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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 423 452
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 206 94 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.04% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 70 53
10th Percentile £350 £306 £309
25th Percentile £413 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -3.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £525
90th Percentile £650 £700 £570
UK median daily rate £475 £435 £458
% change year-on-year +9.20% -4.92% -12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.81 -
90th Percentile - £59.53 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%

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 11,884 9,019 10,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.01% 32.74% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,706 6,157 7,495
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £753 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +2.48% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 263 335
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.46 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.50 £40.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £79.75 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -2 127 £500 +14.29% 34
North of England -52 26 £440 +3.53% 9
North West -23 20 £440 +17.33% 9
Midlands -56 19 £475 +11.11% 13
South East -52 17 £438 +4.60% 8
West Midlands -40 12 £500 +8.11% 10
East Midlands -17 7 £463 +12.12% 3
South West -40 7 £330 -24.57% 5
East of England -18 5 £325 -18.75% 4
Yorkshire -41 5 £475 +9.20%
North East - 1 £350 -
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 11 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.91%) Confluence
3 5 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Appian
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 42 (20.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.91%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.97%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 197 (95.63%) Power Platform
2 95 (46.12%) Azure
3 33 (16.02%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (15.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (13.11%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.28%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.31%) AWS
9 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (3.88%) GCP
10 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.94%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.94%) GitHub
12 4 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.94%) SaaS
12 4 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.46%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (95.63%) Power BI
2 95 (46.12%) Power Query
3 55 (26.70%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (18.93%) Star Schema
5 19 (9.22%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.74%) Data Lake
7 15 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (6.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.80%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (6.31%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.83%) Metadata
10 12 (5.83%) PowerPivot
11 9 (4.37%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.91%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.43%) GIS
14 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (2.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.40%) Git
2 6 (2.91%) JIRA
3 3 (1.46%) Selenium
4 2 (0.97%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 60 (29.13%) Finance
3 42 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.28%) Banking
6 12 (5.83%) Retail
7 7 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.94%) Publishing
10 3 (1.46%) Local Government
10 3 (1.46%) Marketing
11 2 (0.97%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (40.78%) Developer
2 77 (37.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 71 (34.47%) Power BI Developer
4 30 (14.56%) Analyst
5 27 (13.11%) Data Engineer
6 24 (11.65%) Senior
7 20 (9.71%) Data Analyst
8 19 (9.22%) Lead
9 16 (7.77%) Architect
10 12 (5.83%) Consultant
11 10 (4.85%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 10 (4.85%) Power BI Specialist
11 10 (4.85%) Report Developer
12 9 (4.37%) Power BI Consultant
12 9 (4.37%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 8 (3.88%) Power BI Analyst
14 7 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Architect
14 7 (3.40%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.65%) PySpark
2 13 (6.31%) REST
3 8 (3.88%) Terraform
4 6 (2.91%) HTML
5 5 (2.43%) React
6 4 (1.94%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.94%) Apache Beam
6 4 (1.94%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.46%) Kafka
7 3 (1.46%) Playwright
7 3 (1.46%) pytest
8 2 (0.97%) .NET
8 2 (0.97%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.97%) HTML5
8 2 (0.97%) MDX
8 2 (0.97%) NumPy
8 2 (0.97%) Pandas
8 2 (0.97%) Redux
8 2 (0.97%) RESTful
9 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.37%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.46%) FMCG
4 3 (1.46%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.49%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.49%) Life Science
6 1 (0.49%) Mashup
6 1 (0.49%) NHS
6 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.49%) SCADA
6 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (96.60%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (69.90%) Data Modelling
3 98 (47.57%) Analytics
4 64 (31.07%) Decision-Making
5 63 (30.58%) Visualisation
6 59 (28.64%) ETL
7 52 (25.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (20.39%) CI/CD
9 40 (19.42%) Data Engineering
10 39 (18.93%) Data Visualisation
11 38 (18.45%) Data Governance
12 36 (17.48%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (16.50%) Data Transformation
14 33 (16.02%) AI
14 33 (16.02%) Dashboard Development
15 31 (15.05%) Translating Business Requirements
16 30 (14.56%) Actionable Insight
17 29 (14.08%) DevOps
18 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (12.62%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (66.99%) SQL
2 54 (26.21%) Python
3 12 (5.83%) T-SQL
4 11 (5.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.91%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.43%) R
7 4 (1.94%) C#
7 4 (1.94%) Java
7 4 (1.94%) Scala
7 4 (1.94%) VBA
8 3 (1.46%) XMLA
9 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.31%) Degree
4 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.97%) ACCA
7 2 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (26.70%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.83%) QA
3 11 (5.34%) GDPR
4 6 (2.91%) GRC
5 4 (1.94%) PMO
6 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.97%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.46%) Ansible
2 2 (0.97%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (0.49%) Control-M
Vendors
1 96 (46.60%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.59%) Databricks
3 6 (2.91%) Atlassian
3 6 (2.91%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.43%) Oracle
4 5 (2.43%) Sage
4 5 (2.43%) SAP
5 4 (1.94%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.97%) Google
6 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.49%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.49%) Foundry
7 1 (0.49%) Informatica
7 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir
7 1 (0.49%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.49%) Workday