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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 201 243
Rank change year-on-year -102 +42 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 169 155 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.08% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.20% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 99 103
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £546
90th Percentile £634 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 3
10th Percentile £17.56 £23.05 £17.60
25th Percentile £34.88 £29.85 £20.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +65.93% +29.51% -4.20%
75th Percentile £80.13 £34.23 £29.09
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.81 £31.89
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +40.59%

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 21,717 12,885 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.93% 89.80% 82.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,860 7,884 10,315
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £405 £365 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,285 1,090 2,140
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.19 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £52.50 £62.13
90th Percentile £81.05 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -60 56 £438 +0.69% 36
Midlands -39 40 £425 +3.03% 33
South East -51 38 £520 -7.56% 44
North West -22 35 £437 +16.40% 28
West Midlands -48 25 £500 +17.65% 17
South West -21 22 £475 +16.14% 11
Yorkshire -59 19 £500 +21.21% 5
East Midlands -10 15 £375 -8.81% 16
Scotland -22 10 £463 -7.50% 3
East of England -39 6 £463 +15.63% 8
North East -38 2 £375 -23.08% 3
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 (3.55%) Apache Superset
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.78%) Apache
4 3 (1.78%) Confluence
4 3 (1.78%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.78%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.78%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.59%) iTrent
4 1 (0.59%) Primavera
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (66.27%) Power Platform
2 34 (20.12%) Azure
3 26 (15.38%) AWS
4 12 (7.10%) Power Automate
5 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.92%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (4.14%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.14%) Serverless
7 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.96%) Matillion
9 4 (2.37%) GitHub
10 3 (1.78%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.78%) dbt
10 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.78%) GCP
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.59%) Firewall
1 1 (0.59%) Internet
1 1 (0.59%) Intranet
1 1 (0.59%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (66.27%) Power BI
2 38 (22.49%) Tableau
3 24 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (10.65%) Power Query
5 17 (10.06%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.47%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.92%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.55%) Big Data
9 5 (2.96%) Metadata
9 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.96%) QlikView
9 5 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.37%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) JIRA
2 3 (1.78%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 59 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 53 (31.36%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (18.34%) Finance
4 18 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.51%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.55%) Law
8 5 (2.96%) Marketing
9 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.18%) Military
11 2 (1.18%) Police
11 2 (1.18%) Retail
12 1 (0.59%) Billing
12 1 (0.59%) Front Office
12 1 (0.59%) German Language
12 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (34.32%) Analyst
2 37 (21.89%) Data Analyst
3 30 (17.75%) Developer
4 17 (10.06%) Senior
5 16 (9.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 15 (8.88%) Data Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) Power BI Developer
8 13 (7.69%) Architect
9 9 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (4.14%) Consultant
11 6 (3.55%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.55%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.96%) Data Consultant
12 5 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) SQL Analyst
13 4 (2.37%) .NET Developer
13 4 (2.37%) Business Data Analyst
13 4 (2.37%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.69%) REST
2 5 (2.96%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.96%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.37%) .NET
3 4 (2.37%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.37%) CSS
3 4 (2.37%) Plotly
3 4 (2.37%) PySpark
4 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.78%) HTML
4 3 (1.78%) Matplotlib
4 3 (1.78%) React
4 3 (1.78%) RESTful
4 3 (1.78%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.18%) Jest
5 2 (1.18%) Node.js
5 2 (1.18%) Pandas
6 1 (0.59%) HTML5
6 1 (0.59%) NumPy
6 1 (0.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.73%) Data Structures
1 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.55%) Clustering
3 6 (3.55%) PKI
4 5 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.78%) Blog
6 3 (1.78%) Life Science
6 3 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.18%) CMDB
7 2 (1.18%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) Windows
1 6 (3.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 117 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (44.38%) Analytics
4 55 (32.54%) Data Modelling
5 49 (28.99%) Agile
6 46 (27.22%) Decision-Making
7 37 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (20.12%) Data Analysis
9 33 (19.53%) Actionable Insight
10 31 (18.34%) AI
11 30 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (17.16%) Data Engineering
12 29 (17.16%) Validation
13 28 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (15.98%) Dashboard Development
14 27 (15.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (15.38%) ETL
16 24 (14.20%) Data Governance
16 24 (14.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) SQL
2 39 (23.08%) Python
3 16 (9.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.69%) R
5 11 (6.51%) Java
5 11 (6.51%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.92%) C#
7 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.96%) VBA
9 3 (1.78%) C++
9 3 (1.78%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.78%) Rust
9 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.65%) Degree
4 9 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) ACCA
7 1 (0.59%) APMG
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) CIMA
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.88%) QA
3 5 (2.96%) GDPR
3 5 (2.96%) PMO
4 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.18%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.59%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.37%) Kibana
2 3 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) logstash
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) SCCM
3 2 (1.18%) Terraform
4 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) SAP
3 12 (7.10%) Oracle
3 12 (7.10%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.73%) Databricks
5 6 (3.55%) BMC
5 6 (3.55%) Remedy
6 5 (2.96%) Informatica
7 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.78%) Adobe
8 3 (1.78%) Brio
8 3 (1.78%) Cognos
8 3 (1.78%) Foundry
8 3 (1.78%) Google
8 3 (1.78%) Palantir
9 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.59%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.59%) Workday