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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 211 219
Rank change year-on-year -84 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 173 161 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.19% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 100 100
10th Percentile £355 £297 £263
25th Percentile £400 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £539
90th Percentile £675 £603 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £17.30 £20.97
25th Percentile £38.35 £21.76 £22.69
Median hourly rate £62.00 £31.64 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +95.95% +20.92% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £32.35 £30.27
90th Percentile £77.15 £35.81 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.38% -20.00% +31.58%

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 22,373 13,481 14,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.05% 89.10% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,960 8,091 8,656
10th Percentile £300 £238 £250
25th Percentile £408 £368 £390
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 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,379 1,296
10th Percentile £13.74 £13.85 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%
75th Percentile £68.00 £43.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -79 51 £438 +13.03% 67
Midlands -27 41 £440 +6.67% 48
South East -70 35 £550 -8.33% 73
North West -34 31 £438 +17.58% 40
West Midlands -31 26 £470 -7.39% 30
South West -32 25 £475 +5.56% 40
Yorkshire -58 17 £460 +18.71% 19
East Midlands -15 15 £375 -9.09% 18
East of England -21 12 - - 24
Scotland -30 12 £415 -17.00% 22
North East -35 4 £375 -11.76% 8
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 23
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 6 (3.47%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.73%) Apache
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.73%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (20.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.58%) iTrent
3 1 (0.58%) Primavera
3 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (67.05%) Power Platform
2 34 (19.65%) Azure
3 23 (13.29%) AWS
4 14 (8.09%) Power Automate
5 12 (6.94%) Snowflake
6 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (5.20%) PowerApps
8 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (4.05%) Serverless
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.47%) GCP
10 6 (3.47%) GitHub
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.89%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.31%) Matillion
13 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.73%) Google Analytics
13 3 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (67.05%) Power BI
2 40 (23.12%) Tableau
3 20 (11.56%) Power Query
4 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (10.40%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.51%) Metadata
6 12 (6.94%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.62%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.47%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.89%) Big Data
10 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.73%) MySQL
12 3 (1.73%) Parquet
12 3 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.62%) JIRA
2 3 (1.73%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (35.26%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (34.10%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.50%) Finance
4 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.78%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Law
6 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.89%) Military
8 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Automotive
9 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Local Government
9 2 (1.16%) Police
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (21.97%) Analyst
2 29 (16.76%) Developer
3 26 (15.03%) Senior
4 25 (14.45%) Data Analyst
5 24 (13.87%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.67%) Architect
6 15 (8.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 14 (8.09%) Power BI Developer
8 12 (6.94%) Consultant
8 12 (6.94%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.36%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 8 (4.62%) Data Consultant
11 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Lead
13 5 (2.89%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.89%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.31%) .NET Developer
14 4 (2.31%) Data Manager
14 4 (2.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.14%) REST
2 5 (2.89%) .NET
2 5 (2.89%) HTML
2 5 (2.89%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.89%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.31%) CSS
3 4 (2.31%) Plotly
3 4 (2.31%) PySpark
4 3 (1.73%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.16%) Jest
5 2 (1.16%) JSON
5 2 (1.16%) Kafka
5 2 (1.16%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) Pandas
5 2 (1.16%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.16%) SOAP
6 1 (0.58%) HTML5
6 1 (0.58%) NumPy
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.36%) Reference Data
3 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Clustering
4 9 (5.20%) PKI
5 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
8 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.73%) Blog
9 3 (1.73%) Social Media
10 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.16%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.16%) Life Science
10 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.16%) NHS
10 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Windows
1 10 (5.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 117 (67.63%) Business Intelligence
3 90 (52.02%) Analytics
4 63 (36.42%) Data Modelling
5 45 (26.01%) Decision-Making
6 43 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (23.12%) Agile
8 35 (20.23%) AI
9 31 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.92%) Data Analytics
10 30 (17.34%) Data Analysis
11 28 (16.18%) Data Engineering
11 28 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (15.61%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (15.61%) Data Governance
13 24 (13.87%) Dashboard Development
14 23 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (13.29%) Validation
15 22 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (12.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.51%) SQL
2 40 (23.12%) Python
3 21 (12.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.51%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.51%) R
5 11 (6.36%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.78%) Java
7 9 (5.20%) C#
8 3 (1.73%) C++
8 3 (1.73%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.73%) Rust
8 3 (1.73%) Scala
8 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.16%) VBA
10 1 (0.58%) C
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.14%) Degree
2 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) APMG
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.36%) QA
3 8 (4.62%) GDPR
4 4 (2.31%) GRC
5 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.73%) PMO
6 2 (1.16%) GMP
6 2 (1.16%) WCAG
7 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.58%) GxP
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Kibana
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.83%) SAP
3 16 (9.25%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.36%) Oracle
5 9 (5.20%) BMC
5 9 (5.20%) Remedy
6 7 (4.05%) Databricks
7 6 (3.47%) Google
8 4 (2.31%) Informatica
9 3 (1.73%) Ariba
9 3 (1.73%) Foundry
9 3 (1.73%) Palantir
10 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.58%) Brio
11 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.58%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.58%) Planon
11 1 (0.58%) Teradata
11 1 (0.58%) UiPath
11 1 (0.58%) Workday