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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 408 453
Rank change year-on-year -41 +45 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 99 91 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 78
10th Percentile £350 £311 £275
25th Percentile £388 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -
75th Percentile £25.62 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - £48.45 -
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year -6.30% +25.35% -5.91%

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 9,615 8,821 10,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 32.61% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,392 5,677 7,921
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £774 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 208 396
10th Percentile £39.58 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.89 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £69.13 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.38 £85.00 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -1.59%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -11 58 £480 +2.95% 12
Midlands -35 11 £430 +11.69% 15
North of England -40 11 £431 +2.68% 10
West Midlands -32 7 £463 - 6
South West -23 6 £585 +30.00% 4
North West -32 6 £431 +2.68% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £413 - 2
East Midlands -17 4 £421 +9.42% 9
South East -29 2 £400 -5.88% 20
East of England - 2 - - 6
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 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.01%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 50 (50.51%) Azure
3 22 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (17.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (16.16%) Power Automate
6 15 (15.15%) PowerApps
7 9 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.07%) AWS
9 5 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.05%) GCP
9 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.04%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.04%) Serverless
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.03%) dbt
11 3 (3.03%) SaaS
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.02%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (97.98%) Power BI
2 48 (48.48%) Power Query
3 19 (19.19%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (16.16%) SQL Server
5 13 (13.13%) Relational Database
6 12 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (8.08%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.08%) Tableau
8 7 (7.07%) Star Schema
9 5 (5.05%) Metadata
9 5 (5.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.03%) OLAP
11 3 (3.03%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.02%) PowerPivot
12 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (1.01%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.01%) ERwin
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.25%) Finance
3 20 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.03%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Law
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
7 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (41.41%) Developer
2 32 (32.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 30 (30.30%) Power BI Developer
4 20 (20.20%) Data Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Analyst
6 10 (10.10%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 9 (9.09%) Power BI Specialist
8 8 (8.08%) Data Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) Power BI Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Senior
11 4 (4.04%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Report Analyst
12 3 (3.03%) Analyst Developer
12 3 (3.03%) Business Analyst
12 3 (3.03%) Lead
12 3 (3.03%) PMO Analyst
12 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 2 (2.02%) Power BI Consultant
13 2 (2.02%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) PySpark
2 2 (2.02%) HTML
2 2 (2.02%) HTML5
2 2 (2.02%) SVG
2 2 (2.02%) YAML
3 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.01%) MDX
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.01%) Pandas
3 1 (1.01%) PyArrow
3 1 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.02%) FMCG
5 1 (1.01%) AS400
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.01%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.01%) DataPower
5 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.01%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (97.98%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (77.78%) Data Modelling
3 53 (53.54%) Analytics
4 40 (40.40%) Visualisation
5 33 (33.33%) ETL
6 30 (30.30%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (28.28%) Data Governance
8 27 (27.27%) Decision-Making
9 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (20.20%) Dashboard Development
11 19 (19.19%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
12 17 (17.17%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (17.17%) Translating Business Requirements
13 16 (16.16%) Data Engineering
14 15 (15.15%) Agile
14 15 (15.15%) Data Transformation
14 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (14.14%) DevOps
15 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 69 (69.70%) SQL
2 27 (27.27%) Python
3 9 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 6 (6.06%) R
5 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.02%) VBA
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
6 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) Degree
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.05%) GDPR
2 5 (5.05%) PMO
3 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (35.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.18%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.02%) Planview
4 2 (2.02%) SAP
5 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.01%) Denodo
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow