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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 213 234
Rank change year-on-year -87 +21 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 174 148 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.99% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.11% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 90 103
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £367 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £538
90th Percentile £640 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 1
10th Percentile £30.80 £21.10 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £27.24 £31.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +27.45%
75th Percentile £78.00 £33.05 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.26 -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £33.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +84.77% -21.05% +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 22,092 13,319 16,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 89.21% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,087 8,078 9,753
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £365 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,249 1,806
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.69 £17.08 £16.06
Median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.46 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -45 57 £438 +6.18% 34
Midlands -31 42 £420 +1.82% 23
South East -61 38 £538 -4.44% 34
North West -23 34 £438 +23.38% 19
West Midlands -44 27 £450 +5.88% 14
South West -40 21 £475 +16.14% 20
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 +17.65% 7
East Midlands -7 15 £375 -9.09% 9
Scotland -17 11 £463 -7.50% 5
East of England -21 10 £463 +13.50% 7
North East -33 4 £375 -16.67% 8
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 (3.45%) Apache Superset
2 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.72%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) iTrent
4 1 (0.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 110 (63.22%) Power Platform
2 32 (18.39%) Azure
3 25 (14.37%) AWS
4 12 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 10 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (4.02%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.02%) Serverless
8 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.87%) Matillion
10 4 (2.30%) GCP
10 4 (2.30%) GitHub
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.72%) dbt
11 3 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
1 1 (0.57%) Internet
1 1 (0.57%) Intranet
1 1 (0.57%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (63.22%) Power BI
2 38 (21.84%) Tableau
3 22 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 17 (9.77%) Power Query
5 17 (9.77%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.75%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.17%) Metadata
8 7 (4.02%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.45%) Big Data
10 5 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.87%) QlikView
10 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.72%) Parquet
12 3 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (5.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 60 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 56 (32.18%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.32%) Banking
6 7 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Law
8 5 (2.87%) Marketing
9 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Military
10 2 (1.15%) Automotive
10 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.15%) Police
10 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (29.89%) Analyst
2 35 (20.11%) Data Analyst
3 29 (16.67%) Developer
4 19 (10.92%) Data Engineer
4 19 (10.92%) Senior
5 16 (9.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 15 (8.62%) Architect
7 14 (8.05%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.60%) Consultant
9 8 (4.60%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.45%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Data Consultant
11 5 (2.87%) Data Visualisation Specialist
11 5 (2.87%) SQL Analyst
12 4 (2.30%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.30%) Administrator
12 4 (2.30%) Business Data Analyst
12 4 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) REST
2 6 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 6 (3.45%) TensorFlow
3 5 (2.87%) PySpark
4 4 (2.30%) .NET
4 4 (2.30%) CSS
4 4 (2.30%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.30%) Plotly
4 4 (2.30%) Seaborn
5 3 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.72%) HTML
5 3 (1.72%) Pandas
6 2 (1.15%) Jest
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) NumPy
6 2 (1.15%) React
6 2 (1.15%) RESTful
7 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.17%) Clustering
2 9 (5.17%) PKI
3 8 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.02%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.72%) Blog
8 3 (1.72%) Life Science
8 3 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.15%) CMDB
9 2 (1.15%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.15%) NHS
9 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Windows
1 9 (5.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 116 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (44.83%) Analytics
4 56 (32.18%) Data Modelling
5 49 (28.16%) Agile
6 42 (24.14%) Decision-Making
7 41 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.54%) Data Analysis
9 33 (18.97%) Actionable Insight
10 31 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (16.67%) Validation
12 27 (15.52%) AI
12 27 (15.52%) Dashboard Development
12 27 (15.52%) Data Engineering
13 26 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (14.37%) ETL
15 24 (13.79%) Data Governance
15 24 (13.79%) DevOps
16 23 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.25%) SQL
2 40 (22.99%) Python
3 16 (9.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.47%) R
5 10 (5.75%) C#
5 10 (5.75%) Java
6 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.72%) C++
7 3 (1.72%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.72%) Rust
7 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.72%) VBA
8 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.57%) C
9 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Degree
4 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) APMG
7 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.84%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.05%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
3 5 (2.87%) PMO
4 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.15%) SLA
5 2 (1.15%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 9 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.87%) Kibana
2 3 (1.72%) logstash
3 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.15%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 13 (7.47%) SAP
4 12 (6.90%) Oracle
5 9 (5.17%) BMC
5 9 (5.17%) Remedy
6 8 (4.60%) Databricks
7 5 (2.87%) Informatica
8 4 (2.30%) Google
8 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.72%) Adobe
9 3 (1.72%) Brio
9 3 (1.72%) Cognos
9 3 (1.72%) Foundry
9 3 (1.72%) Palantir
10 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Allen-Bradley
11 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.57%) Workday