Data Analysis Expressions Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% - 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% - 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £458 - £435
25th Percentile £469 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.71%
75th Percentile £525 - £513
90th Percentile - - £525
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 595 536 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.40% 30.13% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 316 440
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £414 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -8.86% +3.08%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £573
90th Percentile £625 £608 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 10
10th Percentile £48.76 £17.99 £49.13
25th Percentile £52.81 - £54.65
Median hourly rate £60.61 £19.59 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year +209.41% -67.08% +28.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £72.75 £64.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +0.81% +0.81%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Analysis Expressions
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis Expressions

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 2 November 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 - 5 £500 - 3
Edinburgh - 2 £500 -
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

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

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
1 6 (85.71%) Power Query
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) QlikView
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Streamlit
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Kanban
6 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform