Data Analysis Expressions Contracts

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis Expressions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 527 587
Rank change year-on-year +56 +60 -39
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 111 176 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.87% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 135 198
10th Percentile £309 £363 £350
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £625 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.67% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.64 £79.19 -
% change year-on-year -72.67% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Data Analysis Expressions is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,732 20,185 31,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.61% 34.87% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,059 14,540 23,074
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.35% +2.46% +14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 464 511
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.16 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.36 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +19.05%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England +34 92 £450 -7.69% 96
Work from Home +92 52 £475 - 25
London +59 50 £500 - 39
UK excluding London +28 46 £400 -15.79% 62
North of England +29 14 £375 -16.67% 11
North West +21 11 £369 -13.24% 8
South East +19 10 £425 -25.93% 22
Midlands +19 9 £375 -21.47% 19
Scotland +35 6 £525 +5.00% 2
West Midlands +10 6 £375 -23.47% 16
South West +11 5 £525 +12.30% 4
Yorkshire +18 3 £406 -20.73% 2
East Midlands +22 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £396 - 1
East of England +7 1 £375 -9.09% 4

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Primavera
2 1 (0.90%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 110 (99.10%) Power Platform
2 39 (35.14%) Azure
3 12 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (9.91%) Power Automate
4 11 (9.91%) PowerApps
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.41%) Serverless
8 4 (3.60%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub
9 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.80%) AWS
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.80%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.90%) GCP
11 1 (0.90%) IaaS
11 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (99.10%) Power BI
2 35 (31.53%) Power Query
3 24 (21.62%) SQL Server
4 20 (18.02%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (17.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (13.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (11.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (9.01%) Data Lake
9 9 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 7 (6.31%) PostHog
11 5 (4.50%) MySQL
12 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.70%) Big Data
13 3 (2.70%) Metadata
13 3 (2.70%) Tableau
14 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.80%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.63%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.12%) Finance
4 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.31%) Retail
6 6 (5.41%) Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Marketing
8 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.80%) Electronics
10 2 (1.80%) Law
10 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Billing
11 1 (0.90%) French Language
11 1 (0.90%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (49.55%) Developer
2 46 (41.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 45 (40.54%) Power BI Developer
4 20 (18.02%) Analyst
5 12 (10.81%) Consultant
6 10 (9.01%) Power BI Consultant
7 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 8 (7.21%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Senior
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Alteryx Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Digital Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Power BI Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Power BI Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Product Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Report Analyst
13 3 (2.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) MDX
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (0.90%) JSON
2 1 (0.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.90%) FMCG
4 1 (0.90%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.90%) NHS
4 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (96.40%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (41.44%) Data Modelling
3 44 (39.64%) Visualisation
4 34 (30.63%) Analytics
4 34 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (28.83%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (18.92%) ETL
8 19 (17.12%) Data Analysis
9 15 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (13.51%) Agile
10 13 (11.71%) Decision-Making
11 12 (10.81%) Dashboard Development
12 11 (9.91%) DevOps
13 10 (9.01%) Data Analytics
14 8 (7.21%) CI/CD
14 8 (7.21%) Data Integration
14 8 (7.21%) Data Transformation
15 7 (6.31%) Mentoring
15 7 (6.31%) Product Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (63.06%) SQL
2 22 (19.82%) Python
3 13 (11.71%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.50%) R
4 5 (4.50%) VBA
5 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Degree
2 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.70%) CIMA
4 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) PMO
2 3 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
Vendors
1 34 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Databricks
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) SAP
4 6 (5.41%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.80%) Google
6 1 (0.90%) Ariba
6 1 (0.90%) Civica
6 1 (0.90%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.90%) QAD
6 1 (0.90%) TikTok