Data Analysis Expressions Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 4 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.74% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 12
10th Percentile - £306 £338
25th Percentile £413 £331 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £477
90th Percentile £578 £475 £481
England median daily rate £438 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -2.78% -7.69% -2.50%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the North West

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the North West

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the North West

Data Analysis Expressions
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +12 3 £425 +11.48% 4
Cheshire -2 1 - - 2
Data Analysis Expressions
England

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft