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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 405 461
Rank change year-on-year -20 +56 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 155 70 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 0.85% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 42 66
10th Percentile £331 £315 £297
25th Percentile £381 £370 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £525
90th Percentile £600 £610 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £17.54 £30.46 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £38.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% +142.61% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £57.25 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £59.35 -
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 10,971 8,211 10,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.15% 33.66% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,329 5,631 7,849
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -4.87%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 213 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.81 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7 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 7 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 -15 90 £488 +8.33% 31
Midlands -59 18 £395 -14.59% 24
South West -23 10 £550 +25.71% 2
West Midlands -56 10 £400 -5.88% 12
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
North of England -70 9 £438 +2.94% 28
East Midlands -26 8 £370 -26.00% 12
North West -31 7 £438 +2.94% 14
South East -54 7 £431 -4.17% 26
Yorkshire -55 2 £388 -10.92% 12
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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Appian
4 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 154 (99.35%) Power Platform
2 78 (50.32%) Azure
3 34 (21.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (21.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (14.19%) Power Automate
6 11 (7.10%) PowerApps
7 10 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.16%) AWS
10 7 (4.52%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.23%) Azure Storage
11 5 (3.23%) GCP
12 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.94%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.94%) SaaS
13 3 (1.94%) Serverless
13 3 (1.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (97.42%) Power BI
2 61 (39.35%) Power Query
3 46 (29.68%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (15.48%) SQL Server
4 24 (15.48%) Star Schema
5 16 (10.32%) Data Lake
6 15 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (9.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (8.39%) Relational Database
9 12 (7.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (6.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (5.81%) Tableau
12 8 (5.16%) Metadata
13 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (3.87%) ZAP BI
14 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (2.58%) Delta Lake
15 4 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
16 3 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.39%) Git
2 7 (4.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) ERwin
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 47 (30.32%) Finance
3 46 (29.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.45%) Banking
5 9 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.58%) Marketing
9 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Law
10 2 (1.29%) Local Government
10 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (1.29%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (35.48%) Developer
2 49 (31.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 46 (29.68%) Power BI Developer
4 36 (23.23%) Data Engineer
5 20 (12.90%) Analyst
6 18 (11.61%) Senior
7 11 (7.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 10 (6.45%) Power BI Specialist
9 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Report Developer
10 7 (4.52%) Power BI Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.87%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.87%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.23%) Consultant
12 5 (3.23%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.23%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.97%) PySpark
2 6 (3.87%) Pandas
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (3.23%) YAML
4 4 (2.58%) REST
5 3 (1.94%) JSON
5 3 (1.94%) NumPy
5 3 (1.94%) XML
6 2 (1.29%) HTML
6 2 (1.29%) HTML5
6 2 (1.29%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.29%) MDX
6 2 (1.29%) PyArrow
6 2 (1.29%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.29%) SVG
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.65%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.65%) SciPy
7 1 (0.65%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.87%) Wiki
3 4 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.94%) FMCG
4 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.29%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.29%) SCADA
6 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) DataPower
6 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.65%) IoT
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (98.71%) Business Intelligence
2 115 (74.19%) Data Modelling
3 92 (59.35%) Analytics
4 65 (41.94%) ETL
5 47 (30.32%) Visualisation
6 41 (26.45%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (26.45%) Decision-Making
7 38 (24.52%) Data Engineering
8 37 (23.87%) Actionable Insight
9 31 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 30 (19.35%) Data Governance
11 29 (18.71%) AI
11 29 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (18.06%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (16.77%) Dashboard Development
13 26 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (15.48%) CI/CD
15 24 (15.48%) Validation
16 22 (14.19%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 118 (76.13%) SQL
2 45 (29.03%) Python
3 19 (12.26%) T-SQL
4 10 (6.45%) VBA
5 7 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.52%) R
6 4 (2.58%) Bicep
7 3 (1.94%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.10%) Degree
2 11 (7.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.29%) ACCA
5 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.29%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (28.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.74%) QA
3 6 (3.87%) GRC
4 5 (3.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.29%) Grafana
1 2 (1.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (39.35%) Microsoft
2 33 (21.29%) Databricks
3 6 (3.87%) Sage
3 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle
6 2 (1.29%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.29%) Planview
6 2 (1.29%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.65%) Informatica
7 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.65%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.65%) Remedy