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

 6 months to
7 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 420 430
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 198 98 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.07% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 74 55
10th Percentile £350 £332 £300
25th Percentile £400 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £434 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.51% -3.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £538
90th Percentile £650 £693 £588
UK median daily rate £470 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +7.43% -7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £25.65 £27.25 -
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.25 £25.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -
75th Percentile £55.38 £57.88 -
90th Percentile £56.35 £60.35 -
UK median hourly rate £48.60 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -7.43% +75.00% -

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 12,107 9,178 10,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.01% 32.84% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,840 6,145 6,969
10th Percentile £363 £344 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 266 298
10th Percentile £23.67 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £47.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -12 126 £475 +8.57% 67
North of England -58 26 £440 +6.67% 39
North West -27 19 £440 +11.39% 30
South East -53 14 £500 +31.15% 28
Midlands -44 13 £475 +2.70% 29
South West -34 11 £325 -25.71% 8
West Midlands -46 9 £413 -23.26% 19
Yorkshire -38 5 £475 +9.20% 7
East Midlands -18 4 £525 +27.27% 10
East of England -22 4 £275 -31.25% 21
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 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (20.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.54%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.01%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.51%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 185 (93.43%) Power Platform
2 95 (47.98%) Azure
3 26 (13.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (12.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (10.10%) Power Automate
6 19 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (9.09%) AWS
8 15 (7.58%) PowerApps
9 11 (5.56%) GCP
10 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (4.55%) SaaS
11 7 (3.54%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.53%) dbt
13 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.02%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.02%) GitHub
14 4 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.02%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (93.43%) Power BI
2 98 (49.49%) Power Query
3 40 (20.20%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (18.69%) Star Schema
5 17 (8.59%) Data Lake
6 16 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (8.08%) Semantic Layer
7 15 (7.58%) SQL Server
8 14 (7.07%) PowerPivot
9 12 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (6.06%) Metadata
10 11 (5.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.54%) BigQuery
11 7 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (2.53%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (2.53%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.53%) GIS
13 5 (2.53%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.02%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (6.57%) Git
2 4 (2.02%) Selenium
3 3 (1.52%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.29%) Finance
3 42 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.06%) Retail
6 9 (4.55%) Banking
7 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.03%) Local Government
9 5 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.53%) Publishing
10 4 (2.02%) Billing
11 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.01%) Military
13 1 (0.51%) Law
13 1 (0.51%) Legal
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (41.92%) Developer
2 78 (39.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 69 (34.85%) Power BI Developer
4 34 (17.17%) Analyst
5 30 (15.15%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) Data Analyst
7 21 (10.61%) Senior
8 19 (9.60%) Lead
9 16 (8.08%) Consultant
10 15 (7.58%) Architect
11 10 (5.05%) Report Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 8 (4.04%) Power BI Analyst
13 8 (4.04%) Power BI Consultant
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Architect
15 6 (3.03%) Data Architect
15 6 (3.03%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
15 6 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.63%) PySpark
2 13 (6.57%) REST
3 8 (4.04%) Terraform
4 7 (3.54%) HTML
5 6 (3.03%) React
6 5 (2.53%) Great Expectations
7 4 (2.02%) Playwright
7 4 (2.02%) pytest
8 3 (1.52%) Apache Avro
8 3 (1.52%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.52%) HTML5
8 3 (1.52%) Pandas
9 2 (1.01%) .NET
9 2 (1.01%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.01%) Kafka
9 2 (1.01%) Redux
9 2 (1.01%) RESTful
10 1 (0.51%) MDX
10 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.57%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.01%) NHS
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) EPoS
7 1 (0.51%) FMCG
7 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.51%) IoT
7 1 (0.51%) Life Science
7 1 (0.51%) Mashup
7 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
1 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (96.97%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (68.18%) Data Modelling
3 93 (46.97%) Analytics
4 68 (34.34%) Decision-Making
5 67 (33.84%) Visualisation
6 53 (26.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (25.25%) Data Visualisation
8 45 (22.73%) ETL
9 44 (22.22%) CI/CD
10 43 (21.72%) Data Governance
11 41 (20.71%) Data Engineering
12 35 (17.68%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (17.17%) Lakehouse
14 32 (16.16%) DevOps
15 29 (14.65%) Agile
15 29 (14.65%) Dashboard Development
16 27 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
16 27 (13.64%) Data Transformation
16 27 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
17 26 (13.13%) AI
Programming Languages
1 134 (67.68%) SQL
2 56 (28.28%) Python
3 13 (6.57%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.06%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.02%) C#
6 4 (2.02%) R
7 3 (1.52%) Java
7 3 (1.52%) Scala
7 3 (1.52%) XMLA
8 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.51%) VB
9 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) Degree
3 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (32.32%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.57%) GDPR
3 12 (6.06%) QA
4 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.02%) PMO
6 2 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (2.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.02%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.51%) Control-M
Vendors
1 100 (50.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.13%) Databricks
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle
3 4 (2.02%) SAP
4 3 (1.52%) Sage
5 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.01%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.01%) Workday
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Braze
6 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.51%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Informatica
6 1 (0.51%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.51%) Palantir
6 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
190 Data Analysis Expressions jobs in England