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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 209 257
Rank change year-on-year -77 +48 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 153 135 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.06% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.17% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 81 90
10th Percentile £365 £315 £300
25th Percentile £408 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £625 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 3
10th Percentile £19.83 £24.35 £17.60
25th Percentile £28.35 £31.51 £20.16
Median hourly rate £67.50 £32.23 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +109.46% +31.91% +20.23%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.84 £28.84
90th Percentile £83.80 £82.25 £31.49
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £36.04 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.94% -15.21% +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 19,682 11,550 17,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.09% 90.47% 84.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,849 7,222 10,227
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £600
90th Percentile £681 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 831 2,055
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.32
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.74
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -60 41 £480 +6.08% 32
Midlands -48 38 £475 +11.76% 18
South East -43 33 £535 -2.73% 39
North West -24 25 £463 +1.65% 20
West Midlands -50 24 £500 +17.65% 8
South West -37 18 £475 +16.14% 13
East Midlands -21 14 £385 +4.90% 10
Yorkshire -60 13 £500 +14.94% 5
East of England -37 12 £463 +15.63% 5
Scotland -2 9 £450 -10.00% 4
North East -22 3 £400 -23.81% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 -
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 9 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.58%) Apache
2 7 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.92%) Apache Superset
4 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.31%) Confluence
4 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (18.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.96%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.31%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.65%) iTrent
4 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (54.90%) Power Platform
2 29 (18.95%) Azure
3 24 (15.69%) AWS
4 16 (10.46%) Power Automate
5 11 (7.19%) PowerApps
6 9 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.58%) GCP
7 7 (4.58%) Serverless
8 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.61%) Matillion
11 3 (1.96%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.96%) dbt
11 3 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.31%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
1 1 (0.65%) Internet
1 1 (0.65%) Intranet
1 1 (0.65%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (54.90%) Power BI
2 38 (24.84%) Tableau
3 24 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (9.80%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.84%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.19%) Metadata
7 10 (6.54%) Power Query
8 9 (5.88%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.58%) Big Data
10 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.61%) QlikView
12 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Git
2 4 (2.61%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 47 (30.72%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (18.30%) Finance
4 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.88%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Law
6 7 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Publishing
8 5 (3.27%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.96%) Automotive
9 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (33.33%) Analyst
2 31 (20.26%) Data Analyst
3 28 (18.30%) Developer
4 21 (13.73%) Senior
5 14 (9.15%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.23%) Architect
7 8 (5.23%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (3.92%) SIEM Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Consultant
9 5 (3.27%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (3.27%) Data Consultant
9 5 (3.27%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.27%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.61%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.61%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) REST
2 6 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.92%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.61%) .NET
3 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.61%) Pandas
3 4 (2.61%) Plotly
3 4 (2.61%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.96%) Akka
4 3 (1.96%) Matplotlib
4 3 (1.96%) React
4 3 (1.96%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.31%) CSS
5 2 (1.31%) Node.js
5 2 (1.31%) PySpark
5 2 (1.31%) RESTful
5 2 (1.31%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.65%) HTML
6 1 (0.65%) JDO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.58%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.27%) Clustering
4 5 (3.27%) PKI
4 5 (3.27%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.31%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.31%) Life Science
7 2 (1.31%) NHS
7 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Windows
1 5 (3.27%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 91 (59.48%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (39.87%) Analytics
4 56 (36.60%) Data Modelling
5 49 (32.03%) Agile
6 48 (31.37%) Decision-Making
7 39 (25.49%) Actionable Insight
8 38 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (19.61%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (18.95%) Data Analysis
11 26 (16.99%) Validation
12 25 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (16.34%) Dashboard Development
13 23 (15.03%) Data Governance
13 23 (15.03%) Data Science
13 23 (15.03%) ETL
14 22 (14.38%) AI
14 22 (14.38%) Data Engineering
15 21 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (48.37%) SQL
2 44 (28.76%) Python
3 16 (10.46%) R
4 12 (7.84%) C#
4 12 (7.84%) Java
5 11 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.19%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.92%) Perl
7 6 (3.92%) VBA
8 4 (2.61%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.96%) C++
9 3 (1.96%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.96%) Rust
9 3 (1.96%) Scala
9 3 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CIMA
8 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.88%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.15%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.61%) PMO
5 2 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (1.31%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.65%) P3O
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.96%) Docker
3 2 (1.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.88%) Kibana
2 6 (3.92%) logstash
3 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.96%) Ansible
4 3 (1.96%) Terraform
5 2 (1.31%) SCCM
6 1 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.84%) Databricks
2 12 (7.84%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.19%) SAP
4 10 (6.54%) Oracle
5 5 (3.27%) BMC
5 5 (3.27%) Remedy
6 4 (2.61%) Informatica
7 3 (1.96%) Adobe
7 3 (1.96%) Brio
7 3 (1.96%) Cognos
7 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.31%) Google
8 2 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.65%) Kepware
9 1 (0.65%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.65%) Siemens
9 1 (0.65%) Workday