Data Analysis Expressions Job Trends in England

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 510 599
Rank change year-on-year -45 +89 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 166 136 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 1.04% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 145 114 214
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.82%

All Programming Languages
England

Data Analysis Expressions falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,997 13,083 27,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 30.19% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,643 8,853 21,362
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in England

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +7 54 £44,272 -3.76% 11
West Midlands +1 39 £44,000 -8.33% 5
London -52 38 £62,500 -1.96% 10
North of England -28 27 £47,250 -5.50% 11
South East -24 18 £50,000 -18.37% 5
South West -51 18 £42,500 -15.00% 5
North West -2 16 £55,000 +10.00% 4
East Midlands -16 15 £55,000 +23.60% 6
Yorkshire -31 11 £46,000 -11.54% 4
East of England -31 7 £62,500 +9.65% 2
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Infor M3
1 2 (1.20%) SAP Business One
1 2 (1.20%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.60%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 163 (98.19%) Power Platform
2 58 (34.94%) Azure
3 19 (11.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (11.45%) Power Automate
4 17 (10.24%) PowerApps
5 12 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (6.02%) AWS
7 9 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.41%) Serverless
10 4 (2.41%) Smartsheet
11 3 (1.81%) GCP
11 3 (1.81%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.81%) Meta Ads
11 3 (1.81%) SaaS
11 3 (1.81%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (98.19%) Power BI
2 69 (41.57%) Power Query
3 32 (19.28%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (17.47%) Star Schema
5 23 (13.86%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (9.04%) Data Lake
7 15 (9.04%) Tableau
8 14 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (7.23%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.61%) Data Vault
10 6 (3.61%) PowerPivot
11 5 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.41%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.81%) OLAP
14 2 (1.20%) Metadata
14 2 (1.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Git
2 5 (3.01%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (43.37%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (38.55%) Social Skills
3 40 (24.10%) Finance
4 14 (8.43%) Retail
5 10 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.22%) Marketing
7 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.01%) Law
9 4 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.81%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (1.81%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.20%) Publishing
12 1 (0.60%) Billing
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Local Government
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (39.76%) Analyst
2 46 (27.71%) Developer
3 40 (24.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 40 (24.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 31 (18.67%) Power BI Analyst
5 28 (16.87%) Data Analyst
6 27 (16.27%) Power BI Developer
7 18 (10.84%) Senior
8 16 (9.64%) SQL Analyst
9 14 (8.43%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Business Developer
10 11 (6.63%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 9 (5.42%) Report Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Specialist
12 8 (4.82%) Lead
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) SQL Data Analyst
13 7 (4.22%) Financial Analyst
14 6 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
14 6 (3.61%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.23%) PySpark
2 6 (3.61%) REST
3 5 (3.01%) JSON
4 3 (1.81%) Pandas
5 2 (1.20%) .NET
5 2 (1.20%) CSS
5 2 (1.20%) HTML
5 2 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.20%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.20%) Node.js
5 2 (1.20%) NumPy
5 2 (1.20%) SAP CO-PA
5 2 (1.20%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.20%) XML
6 1 (0.60%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.81%) FMCG
3 3 (1.81%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.60%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.60%) Life Science
5 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (96.99%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (72.29%) Analytics
3 109 (65.66%) Data Modelling
4 66 (39.76%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (33.13%) Decision-Making
6 48 (28.92%) ETL
7 43 (25.90%) Visualisation
8 41 (24.70%) Data Engineering
9 40 (24.10%) Actionable Insight
10 33 (19.88%) Data Governance
11 30 (18.07%) AI
12 29 (17.47%) Data Visualisation
13 25 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (13.86%) Data Analysis
15 22 (13.25%) Data Analytics
15 22 (13.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 21 (12.65%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 20 (12.05%) Agile
17 20 (12.05%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 146 (87.95%) SQL
2 54 (32.53%) Python
3 23 (13.86%) T-SQL
4 16 (9.64%) R
5 6 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (3.01%) VBA
7 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.20%) C#
8 2 (1.20%) VBScript
9 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (9.64%) Degree
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) CITP
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.31%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.82%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 79 (47.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.43%) Databricks
3 11 (6.63%) SAP
4 7 (4.22%) Oracle
5 6 (3.61%) Cognos
5 6 (3.61%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.41%) Google
7 2 (1.20%) Foundry
7 2 (1.20%) Infor
7 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.60%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.60%) Talend