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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 211 225
Rank change year-on-year -95 +14 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 180 159 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.03% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.15% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 103 101
10th Percentile £328 £298 £300
25th Percentile £400 £377 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £480 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +5.49% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £15.70 £20.97
25th Percentile £39.91 £17.50 £22.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.92 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +162.91% -20.05% -1.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £26.87 £30.27
90th Percentile £75.45 £34.12 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year +25.13% -8.33% +31.50%

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 22,913 13,810 14,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.92% 89.26% 83.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,037 8,306 8,563
10th Percentile £300 £235 £242
25th Percentile £409 £368 £388
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 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,735 1,447 1,212
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.04 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -76 51 £425 +9.68% 69
Midlands -26 43 £440 -4.30% 56
South East -57 37 £550 -8.33% 85
North West -45 29 £438 +16.80% 26
West Midlands -33 27 £470 -7.98% 41
South West -21 25 £475 +5.56% 38
East Midlands -7 16 £375 -9.09% 15
Scotland -25 15 £410 -18.00% 24
Yorkshire -58 15 £460 +16.83% 30
East of England -25 12 - - 29
North East -43 8 £375 -6.25% 13
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 22
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 4 (2.22%) Apache Superset
1 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.67%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.67%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.56%) iTrent
3 1 (0.56%) Primavera
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (67.78%) Power Platform
2 32 (17.78%) Azure
3 24 (13.33%) AWS
4 13 (7.22%) Power Automate
4 13 (7.22%) Snowflake
5 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 8 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (3.89%) GitHub
8 7 (3.89%) Serverless
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.78%) GCP
10 5 (2.78%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.22%) Matillion
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (67.78%) Power BI
2 40 (22.22%) Tableau
3 24 (13.33%) Power Query
4 17 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.44%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.22%) Metadata
6 12 (6.67%) Data Lake
7 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.44%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.22%) Big Data
10 4 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.67%) QlikView
11 3 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) JIRA
2 4 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 67 (37.22%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 35 (19.44%) Finance
4 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.67%) Banking
6 7 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.78%) Law
8 5 (2.78%) Military
9 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Retail
10 2 (1.11%) Automotive
10 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.11%) Local Government
10 2 (1.11%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (23.33%) Analyst
2 28 (15.56%) Senior
3 27 (15.00%) Developer
4 25 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 25 (13.89%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.33%) Architect
5 15 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 14 (7.78%) Power BI Developer
7 12 (6.67%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.11%) Consultant
8 11 (6.11%) Data Visualisation Specialist
9 7 (3.89%) Data Consultant
9 7 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.33%) Lead
10 6 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.78%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.22%) Administrator
12 4 (2.22%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.11%) REST
2 5 (2.78%) HTML
3 4 (2.22%) CSS
3 4 (2.22%) PySpark
3 4 (2.22%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.22%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.67%) .NET
4 3 (1.67%) Plotly
5 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.11%) Jest
5 2 (1.11%) JSON
5 2 (1.11%) Kafka
5 2 (1.11%) Pandas
5 2 (1.11%) React
5 2 (1.11%) SOAP
6 1 (0.56%) Akka
6 1 (0.56%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.56%) Redux
6 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.11%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.00%) Clustering
3 9 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.00%) PKI
4 8 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.89%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.22%) CMDB
8 4 (2.22%) Social Media
9 3 (1.67%) Blog
10 2 (1.11%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.11%) Life Science
10 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.56%) Windows
1 10 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.11%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 123 (68.33%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (51.11%) Analytics
4 64 (35.56%) Data Modelling
5 49 (27.22%) Decision-Making
6 48 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (22.78%) Agile
8 37 (20.56%) AI
9 35 (19.44%) Data Analysis
10 33 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (17.22%) Data Analytics
13 29 (16.11%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (15.56%) Data Governance
15 27 (15.00%) Data Engineering
16 26 (14.44%) Dashboard Development
16 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (13.89%) Validation
18 23 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
19 22 (12.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.44%) SQL
2 42 (23.33%) Python
3 23 (12.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.78%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.11%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.11%) R
6 10 (5.56%) Java
7 8 (4.44%) C#
8 3 (1.67%) C++
8 3 (1.67%) Scala
9 2 (1.11%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.11%) Rust
9 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.11%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.22%) Degree
4 12 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) APMG
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.11%) QA
3 8 (4.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.22%) GRC
4 4 (2.22%) PMO
5 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.11%) GMP
6 2 (1.11%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Kibana
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.11%) SAP
3 16 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.56%) Oracle
5 9 (5.00%) BMC
5 9 (5.00%) Remedy
6 8 (4.44%) Google
7 7 (3.89%) Databricks
8 5 (2.78%) Informatica
9 4 (2.22%) Ariba
10 3 (1.67%) Foundry
10 3 (1.67%) Palantir
11 2 (1.11%) Adobe
11 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.11%) Splunk
12 1 (0.56%) Brio
12 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.56%) GoldenSource
12 1 (0.56%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.56%) Teradata