Data Analysis Expressions Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 122 153
Rank change year-on-year +13 +31 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 7 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.05% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £413 £303 £465
25th Percentile £416 £363 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £513 - £523
90th Percentile £531 £615 £544
UK median daily rate £438 £438 £488
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.64 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £21.64 £79.19
% change year-on-year +142.61% -72.67% -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in Scotland

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in Scotland

Data Analysis Expressions
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +6 4 £438 +16.67%
Edinburgh +3 3 £525 - 2
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Power Query
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) SQL BI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (28.57%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) UX Design
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks