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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 203 275
Rank change year-on-year -40 +72 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 165 151 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.90% 1.04% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 94 93
10th Percentile £310 £313 £302
25th Percentile £375 £385 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £549 £568
90th Percentile £625 £638 £635
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 8
10th Percentile £21.67 £24.40 £19.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £31.25 £26.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.25 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% +9.07% +65.74%
75th Percentile £82.25 £82.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £84.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.25 £35.32
% change year-on-year +56.03% -0.18% -45.25%

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 15,663 12,736 17,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.61% 87.36% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,586 7,476 10,994
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,725 730 1,222
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.62 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -31.97% +42.45%
75th Percentile £51.21 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.05 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -49 58 £390 -19.68% 168
South East -2 30 £525 +9.38% 241
North West -31 28 £389 -18.16% 81
Yorkshire -29 27 £375 -16.67% 73
Midlands -34 27 £488 +18.18% 159
Scotland +7 19 £423 -12.44% 49
West Midlands -24 16 £504 +22.06% 83
East of England -16 15 £525 +23.53% 123
East Midlands -14 11 £404 -5.00% 66
South West -10 8 £450 -28.00% 100
Northern Ireland -17 5 £463 -7.50% 13
Wales +2 4 - - 25
North East -10 3 £400 -27.27% 14
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 16 (9.70%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.45%) Apache
3 7 (4.24%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.21%) Confluence
6 2 (1.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 85 (51.52%) Power Platform
2 40 (24.24%) Azure
3 19 (11.52%) AWS
4 16 (9.70%) GCP
5 11 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.85%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.64%) Figma
8 6 (3.64%) GitHub
8 6 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.42%) Serverless
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) 2G
1 2 (1.21%) 5G
1 2 (1.21%) LTE
1 2 (1.21%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.21%) VoIP
2 1 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (51.52%) Power BI
2 38 (23.03%) Tableau
3 22 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (12.73%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.48%) Hadoop
6 13 (7.88%) Big Data
7 12 (7.27%) Power Query
8 9 (5.45%) Apache Hive
8 9 (5.45%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.45%) Data Mining
8 9 (5.45%) Metadata
9 4 (2.42%) Impala
9 4 (2.42%) QlikView
9 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.82%) Looker
10 3 (1.82%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.82%) Spotfire
11 2 (1.21%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) Gradle
2 6 (3.64%) Storybook
2 6 (3.64%) Xcode
3 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 3 (1.82%) MLflow
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 69 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (24.85%) Finance
4 17 (10.30%) Banking
5 15 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.45%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.64%) Legal
8 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.64%) Publishing
9 5 (3.03%) Billing
9 5 (3.03%) Retail
10 4 (2.42%) Military
11 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.82%) Law
11 3 (1.82%) Marketing
11 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 51 (30.91%) Analyst
2 45 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 41 (24.85%) Developer
4 19 (11.52%) Data Scientist
5 16 (9.70%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 11 (6.67%) Senior
8 10 (6.06%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Lead
10 8 (4.85%) Architect
11 7 (4.24%) React Developer
11 7 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (3.64%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.64%) Senior Data Analyst
13 5 (3.03%) Consultant
14 4 (2.42%) Business Analyst
14 4 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 4 (2.42%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.27%) Pandas
2 11 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 9 (5.45%) D3.js
4 7 (4.24%) React Native
4 7 (4.24%) TensorFlow
5 6 (3.64%) NumPy
5 6 (3.64%) OAuth
5 6 (3.64%) REST
5 6 (3.64%) SVG
6 5 (3.03%) PySpark
7 3 (1.82%) Akka
7 3 (1.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.82%) React
8 2 (1.21%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.21%) Next.js
8 2 (1.21%) Plotly
8 2 (1.21%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.21%) Torch
8 2 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.85%) CMDB
3 8 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.24%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.03%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.42%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.82%) Equities
8 3 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.21%) IoT
10 1 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Linux
2 6 (3.64%) Android
2 6 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 93 (56.36%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (42.42%) Analytics
4 56 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 51 (30.91%) Data Analysis
7 46 (27.88%) Data Modelling
8 41 (24.85%) Actionable Insight
9 40 (24.24%) Agile
10 36 (21.82%) Machine Learning
11 31 (18.79%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (18.79%) Data Science
12 25 (15.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 21 (12.73%) Dashboard Development
14 20 (12.12%) ETL
14 20 (12.12%) Statistics
15 18 (10.91%) Data Management
16 17 (10.30%) CI/CD
16 17 (10.30%) Data Cleansing
17 16 (9.70%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (61.21%) SQL
2 77 (46.67%) Python
3 15 (9.09%) Java
3 15 (9.09%) R
4 12 (7.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.27%) Scala
5 9 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.24%) C#
8 5 (3.03%) Perl
8 5 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.42%) PHP
10 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.21%) VBA
12 1 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.61%) LookML
12 1 (0.61%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.45%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.85%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.03%) GDPR
4 3 (1.82%) QA
5 2 (1.21%) GRC
5 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (5.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.64%) Kibana
3 5 (3.03%) Grafana
3 5 (3.03%) Terraform
4 3 (1.82%) logstash
5 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.88%) Databricks
3 11 (6.67%) Google
3 11 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.85%) OpenAI
5 8 (4.85%) Splunk
6 5 (3.03%) SAP
7 3 (1.82%) Oracle
7 3 (1.82%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.21%) Cognos
8 2 (1.21%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.21%) Informatica
8 2 (1.21%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.21%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.21%) Okta
8 2 (1.21%) Talend
9 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.61%) IFS
9 1 (0.61%) Workday