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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 402 455
Rank change year-on-year -26 +53 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 141 86 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.01% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 47 74
10th Percentile £343 £311 £275
25th Percentile £384 £368 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -8.40%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £613 £588
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -10.00%
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 10,598 8,521 11,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.33% 33.83% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,077 5,644 7,925
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 217 469
10th Percentile £41.83 £24.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £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 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 8 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 8 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 -14 79 £494 +9.72% 16
Midlands -59 16 £425 - 21
West Midlands -52 10 £400 -5.88% 15
North of England -62 10 £425 -8.11% 17
East of England - 10 £375 - 5
South West -17 9 £550 +22.22% 6
North West -36 7 £431 -13.75% 3
East Midlands -25 6 £450 +1.69% 6
South East -44 5 £438 -2.78% 14
Yorkshire -59 3 £350 - 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 7 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.42%) Apache
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.71%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 73 (51.77%) Azure
3 30 (21.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 29 (20.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (15.60%) Power Automate
6 16 (11.35%) PowerApps
7 10 (7.09%) AWS
7 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.96%) Serverless
10 6 (4.26%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.55%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.84%) GCP
13 3 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.13%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (96.45%) Power BI
2 56 (39.72%) Power Query
3 34 (24.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (16.31%) SQL Server
5 16 (11.35%) Star Schema
6 15 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (9.22%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
8 12 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (6.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (6.38%) Tableau
10 8 (5.67%) Metadata
10 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (4.26%) ZAP BI
13 4 (2.84%) Delta Lake
14 3 (2.13%) Crystal Reports
15 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.42%) MySQL
15 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Git
2 2 (1.42%) JIRA
2 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.71%) ERwin
3 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 39 (27.66%) Finance
3 38 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.67%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.13%) Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Law
7 3 (2.13%) Marketing
7 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Local Government
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.42%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.71%) Billing
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 44 (31.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 40 (28.37%) Power BI Developer
4 33 (23.40%) Data Engineer
5 20 (14.18%) Analyst
6 13 (9.22%) Senior
7 11 (7.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 8 (5.67%) Power BI Specialist
9 7 (4.96%) Lead
9 7 (4.96%) Report Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Power BI Analyst
10 6 (4.26%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (4.26%) SQL Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Consultant
11 5 (3.55%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Architect
12 4 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.93%) PySpark
2 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.55%) YAML
3 4 (2.84%) Pandas
4 3 (2.13%) JSON
4 3 (2.13%) REST
4 3 (2.13%) XML
5 2 (1.42%) HTML
5 2 (1.42%) HTML5
5 2 (1.42%) PyArrow
5 2 (1.42%) SVG
6 1 (0.71%) .NET
6 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.71%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.71%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.71%) MDX
6 1 (0.71%) NumPy
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (4.26%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.26%) Wiki
2 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.42%) FMCG
3 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.42%) SCADA
4 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.71%) AS400
4 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.71%) DataPower
4 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.71%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (98.58%) Business Intelligence
2 104 (73.76%) Data Modelling
3 84 (59.57%) Analytics
4 56 (39.72%) ETL
5 42 (29.79%) Visualisation
6 36 (25.53%) Actionable Insight
7 33 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (23.40%) Decision-Making
8 31 (21.99%) Data Engineering
8 31 (21.99%) Data Governance
9 30 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (17.73%) Agile
11 25 (17.73%) Translating Business Requirements
12 23 (16.31%) Dashboard Development
12 23 (16.31%) Validation
13 22 (15.60%) Performance Optimisation
13 22 (15.60%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (14.18%) AI
14 20 (14.18%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (72.34%) SQL
2 42 (29.79%) Python
3 16 (11.35%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.67%) VBA
5 7 (4.96%) R
6 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.84%) Bicep
8 3 (2.13%) C#
9 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.38%) Degree
4 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CIMA
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.24%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.09%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) PMO
4 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (41.13%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.99%) Databricks
3 6 (4.26%) Sage
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (1.42%) Planview
5 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) Remedy
6 1 (0.71%) SAP