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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 414 453
Rank change year-on-year -11 +39 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 200 97 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.35% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.07% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 73 49
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -2.86% -18.60%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £538
90th Percentile £650 £695 £590
UK median daily rate £475 £433 £458
% change year-on-year +9.83% -5.46% -10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £22.45 £27.25 £26.68
25th Percentile £27.25 £36.25 £28.81
Median hourly rate £36.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £45.75 £57.88 -
90th Percentile £50.55 £60.35 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +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 12,077 9,061 10,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.82% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,806 6,114 7,139
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £526
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 257 305
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.25 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in England

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 September 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 -15 126 £486 +11.14% 62
North of England -67 27 £440 +5.07% 32
North West -35 20 £445 +12.66% 24
Midlands -44 17 £475 +6.44% 33
South East -50 15 £469 +21.03% 26
West Midlands -35 11 £463 -11.90% 20
South West -34 7 £325 -25.71% 8
East Midlands -19 6 £475 +15.15% 13
Yorkshire -50 5 £475 +9.20% 6
East of England -27 4 £275 -31.25% 12
North East - 2 £388 - 2
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 15 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Appian
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.50%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 189 (94.50%) Power Platform
2 90 (45.00%) Azure
3 28 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (11.50%) Power Automate
6 20 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.50%) AWS
7 15 (7.50%) PowerApps
8 9 (4.50%) GCP
8 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.00%) SaaS
11 5 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.50%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Stack
12 4 (2.00%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (94.50%) Power BI
2 99 (49.50%) Power Query
3 47 (23.50%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (20.50%) Star Schema
5 19 (9.50%) Data Lake
6 17 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (8.50%) Semantic Layer
6 17 (8.50%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.00%) Metadata
8 12 (6.00%) PowerPivot
8 12 (6.00%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.50%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.50%) Data Hub
11 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) JIRA
3 4 (2.00%) Selenium
4 2 (1.00%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (28.00%) Finance
3 45 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.50%) Retail
6 12 (6.00%) Banking
7 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.00%) Local Government
9 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.50%) Publishing
10 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (41.50%) Developer
2 77 (38.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 70 (35.00%) Power BI Developer
4 34 (17.00%) Analyst
5 30 (15.00%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.00%) Data Analyst
6 22 (11.00%) Senior
7 19 (9.50%) Lead
8 15 (7.50%) Architect
9 13 (6.50%) Consultant
10 10 (5.00%) Report Developer
11 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 8 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 8 (4.00%) Power BI Analyst
12 8 (4.00%) Power BI Consultant
12 8 (4.00%) Power BI Specialist
12 8 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.50%) PySpark
2 14 (7.00%) REST
3 9 (4.50%) Terraform
4 6 (3.00%) HTML
4 6 (3.00%) React
5 5 (2.50%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.00%) Apache Avro
6 4 (2.00%) Apache Beam
6 4 (2.00%) Playwright
6 4 (2.00%) pytest
7 2 (1.00%) .NET
7 2 (1.00%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.00%) HTML5
7 2 (1.00%) Kafka
7 2 (1.00%) NumPy
7 2 (1.00%) Pandas
7 2 (1.00%) Redux
7 2 (1.00%) RESTful
8 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.00%) FMCG
6 2 (1.00%) NHS
6 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.50%) EPoS
7 1 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.50%) IoT
7 1 (0.50%) Life Science
7 1 (0.50%) Mashup
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (96.50%) Business Intelligence
2 138 (69.00%) Data Modelling
3 91 (45.50%) Analytics
4 64 (32.00%) Decision-Making
4 64 (32.00%) Visualisation
5 52 (26.00%) ETL
6 51 (25.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (23.50%) CI/CD
8 45 (22.50%) Data Governance
8 45 (22.50%) Data Visualisation
9 38 (19.00%) Data Engineering
10 36 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (17.00%) DevOps
11 34 (17.00%) Lakehouse
12 31 (15.50%) AI
12 31 (15.50%) Dashboard Development
13 29 (14.50%) Agile
13 29 (14.50%) Data Transformation
14 28 (14.00%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (14.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 137 (68.50%) SQL
2 56 (28.00%) Python
3 12 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (6.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.00%) C#
5 4 (2.00%) Java
5 4 (2.00%) R
5 4 (2.00%) Scala
6 3 (1.50%) XMLA
7 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.00%) VBA
8 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) Degree
4 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) ACCA
7 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (30.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.50%) GDPR
2 13 (6.50%) QA
3 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) GRC
4 4 (2.00%) PMO
5 2 (1.00%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.50%) Control-M
2 1 (0.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 101 (50.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.00%) Databricks
3 5 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.50%) SAP
3 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.00%) Oracle
5 3 (1.50%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.50%) Sage
6 2 (1.00%) Google
6 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) Braze
7 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.50%) Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Informatica
7 1 (0.50%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.50%) Palantir
7 1 (0.50%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.50%) Workday