Data Analysis Expressions Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 244 322
Rank change year-on-year -62 +78 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 19 20 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 0.82% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 51
10th Percentile £39,361 £35,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,875
90th Percentile £83,000 £60,000 £54,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,904 2,427 4,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.76% 32.70% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,073 1,493 4,168
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,987 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the North of England

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West -15 12 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire -55 7 £47,000 -6.00% 4
Data Analysis Expressions
England

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Power Platform
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Power Automate
3 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) Power BI
2 10 (52.63%) Power Query
3 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (10.53%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (10.53%) Star Schema
6 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.26%) OLAP
6 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
6 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Power BI Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Insight Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Life Science
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (63.16%) Data Modelling
3 11 (57.89%) Analytics
4 7 (36.84%) AI
5 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) ETL
6 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (21.05%) ERP
7 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
7 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (15.79%) Analytical Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (10.53%) R
5 1 (5.26%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle