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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 405 468
Rank change year-on-year -29 +63 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 143 80 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 0.95% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 46 76
10th Percentile £348 £311 £275
25th Percentile £392 £370 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £610 £613 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £17.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -72.67%
75th Percentile £22.59 £36.93 -
90th Percentile £24.41 £51.22 -
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -28.57% +25.35% -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 10,701 8,379 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.06% 33.91% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,119 5,614 7,914
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 215 454
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.10 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -19 83 £500 +11.11% 30
Midlands -47 16 £425 -8.11% 19
West Midlands -59 10 £400 -5.88% 14
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
South West -26 9 £550 +22.22% 4
North of England -71 9 £431 -6.76% 29
East Midlands -25 6 £450 -10.00% 5
North West -38 6 £438 -12.50% 11
South East -50 5 £438 -2.78% 27
Yorkshire -55 3 £350 - 15
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 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.70%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 73 (51.05%) Azure
3 31 (21.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 30 (20.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (15.38%) Power Automate
6 16 (11.19%) PowerApps
7 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.99%) AWS
9 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.90%) Serverless
11 6 (4.20%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.50%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.80%) GCP
14 3 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (2.10%) Azure Storage
14 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.10%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (96.50%) Power BI
2 54 (37.76%) Power Query
3 34 (23.78%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 17 (11.89%) Star Schema
6 15 (10.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (9.79%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
8 12 (8.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (6.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (5.59%) Metadata
10 8 (5.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (5.59%) Tableau
11 6 (4.20%) ZAP BI
12 4 (2.80%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.10%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.40%) MySQL
14 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.70%) ERwin
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.37%) Finance
3 38 (26.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.59%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.80%) Banking
8 3 (2.10%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Marketing
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.40%) Local Government
9 2 (1.40%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.70%) Billing
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (36.36%) Developer
2 45 (31.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 41 (28.67%) Power BI Developer
4 34 (23.78%) Data Engineer
5 20 (13.99%) Analyst
6 17 (11.89%) Senior
7 11 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.90%) Lead
8 7 (4.90%) Report Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Power BI Analyst
9 6 (4.20%) Power BI Specialist
9 6 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) SQL BI Developer
9 6 (4.20%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Consultant
10 5 (3.50%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) Power BI Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.89%) PySpark
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.50%) YAML
3 4 (2.80%) Pandas
4 3 (2.10%) JSON
4 3 (2.10%) REST
4 3 (2.10%) XML
5 2 (1.40%) HTML
5 2 (1.40%) HTML5
5 2 (1.40%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.40%) SVG
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.70%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.70%) Kafka
6 1 (0.70%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.70%) NumPy
6 1 (0.70%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (4.20%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.20%) Wiki
2 4 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.40%) FMCG
4 2 (1.40%) SCADA
5 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.70%) AS400
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.70%) DataPower
5 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) IoT
5 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.70%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (98.60%) Business Intelligence
2 105 (73.43%) Data Modelling
3 84 (58.74%) Analytics
4 54 (37.76%) ETL
5 43 (30.07%) Visualisation
6 35 (24.48%) Actionable Insight
7 33 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 33 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (23.08%) Decision-Making
8 30 (20.98%) Data Governance
8 30 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (17.48%) Agile
9 25 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (16.78%) Translating Business Requirements
11 23 (16.08%) Performance Optimisation
11 23 (16.08%) Validation
12 22 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
12 22 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (13.99%) AI
13 20 (13.99%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (73.43%) SQL
2 42 (29.37%) Python
3 16 (11.19%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.59%) VBA
5 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.20%) R
6 4 (2.80%) Bicep
7 3 (2.10%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CIMA
7 1 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (25.87%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.99%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) PMO
4 4 (2.80%) GDPR
5 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Grafana
1 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (40.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.78%) Databricks
3 6 (4.20%) Sage
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle
5 2 (1.40%) Planview
5 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.70%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) Remedy
6 1 (0.70%) SAP