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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 417 441
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 97 96 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 1.00% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 50 89
10th Percentile £325 £324 £286
25th Percentile £380 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £560 £538 £600
90th Percentile £670 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £28.56 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +31.99% -
75th Percentile £25.62 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - £45.38 -
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £28.56 £21.64
% change year-on-year -11.02% +31.99% -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 9,728 9,560 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.29% 32.59% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,454 6,216 8,446
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 243 388
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £34.20
25th Percentile £50.44 £44.75 £46.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -0.80%

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 14 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 14 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 -1 57 £450 -10.00% 29
Midlands -28 13 £430 +11.69% 14
North of England -36 13 £431 +1.47% 11
West Midlands -29 9 £463 - 4
North West -24 7 £425 - 10
Yorkshire -39 6 £445 +4.71% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £421 +9.42% 10
East of England - 3 - - 2
South East -3 2 £375 -11.76% 30
South West -20 2 £585 +30.00% 2
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 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.03%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 42 (43.30%) Azure
3 20 (20.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (17.53%) PowerApps
5 16 (16.49%) Power Automate
6 13 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.22%) AWS
8 6 (6.19%) Snowflake
9 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.15%) GCP
10 4 (4.12%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.12%) Serverless
11 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.09%) dbt
12 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.06%) GitHub
12 2 (2.06%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (97.94%) Power BI
2 53 (54.64%) Power Query
3 26 (26.80%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (18.56%) SQL Server
5 14 (14.43%) Relational Database
6 10 (10.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (10.31%) Data Lake
6 10 (10.31%) Tableau
7 7 (7.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (5.15%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.12%) Metadata
11 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.09%) OLAP
11 3 (3.09%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.06%) PowerPivot
12 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (1.03%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.84%) Finance
3 24 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 7 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.09%) Law
8 3 (3.09%) Local Government
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Front Office
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (45.36%) Developer
2 34 (35.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 30 (30.93%) Power BI Developer
4 17 (17.53%) Analyst
5 15 (15.46%) Data Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Data Analyst
7 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 8 (8.25%) Power BI Specialist
9 7 (7.22%) Power BI Analyst
9 7 (7.22%) Senior
10 6 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (3.09%) Analyst Developer
12 3 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 3 (3.09%) Consultant
12 3 (3.09%) Lead
12 3 (3.09%) Performance Analyst
12 3 (3.09%) Power BI Consultant
12 3 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) PySpark
2 2 (2.06%) MDX
2 2 (2.06%) YAML
3 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.03%) Pandas
3 1 (1.03%) PyArrow
3 1 (1.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.12%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) FMCG
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.03%) AS400
5 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) DataPower
5 1 (1.03%) Derivative
5 1 (1.03%) Equities
5 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (96.91%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (83.51%) Data Modelling
3 46 (47.42%) Analytics
3 46 (47.42%) Visualisation
4 35 (36.08%) ETL
5 33 (34.02%) Actionable Insight
6 30 (30.93%) Decision-Making
7 26 (26.80%) Data Governance
8 22 (22.68%) Data Visualisation
9 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (19.59%) Data Analysis
11 16 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (14.43%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (14.43%) Data Transformation
12 14 (14.43%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
13 13 (13.40%) Data Engineering
13 13 (13.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.16%) SQL
2 28 (28.87%) Python
3 7 (7.22%) T-SQL
4 6 (6.19%) R
5 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.06%) VBA
6 1 (1.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.19%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
4 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) Databricks
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.06%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) Capita
5 1 (1.03%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.03%) Denodo
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.03%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.03%) Workday