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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 423 463
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 197 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 0.98% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 60 65
10th Percentile £353 £345 £326
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £436 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -0.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £503 £525
90th Percentile £600 £700 £565
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £438
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.81 -
90th Percentile - £59.53 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%

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 11,861 9,013 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.45% 33.07% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 6,195 7,904
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 228 408
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.37
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% +3.09%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +4 114 £486 +11.14% 20
North of England -62 24 £445 +4.71% 12
Midlands -37 23 £450 +5.88% 9
North West -34 20 £440 +11.39% 4
South East -58 17 £500 +29.03% 7
West Midlands -46 14 £425 - 3
East Midlands -9 9 £463 +12.12% 6
East of England -15 9 £375 -6.25% 2
South West -38 4 £420 -4.00% 9
Yorkshire -56 3 £475 +9.20% 6
North East - 1 £350 - 4
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 8 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.55%) Confluence
3 6 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Appian
5 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (20.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.55%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.51%) Primavera
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (96.95%) Power Platform
2 89 (45.18%) Azure
3 33 (16.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (12.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (11.17%) Power Automate
6 12 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.08%) AWS
8 9 (4.57%) GCP
8 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.55%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.54%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.03%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (2.03%) GitHub
14 3 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.52%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.52%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (95.43%) Power BI
2 92 (46.70%) Power Query
3 61 (30.96%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (16.75%) Star Schema
5 22 (11.17%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.64%) Data Lake
7 16 (8.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (7.61%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (6.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 12 (6.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (5.08%) Semantic Layer
11 10 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (4.57%) PowerPivot
12 9 (4.57%) Tableau
13 8 (4.06%) Metadata
14 6 (3.05%) BigQuery
14 6 (3.05%) ZAP BI
15 5 (2.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.57%) Git
2 6 (3.05%) JIRA
3 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 60 (30.46%) Finance
3 49 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.63%) Banking
4 17 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.55%) Retail
8 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.03%) Publishing
9 3 (1.52%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
10 2 (1.02%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (40.61%) Developer
2 73 (37.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 68 (34.52%) Power BI Developer
4 31 (15.74%) Analyst
5 28 (14.21%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.17%) Senior
7 18 (9.14%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.11%) Lead
9 13 (6.60%) Consultant
10 11 (5.58%) Architect
10 11 (5.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 11 (5.58%) Report Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 9 (4.57%) Power BI Specialist
12 8 (4.06%) Power BI Engineer
13 7 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 7 (3.55%) Power BI Analyst
13 7 (3.55%) Power BI Consultant
13 7 (3.55%) SQL BI Developer
13 7 (3.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.15%) PySpark
2 11 (5.58%) REST
3 5 (2.54%) Pandas
4 4 (2.03%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.03%) Apache Beam
4 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.03%) XML
5 3 (1.52%) .NET
5 3 (1.52%) JSON
5 3 (1.52%) Kafka
5 3 (1.52%) NumPy
5 3 (1.52%) YAML
6 2 (1.02%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.02%) HTML
6 2 (1.02%) HTML5
6 2 (1.02%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.02%) MDX
6 2 (1.02%) React
6 2 (1.02%) RESTful
6 2 (1.02%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.05%) Wiki
4 5 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.52%) FMCG
7 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.02%) SCADA
8 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.51%) Life Science
8 1 (0.51%) Mashup
8 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (96.45%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (70.56%) Data Modelling
3 98 (49.75%) Analytics
4 70 (35.53%) ETL
5 63 (31.98%) Visualisation
6 54 (27.41%) Decision-Making
7 41 (20.81%) Data Engineering
7 41 (20.81%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (18.78%) Data Visualisation
10 35 (17.77%) Data Transformation
11 34 (17.26%) Actionable Insight
11 34 (17.26%) AI
11 34 (17.26%) Dashboard Development
12 33 (16.75%) Validation
13 31 (15.74%) Agile
13 31 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (15.74%) Translating Business Requirements
14 29 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (14.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 132 (67.01%) SQL
2 47 (23.86%) Python
3 17 (8.63%) T-SQL
4 8 (4.06%) VBA
5 7 (3.55%) C#
6 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.54%) R
8 4 (2.03%) Java
8 4 (2.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.03%) Scala
9 3 (1.52%) Bicep
10 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.09%) Degree
4 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.02%) ACCA
8 2 (1.02%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (28.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.12%) QA
3 6 (3.05%) GRC
4 5 (2.54%) GDPR
4 5 (2.54%) PMO
5 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 82 (41.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.21%) Databricks
3 9 (4.57%) Sage
4 7 (3.55%) Oracle
4 7 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.05%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.54%) SAP
7 4 (2.03%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.02%) Google
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.51%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.51%) Foundry
9 1 (0.51%) Informatica
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Palantir
9 1 (0.51%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.51%) Remedy
9 1 (0.51%) Workday