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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 547 480
Rank change year-on-year +58 -67 +181
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 128 133 204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.28% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 0.82% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 89 95 165
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,750 £78,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +12.24%

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 10,278 16,307 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.45% 33.88% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 9,582 15,892
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
London +50 44 £67,500 +20.54% 12
Midlands +13 30 £45,000 -5.26% 11
South East +48 27 £52,500 -25.00% 16
North of England +8 19 £54,000 +13.68% 12
West Midlands +8 18 £42,500 -12.82% 4
North West +20 10 £50,000 +5.26% 7
East Midlands -5 10 £51,250 +7.89% 7
South West +15 7 £42,625 -18.81% 4
Yorkshire -15 5 £54,000 +20.00% 2
North East +14 4 - - 3
East of England +20 1 £42,500 - 7
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 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (32.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (5.47%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.78%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 60 (46.88%) Azure
3 31 (24.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (21.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (16.41%) Power Automate
6 13 (10.16%) AWS
6 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.16%) Snowflake
7 12 (9.38%) PowerApps
8 11 (8.59%) GCP
9 10 (7.81%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (5.47%) dbt
11 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.69%) SaaS
12 5 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.91%) GitHub
13 4 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (3.13%) Fivetran
13 4 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (97.66%) Power BI
2 56 (43.75%) Power Query
3 32 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (21.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (19.53%) SQL Server
6 23 (17.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (7.81%) Data Lake
8 9 (7.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (7.03%) Tableau
9 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (5.47%) PowerPivot
11 5 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.13%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.13%) Looker
13 3 (2.34%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.56%) Big Data
14 2 (1.56%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 2 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (2.34%) JIRA
General
1 70 (54.69%) Finance
2 61 (47.66%) Social Skills
3 51 (39.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 10 (7.81%) Marketing
6 8 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.47%) Billing
7 7 (5.47%) Legal
7 7 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.47%) Retail
8 6 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Banking
10 3 (2.34%) Law
11 2 (1.56%) Games
11 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.78%) Automotive
12 1 (0.78%) Front Office
12 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 46 (35.94%) Developer
2 43 (33.59%) Analyst
3 40 (31.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 30 (23.44%) Power BI Developer
5 19 (14.84%) Data Engineer
6 16 (12.50%) Data Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) Insight Analyst
8 11 (8.59%) Business Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Lead
10 9 (7.03%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 9 (7.03%) Insight Manager
11 8 (6.25%) Power BI Specialist
12 7 (5.47%) Business Manager
12 7 (5.47%) Commercial Analyst
12 7 (5.47%) Financial Analyst
12 7 (5.47%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Power BI Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) SAP CO-PA
2 4 (3.13%) Hugging Face
2 4 (3.13%) NumPy
2 4 (3.13%) Pandas
2 4 (3.13%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.34%) .NET
3 3 (2.34%) PySpark
4 2 (1.56%) REST
4 2 (1.56%) XML
5 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.78%) EDI
5 1 (0.78%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.78%) MDX
5 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.34%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (97.66%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (57.03%) Data Modelling
3 71 (55.47%) Analytics
4 61 (47.66%) Decision-Making
5 56 (43.75%) ETL
6 53 (41.41%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (35.94%) Actionable Insight
8 40 (31.25%) Visualisation
9 36 (28.13%) Data Analysis
10 32 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (21.09%) Data Analytics
11 27 (21.09%) Data Engineering
12 26 (20.31%) AI
13 21 (16.41%) Data Governance
14 19 (14.84%) DevOps
15 16 (12.50%) Computer Science
15 16 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
15 16 (12.50%) Process Improvement
16 15 (11.72%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 116 (90.63%) SQL
2 39 (30.47%) Python
3 10 (7.81%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.25%) Scala
4 8 (6.25%) VBA
5 5 (3.91%) C#
5 5 (3.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.34%) R
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (25.78%) Degree
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.47%) ACCA
3 7 (5.47%) CIMA
3 7 (5.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) MCSE
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
7 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.81%) GDPR
3 9 (7.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) P3O
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.50%) Databricks
2 16 (12.50%) SAP
3 5 (3.91%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.91%) Talend
4 4 (3.13%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.13%) Google
4 4 (3.13%) HubSpot
4 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.13%) Zoho
5 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.78%) Informatica
5 1 (0.78%) Magma
5 1 (0.78%) SimCorp
5 1 (0.78%) Workday