Data Visualisation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Visualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 218 210
Rank change year-on-year -90 -8 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 176 164 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.05% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.17% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 107 106
10th Percentile £315 £296 £263
25th Percentile £371 £361 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £563 £525 £545
90th Percentile £688 £625 £606
UK median daily rate £475 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +4.97% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £16.90 £20.97
25th Percentile £39.91 £20.67 £22.69
Median hourly rate £54.40 £30.00 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +81.33% +14.66% -0.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.36 £30.27
90th Percentile - £48.88 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £38.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.52% -4.43% +23.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Visualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,704 13,995 14,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.88% 89.19% 83.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,636 8,401 8,272
10th Percentile £300 £225 £240
25th Percentile £409 £368 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,529 1,089
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.00 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.00 £18.19
Median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%
75th Percentile £65.88 £40.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £66.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Data Visualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Visualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -77 50 £425 +13.33% 136
Midlands -22 40 £470 -7.30% 111
South East -59 34 £525 -12.50% 173
West Midlands -30 29 £470 -8.56% 75
North West -38 27 £438 +17.58% 53
South West -21 25 £475 +18.75% 75
Scotland -21 16 £410 -13.68% 91
East of England -22 13 £465 -11.43% 70
Yorkshire -56 13 £440 +17.33% 54
East Midlands -8 11 £252 -38.79% 36
North East -28 11 £350 -12.50% 29
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 28
Wales -16 2 £356 +95.21% 57
Data Visualisation
UK

Data Visualisation
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 (1.70%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.70%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.70%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (23.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (69.32%) Power Platform
2 33 (18.75%) Azure
3 19 (10.80%) AWS
4 14 (7.95%) Snowflake
5 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.98%) Google Analytics
7 7 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.41%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (3.41%) GitHub
8 6 (3.41%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.27%) GCP
9 4 (2.27%) Matillion
9 4 (2.27%) Serverless
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (69.32%) Power BI
2 36 (20.45%) Tableau
3 27 (15.34%) Power Query
4 16 (9.09%) Metadata
5 15 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.95%) SQL Server
7 13 (7.39%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.55%) Data Mining
8 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.27%) Big Data
10 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.70%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.70%) QlikView
11 3 (1.70%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.14%) GIS
12 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.41%) JIRA
2 4 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 69 (39.20%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (35.23%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.61%) Finance
4 19 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.68%) Banking
6 6 (3.41%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.84%) Military
8 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Local Government
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Police
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) Analyst
2 28 (15.91%) Developer
3 26 (14.77%) Senior
4 24 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Data Analyst
6 19 (10.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 18 (10.23%) Power BI Developer
8 13 (7.39%) Architect
9 12 (6.82%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.68%) Data Visualisation Specialist
11 9 (5.11%) Consultant
11 9 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Performance Analyst
13 6 (3.41%) Data Scientist
13 6 (3.41%) Lead
13 6 (3.41%) Report Analyst
14 5 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 5 (2.84%) Data Consultant
14 5 (2.84%) Senior Manager
15 4 (2.27%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.09%) REST
2 5 (2.84%) HTML
3 4 (2.27%) PySpark
3 4 (2.27%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.27%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.70%) CSS
5 2 (1.14%) Jest
5 2 (1.14%) JSON
5 2 (1.14%) Kafka
5 2 (1.14%) React
5 2 (1.14%) SOAP
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) Faiss
6 1 (0.57%) LangChain
6 1 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.57%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.57%) Playwright
6 1 (0.57%) Plotly
6 1 (0.57%) Sass
6 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.25%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Clustering
4 7 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.98%) PKI
5 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.27%) CMDB
6 4 (2.27%) Social Media
7 3 (1.70%) Blog
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.14%) Life Science
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) NHS
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.55%) Windows
1 8 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 125 (71.02%) Business Intelligence
3 96 (54.55%) Analytics
4 66 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 53 (30.11%) Decision-Making
6 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.73%) Agile
8 38 (21.59%) AI
9 37 (21.02%) Data Analysis
10 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (17.05%) Actionable Insight
12 30 (17.05%) Data Analytics
13 28 (15.91%) Data Governance
13 28 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (14.20%) Dashboard Development
14 25 (14.20%) Data Engineering
15 23 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
15 23 (13.07%) ETL
15 23 (13.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (47.16%) SQL
2 45 (25.57%) Python
3 28 (15.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.68%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.68%) R
5 9 (5.11%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.55%) Java
7 5 (2.84%) C#
8 3 (1.70%) Scala
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.07%) Degree
4 10 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.70%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.70%) PhD
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) APMG
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (26.14%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.39%) QA
3 9 (5.11%) GDPR
4 4 (2.27%) GRC
4 4 (2.27%) PMO
5 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.14%) GMP
6 2 (1.14%) WCAG
7 1 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) GxP
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 46 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) SAP
3 11 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.11%) Google
5 7 (3.98%) BMC
5 7 (3.98%) Oracle
5 7 (3.98%) Remedy
6 6 (3.41%) Databricks
7 5 (2.84%) Informatica
8 4 (2.27%) Adobe
8 4 (2.27%) Ariba
8 4 (2.27%) Splunk
9 3 (1.70%) Foundry
9 3 (1.70%) Palantir
10 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.57%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.57%) Teradata
11 1 (0.57%) UiPath