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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 214 231
Rank change year-on-year -97 +17 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 170 153 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.12% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 97 99
10th Percentile £338 £291 £280
25th Percentile £400 £379 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £541
90th Percentile £675 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 1
10th Percentile £23.16 £21.10 -
25th Percentile £42.56 £27.24 £31.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £31.64 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.29% -2.65% +18.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.05 £33.75
90th Percentile £79.70 £36.26 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.91% -21.05% +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 22,336 13,666 15,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 89.17% 82.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,033 8,246 9,036
10th Percentile £300 £239 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,363 1,488
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.92 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.16 £16.45
Median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -49 55 £438 +10.47% 73
Midlands -36 40 £400 -3.03% 31
North West -19 32 £438 +17.11% 42
South East -59 31 £550 -4.35% 76
West Midlands -41 25 £455 -10.26% 23
South West -26 24 £450 - 44
Yorkshire -50 20 £480 +23.87% 22
East Midlands -11 15 £375 -9.09% 8
East of England -18 15 £463 -11.90% 23
Scotland -24 10 £430 -14.00% 18
North East -37 4 £375 -16.67% 9
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 6 (3.53%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.76%) Apache
2 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.76%) Confluence
2 3 (1.76%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (21.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.59%) iTrent
3 1 (0.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 111 (65.29%) Power Platform
2 31 (18.24%) Azure
3 22 (12.94%) AWS
4 11 (6.47%) Power Automate
4 11 (6.47%) Snowflake
5 9 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.12%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.53%) Serverless
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.94%) GCP
9 5 (2.94%) Matillion
10 4 (2.35%) GitHub
10 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.76%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.18%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Broadband
2 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) Intranet
2 1 (0.59%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (65.29%) Power BI
2 36 (21.18%) Tableau
3 21 (12.35%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (10.00%) Power Query
4 17 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.65%) Metadata
6 12 (7.06%) Data Lake
6 12 (7.06%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.71%) Data Mining
8 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.94%) Big Data
9 5 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.35%) QlikView
11 3 (1.76%) Parquet
11 3 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) JIRA
2 3 (1.76%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (35.88%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 35 (20.59%) Finance
4 13 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.71%) Banking
6 7 (4.12%) Law
6 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Military
8 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Automotive
9 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Local Government
9 2 (1.18%) Police
10 1 (0.59%) Billing
10 1 (0.59%) German Language
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (23.53%) Analyst
2 26 (15.29%) Developer
2 26 (15.29%) Senior
3 25 (14.71%) Data Engineer
4 24 (14.12%) Data Analyst
5 16 (9.41%) Architect
6 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 13 (7.65%) Power BI Developer
8 12 (7.06%) Consultant
8 12 (7.06%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.88%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 8 (4.71%) Data Consultant
10 8 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.94%) Lead
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.35%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.35%) Administrator
12 4 (2.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.18%) REST
2 5 (2.94%) HTML
2 5 (2.94%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.94%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.35%) .NET
3 4 (2.35%) CSS
3 4 (2.35%) Plotly
3 4 (2.35%) PySpark
4 3 (1.76%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.76%) Matplotlib
4 3 (1.76%) Pandas
4 3 (1.76%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.18%) Jest
5 2 (1.18%) JSON
5 2 (1.18%) Kafka
5 2 (1.18%) Node.js
5 2 (1.18%) NumPy
6 1 (0.59%) HTML5
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.47%) Reference Data
3 10 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.29%) Clustering
4 9 (5.29%) PKI
5 8 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.35%) CMDB
8 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.76%) Blog
10 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.18%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.18%) Life Science
10 2 (1.18%) NHS
10 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.29%) Windows
1 9 (5.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 113 (66.47%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (49.41%) Analytics
4 57 (33.53%) Data Modelling
5 44 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (25.29%) Decision-Making
7 40 (23.53%) Agile
8 31 (18.24%) AI
8 31 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (18.24%) Data Analysis
9 28 (16.47%) Data Engineering
10 27 (15.88%) Actionable Insight
10 27 (15.88%) Data Analytics
10 27 (15.88%) Data Governance
11 25 (14.71%) ETL
11 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (14.12%) Validation
13 23 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (12.35%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.12%) SQL
2 39 (22.94%) Python
3 18 (10.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.65%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.65%) R
5 10 (5.88%) Java
6 9 (5.29%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.71%) C#
8 3 (1.76%) C++
8 3 (1.76%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.76%) Rust
8 3 (1.76%) Scala
8 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) VBA
10 1 (0.59%) C
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.35%) Degree
3 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) APMG
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.29%) QA
3 7 (4.12%) GDPR
4 4 (2.35%) GRC
4 4 (2.35%) PMO
5 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.18%) WCAG
7 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Kibana
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.00%) SAP
2 17 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 12 (7.06%) Oracle
4 9 (5.29%) BMC
4 9 (5.29%) Databricks
4 9 (5.29%) Remedy
5 6 (3.53%) Google
6 5 (2.94%) Informatica
7 3 (1.76%) Foundry
7 3 (1.76%) Palantir
8 2 (1.18%) Ariba
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.59%) Brio
9 1 (0.59%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.59%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.59%) Siemens
9 1 (0.59%) Teradata
9 1 (0.59%) Workday