
12 33 (17.19%) Agile
12 33 (17.19%) Dashboard Development
13 32 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (16.15%) Data Governance
14 31 (16.15%) Translating Business Requirements
15 29 (15.10%) Validation
16 28 (14.58%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 134 (69.79%) SQL
2 47 (24.48%) Python
3 21 (10.94%) T-SQL
4 8 (4.17%) VBA
5 7 (3.65%) C#
6 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.60%) R
8 4 (2.08%) Java
8 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.08%) Scala
9 3 (1.56%) Bicep
10 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.73%) Degree
4 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) ACCA
7 2 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.60%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.33%) QA
3 7 (3.65%) GRC
4 5 (2.60%) PMO
5 4 (2.08%) GDPR
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.60%) Terraform
2 2 (1.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 77 (40.10%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.63%) Databricks
3 7 (3.65%) Oracle
3 7 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.13%) Sage
5 4 (2.08%) SAP
6 2 (1.04%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.04%) Google
6 2 (1.04%) Planview
7 1 (0.52%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.52%) Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Informatica
7 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.52%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.52%) Remedy