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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 191 276
Rank change year-on-year -96 +85 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 157 150 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.19% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.31% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 96 81
10th Percentile £354 £323 £308
25th Percentile £394 £384 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £631 £625
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 3
10th Percentile £19.15 £30.18 £17.60
25th Percentile £25.21 £31.64 £20.16
Median hourly rate £67.35 £32.81 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +105.26% +34.30% -13.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 £36.38 £28.84
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £31.49
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £33.11 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.60% -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 18,625 11,446 17,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.45% 90.56% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,299 10,894
10th Percentile £275 £241 £238
25th Percentile £400 £379 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,937 748 1,944
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.99 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.28 £70.47
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -63 46 £469 +3.02% 32
Midlands -42 39 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -43 32 £516 +3.25% 47
North West -39 29 £420 -9.68% 23
West Midlands -53 24 £475 +11.76% 14
East Midlands -19 15 £385 +4.90% 18
East of England -41 14 £463 +15.77% 6
Yorkshire -59 14 £500 +17.65% 7
Scotland -2 11 £425 -15.00% 6
South West -44 11 £450 -5.26% 12
Northern Ireland -1 3 £463 - 3
North East -18 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -11 1 - - 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 10 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.10%) Apache
2 8 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.82%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.96%) Power Platform
2 26 (16.56%) Azure
3 20 (12.74%) AWS
4 17 (10.83%) Power Automate
5 13 (8.28%) PowerApps
6 10 (6.37%) GCP
7 6 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.82%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.18%) Serverless
9 3 (1.91%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.91%) dbt
9 3 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) 2G
1 2 (1.27%) 5G
1 2 (1.27%) LTE
1 2 (1.27%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.27%) VoIP
2 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) Intranet
2 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (50.96%) Power BI
2 35 (22.29%) Tableau
3 23 (14.65%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (10.19%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.37%) Big Data
5 10 (6.37%) Metadata
6 9 (5.73%) Power Query
7 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.46%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.46%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.55%) Data Mining
11 4 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.55%) QlikView
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.91%) Metabase
12 3 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Git
2 5 (3.18%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 58 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (19.11%) Finance
4 17 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.01%) Banking
6 10 (6.37%) Law
7 7 (4.46%) Publishing
8 6 (3.82%) Marketing
9 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Military
11 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.91%) Retail
12 2 (1.27%) Automotive
12 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (33.76%) Analyst
2 33 (21.02%) Developer
3 32 (20.38%) Data Analyst
4 16 (10.19%) Senior
5 12 (7.64%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.37%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.46%) Architect
9 7 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.82%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.82%) Consultant
10 6 (3.82%) Lead
10 6 (3.82%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.82%) SIEM Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (3.18%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.55%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.55%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) REST
2 6 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.82%) Pandas
3 5 (3.18%) .NET
3 5 (3.18%) Plotly
3 5 (3.18%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.91%) Akka
5 3 (1.91%) Matplotlib
5 3 (1.91%) NumPy
5 3 (1.91%) React
5 3 (1.91%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.91%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.27%) Node.js
6 2 (1.27%) PySpark
6 2 (1.27%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.64%) Next.js
7 1 (0.64%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.18%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.55%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.91%) CMDB
6 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.91%) IoT
6 3 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Life Science
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 97 (61.78%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (39.49%) Analytics
4 47 (29.94%) Data Modelling
4 47 (29.94%) Decision-Making
5 46 (29.30%) Agile
5 46 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (24.20%) Actionable Insight
7 36 (22.93%) Data Analysis
8 29 (18.47%) Dashboard Development
9 25 (15.92%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (15.29%) ETL
11 21 (13.38%) Data Science
12 20 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (12.74%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (11.46%) Data Governance
15 17 (10.83%) Validation
16 16 (10.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.96%) SQL
2 46 (29.30%) Python
3 15 (9.55%) R
4 13 (8.28%) C#
5 11 (7.01%) Java
6 9 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.10%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.82%) Perl
8 6 (3.82%) VBA
9 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.55%) PHP
11 3 (1.91%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.91%) Rust
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.64%) C++
13 1 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.83%) Degree
3 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.64%) ACCA
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) CIMA
7 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.93%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.64%) QA
3 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.55%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.64%) P3O
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Kibana
2 7 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.82%) logstash
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.91%) Ansible
5 3 (1.91%) Terraform
6 2 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) Databricks
3 11 (7.01%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.10%) Oracle
5 6 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.55%) Adobe
6 4 (2.55%) SAP
7 3 (1.91%) Brio
7 3 (1.91%) Cognos
7 3 (1.91%) Google
8 2 (1.27%) BMC
8 2 (1.27%) Remedy
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
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
137 Data Visualisation jobs in the UK excluding London