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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 213 269
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 176 161 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.96% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.14% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 106 107
10th Percentile £309 £315 £279
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £20.34 £22.11 £21.00
25th Percentile £28.21 £25.54 £21.88
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +22.64% -2.75%
75th Percentile £65.31 £35.06 £40.54
90th Percentile £74.35 £35.85 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £33.88 £35.13
% change year-on-year +20.24% -3.56% -1.06%

All Process and 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 15,386 14,139 18,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.57% 84.59% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,341 8,055 11,919
10th Percentile £220 £249 £250
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,757 927 1,288
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.93 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.64 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -34 61 £375 -16.67% 22
South East +8 39 £600 +21.21% 73
Yorkshire -14 33 £325 -27.78% 6
North West -33 26 £388 -13.70% 14
Scotland +2 25 £450 -16.28% 8
Midlands -27 21 £475 +13.43% 32
West Midlands -16 13 £511 +27.69% 18
East of England -12 12 £525 +23.53% 16
South West -8 10 £400 -30.43% 21
East Midlands -10 8 £413 -17.50% 13
Wales - 5 - - 6
Northern Ireland -15 4 £475 -5.00% 4
North East -8 2 £400 -28.89% 4
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 10 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.98%) Apache Pig
3 5 (2.84%) Apache
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) SAS
5 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (21.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.14%) Maple
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 97 (55.11%) Power Platform
2 43 (24.43%) Azure
3 21 (11.93%) AWS
4 16 (9.09%) GCP
5 7 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
5 7 (3.98%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.41%) Figma
6 6 (3.41%) GitHub
6 6 (3.41%) Serverless
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.27%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) MQTT
2 2 (1.14%) 2G
2 2 (1.14%) 5G
2 2 (1.14%) LTE
2 2 (1.14%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (54.55%) Power BI
2 43 (24.43%) Tableau
3 27 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 16 (9.09%) Power Query
6 12 (6.82%) Hadoop
7 11 (6.25%) Big Data
8 9 (5.11%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.11%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.98%) Apache Hive
9 7 (3.98%) Looker
9 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.41%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.84%) Metadata
11 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.27%) QlikView
12 4 (2.27%) Spotfire
13 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (1.14%) Impala
14 2 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Git
2 6 (3.41%) Gradle
2 6 (3.41%) Storybook
2 6 (3.41%) Xcode
3 3 (1.70%) JIRA
3 3 (1.70%) MLflow
4 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.14%) Selenium
4 2 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 77 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (26.70%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Banking
5 14 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.98%) Retail
9 6 (3.41%) Legal
10 5 (2.84%) Billing
11 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.70%) Local Government
12 3 (1.70%) Marketing
12 3 (1.70%) Military
13 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.14%) Automotive
13 2 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (34.09%) Analyst
2 48 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 44 (25.00%) Developer
4 16 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 13 (7.39%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.39%) Lead
7 12 (6.82%) Power BI Developer
8 11 (6.25%) Architect
9 7 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.98%) React Developer
9 7 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Power BI Analyst
10 6 (3.41%) Report Analyst
10 6 (3.41%) Senior
11 5 (2.84%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.84%) Consultant
11 5 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.25%) Pandas
2 10 (5.68%) D3.js
2 10 (5.68%) scikit-learn
3 7 (3.98%) NumPy
3 7 (3.98%) React Native
4 6 (3.41%) OAuth
4 6 (3.41%) SVG
4 6 (3.41%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.84%) PySpark
6 4 (2.27%) React
6 4 (2.27%) REST
7 3 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.70%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.70%) Web Services
8 2 (1.14%) Akka
8 2 (1.14%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.14%) Kafka
8 2 (1.14%) Plotly
8 2 (1.14%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.68%) CMDB
2 10 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.84%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.70%) Equities
8 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Android
1 6 (3.41%) Apple iOS
1 6 (3.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 101 (57.39%) Business Intelligence
3 85 (48.30%) Analytics
4 60 (34.09%) Decision-Making
5 57 (32.39%) Data Analysis
6 55 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (28.41%) Data Modelling
8 45 (25.57%) Agile
9 40 (22.73%) Machine Learning
10 39 (22.16%) Actionable Insight
11 32 (18.18%) Data Science
12 26 (14.77%) Dashboard Development
12 26 (14.77%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (14.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 26 (14.77%) ETL
13 21 (11.93%) AI
13 21 (11.93%) Data Management
13 21 (11.93%) DevOps
13 21 (11.93%) Statistics
14 19 (10.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 102 (57.95%) SQL
2 77 (43.75%) Python
3 15 (8.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (6.82%) Scala
5 11 (6.25%) Java
6 10 (5.68%) R
7 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.27%) PHP
9 2 (1.14%) C#
9 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.57%) LookML
10 1 (0.57%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.64%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.11%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) ACCA
6 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) CIMA
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.98%) GDPR
4 5 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) QA
6 2 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.98%) Grafana
1 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.27%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) Kibana
4 1 (0.57%) logstash
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) Google
3 11 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.68%) Databricks
4 10 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.11%) SAP
6 8 (4.55%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.55%) Splunk
7 5 (2.84%) Oracle
8 4 (2.27%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.70%) Cognos
10 2 (1.14%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.14%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.14%) Informatica
10 2 (1.14%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.14%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.14%) Okta
10 2 (1.14%) Talend
10 2 (1.14%) Workday
11 1 (0.57%) Netlify