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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 419 454
Rank change year-on-year -32 +35 +119
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 94 96 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.02% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 86
10th Percentile £325 £311 £284
25th Percentile £380 £381 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -
75th Percentile £25.62 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - £48.45 -
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -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 9,744 9,383 11,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.06% 32.58% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,099 8,292
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 226 381
10th Percentile £34.00 £25.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.23 £44.62 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 21 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 21 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 -8 55 £450 -10.00% 21
Midlands -26 13 £430 +11.69% 14
North of England -37 13 £431 +1.47% 11
West Midlands -23 9 £463 - 4
North West -33 7 £425 - 10
Yorkshire -39 6 £445 +4.71% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £421 +9.42% 10
South East -20 2 £375 -11.76% 26
South West -22 2 £585 +30.00% 4
East of England - 2 - - 3
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 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.06%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 42 (44.68%) Azure
3 20 (21.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (18.09%) PowerApps
5 16 (17.02%) Power Automate
6 13 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.45%) AWS
8 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.32%) GCP
8 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.26%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.26%) Serverless
10 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.19%) dbt
10 3 (3.19%) SaaS
11 2 (2.13%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (97.87%) Power BI
2 48 (51.06%) Power Query
3 25 (26.60%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (19.15%) SQL Server
5 13 (13.83%) Relational Database
6 10 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (10.64%) Tableau
7 9 (9.57%) Data Lake
8 7 (7.45%) Star Schema
9 6 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (5.32%) Metadata
10 5 (5.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.19%) OLAP
11 3 (3.19%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.13%) PowerPivot
12 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (1.06%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.66%) Finance
3 24 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.19%) Law
7 3 (3.19%) Local Government
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (42.55%) Developer
2 31 (32.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 29 (30.85%) Power BI Developer
4 16 (17.02%) Analyst
4 16 (17.02%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 9 (9.57%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Power BI Specialist
7 5 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Power BI Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Senior
8 4 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.19%) Consultant
9 3 (3.19%) Lead
9 3 (3.19%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Power BI Consultant
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (2.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) PySpark
2 2 (2.13%) MDX
2 2 (2.13%) YAML
3 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.06%) Pandas
3 1 (1.06%) PyArrow
3 1 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.13%) FMCG
4 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) AS400
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.06%) DataPower
5 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (97.87%) Business Intelligence
2 79 (84.04%) Data Modelling
3 46 (48.94%) Analytics
4 44 (46.81%) Visualisation
5 34 (36.17%) ETL
6 31 (32.98%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (30.85%) Decision-Making
8 28 (29.79%) Data Governance
9 21 (22.34%) Data Visualisation
10 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (17.02%) Dashboard Development
11 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (15.96%) Data Analysis
12 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (14.89%) Data Transformation
14 13 (13.83%) CI/CD
14 13 (13.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 13 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (12.77%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 68 (72.34%) SQL
2 24 (25.53%) Python
3 7 (7.45%) T-SQL
4 6 (6.38%) R
5 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.13%) VBA
6 1 (1.06%) Bicep
6 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.19%) PMO
4 2 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.83%) Databricks
3 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.06%) Capita
5 1 (1.06%) Denodo
5 1 (1.06%) Google
5 1 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle
5 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.06%) Tagetik