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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 193 297
Rank change year-on-year -79 +104 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 154 161 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.21% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.34% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 109 87
10th Percentile £324 £315 £311
25th Percentile £385 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £626 £615 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 4
10th Percentile £19.83 £27.59 £15.92
25th Percentile £27.60 £31.47 £15.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.25 £20.22
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% +74.38% -0.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £82.25 £26.64
90th Percentile £84.00 - £30.60
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £35.25 £35.32
% change year-on-year +27.66% -0.18% -32.73%

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 17,768 12,042 18,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.40% 90.18% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,779 7,384 11,221
10th Percentile £260 £230 £250
25th Percentile £395 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,887 706 1,905
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.22 £12.84
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.12 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.38 £32.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% -0.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -70 47 £463 -4.75% 42
Midlands -51 34 £475 +15.15% 26
South East -26 30 £500 - 68
North West -41 28 £425 -12.47% 27
West Midlands -45 25 £500 +21.21% 17
Yorkshire -55 16 £500 +21.95% 10
Scotland +8 14 £402 -19.55% 1
East of England -27 14 £463 +15.70% 8
East Midlands -26 9 £395 +7.63% 9
South West -40 8 £370 -9.54% 15
Northern Ireland -5 5 £463 -11.90% 2
Wales 0 3 - - 3
North East -15 3 £400 -23.81% 5
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 14 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.55%) Apache
3 6 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.30%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (48.70%) Power Platform
2 26 (16.88%) Azure
3 19 (12.34%) AWS
4 12 (7.79%) Power Automate
5 11 (7.14%) GCP
6 10 (6.49%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.25%) Serverless
8 5 (3.25%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.95%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.95%) dbt
9 3 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) 2G
1 2 (1.30%) 5G
1 2 (1.30%) LTE
1 2 (1.30%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.30%) VoIP
2 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (48.70%) Power BI
2 32 (20.78%) Tableau
3 23 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (11.69%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.14%) Big Data
6 10 (6.49%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.84%) Metadata
8 7 (4.55%) Power Query
9 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.90%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.60%) Apache Hive
10 4 (2.60%) Impala
10 4 (2.60%) QlikView
11 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.95%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.95%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.30%) KDB
12 2 (1.30%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.95%) MLflow
General
1 55 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 42 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (23.38%) Finance
4 17 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.74%) Banking
6 8 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.55%) Publishing
8 6 (3.90%) Marketing
9 4 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.60%) Law
9 4 (2.60%) Military
10 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Retail
11 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (37.01%) Analyst
2 42 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 32 (20.78%) Developer
4 13 (8.44%) Data Scientist
5 12 (7.79%) Senior
6 11 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (3.90%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Architect
10 5 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.25%) Lead
10 5 (3.25%) Report Analyst
10 5 (3.25%) SQL Analyst
11 4 (2.60%) Perl Developer
11 4 (2.60%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.14%) Pandas
2 9 (5.84%) scikit-learn
3 8 (5.19%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.25%) NumPy
6 4 (2.60%) REST
7 3 (1.95%) Akka
7 3 (1.95%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.95%) Plotly
7 3 (1.95%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.95%) React
8 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.30%) PySpark
8 2 (1.30%) RESTful
8 2 (1.30%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.30%) Seaborn
8 2 (1.30%) Torch
9 1 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.65%) Kafka
9 1 (0.65%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.25%) CMDB
5 5 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.25%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.95%) Equities
7 3 (1.95%) IoT
7 3 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.30%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.30%) Life Science
8 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Unix
3 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 91 (59.09%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (40.91%) Analytics
4 51 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (32.47%) Decision-Making
6 46 (29.87%) Data Modelling
7 45 (29.22%) Agile
8 42 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
9 41 (26.62%) Data Analysis
10 26 (16.88%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (16.88%) Machine Learning
11 25 (16.23%) Data Science
12 23 (14.94%) ETL
13 22 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
14 19 (12.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (11.04%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (10.39%) CI/CD
17 16 (10.39%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 85 (55.19%) SQL
2 58 (37.66%) Python
3 13 (8.44%) R
4 11 (7.14%) Java
5 10 (6.49%) C#
6 9 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.90%) Perl
8 6 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.25%) Scala
9 5 (3.25%) VBA
10 4 (2.60%) PHP
11 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.65%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.64%) Degree
2 19 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CIMA
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.30%) PMO
4 2 (1.30%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.65%) P3O
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.84%) Kibana
2 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.55%) Terraform
3 6 (3.90%) logstash
4 4 (2.60%) Grafana
5 3 (1.95%) Ansible
6 2 (1.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.44%) Databricks
3 8 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.25%) Google
5 5 (3.25%) Oracle
6 4 (2.60%) Adobe
6 4 (2.60%) Cognos
7 3 (1.95%) SAP
8 2 (1.30%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.30%) Brio
8 2 (1.30%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.30%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.30%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.30%) Okta
8 2 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Splunk
8 2 (1.30%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.65%) Kepware
9 1 (0.65%) Rockwell