Data Analysis Expressions Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 301 353 385
Rank change year-on-year +52 +32 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 35 46 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 0.95% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 55
10th Percentile £368 £293 £357
25th Percentile £406 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £500
90th Percentile £535 £530 £583
UK median daily rate £438 £438 £488
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.26 - -
Median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% -72.67% -
75th Percentile £28.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £21.64 £79.19
% change year-on-year +142.61% -72.67% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Analysis Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +15 10 £425 +13.33% 16
Midlands +21 8 £463 +23.33% 19
Scotland +13 7 £450 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +14 6 £425 +13.33% 11
South West +47 5 £438 -18.60% 8
Yorkshire +11 5 £430 +14.67% 7
South East +40 4 £450 +5.88% 19
North West +9 4 £425 +13.33% 7
East Midlands +10 2 £500 - 6
Wales 0 1 £400 +0.95%
North East - 1 £375 - 2
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (97.14%) Power Platform
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.43%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.57%) AWS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.71%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.86%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub
7 1 (2.86%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (91.43%) Power BI
2 18 (51.43%) Power Query
3 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Tableau
5 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.71%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.71%) Redis
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 16 (45.71%) Power BI Developer
3 15 (42.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Data Visualisation Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Head of Business Intelligence
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (5.71%) JSON
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
1 2 (5.71%) NHS
2 1 (2.86%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (88.57%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 17 (48.57%) Visualisation
4 16 (45.71%) Decision-Making
5 11 (31.43%) Data Analysis
5 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
7 9 (25.71%) Analytics
7 9 (25.71%) ETL
8 5 (14.29%) Data Extraction
8 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (14.29%) Data Security
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) User Experience
9 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (11.43%) Agile
9 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.43%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.57%) R
4 2 (5.71%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) Bicep
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) VBA
5 1 (2.86%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
1 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
1 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
1 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) Workday