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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 210 264
Rank change year-on-year -10 +54 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 180 158 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.13% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 104 111
10th Percentile £306 £314 £281
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £613 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £20.34 £22.11 £21.03
25th Percentile £28.21 £25.54 £22.19
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £29.40
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +10.54% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65.31 £35.06 £36.43
90th Percentile £74.35 £35.85 £49.88
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £33.88 £35.13
% change year-on-year +20.24% -3.56% +0.36%

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 15,247 14,004 18,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.07% 84.17% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,260 8,009 12,114
10th Percentile £219 £247 £250
25th Percentile £368 £382 £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 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,736 887 1,298
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.73 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -33.30% -22.58% +48.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -35 59 £373 -17.22% 39
South East +13 42 £563 +16.70% 82
Yorkshire -22 33 £325 -27.78% 10
Scotland +6 25 £450 -16.28% 17
North West -36 24 £381 -15.09% 26
Midlands -30 22 £475 +15.15% 40
West Midlands -20 14 £511 +27.69% 22
East of England -10 13 £525 +23.53% 14
South West +3 10 £400 -30.43% 21
East Midlands -9 8 £413 -17.50% 18
Wales - 6 £183 - 7
Northern Ireland -16 4 £475 -5.00% 7
North East -13 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 11 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.89%) Apache Pig
3 5 (2.78%) Apache
4 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.11%) SAS
5 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (21.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.11%) Maple
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.00%) Power Platform
2 44 (24.44%) Azure
3 23 (12.78%) AWS
4 16 (8.89%) GCP
5 8 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.44%) Serverless
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.89%) GitHub
6 7 (3.89%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.89%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.33%) Figma
8 5 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) MQTT
2 2 (1.11%) 2G
2 2 (1.11%) 5G
2 2 (1.11%) LTE
2 2 (1.11%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.11%) VoIP
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (54.44%) Power BI
2 45 (25.00%) Tableau
3 29 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (13.89%) Relational Database
5 16 (8.89%) Power Query
6 13 (7.22%) Hadoop
7 12 (6.67%) Big Data
8 9 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.00%) Data Mining
9 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.89%) Apache Hive
10 7 (3.89%) Looker
11 6 (3.33%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.78%) Metadata
12 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.22%) QlikView
13 4 (2.22%) Spotfire
14 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (3.33%) Gradle
2 6 (3.33%) Storybook
2 6 (3.33%) Xcode
3 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.67%) JIRA
4 3 (1.67%) MLflow
5 2 (1.11%) Selenium
5 2 (1.11%) webpack
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 78 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 60 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (25.56%) Finance
4 21 (11.67%) Banking
5 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.11%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.11%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.89%) Retail
9 6 (3.33%) Legal
10 5 (2.78%) Billing
11 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.67%) Local Government
12 3 (1.67%) Military
13 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.11%) Automotive
13 2 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (33.33%) Analyst
2 49 (27.22%) Data Analyst
3 44 (24.44%) Developer
4 18 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 14 (7.78%) Architect
7 13 (7.22%) Data Scientist
7 13 (7.22%) Lead
8 12 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.00%) Senior
10 7 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (3.33%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (3.33%) React Developer
11 6 (3.33%) Report Analyst
12 5 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Consultant
12 5 (2.78%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.11%) Pandas
2 10 (5.56%) D3.js
2 10 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 7 (3.89%) NumPy
3 7 (3.89%) React Native
4 6 (3.33%) OAuth
4 6 (3.33%) SVG
4 6 (3.33%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.78%) Kafka
5 5 (2.78%) PySpark
6 4 (2.22%) REST
6 4 (2.22%) Web Services
7 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.67%) JSON
7 3 (1.67%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.67%) React
8 2 (1.11%) Celery
8 2 (1.11%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.11%) Plotly
8 2 (1.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.56%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.56%) CMDB
2 10 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.89%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.33%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.78%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.67%) Equities
8 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) IoT
9 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.56%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Android
2 6 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 104 (57.78%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (47.78%) Analytics
4 60 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 58 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (31.67%) Data Analysis
7 53 (29.44%) Data Modelling
8 50 (27.78%) Agile
9 41 (22.78%) Machine Learning
10 39 (21.67%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (19.44%) Data Science
12 28 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (15.56%) ETL
13 26 (14.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 25 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
14 25 (13.89%) DevOps
15 23 (12.78%) Data Management
16 22 (12.22%) CI/CD
17 21 (11.67%) AI
18 20 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 106 (58.89%) SQL
2 79 (43.89%) Python
3 15 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.78%) Scala
5 13 (7.22%) Java
6 11 (6.11%) R
7 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.67%) PHP
8 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.11%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.56%) LookML
10 1 (0.56%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (15.00%) Degree
2 11 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.11%) ACCA
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.11%) CIMA
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.89%) GDPR
4 4 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.67%) QA
6 2 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.11%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) HL7
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (6.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Grafana
3 4 (2.22%) Terraform
4 3 (1.67%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) logstash
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.67%) Google
3 11 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.56%) Databricks
4 10 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.00%) SAP
6 8 (4.44%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.44%) Splunk
7 5 (2.78%) Oracle
8 4 (2.22%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.67%) Cognos
10 2 (1.11%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.11%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.11%) Informatica
10 2 (1.11%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.11%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.11%) Okta
10 2 (1.11%) Talend
10 2 (1.11%) Workday
11 1 (0.56%) Alteryx