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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 411 441
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 179 65 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 0.81% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 41 73
10th Percentile £331 £311 £309
25th Percentile £374 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £560 £488 £525
90th Percentile £600 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £430
% change year-on-year +8.57% +1.74% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £17.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% - -
75th Percentile £22.59 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £24.41 - -
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 10,996 8,048 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.49% 33.81% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 5,594 7,988
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 186 453
10th Percentile £39.25 £28.09 £37.51
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +3 102 £486 +11.14% 33
Midlands -48 25 £463 - 7
West Midlands -53 15 £450 -5.26% 6
North of England -70 14 £440 +3.53% 19
South East -53 12 £469 +17.19% 18
North West -29 11 £440 +3.53% 8
East Midlands -23 10 £463 - 1
East of England - 9 £375 - 4
South West -26 8 £545 +24.51% 4
Yorkshire -59 3 £388 -9.88% 11
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 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.35%) Confluence
2 6 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Appian
4 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Primavera
2 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 176 (98.32%) Power Platform
2 88 (49.16%) Azure
3 35 (19.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (16.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (12.29%) Power Automate
6 16 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.59%) AWS
8 9 (5.03%) PowerApps
9 8 (4.47%) GCP
10 7 (3.91%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.23%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.23%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.23%) GitHub
13 3 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.68%) SaaS
13 3 (1.68%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (96.65%) Power BI
2 75 (41.90%) Power Query
3 46 (25.70%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (16.76%) Star Schema
5 23 (12.85%) SQL Server
6 15 (8.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (8.38%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.82%) Relational Database
8 13 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (5.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (5.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (5.59%) Tableau
10 8 (4.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (3.35%) Metadata
11 6 (3.35%) PowerPivot
11 6 (3.35%) ZAP BI
12 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.79%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.56%) ERwin
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Finance
3 16 (8.94%) Banking
4 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.79%) Marketing
7 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Legal
8 2 (1.12%) Local Government
8 2 (1.12%) Military
8 2 (1.12%) Publishing
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.56%) Billing
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (37.99%) Developer
2 60 (33.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 57 (31.84%) Power BI Developer
4 37 (20.67%) Data Engineer
5 27 (15.08%) Analyst
6 23 (12.85%) Senior
7 13 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (5.59%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.59%) Report Developer
9 9 (5.03%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 9 (5.03%) Power BI Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Power BI Specialist
10 8 (4.47%) Lead
10 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Power BI Analyst
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Consultant
11 6 (3.35%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.61%) PySpark
2 9 (5.03%) REST
3 6 (3.35%) Pandas
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Beam
4 4 (2.23%) HTML
4 4 (2.23%) HTML5
4 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.23%) YAML
5 3 (1.68%) .NET
5 3 (1.68%) JSON
5 3 (1.68%) Kafka
5 3 (1.68%) MDX
5 3 (1.68%) NumPy
5 3 (1.68%) XML
6 2 (1.12%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.12%) PyArrow
6 2 (1.12%) React
6 2 (1.12%) RESTful
6 2 (1.12%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (3.91%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.35%) Wiki
3 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.12%) FMCG
5 2 (1.12%) SCADA
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (98.32%) Business Intelligence
2 128 (71.51%) Data Modelling
3 98 (54.75%) Analytics
4 67 (37.43%) ETL
5 52 (29.05%) Visualisation
6 48 (26.82%) Decision-Making
7 45 (25.14%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (22.35%) Actionable Insight
8 40 (22.35%) Data Engineering
9 37 (20.67%) AI
10 33 (18.44%) Data Governance
10 33 (18.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (18.44%) Translating Business Requirements
11 31 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (16.76%) Agile
12 30 (16.76%) CI/CD
13 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (15.64%) Data Visualisation
13 28 (15.64%) Performance Tuning
13 28 (15.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 128 (71.51%) SQL
2 52 (29.05%) Python
3 20 (11.17%) T-SQL
4 10 (5.59%) VBA
5 8 (4.47%) R
6 7 (3.91%) C#
6 7 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.23%) Java
7 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.23%) Scala
8 3 (1.68%) Bicep
9 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.70%) Degree
4 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) ACCA
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (30.73%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.38%) QA
3 6 (3.35%) GRC
4 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.23%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 70 (39.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.99%) Databricks
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle
3 6 (3.35%) Sage
3 6 (3.35%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.79%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.12%) Google
6 2 (1.12%) Planview
7 1 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.56%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.56%) Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir
7 1 (0.56%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.56%) Remedy