Data Analysis Expressions Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 160 168 164
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +101
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions 18 31 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.75% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.57% 2.84% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 15
10th Percentile £39,250 £35,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £53,688
90th Percentile £59,500 £68,750 £57,950
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +3.77%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 701 1,090 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.26% 26.32% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 568 552 1,025
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England 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 the West Midlands

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

Data Analysis Expressions job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analysis Expressions
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis Expressions in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis Expressions in the West Midlands

Data Analysis Expressions
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +10 10 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Walsall - 4 £42,500 -
Warwickshire +24 1 - -
Solihull -4 1 - -
Staffordshire -10 1 £37,500 -11.76%
Herefordshire - 1 £57,500 -
Data Analysis Expressions
England

Data Analysis Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.56%) Dataform
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) Power BI
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (16.67%) Data Mining
4 3 (16.67%) Power Query
5 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.56%) Big Data
6 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Power BI Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Business Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Insight Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Power BI Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) EDI
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (61.11%) Data Modelling
2 11 (61.11%) Decision-Making
3 10 (55.56%) Analytics
4 9 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 9 (50.00%) ETL
5 8 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (44.44%) Visualisation
6 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
6 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (33.33%) ERP
8 5 (27.78%) Storytelling
9 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 4 (22.22%) Data Collection
9 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
10 3 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
10 3 (16.67%) DevOps
10 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Databricks