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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 423 446
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 159 63 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.45% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 37 69
10th Percentile £331 £311 £305
25th Percentile £375 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -7.69%
75th Percentile £563 £500 £525
90th Percentile £600 £615 £578
UK median daily rate £475 £444 £450
% change year-on-year +7.04% -1.39% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £17.54 £33.06 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £44.75 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% - -
75th Percentile £22.59 £55.50 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £58.65 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -63.10% +142.61% -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 10,966 8,265 10,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.31% 33.79% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,281 5,712 7,859
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 216 434
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.51
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £47.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.05% -1.04%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -3 94 £488 +8.33% 24
Midlands -56 18 £400 -13.51% 17
South East -56 10 £438 -2.78% 23
West Midlands -56 10 £400 -5.88% 14
North of England -76 9 £458 +7.65% 20
East of England - 9 £375 - 4
East Midlands -30 8 £410 -18.00% 2
South West -33 8 £545 +24.51% 2
North West -30 7 £520 +22.35% 15
Yorkshire -64 2 £388 -9.88% 4
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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 5 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.26%) Apache
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 158 (99.37%) Power Platform
2 77 (48.43%) Azure
3 34 (21.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 34 (21.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (13.84%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.29%) PowerApps
7 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.40%) AWS
8 7 (4.40%) Copilot Studio
8 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (3.77%) GCP
10 5 (3.14%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.89%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.89%) SaaS
11 3 (1.89%) Serverless
11 3 (1.89%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (97.48%) Power BI
2 63 (39.62%) Power Query
3 47 (29.56%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (18.24%) Star Schema
5 24 (15.09%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.95%) Data Lake
7 16 (10.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (8.18%) Relational Database
9 12 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (7.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (6.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (6.29%) Tableau
11 7 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.77%) Metadata
12 6 (3.77%) ZAP BI
13 5 (3.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.52%) PowerPivot
14 4 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (8.81%) Git
2 7 (4.40%) JIRA
3 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.63%) ERwin
4 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 47 (29.56%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (29.56%) Finance
3 11 (6.92%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.29%) Banking
5 6 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.52%) Marketing
6 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Local Government
7 2 (1.26%) Retail
7 2 (1.26%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Military
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (37.74%) Developer
2 54 (33.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 50 (31.45%) Power BI Developer
4 35 (22.01%) Data Engineer
5 21 (13.21%) Analyst
6 19 (11.95%) Senior
7 11 (6.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 9 (5.66%) Power BI Specialist
8 9 (5.66%) Report Developer
9 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) Power BI Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.77%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.77%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead
12 5 (3.14%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.69%) PySpark
2 6 (3.77%) Pandas
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (3.14%) YAML
4 4 (2.52%) REST
5 3 (1.89%) JSON
5 3 (1.89%) NumPy
5 3 (1.89%) XML
6 2 (1.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.26%) Apache Beam
6 2 (1.26%) HTML
6 2 (1.26%) HTML5
6 2 (1.26%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.26%) MDX
6 2 (1.26%) PyArrow
6 2 (1.26%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.26%) SVG
7 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.63%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.77%) Wiki
4 4 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.89%) FMCG
5 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.26%) SCADA
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (99.37%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (74.21%) Data Modelling
3 94 (59.12%) Analytics
4 66 (41.51%) ETL
5 47 (29.56%) Visualisation
6 45 (28.30%) Decision-Making
7 44 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (24.53%) Data Engineering
9 38 (23.90%) Actionable Insight
10 33 (20.75%) Data Governance
11 32 (20.13%) Translating Business Requirements
12 29 (18.24%) AI
12 29 (18.24%) Performance Tuning
12 29 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (16.98%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (16.35%) CI/CD
14 26 (16.35%) Validation
15 24 (15.09%) Dashboard Development
15 24 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (14.47%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 119 (74.84%) SQL
2 48 (30.19%) Python
3 20 (12.58%) T-SQL
4 10 (6.29%) VBA
5 8 (5.03%) R
6 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.52%) Bicep
8 3 (1.89%) C#
9 2 (1.26%) Java
9 2 (1.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.26%) ACCA
6 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.26%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.19%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.43%) QA
3 6 (3.77%) GRC
4 5 (3.14%) GDPR
5 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.52%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.89%) Terraform
2 2 (1.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (38.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.13%) Databricks
3 6 (3.77%) Sage
3 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.14%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.52%) SAP
6 3 (1.89%) Oracle
7 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.26%) Planview
8 1 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.63%) Google
8 1 (0.63%) Informatica
8 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.63%) Remedy