Data Analysis Expressions Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 466 561
Rank change year-on-year -42 +95 -92
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 129 91 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.08% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 105 83 99
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,125
90th Percentile £68,250 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £51,356 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.63% +4.76% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,067 8,453 16,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 24.56% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,778 5,372 11,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analysis Expressions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +12 63 £45,000 +3.45% 15
West Midlands +4 47 £44,000 - 8
North of England -44 28 £45,000 -10.00% 6
North West -2 17 £55,000 +4.76% 4
South West -52 17 £42,500 -11.46% 3
East Midlands -17 16 £57,000 +32.56% 7
South East -32 13 £57,500 +6.98% 16
Yorkshire -23 11 £45,000 -16.67% 2
East of England -39 7 £62,500 +9.65% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1
Data Analysis Expressions
UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (20.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Infor M3
1 2 (1.55%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 127 (98.45%) Power Platform
2 50 (38.76%) Azure
3 17 (13.18%) Power Automate
4 12 (9.30%) PowerApps
5 9 (6.98%) AWS
5 9 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.10%) SaaS
8 4 (3.10%) Smartsheet
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.33%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.33%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.55%) GitHub
10 2 (1.55%) IaaS
10 2 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (98.45%) Power BI
2 59 (45.74%) Power Query
3 32 (24.81%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (19.38%) SQL Server
5 23 (17.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (17.83%) Star Schema
6 21 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (12.40%) Tableau
8 12 (9.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.65%) PowerPivot
9 6 (4.65%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.88%) Data Vault
11 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.33%) OLAP
13 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.55%) QlikView
13 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Git
2 5 (3.88%) JIRA
3 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.55%) Ant
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.55%) Maven
4 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (45.74%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 34 (26.36%) Finance
4 15 (11.63%) Retail
5 12 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.43%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.88%) Law
8 5 (3.88%) Marketing
9 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.33%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.55%) Legal
12 1 (0.78%) Billing
12 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Games
12 1 (0.78%) Local Government
12 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (37.21%) Analyst
2 40 (31.01%) Developer
3 36 (27.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 35 (27.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 22 (17.05%) Power BI Analyst
6 18 (13.95%) Data Analyst
7 14 (10.85%) Power BI Developer
8 13 (10.08%) Senior
9 11 (8.53%) SQL Analyst
10 10 (7.75%) Data Engineer
10 10 (7.75%) Lead
11 9 (6.98%) Business Developer
11 9 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 9 (6.98%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (6.98%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 8 (6.20%) Financial Analyst
12 8 (6.20%) Report Analyst
13 7 (5.43%) Team Leader
14 6 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.53%) PySpark
2 5 (3.88%) REST
3 4 (3.10%) JSON
4 2 (1.55%) .NET
4 2 (1.55%) CSS
4 2 (1.55%) HTML
4 2 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.55%) Node.js
4 2 (1.55%) XML
5 1 (0.78%) Pandas
5 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.55%) FMCG
5 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Linux
1 2 (1.55%) Solaris
1 2 (1.55%) Windows
1 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (98.45%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (65.89%) Analytics
3 77 (59.69%) Data Modelling
4 58 (44.96%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (31.78%) Decision-Making
6 35 (27.13%) ETL
6 35 (27.13%) Visualisation
7 33 (25.58%) Data Engineering
8 27 (20.93%) Data Analysis
9 26 (20.16%) AI
10 25 (19.38%) Actionable Insight
10 25 (19.38%) Data Visualisation
10 25 (19.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 24 (18.60%) Dashboard Development
12 21 (16.28%) Agile
13 20 (15.50%) Data Architecture
14 19 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.73%) Data Governance
15 18 (13.95%) Roadmaps
16 17 (13.18%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 111 (86.05%) SQL
2 43 (33.33%) Python
3 22 (17.05%) T-SQL
4 12 (9.30%) R
5 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.10%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.33%) VBA
7 2 (1.55%) C#
7 2 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (12.40%) Degree
2 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.78%) CITP
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.91%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.75%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.10%) Terraform
2 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.55%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 62 (48.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) Databricks
3 9 (6.98%) SAP
4 7 (5.43%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) Cognos
5 5 (3.88%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (3.10%) Google
7 2 (1.55%) Infor
7 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.78%) Foundry