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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 403 461
Rank change year-on-year -18 +58 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 153 70 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 0.86% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 43 66
10th Percentile £343 £311 £297
25th Percentile £378 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £525
90th Percentile £600 £608 £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 10,864 8,162 10,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.33% 33.67% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 5,585 7,873
10th Percentile £353 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -5.20%
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 496 214 432
10th Percentile £41.76 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
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 3 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 3 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 -18 88 £488 +8.33% 31
Midlands -53 18 £395 -14.59% 24
West Midlands -60 10 £400 -5.88% 12
North of England -65 10 £438 +2.94% 28
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
South West -23 9 £550 +22.22% 2
East Midlands -23 8 £370 -26.00% 12
North West -42 8 £438 +2.94% 14
South East -51 7 £431 -4.17% 26
Yorkshire -62 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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.31%) Apache
3 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Appian
4 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (16.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 77 (50.33%) Azure
3 33 (21.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (21.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (15.03%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.84%) PowerApps
6 11 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.23%) AWS
9 7 (4.58%) Copilot Studio
9 7 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.27%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.61%) GCP
11 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.61%) Serverless
12 3 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.96%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.96%) SaaS
12 3 (1.96%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (98.04%) Power BI
2 61 (39.87%) Power Query
3 45 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (15.69%) SQL Server
4 24 (15.69%) Star Schema
5 17 (11.11%) Data Lake
6 15 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (9.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (7.84%) Relational Database
8 12 (7.84%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (6.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (5.88%) Tableau
11 8 (5.23%) Metadata
12 6 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.92%) ZAP BI
13 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.61%) Delta Lake
14 4 (2.61%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Git
2 7 (4.58%) JIRA
3 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) ERwin
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 46 (30.07%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (29.41%) Finance
4 10 (6.54%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Local Government
9 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.31%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (34.64%) Developer
2 47 (30.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 44 (28.76%) Power BI Developer
4 37 (24.18%) Data Engineer
5 21 (13.73%) Analyst
6 19 (12.42%) Senior
7 11 (7.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (6.54%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 10 (6.54%) Power BI Specialist
9 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Power BI Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Report Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Lead
11 6 (3.92%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.92%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.92%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.11%) PySpark
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.27%) Pandas
2 5 (3.27%) YAML
3 3 (1.96%) JSON
3 3 (1.96%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) XML
4 2 (1.31%) HTML
4 2 (1.31%) HTML5
4 2 (1.31%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.31%) MDX
4 2 (1.31%) NumPy
4 2 (1.31%) PyArrow
4 2 (1.31%) Seaborn
4 2 (1.31%) SVG
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.65%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.92%) Wiki
3 5 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.31%) FMCG
6 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.31%) SCADA
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.65%) DataPower
7 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (99.35%) Business Intelligence
2 114 (74.51%) Data Modelling
3 92 (60.13%) Analytics
4 65 (42.48%) ETL
5 47 (30.72%) Visualisation
6 42 (27.45%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (25.49%) Data Engineering
8 38 (24.84%) Decision-Making
9 37 (24.18%) Actionable Insight
10 31 (20.26%) Data Governance
11 30 (19.61%) AI
11 30 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (19.61%) Translating Business Requirements
12 27 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
12 27 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
12 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (16.99%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (16.34%) CI/CD
15 24 (15.69%) Validation
16 21 (13.73%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (75.82%) SQL
2 44 (28.76%) Python
3 19 (12.42%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.88%) VBA
5 7 (4.58%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.58%) R
6 4 (2.61%) Bicep
7 3 (1.96%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.31%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.65%) ACCA
7 1 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (28.76%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.84%) QA
3 6 (3.92%) GRC
4 5 (3.27%) PMO
5 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.22%) Databricks
3 6 (3.92%) Sage
3 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle
6 2 (1.31%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.31%) Planview
6 2 (1.31%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.65%) Informatica
7 1 (0.65%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.65%) Remedy