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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 397 458
Rank change year-on-year -35 +61 +69
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 108 95 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.07% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 48 74
10th Percentile £325 £311 £275
25th Percentile £391 £370 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £571 £550 £588
90th Percentile £605 £613 £653
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 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 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £48.45 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -13.44%

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 9,928 8,875 11,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.11% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,622 5,700 7,971
10th Percentile £350 £357 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £730 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.62% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 213 451
10th Percentile £40.25 £25.26 £35.52
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69.35 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -17 65 £488 +4.56% 20
North of England -56 12 £419 -1.47% 18
Midlands -43 10 £446 -7.03% 18
South West -13 7 £570 +26.67% 7
North West -33 7 £431 -4.17% 11
West Midlands -43 7 £463 -19.57% 12
Yorkshire -45 5 £363 - 3
East Midlands -25 3 £430 +11.69% 6
South East -27 2 £400 -9.86% 26
East of England - 2 - - 8
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 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 17 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.93%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 53 (49.07%) Azure
3 23 (21.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 19 (17.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (15.74%) Power Automate
6 15 (13.89%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.48%) AWS
9 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.63%) GCP
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (3.70%) Serverless
10 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.78%) dbt
11 3 (2.78%) SaaS
12 2 (1.85%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (98.15%) Power BI
2 51 (47.22%) Power Query
3 19 (17.59%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (15.74%) SQL Server
5 13 (12.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (11.11%) Relational Database
7 9 (8.33%) Data Lake
7 9 (8.33%) Star Schema
8 7 (6.48%) Tableau
9 5 (4.63%) Metadata
9 5 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.78%) OLAP
11 3 (2.78%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.85%) PowerPivot
12 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.93%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) ERwin
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (22.22%) Finance
4 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Law
7 3 (2.78%) Local Government
7 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.85%) Legal
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (40.74%) Developer
2 34 (31.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 33 (30.56%) Power BI Developer
4 23 (21.30%) Data Engineer
5 18 (16.67%) Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 9 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Power BI Specialist
8 7 (6.48%) Data Analyst
8 7 (6.48%) Power BI Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Senior
10 4 (3.70%) Lead
10 4 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Report Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Analyst Developer
11 3 (2.78%) Business Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Consultant
11 3 (2.78%) PMO Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Report Developer
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) PySpark
2 2 (1.85%) HTML
2 2 (1.85%) HTML5
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.85%) Pandas
2 2 (1.85%) SVG
2 2 (1.85%) YAML
3 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.93%) MDX
3 1 (0.93%) PyArrow
3 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) FMCG
4 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.93%) AS400
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.93%) DataPower
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (98.15%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (77.78%) Data Modelling
3 56 (51.85%) Analytics
4 42 (38.89%) Visualisation
5 35 (32.41%) ETL
6 33 (30.56%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (26.85%) Decision-Making
8 28 (25.93%) Data Governance
9 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (20.37%) Dashboard Development
10 22 (20.37%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (18.52%) Translating Business Requirements
12 19 (17.59%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (16.67%) Data Engineering
14 17 (15.74%) CI/CD
14 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (13.89%) Agile
16 15 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
17 14 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 75 (69.44%) SQL
2 29 (26.85%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) T-SQL
4 6 (5.56%) R
5 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.85%) VBA
6 1 (0.93%) Bicep
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) PMO
3 4 (3.70%) GDPR
4 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.85%) QA
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.44%) Databricks
3 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.85%) Planview
4 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.93%) Denodo
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow