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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 400 458
Rank change year-on-year -42 +58 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 148 73 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 0.88% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 42 76
10th Percentile £344 £315 £284
25th Percentile £400 £388 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £612 £610 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £17.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £39.81 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -51.33% +83.98% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £55.50 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £58.65 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £39.81 £21.64
% change year-on-year -51.33% +83.98% -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 10,771 8,335 10,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.72% 33.79% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,186 5,642 7,877
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.03%
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 463 218 444
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.15
25th Percentile £55.40 £39.25 £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 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £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 22 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 22 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 -2 85 £500 +8.99% 34
Midlands -49 16 £425 -8.11% 19
West Midlands -62 10 £400 -5.88% 11
East of England - 10 £375 - 7
South West -30 9 £550 +22.22% 2
North of England -80 9 £438 -12.50% 31
North West -29 7 £438 -14.63% 15
South East -48 7 £431 -4.17% 28
East Midlands -29 6 £450 -10.00% 8
Yorkshire -57 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 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 78 (52.70%) Azure
3 35 (23.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (22.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (16.22%) Power Automate
6 16 (10.81%) PowerApps
7 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.76%) AWS
9 8 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.73%) Serverless
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.05%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.70%) GCP
12 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (96.62%) Power BI
2 55 (37.16%) Power Query
3 39 (26.35%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (16.89%) SQL Server
5 20 (13.51%) Star Schema
6 16 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (10.14%) Data Lake
8 13 (8.78%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (6.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (6.08%) Tableau
11 8 (5.41%) Metadata
12 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (4.05%) ZAP BI
14 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
14 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (2.03%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Git
2 3 (2.03%) JIRA
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.41%) Finance
3 41 (27.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.05%) Banking
7 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.70%) Marketing
9 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Local Government
9 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (34.46%) Developer
2 44 (29.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 39 (26.35%) Power BI Developer
4 36 (24.32%) Data Engineer
5 20 (13.51%) Analyst
6 18 (12.16%) Senior
7 11 (7.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 7 (4.73%) Lead
9 7 (4.73%) Power BI Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Power BI Specialist
9 7 (4.73%) Report Developer
10 6 (4.05%) Power BI Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.05%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (4.05%) SQL Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Consultant
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.49%) PySpark
2 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.38%) YAML
3 4 (2.70%) Pandas
4 3 (2.03%) JSON
4 3 (2.03%) REST
4 3 (2.03%) XML
5 2 (1.35%) HTML
5 2 (1.35%) HTML5
5 2 (1.35%) MDX
5 2 (1.35%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.35%) 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
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (4.05%) Wiki
3 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.03%) FMCG
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.35%) SCADA
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) AS400
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
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%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (98.65%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 91 (61.49%) Analytics
4 58 (39.19%) ETL
5 45 (30.41%) Visualisation
6 37 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 37 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 37 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 35 (23.65%) Actionable Insight
8 31 (20.95%) Data Governance
9 30 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (17.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (16.89%) AI
11 25 (16.89%) Dashboard Development
11 25 (16.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (16.89%) Translating Business Requirements
12 24 (16.22%) Agile
13 22 (14.86%) Validation
14 21 (14.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 110 (74.32%) SQL
2 45 (30.41%) Python
3 18 (12.16%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.41%) VBA
5 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.73%) R
6 4 (2.70%) Bicep
7 3 (2.03%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.43%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.35%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.68%) ACCA
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) QA
3 5 (3.38%) PMO
4 4 (2.70%) GDPR
5 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Grafana
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.97%) Databricks
3 6 (4.05%) Sage
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle
5 2 (1.35%) Planview
5 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy
6 1 (0.68%) SAP