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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 203 275
Rank change year-on-year -81 +72 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 159 144 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.13% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.25% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 88 83
10th Percentile £355 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £399 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £588 £629 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 3
10th Percentile £20.50 £24.35 £17.60
25th Percentile £31.50 £31.51 £20.16
Median hourly rate £67.35 £32.23 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +108.98% +31.91% -13.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 £35.90 £28.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.25 £31.49
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.91% -19.58% +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 19,398 11,529 17,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.33% 90.44% 84.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 7,259 10,486
10th Percentile £286 £235 £247
25th Percentile £400 £378 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,057 817 2,028
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.10 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -22.17% -0.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -71 45 £475 +4.40% 39
Midlands -45 40 £450 +5.88% 28
South East -47 33 £516 +3.25% 57
North West -23 29 £420 -13.50% 32
West Midlands -49 24 £488 +14.71% 16
East Midlands -26 16 £375 +2.18% 12
East of England -36 14 £475 +18.90% 8
South West -50 14 £450 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire -62 14 £500 +16.28% 2
Scotland -9 11 £495 -5.71% 2
Northern Ireland +6 2 £463 - 4
North East -24 2 - - 5
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 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.03%) Apache
3 7 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.77%) Apache Superset
5 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.26%) Confluence
6 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.52%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.26%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.63%) iTrent
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.46%) Power Platform
2 26 (16.35%) Azure
3 21 (13.21%) AWS
4 16 (10.06%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.55%) PowerApps
6 9 (5.66%) GCP
7 8 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.40%) Serverless
9 6 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.89%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.89%) dbt
11 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.26%) Matillion
12 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) 2G
1 1 (0.63%) 5G
1 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) Internet
1 1 (0.63%) Intranet
1 1 (0.63%) LTE
1 1 (0.63%) Mobile Backhaul
1 1 (0.63%) Modbus
1 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (53.46%) Power BI
2 41 (25.79%) Tableau
3 25 (15.72%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.29%) Metadata
5 10 (6.29%) Power Query
5 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.03%) Big Data
6 8 (5.03%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.40%) Hadoop
8 6 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.52%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.52%) QlikView
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (5.66%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 56 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 49 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.50%) Finance
4 15 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.66%) Law
6 9 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.77%) Marketing
7 6 (3.77%) Publishing
8 4 (2.52%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.52%) Military
9 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.26%) Automotive
10 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (33.96%) Analyst
2 33 (20.75%) Data Analyst
3 31 (19.50%) Developer
4 18 (11.32%) Senior
5 13 (8.18%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.29%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (3.77%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Consultant
9 6 (3.77%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.14%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.14%) Lead
10 5 (3.14%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.14%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.52%) Business Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.66%) REST
2 6 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.77%) Pandas
3 5 (3.14%) .NET
3 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.14%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.52%) Plotly
5 3 (1.89%) Matplotlib
5 3 (1.89%) React
5 3 (1.89%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.89%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.26%) Akka
6 2 (1.26%) CSS
6 2 (1.26%) Node.js
6 2 (1.26%) NumPy
6 2 (1.26%) PySpark
6 2 (1.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.26%) RESTful
7 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.14%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.89%) Clustering
5 3 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.89%) PKI
5 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.26%) IoT
6 2 (1.26%) Life Science
6 2 (1.26%) NHS
6 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Linux
2 5 (3.14%) Unix
3 3 (1.89%) Windows
3 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 98 (61.64%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (38.99%) Analytics
4 53 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 49 (30.82%) Decision-Making
6 47 (29.56%) Agile
7 42 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (23.90%) Actionable Insight
9 35 (22.01%) Data Analysis
10 29 (18.24%) Dashboard Development
11 28 (17.61%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (15.09%) Validation
13 23 (14.47%) Data Science
13 23 (14.47%) ETL
14 20 (12.58%) Data Governance
14 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (11.95%) Data Engineering
16 18 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 78 (49.06%) SQL
2 50 (31.45%) Python
3 16 (10.06%) R
4 13 (8.18%) C#
5 11 (6.92%) Java
6 10 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.77%) Perl
8 6 (3.77%) VBA
9 4 (2.52%) PHP
9 4 (2.52%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.89%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.89%) Rust
10 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 26 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ACCA
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.38%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.06%) QA
3 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.52%) PMO
5 2 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (1.26%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.63%) P3O
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.03%) Kibana
1 8 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.77%) logstash
3 4 (2.52%) Grafana
4 3 (1.89%) Ansible
4 3 (1.89%) Terraform
5 2 (1.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.18%) Databricks
3 11 (6.92%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.66%) SAP
6 6 (3.77%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.52%) Google
8 3 (1.89%) Adobe
8 3 (1.89%) BMC
8 3 (1.89%) Brio
8 3 (1.89%) Cognos
8 3 (1.89%) Remedy
9 2 (1.26%) Informatica
9 2 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.63%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.63%) Siemens
10 1 (0.63%) Workday
156 Data Visualisation jobs in the UK excluding London