Data Analysis Expressions Job Trends

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Analysis Expressions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 575 508
Rank change year-on-year +68 -67 +181
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 147 167 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 0.81% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 96 116 168
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,063 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,579 20,744 20,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.53% 33.39% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,450 12,486 17,013
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Trend

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

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

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the UK

Data Analysis Expressions
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. 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
England +83 132 £57,500 +9.52% 85
UK excluding London +89 93 £52,500 +10.53% 72
Work from Home +99 66 £57,500 +15.00% 46
London +52 48 £67,500 +12.50% 33
South East +58 25 £52,500 +5.00% 35
Midlands +24 24 £45,000 +2.86% 15
North of England +24 18 £54,500 +14.74% 14
West Midlands +25 17 £44,500 +1.71% 4
North West +40 10 £56,250 +15.38% 13
South West +33 9 £46,375 -28.65% 3
East of England +26 7 £60,000 +41.18% 3
East Midlands +12 7 £45,000 +2.27% 11
North East +12 4 - -
Yorkshire -12 4 £54,000 +20.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland -5 3 £55,000 +29.41% 2
Wales - 3 - -

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 55 (37.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.68%) FastStats
3 1 (0.68%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.68%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 76 (51.70%) Azure
3 40 (27.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (24.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (14.97%) Power Automate
6 15 (10.20%) Snowflake
7 13 (8.84%) AWS
7 13 (8.84%) PowerApps
8 12 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (7.48%) GCP
10 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.08%) dbt
11 6 (4.08%) SaaS
12 5 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.40%) GitHub
13 4 (2.72%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.72%) Fivetran
13 4 (2.72%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (2.72%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (97.96%) Power BI
2 58 (39.46%) Power Query
3 38 (25.85%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (23.13%) SQL Server
5 33 (22.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (21.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (7.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (6.12%) Tableau
10 8 (5.44%) Data Lake
11 7 (4.76%) PowerPivot
12 4 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.72%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.72%) Looker
12 4 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.36%) Big Data
13 2 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Git
2 3 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 84 (57.14%) Finance
2 70 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 51 (34.69%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.84%) Billing
6 12 (8.16%) Marketing
6 12 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.12%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.44%) Legal
9 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.08%) Retail
10 4 (2.72%) Banking
11 3 (2.04%) Law
12 2 (1.36%) Games
13 1 (0.68%) Automotive
13 1 (0.68%) International Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (40.14%) Analyst
2 46 (31.29%) Developer
3 39 (26.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 25 (17.01%) Power BI Developer
5 21 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 19 (12.93%) Data Engineer
7 18 (12.24%) Data Analyst
7 18 (12.24%) Lead
8 17 (11.56%) Insight Analyst
9 12 (8.16%) Business Manager
9 12 (8.16%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (8.16%) Insight Manager
10 9 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 9 (6.12%) Power BI Analyst
11 8 (5.44%) Business Developer
11 8 (5.44%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (5.44%) Senior
12 7 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) Hugging Face
1 4 (2.72%) NumPy
1 4 (2.72%) Pandas
1 4 (2.72%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.04%) PySpark
2 3 (2.04%) REST
2 3 (2.04%) XML
3 2 (1.36%) .NET
3 2 (1.36%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.68%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.68%) MDX
4 1 (0.68%) OAuth
4 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.68%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (97.96%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 77 (52.38%) Analytics
3 77 (52.38%) Decision-Making
4 60 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (39.46%) ETL
6 57 (38.78%) Actionable Insight
7 51 (34.69%) Data Analysis
8 50 (34.01%) Visualisation
9 34 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (23.13%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (21.77%) AI
11 29 (19.73%) Data Analytics
12 26 (17.69%) Data Engineering
12 26 (17.69%) Process Improvement
13 24 (16.33%) Visual Analytics
13 24 (16.33%) WFM
14 22 (14.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 22 (14.97%) Storytelling
15 21 (14.29%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 134 (91.16%) SQL
2 43 (29.25%) Python
3 10 (6.80%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.44%) Scala
4 8 (5.44%) VBA
5 5 (3.40%) C#
5 5 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.04%) R
7 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (24.49%) Degree
2 12 (8.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 7 (4.76%) ACCA
3 7 (4.76%) CIMA
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.36%) PMP
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) MCSE
7 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.77%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (7.48%) GDPR
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) P3O
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.24%) Databricks
3 9 (6.12%) SAP
4 5 (3.40%) Alteryx
4 5 (3.40%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.40%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.40%) Talend
5 4 (2.72%) Google
5 4 (2.72%) Zoho
6 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.68%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.68%) eFront
6 1 (0.68%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) Lotus
6 1 (0.68%) Magma
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) PayPal
6 1 (0.68%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.68%) Workday