Data Analysis Expressions Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 439 472
Rank change year-on-year -17 +33 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 222 106 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 0.98% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 78 59
10th Percentile £348 £336 £324
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -8.16% -7.77%
75th Percentile £567 £488 £531
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +1.27% +8.13% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.81 -
90th Percentile - £59.53 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% -62.12%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,093 10,793 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.31% 32.83% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,171 7,209 8,531
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -5.25% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 281 395
10th Percentile £29.96 £28.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.25 £43.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £82.96 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +8.56%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Data Analysis Expressions
Top 16 Contract Job 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 18 August 2026. 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 -21 207 £475 +10.47% 52
London +3 126 £500 +14.29% 22
UK excluding London -67 84 £438 +1.27% 39
Work from Home -15 65 £445 +7.88% 22
North of England -66 25 £440 +3.53% 6
Midlands -44 21 £450 +5.26% 14
North West -32 20 £440 +17.33% 4
South East -62 17 £438 +13.03% 12
West Midlands -39 14 £425 -8.11% 8
South West -38 8 £350 -20.00% 2
East Midlands -17 7 £463 +12.12% 6
Scotland -18 5 £538 +13.16%
East of England -20 5 £375 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire -47 4 £475 +9.20%
Wales - 4 £400 -
North East - 1 £350 - 2

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Appian
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 46 (20.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.15%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 214 (96.40%) Power Platform
2 101 (45.50%) Azure
3 35 (15.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (14.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (13.06%) Power Automate
6 18 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.21%) PowerApps
8 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (4.95%) AWS
10 9 (4.05%) GCP
11 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.70%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.80%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.80%) GitHub
15 3 (1.35%) dbt
15 3 (1.35%) Intacct
15 3 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (95.95%) Power BI
2 105 (47.30%) Power Query
3 63 (28.38%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (18.92%) Star Schema
5 20 (9.01%) SQL Server
6 19 (8.56%) Data Lake
7 16 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (7.21%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.86%) Semantic Layer
9 12 (5.41%) PowerPivot
10 11 (4.95%) Metadata
11 9 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.60%) Tableau
13 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.70%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.25%) GIS
15 5 (2.25%) NoSQL
15 5 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Git
1 6 (2.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) GitLab
2 2 (0.90%) Selenium
3 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.28%) Finance
3 51 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.76%) Banking
6 12 (5.41%) Retail
7 9 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.25%) Local Government
10 4 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.80%) Publishing
11 3 (1.35%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Military
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 93 (41.89%) Developer
2 83 (37.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 79 (35.59%) Power BI Developer
4 34 (15.32%) Analyst
5 27 (12.16%) Senior
6 26 (11.71%) Data Engineer
7 22 (9.91%) Data Analyst
8 18 (8.11%) Lead
9 16 (7.21%) Architect
10 14 (6.31%) Consultant
11 11 (4.95%) Report Developer
12 10 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 10 (4.50%) Power BI Specialist
12 10 (4.50%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.05%) Power BI Consultant
14 8 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 8 (3.60%) Power BI Analyst
14 8 (3.60%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
15 7 (3.15%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.91%) PySpark
2 13 (5.86%) REST
3 7 (3.15%) HTML
4 4 (1.80%) Apache Avro
4 4 (1.80%) Apache Beam
4 4 (1.80%) React
5 3 (1.35%) .NET
5 3 (1.35%) Great Expectations
5 3 (1.35%) Kafka
5 3 (1.35%) NumPy
5 3 (1.35%) Pandas
6 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.90%) HTML5
6 2 (0.90%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.90%) MDX
6 2 (0.90%) pytest
6 2 (0.90%) Redux
6 2 (0.90%) RESTful
6 2 (0.90%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.50%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.35%) FMCG
4 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.90%) Life Science
5 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.90%) SCADA
5 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.45%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.45%) Mashup
6 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (96.40%) Business Intelligence
2 156 (70.27%) Data Modelling
3 108 (48.65%) Analytics
4 71 (31.98%) Decision-Making
5 70 (31.53%) Visualisation
6 69 (31.08%) ETL
7 54 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 44 (19.82%) Data Visualisation
9 43 (19.37%) Data Engineering
10 41 (18.47%) CI/CD
11 40 (18.02%) Data Governance
12 39 (17.57%) Dashboard Development
13 37 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (15.77%) AI
14 35 (15.77%) Data Transformation
15 34 (15.32%) Actionable Insight
15 34 (15.32%) Translating Business Requirements
16 32 (14.41%) DevOps
17 30 (13.51%) Validation
18 29 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 150 (67.57%) SQL
2 53 (23.87%) Python
3 12 (5.41%) T-SQL
4 11 (4.95%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.70%) VBA
6 5 (2.25%) R
7 4 (1.80%) C#
7 4 (1.80%) Java
7 4 (1.80%) Scala
8 3 (1.35%) XMLA
9 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.76%) Degree
4 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.90%) ACCA
8 2 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (26.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.95%) QA
3 10 (4.50%) GDPR
4 6 (2.70%) GRC
5 5 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.25%) PMO
6 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (3.60%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) Grafana
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.45%) Argo
4 1 (0.45%) Control-M
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (47.30%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.86%) Databricks
3 7 (3.15%) Sage
4 6 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.70%) Oracle
4 6 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.25%) SAP
6 4 (1.80%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.90%) Google
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.45%) Foundry
8 1 (0.45%) Informatica
8 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Palantir
8 1 (0.45%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.45%) Workday
55 Data Analysis Expressions jobs Nationwide