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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 188 283
Rank change year-on-year -68 +95 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 169 159 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.19% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.32% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 104 88
10th Percentile £325 £315 £311
25th Percentile £381 £367 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £538 £562
90th Percentile £627 £596 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 5
10th Percentile £17.13 £22.42 £15.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £26.62 £16.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.03 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +54.28% +39.30% +20.23%
75th Percentile £82.25 £70.78 £33.25
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £42.55
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £32.81 £35.32
% change year-on-year +51.63% -7.09% -39.63%

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 17,149 12,009 18,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.06% 89.63% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,415 7,213 11,182
10th Percentile £250 £230 £249
25th Percentile £390 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.50% -
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 1,841 652 1,781
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -58 55 £420 -9.68% 30
South East -11 36 £510 +23.64% 86
North West -34 34 £416 -10.48% 24
Midlands -42 32 £488 +18.18% 28
West Midlands -44 23 £500 +21.21% 18
Scotland +7 18 £420 -6.67% 2
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 +19.76% 5
East of England -27 13 £488 +21.95% 7
East Midlands -22 9 £395 +7.63% 10
South West -37 8 £370 -9.54% 15
Northern Ireland -7 5 £463 -11.90% 1
Wales -1 3 - - 2
North East -22 3 £400 -25.58% 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 14 (8.28%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.14%) Apache
3 6 (3.55%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.37%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.18%) Confluence
6 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (17.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.75%) Power Platform
2 37 (21.89%) Azure
3 19 (11.24%) AWS
4 12 (7.10%) GCP
4 12 (7.10%) Power Automate
5 10 (5.92%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.96%) Serverless
8 4 (2.37%) Figma
8 4 (2.37%) GitHub
8 4 (2.37%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.78%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.78%) dbt
9 3 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) 2G
1 2 (1.18%) 5G
1 2 (1.18%) LTE
1 2 (1.18%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.18%) VoIP
2 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (46.75%) Power BI
2 35 (20.71%) Tableau
3 21 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.43%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.10%) Hadoop
5 11 (6.51%) Big Data
6 9 (5.33%) Metadata
7 8 (4.73%) Data Mining
8 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.14%) Power Query
9 6 (3.55%) Apache Hive
9 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.37%) Impala
10 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.78%) Looker
11 3 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.78%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Git
2 4 (2.37%) Gradle
2 4 (2.37%) Storybook
2 4 (2.37%) Xcode
3 3 (1.78%) JIRA
3 3 (1.78%) MLflow
General
1 60 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (20.12%) Finance
4 18 (10.65%) Banking
5 16 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.14%) Marketing
7 7 (4.14%) Publishing
8 6 (3.55%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.96%) Legal
10 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.37%) Law
10 4 (2.37%) Military
10 4 (2.37%) Retail
11 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) Analyst
2 47 (27.81%) Data Analyst
3 35 (20.71%) Developer
4 15 (8.88%) Data Scientist
5 12 (7.10%) Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Senior
7 10 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.14%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
9 7 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Lead
10 6 (3.55%) SIEM Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Report Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.92%) Pandas
2 9 (5.33%) scikit-learn
3 8 (4.73%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.37%) D3.js
5 4 (2.37%) NumPy
5 4 (2.37%) OAuth
5 4 (2.37%) React Native
5 4 (2.37%) REST
5 4 (2.37%) SVG
6 3 (1.78%) Akka
6 3 (1.78%) Plotly
6 3 (1.78%) PySpark
6 3 (1.78%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.78%) React
7 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.18%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.18%) RESTful
7 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.18%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.88%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.51%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.33%) CMDB
4 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.96%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.37%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.78%) Equities
9 3 (1.78%) IoT
9 3 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.37%) Android
2 4 (2.37%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.37%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 96 (56.80%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (40.83%) Analytics
4 52 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 51 (30.18%) Agile
6 50 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (28.99%) Data Modelling
8 44 (26.04%) Data Analysis
9 41 (24.26%) Actionable Insight
10 29 (17.16%) Machine Learning
11 28 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (15.98%) Dashboard Development
13 26 (15.38%) Data Science
14 21 (12.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 20 (11.83%) AI
16 19 (11.24%) Data Architecture
16 19 (11.24%) ETL
17 18 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
17 18 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 18 (10.65%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 92 (54.44%) SQL
2 63 (37.28%) Python
3 13 (7.69%) Java
3 13 (7.69%) R
4 10 (5.92%) C#
4 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (4.14%) Scala
7 6 (3.55%) Perl
7 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.55%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.96%) VBA
9 4 (2.37%) PHP
10 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.59%) LookML
11 1 (0.59%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.06%) Degree
3 13 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) ACCA
8 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.59%) CIMA
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.93%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.51%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.51%) QA
3 3 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.59%) P3O
5 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.33%) Kibana
2 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.14%) Terraform
3 6 (3.55%) logstash
4 4 (2.37%) Grafana
5 3 (1.78%) Ansible
6 2 (1.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) Databricks
3 12 (7.10%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.51%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.14%) Google
5 7 (4.14%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.37%) Adobe
6 4 (2.37%) Cognos
6 4 (2.37%) Splunk
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle
8 2 (1.18%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.18%) Brio
8 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.18%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.18%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.18%) Okta
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
8 2 (1.18%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.59%) Workday