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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 202 248
Rank change year-on-year -86 +46 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 161 134 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 1.06% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.16% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 80 94
10th Percentile £361 £315 £302
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £626 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 2
10th Percentile £20.16 £24.35 £16.74
25th Percentile £29.93 £31.51 £18.03
Median hourly rate £67.42 £32.23 £20.16
Median % change year-on-year +109.22% +59.85% -16.83%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.84 £22.30
90th Percentile £83.78 £82.25 £23.58
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £33.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +64.60% -22.09% +31.58%

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 20,214 11,509 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.29% 90.67% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,094 7,218 10,220
10th Percentile £300 £234 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 820 2,102
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.19 £12.38
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.95 £15.29
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -65 44 £490 +8.29% 34
Midlands -52 38 £481 +14.93% 11
South East -46 34 £520 +4.00% 33
North West -29 27 £420 -7.69% 19
West Midlands -47 26 £500 +17.65% 7
South West -33 20 £475 +16.14% 12
Yorkshire -55 14 £500 +14.94% 9
East Midlands -27 12 £385 -1.22% 4
East of England -33 12 £463 +15.63% 8
Scotland 0 11 £450 -10.00% 5
North East -27 3 £400 -23.81% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 - 1
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 10 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.35%) Apache
2 7 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.73%) Apache Superset
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
4 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.86%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.62%) iTrent
4 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 29 (18.01%) Azure
3 23 (14.29%) AWS
4 17 (10.56%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.45%) PowerApps
6 11 (6.83%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.35%) Serverless
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.11%) GCP
9 5 (3.11%) Matillion
9 5 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.86%) dbt
10 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.24%) GitHub
11 2 (1.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) Internet
1 1 (0.62%) Intranet
1 1 (0.62%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (57.14%) Power BI
2 41 (25.47%) Tableau
3 25 (15.53%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (9.94%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 12 (7.45%) Power Query
7 11 (6.83%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.83%) Metadata
8 8 (4.97%) Big Data
9 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.73%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.48%) QlikView
11 4 (2.48%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 49 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.39%) Finance
4 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.59%) Banking
5 9 (5.59%) Law
6 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Publishing
8 4 (2.48%) Marketing
9 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.86%) Automotive
9 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Retail
10 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Electronics
11 1 (0.62%) Front Office
11 1 (0.62%) German Language
11 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) Analyst
2 33 (20.50%) Data Analyst
3 30 (18.63%) Developer
4 21 (13.04%) Senior
5 15 (9.32%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Architect
6 9 (5.59%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.59%) Data Scientist
7 8 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
8 7 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Consultant
10 5 (3.11%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.11%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.48%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.83%) REST
2 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.73%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.48%) .NET
3 4 (2.48%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.48%) CSS
3 4 (2.48%) Pandas
3 4 (2.48%) Plotly
3 4 (2.48%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.86%) Akka
4 3 (1.86%) HTML
4 3 (1.86%) Matplotlib
4 3 (1.86%) PySpark
4 3 (1.86%) React
4 3 (1.86%) RESTful
4 3 (1.86%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.24%) Jest
5 2 (1.24%) Node.js
5 2 (1.24%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.62%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.97%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.73%) Clustering
4 6 (3.73%) PKI
4 6 (3.73%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.86%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.24%) Life Science
8 2 (1.24%) NHS
8 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.73%) Windows
1 6 (3.73%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.86%) Linux
3 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 99 (61.49%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (40.99%) Analytics
4 58 (36.02%) Data Modelling
5 54 (33.54%) Agile
6 48 (29.81%) Decision-Making
7 40 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (23.60%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (19.88%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (18.63%) Data Analysis
11 28 (17.39%) Validation
12 26 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (15.53%) AI
13 25 (15.53%) Dashboard Development
14 24 (14.91%) Data Governance
14 24 (14.91%) ETL
15 23 (14.29%) Data Engineering
16 22 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (13.04%) Data Science
17 21 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 80 (49.69%) SQL
2 44 (27.33%) Python
3 16 (9.94%) R
4 12 (7.45%) C#
4 12 (7.45%) Java
4 12 (7.45%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.73%) Perl
6 6 (3.73%) VBA
7 4 (2.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.86%) C++
8 3 (1.86%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.86%) Rust
8 3 (1.86%) Scala
9 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.56%) Degree
2 17 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) ACCA
7 1 (0.62%) CIMA
7 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.98%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.32%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.48%) PMO
5 2 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.24%) SLA
5 2 (1.24%) WCAG
6 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.59%) Kibana
2 6 (3.73%) logstash
3 4 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.86%) Ansible
4 3 (1.86%) Terraform
5 2 (1.24%) SCCM
6 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Databricks
2 13 (8.07%) SAP
3 12 (7.45%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.83%) Oracle
5 6 (3.73%) BMC
5 6 (3.73%) Remedy
6 5 (3.11%) Informatica
7 3 (1.86%) Adobe
7 3 (1.86%) Brio
7 3 (1.86%) Cognos
7 3 (1.86%) Google
7 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.62%) Palantir
9 1 (0.62%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.62%) UiPath
9 1 (0.62%) Workday