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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 398 449
Rank change year-on-year -33 +51 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 147 78 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 0.94% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 45 75
10th Percentile £363 £317 £275
25th Percentile £400 £388 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £609 £613 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £17.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £36.93 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £51.22 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -72.67%

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 10,659 8,295 10,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.86% 33.85% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,088 5,593 7,919
10th Percentile £351 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.44%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 216 449
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.22 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 18 March 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
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 18 March 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 +1 86 £500 +11.11% 32
Midlands -50 16 £425 -8.11% 20
West Midlands -51 10 £400 -5.88% 11
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
South West -22 9 £550 +22.22% 4
North of England -64 9 £438 -12.50% 28
North West -37 7 £438 -14.63% 13
East Midlands -33 6 £450 -10.00% 9
South East -49 5 £438 -2.78% 29
Yorkshire -59 2 £388 - 13
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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 23 (15.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 76 (51.70%) Azure
3 33 (22.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (21.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (16.33%) Power Automate
6 16 (10.88%) PowerApps
7 11 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.80%) AWS
9 8 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.76%) Serverless
11 6 (4.08%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.08%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.72%) GCP
12 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (96.60%) Power BI
2 55 (37.41%) Power Query
3 38 (25.85%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (16.33%) SQL Server
5 19 (12.93%) Star Schema
6 16 (10.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (10.20%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.16%) Relational Database
8 12 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (6.12%) Tableau
11 8 (5.44%) Metadata
12 7 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (4.08%) ZAP BI
14 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
15 3 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (2.04%) MySQL
16 2 (1.36%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) Git
2 3 (2.04%) JIRA
3 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.25%) Finance
3 41 (27.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.08%) Banking
8 4 (2.72%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Law
10 2 (1.36%) Local Government
10 2 (1.36%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (36.05%) Developer
2 45 (30.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 42 (28.57%) Power BI Developer
4 36 (24.49%) Data Engineer
5 20 (13.61%) Analyst
6 18 (12.24%) Senior
7 11 (7.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 7 (4.76%) Lead
8 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Power BI Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Power BI Specialist
8 7 (4.76%) Report Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Power BI Analyst
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.08%) SQL BI Developer
9 6 (4.08%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Consultant
10 5 (3.40%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) PySpark
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.40%) YAML
3 4 (2.72%) Pandas
4 3 (2.04%) JSON
4 3 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (2.04%) XML
5 2 (1.36%) HTML
5 2 (1.36%) HTML5
5 2 (1.36%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.36%) SVG
6 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.68%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.68%) Kafka
6 1 (0.68%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.68%) NumPy
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (4.08%) Wiki
3 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.36%) FMCG
5 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.36%) SCADA
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) AS400
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) DataPower
6 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) IoT
6 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (98.64%) Business Intelligence
2 110 (74.83%) Data Modelling
3 88 (59.86%) Analytics
4 57 (38.78%) ETL
5 44 (29.93%) Visualisation
6 35 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
6 35 (23.81%) Data Engineering
6 35 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 32 (21.77%) Data Governance
8 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (18.37%) Translating Business Requirements
10 26 (17.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (17.01%) Performance Optimisation
12 24 (16.33%) Agile
12 24 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (16.33%) Validation
13 23 (15.65%) AI
13 23 (15.65%) Dashboard Development
14 20 (13.61%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (74.83%) SQL
2 44 (29.93%) Python
3 17 (11.56%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.44%) VBA
5 7 (4.76%) R
6 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.72%) Bicep
8 3 (2.04%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.36%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.21%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.48%) QA
3 5 (3.40%) PMO
4 4 (2.72%) GDPR
5 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.36%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Grafana
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.13%) Databricks
3 6 (4.08%) Sage
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 2 (1.36%) Planview
5 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy
6 1 (0.68%) SAP