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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 189 286
Rank change year-on-year -82 +97 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 156 155 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.22% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.34% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 102 86
10th Percentile £331 £315 £292
25th Percentile £393 £372 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £470
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -7.98% -6.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £624 £624
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 4
10th Percentile £19.83 £30.18 £15.92
25th Percentile £27.60 £31.64 £15.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £32.81 £20.22
Median % change year-on-year +82.87% +62.31% -28.21%
75th Percentile £82.25 £36.38 £26.64
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £30.60
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £33.11 £36.50
% change year-on-year +50.26% -9.29% -27.01%

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 18,248 11,542 17,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.99% 90.50% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,123 7,288 10,969
10th Percentile £263 £243 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,903 717 1,925
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £12.49
25th Percentile £18.09 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -73 46 £463 -2.75% 33
Midlands -46 35 £463 +12.12% 27
South East -39 31 £511 +12.05% 61
North West -30 29 £441 -11.06% 25
West Midlands -53 24 £500 +19.40% 13
Scotland +4 14 £402 -19.55% 7
East of England -27 14 £463 +15.77% 5
Yorkshire -53 14 £500 +21.95% 6
East Midlands -26 11 £395 +7.63% 14
South West -42 8 £450 -5.26% 13
Northern Ireland 0 5 £463 -11.90% 4
Wales -5 3 - - 1
North East -20 3 £400 -23.81% 2
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 15 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.77%) Apache
3 7 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.92%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.28%) Confluence
5 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (19.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.28%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (48.08%) Power Platform
2 24 (15.38%) Azure
3 23 (14.74%) AWS
4 13 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.69%) GCP
6 11 (7.05%) PowerApps
7 8 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.85%) Serverless
9 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.92%) dbt
11 3 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) 2G
1 2 (1.28%) 5G
1 2 (1.28%) LTE
1 2 (1.28%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.28%) VoIP
2 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (48.08%) Power BI
2 34 (21.79%) Tableau
3 23 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.69%) Big Data
6 9 (5.77%) Hadoop
6 9 (5.77%) Metadata
7 8 (5.13%) Power Query
8 7 (4.49%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.56%) Data Mining
11 4 (2.56%) Impala
11 4 (2.56%) QlikView
11 4 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (1.28%) Kdb+
13 2 (1.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Git
2 4 (2.56%) JIRA
3 3 (1.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 56 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (21.79%) Finance
4 16 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.97%) Banking
6 7 (4.49%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.49%) Publishing
7 6 (3.85%) Law
7 6 (3.85%) Marketing
8 4 (2.56%) Military
8 4 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.92%) Retail
10 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Automotive
11 1 (0.64%) Electronics
11 1 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (35.90%) Analyst
2 37 (23.72%) Data Analyst
3 32 (20.51%) Developer
4 13 (8.33%) Senior
5 12 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.85%) Lead
9 6 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (3.85%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.21%) Architect
10 5 (3.21%) Consultant
10 5 (3.21%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.21%) SQL Analyst
11 4 (2.56%) Perl Developer
11 4 (2.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.41%) Pandas
2 8 (5.13%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.13%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.21%) NumPy
4 5 (3.21%) REST
5 4 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.92%) .NET
6 3 (1.92%) Akka
6 3 (1.92%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.92%) Plotly
6 3 (1.92%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.92%) React
6 3 (1.92%) Seaborn
7 2 (1.28%) Node.js
7 2 (1.28%) PySpark
7 2 (1.28%) RESTful
7 2 (1.28%) Torch
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.05%) Algorithms
1 11 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.21%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (3.21%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.56%) CMDB
6 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.92%) Equities
6 3 (1.92%) IoT
6 3 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.28%) NHS
7 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 92 (58.97%) Business Intelligence
3 65 (41.67%) Analytics
4 50 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (31.41%) Decision-Making
6 47 (30.13%) Data Modelling
7 46 (29.49%) Agile
8 41 (26.28%) Actionable Insight
9 40 (25.64%) Data Analysis
10 28 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
12 24 (15.38%) ETL
13 23 (14.74%) Data Science
13 23 (14.74%) Machine Learning
14 19 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (11.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 18 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
15 18 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (10.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.85%) SQL
2 57 (36.54%) Python
3 16 (10.26%) R
4 10 (6.41%) C#
4 10 (6.41%) Java
5 9 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.85%) Perl
6 6 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.21%) VBA
8 4 (2.56%) PHP
8 4 (2.56%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.92%) Scala
10 2 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (12.82%) Degree
2 17 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) ACCA
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) CIMA
8 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.05%) QA
3 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.92%) PMO
5 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.64%) P3O
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.77%) Kibana
2 7 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.49%) Terraform
3 6 (3.85%) logstash
4 4 (2.56%) Grafana
5 3 (1.92%) Ansible
6 2 (1.28%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.33%) Databricks
3 8 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.85%) Oracle
4 6 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.21%) Google
6 4 (2.56%) Adobe
7 3 (1.92%) Cognos
8 2 (1.28%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.28%) Brio
8 2 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.28%) SAP
8 2 (1.28%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.64%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.64%) Informatica
9 1 (0.64%) Kepware
9 1 (0.64%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.64%) Siemens
9 1 (0.64%) Talend