Data Analysis Expressions Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% 0.34% 0.060%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.27% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £329 £428 -
25th Percentile £344 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +35.71% -24.32%
75th Percentile £431 £500 £375
90th Percentile £446 £523 -
North West median daily rate £395 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +5.33% -16.67% -2.70%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 274 315 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.00% 26.81% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 213 412
10th Percentile £313 £351 £325
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £582
90th Percentile £615 £623 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £36.97 £63.75 £55.88
25th Percentile £58.20 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £69.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.19% +6.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87.13 £93.63 £76.56
90th Percentile £91.85 £100.00 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £68.25 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.29% +6.11% -19.69%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks