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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 223 205
Rank change year-on-year -84 -18 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 174 164 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.16% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 107 109
10th Percentile £315 £296 £263
25th Percentile £371 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £548
90th Percentile £688 £625 £603
UK median daily rate £473 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £17.30 £20.97
25th Percentile £39.91 £21.76 £22.69
Median hourly rate £54.40 £31.25 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +74.08% +19.43% -0.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.16 £30.27
90th Percentile - £69.98 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £38.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.92% -2.60% +23.76%

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 22,831 14,140 14,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.06% 89.14% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,645 8,502 8,251
10th Percentile £300 £225 £243
25th Percentile £409 £368 £379
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 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,890 1,548 1,043
10th Percentile £13.47 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £18.15
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%
75th Percentile £65.81 £39.10 £66.61
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.48 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -81 49 £425 +13.33% 98
Midlands -26 38 £455 -10.26% 81
South East -69 33 £525 -12.50% 124
West Midlands -32 28 £470 -8.56% 59
South West -11 26 £475 +18.75% 49
North West -44 26 £438 +14.89% 47
Scotland -29 18 £420 -11.58% 46
Yorkshire -49 13 £440 +25.71% 31
East of England -26 12 £465 -11.43% 46
North East -29 11 £350 -12.50% 20
East Midlands -8 10 £252 -38.79% 22
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 46
Wales -15 2 £356 +95.21% 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 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.72%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (25.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (70.11%) Power Platform
2 34 (19.54%) Azure
3 18 (10.34%) AWS
4 13 (7.47%) Snowflake
5 9 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.60%) Power Automate
7 7 (4.02%) Google Analytics
8 6 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (3.45%) GitHub
8 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.30%) GCP
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.72%) Matillion
10 3 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (70.11%) Power BI
2 33 (18.97%) Tableau
3 29 (16.67%) Power Query
4 17 (9.77%) Metadata
5 14 (8.05%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.60%) Data Mining
8 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.30%) Big Data
9 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.72%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.72%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.15%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (1.15%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.15%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.45%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (40.23%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.75%) Banking
6 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.87%) Military
7 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Local Government
8 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Retail
9 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.15%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 40 (22.99%) Analyst
2 27 (15.52%) Developer
3 24 (13.79%) Data Engineer
3 24 (13.79%) Senior
4 21 (12.07%) Data Analyst
5 19 (10.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Power BI Developer
7 13 (7.47%) Architect
8 12 (6.90%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.75%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 8 (4.60%) Consultant
10 8 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Performance Analyst
11 7 (4.02%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.45%) Lead
13 5 (2.87%) Business Analyst
14 4 (2.30%) Procurement Manager
14 4 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) REST
2 5 (2.87%) HTML
3 4 (2.30%) PySpark
3 4 (2.30%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.30%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.72%) CSS
5 2 (1.15%) Jest
5 2 (1.15%) JSON
5 2 (1.15%) Kafka
5 2 (1.15%) React
5 2 (1.15%) SOAP
6 1 (0.57%) Akka
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) Pandas
6 1 (0.57%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.57%) Redux
6 1 (0.57%) Sass
6 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.57%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.32%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.02%) Clustering
5 7 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.02%) PKI
6 5 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.30%) CMDB
7 4 (2.30%) Social Media
8 3 (1.72%) Blog
8 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.15%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.15%) Life Science
9 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.15%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Windows
1 8 (4.60%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 125 (71.84%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (54.02%) Analytics
4 64 (36.78%) Data Modelling
5 53 (30.46%) Decision-Making
6 45 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (22.41%) Agile
8 37 (21.26%) Data Analysis
9 35 (20.11%) AI
10 34 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (17.24%) Data Analytics
13 29 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (15.52%) Dashboard Development
16 26 (14.94%) Data Governance
17 23 (13.22%) Data Engineering
18 22 (12.64%) Validation
19 21 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
19 21 (12.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.98%) SQL
2 45 (25.86%) Python
3 29 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.17%) R
6 8 (4.60%) Java
7 5 (2.87%) C#
8 3 (1.72%) Scala
9 2 (1.15%) C++
9 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.22%) Degree
4 10 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.72%) PhD
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) APMG
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (27.01%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.05%) QA
3 9 (5.17%) GDPR
4 5 (2.87%) PMO
5 4 (2.30%) GRC
6 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.15%) GMP
7 2 (1.15%) WCAG
8 1 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.57%) GxP
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 7 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.05%) SAP
3 11 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.17%) Google
5 7 (4.02%) BMC
5 7 (4.02%) Remedy
6 6 (3.45%) Databricks
6 6 (3.45%) Oracle
7 4 (2.30%) Adobe
7 4 (2.30%) Ariba
7 4 (2.30%) Informatica
7 4 (2.30%) Splunk
8 3 (1.72%) Foundry
8 3 (1.72%) Palantir
9 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.57%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.57%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.57%) Teradata