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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 210 266
Rank change year-on-year -26 +56 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 177 161 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.98% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.15% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 106 102
10th Percentile £308 £315 £276
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.74% -
75th Percentile £525 £545 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £459 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -6.43% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £20.34 £22.11 £21.03
25th Percentile £28.21 £25.54 £22.19
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +14.04% -8.75%
75th Percentile £65.31 £35.06 £37.13
90th Percentile £74.35 £35.85 £49.88
UK median hourly rate £47.87 £33.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -3.21% -30.01%

All Process and 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 15,506 14,029 17,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.39% 85.17% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,424 8,005 11,616
10th Percentile £219 £243 £250
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,752 914 1,257
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.43 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +41.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -33 62 £375 -16.67% 28
South East +3 39 £600 +21.21% 94
Yorkshire -21 34 £325 -27.78% 7
North West -32 26 £388 -14.27% 18
Scotland +5 24 £450 -16.28% 9
Midlands -23 22 £500 +19.40% 41
West Midlands -27 13 £511 +23.82% 22
East of England -12 12 £525 +23.53% 16
South West -6 10 £400 -30.43% 29
East Midlands -10 9 £413 -17.50% 18
Wales - 5 - - 6
Northern Ireland -14 4 £475 -5.00% 3
North East -10 2 £400 -28.89% 4
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 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Pig
3 5 (2.82%) Apache
4 4 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.13%) Confluence
5 2 (1.13%) SAS
5 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 37 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.13%) Maple
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 96 (54.24%) Power Platform
2 45 (25.42%) Azure
3 22 (12.43%) AWS
4 18 (10.17%) GCP
5 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
5 7 (3.95%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.39%) Figma
6 6 (3.39%) GitHub
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.82%) Serverless
8 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.69%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) MQTT
2 2 (1.13%) 2G
2 2 (1.13%) 5G
2 2 (1.13%) LTE
2 2 (1.13%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (53.67%) Power BI
2 43 (24.29%) Tableau
3 25 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (13.56%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.47%) Power Query
6 12 (6.78%) Hadoop
7 11 (6.21%) Big Data
8 9 (5.08%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.08%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.95%) Apache Hive
9 7 (3.95%) Looker
9 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.39%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.82%) Metadata
11 5 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.26%) QlikView
12 4 (2.26%) Spotfire
13 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 6 (3.39%) Gradle
2 6 (3.39%) Storybook
2 6 (3.39%) Xcode
3 4 (2.26%) JIRA
4 3 (1.69%) MLflow
5 2 (1.13%) Selenium
5 2 (1.13%) webpack
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (27.12%) Finance
4 18 (10.17%) Banking
5 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.21%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.65%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.39%) Legal
10 5 (2.82%) Billing
10 5 (2.82%) Retail
11 4 (2.26%) Military
11 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.69%) Local Government
12 3 (1.69%) Marketing
13 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.13%) Automotive
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (34.46%) Analyst
2 48 (27.12%) Data Analyst
3 43 (24.29%) Developer
4 16 (9.04%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.47%) Data Scientist
6 14 (7.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 13 (7.34%) Lead
8 11 (6.21%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.08%) Architect
10 8 (4.52%) Senior
11 7 (3.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) React Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (3.39%) Power BI Analyst
12 6 (3.39%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.82%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.82%) Consultant
14 4 (2.26%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.21%) Pandas
2 10 (5.65%) D3.js
2 10 (5.65%) scikit-learn
3 7 (3.95%) NumPy
3 7 (3.95%) React Native
4 6 (3.39%) OAuth
4 6 (3.39%) SVG
4 6 (3.39%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.82%) PySpark
6 4 (2.26%) React
6 4 (2.26%) REST
7 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.69%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.69%) Web Services
8 2 (1.13%) Akka
8 2 (1.13%) Celery
8 2 (1.13%) Next.js
8 2 (1.13%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.13%) Sass
8 2 (1.13%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.82%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.65%) CMDB
2 10 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.52%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.82%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.82%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.69%) Equities
9 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.13%) IoT
9 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.56%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Android
1 6 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.82%) Linux
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 99 (55.93%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (47.46%) Analytics
4 61 (34.46%) Decision-Making
5 58 (32.77%) Data Analysis
6 55 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (26.55%) Data Modelling
8 45 (25.42%) Agile
9 42 (23.73%) Machine Learning
10 41 (23.16%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (18.64%) Data Science
12 26 (14.69%) Dashboard Development
12 26 (14.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 25 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (13.56%) ETL
15 21 (11.86%) AI
15 21 (11.86%) Statistics
16 20 (11.30%) Data Management
16 20 (11.30%) DevOps
17 18 (10.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 100 (56.50%) SQL
2 78 (44.07%) Python
3 14 (7.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.21%) Scala
5 10 (5.65%) Java
5 10 (5.65%) R
6 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.26%) PHP
8 2 (1.13%) C#
8 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.56%) LookML
9 1 (0.56%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.56%) Degree
2 12 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.52%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) ACCA
6 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.13%) CIMA
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.95%) GDPR
4 5 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.69%) QA
6 2 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) P3O
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Grafana
2 6 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.26%) Terraform
4 3 (1.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) logstash
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.34%) Google
3 12 (6.78%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.65%) Databricks
4 10 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.08%) SAP
6 8 (4.52%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.52%) Splunk
7 5 (2.82%) Oracle
8 4 (2.26%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.69%) Cognos
10 2 (1.13%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.13%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.13%) Informatica
10 2 (1.13%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.13%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.13%) Okta
10 2 (1.13%) Talend
10 2 (1.13%) Workday
11 1 (0.56%) Anaplan