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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 216 204
Rank change year-on-year -87 -12 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 182 167 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.07% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.19% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 108 108
10th Percentile £316 £296 £263
25th Percentile £372 £362 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £548
90th Percentile £684 £625 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 2
10th Percentile £21.77 £16.90 £20.97
25th Percentile £39.91 £20.67 £22.69
Median hourly rate £54.40 £30.00 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +81.33% +14.66% -0.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.36 £30.27
90th Percentile £73.38 £48.88 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £38.23 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.79% -10.05% +31.50%

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 22,918 14,001 14,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.93% 89.33% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,844 8,425 8,297
10th Percentile £300 £230 £238
25th Percentile £409 £368 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £671 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,818 1,516 1,106
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.12 £18.15
Median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%
75th Percentile £66.00 £40.65 £66.61
90th Percentile £77.50 £66.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -79 53 £425 +11.48% 92
Midlands -31 42 £455 -10.26% 79
South East -63 36 £563 -6.25% 136
West Midlands -22 29 £470 -8.56% 60
North West -45 28 £438 +16.80% 39
South West -19 25 £475 +18.75% 50
Scotland -36 15 £408 -14.21% 42
Yorkshire -54 15 £460 +20.66% 36
East Midlands -10 13 £300 -27.27% 19
East of England -24 13 £465 -11.43% 50
North East -32 11 £350 -12.50% 17
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 27
Wales -15 2 £356 +95.21% 22
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 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.65%) Confluence
1 3 (1.65%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (22.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.55%) iTrent
3 1 (0.55%) Primavera
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (69.23%) Power Platform
2 36 (19.78%) Azure
3 19 (10.44%) AWS
4 14 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 11 (6.04%) Power Automate
6 10 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (3.85%) Google Analytics
8 7 (3.85%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.30%) Copilot Studio
9 6 (3.30%) GitHub
10 5 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.75%) GCP
10 5 (2.75%) Serverless
11 4 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.20%) Matillion
12 3 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.20%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (69.23%) Power BI
2 37 (20.33%) Tableau
3 26 (14.29%) Power Query
4 17 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.24%) Metadata
5 15 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.59%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.40%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.20%) Big Data
10 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.65%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.65%) QlikView
11 3 (1.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) JIRA
2 4 (2.20%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (36.26%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.58%) Finance
4 20 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.04%) Banking
6 6 (3.30%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.75%) Military
7 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Law
8 3 (1.65%) Local Government
8 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.10%) Automotive
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.10%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 44 (24.18%) Analyst
2 31 (17.03%) Developer
3 26 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 26 (14.29%) Senior
4 25 (13.74%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 18 (9.89%) Power BI Developer
7 13 (7.14%) Architect
8 12 (6.59%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.04%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 9 (4.95%) Consultant
10 9 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Performance Analyst
12 6 (3.30%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.30%) Lead
12 6 (3.30%) Report Analyst
13 5 (2.75%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.75%) Data Consultant
13 5 (2.75%) Senior Manager
14 4 (2.20%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.34%) REST
2 5 (2.75%) HTML
3 4 (2.20%) CSS
3 4 (2.20%) PySpark
3 4 (2.20%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.20%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.10%) .NET
4 2 (1.10%) Jest
4 2 (1.10%) JSON
4 2 (1.10%) Kafka
4 2 (1.10%) Pandas
4 2 (1.10%) Plotly
4 2 (1.10%) React
4 2 (1.10%) SOAP
5 1 (0.55%) Faiss
5 1 (0.55%) HTML5
5 1 (0.55%) LangChain
5 1 (0.55%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.34%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.04%) Reference Data
3 9 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.85%) Clustering
5 7 (3.85%) PKI
6 6 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.20%) CMDB
8 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.20%) Social Media
9 3 (1.65%) Blog
9 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.10%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.10%) Life Science
10 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.10%) NHS
10 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.40%) Windows
1 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 130 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (55.49%) Analytics
4 70 (38.46%) Data Modelling
5 54 (29.67%) Decision-Making
6 50 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (23.08%) Agile
8 38 (20.88%) AI
9 37 (20.33%) Data Analysis
10 35 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (18.13%) Actionable Insight
12 32 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (17.03%) Data Analytics
14 28 (15.38%) Data Governance
15 27 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
16 26 (14.29%) Data Engineering
17 24 (13.19%) ETL
17 24 (13.19%) Validation
18 23 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 85 (46.70%) SQL
2 43 (23.63%) Python
3 28 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.49%) R
6 9 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.40%) Java
8 7 (3.85%) C#
9 3 (1.65%) Scala
10 2 (1.10%) C++
10 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) Rust
11 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.09%) Degree
4 10 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.10%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) APMG
8 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (25.82%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.14%) QA
3 9 (4.95%) GDPR
4 4 (2.20%) GRC
4 4 (2.20%) PMO
5 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.10%) GMP
6 2 (1.10%) WCAG
7 1 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.55%) GxP
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 7 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.65%) Kibana
2 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) SAP
3 11 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.49%) Google
5 8 (4.40%) Oracle
6 7 (3.85%) BMC
6 7 (3.85%) Remedy
7 6 (3.30%) Databricks
8 5 (2.75%) Informatica
9 4 (2.20%) Adobe
9 4 (2.20%) Ariba
9 4 (2.20%) Splunk
10 3 (1.65%) Foundry
10 3 (1.65%) Palantir
11 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.55%) Brio
12 1 (0.55%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.55%) GoldenSource
12 1 (0.55%) Teradata
12 1 (0.55%) Workday