Data Analysis Expressions Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 321 379
Rank change year-on-year +33 +58 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 28 33 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 0.66% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 69
10th Percentile £290 £363 £348
25th Percentile £388 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £451 £525 £575
90th Percentile £643 - £619
UK median daily rate £438 £438 £498
% change year-on-year - -12.21% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +75.00% -62.12% +75.98%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,860 5,031 8,493
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.29% 35.03% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,617 6,239
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £668
90th Percentile £804 £810 £786
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 123 195
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.50 £26.30
25th Percentile £47.37 £43.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

Data Analysis Expressions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Analysis Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Analysis Expressions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Data Analysis Expressions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Data Analysis Expressions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (96.43%) Power BI
2 18 (64.29%) Power Query
3 10 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.14%) MySQL
6 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data
7 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
7 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.57%) Tableau
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Local Government
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Environmental Health
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 9 (32.14%) Power BI Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Report Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Business Performance Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Power BI Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Support
6 1 (3.57%) Report Writer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
1 1 (3.57%) PySpark
1 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (7.14%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (46.43%) Visualisation
4 9 (32.14%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Data Visualisation
4 9 (32.14%) Decision-Making
4 9 (32.14%) ETL
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (17.86%) Data Transformation
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) Formula Language
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) COSHH
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Jaspersoft