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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 203 273
Rank change year-on-year -28 +70 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 176 163 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.02% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.19% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 108 101
10th Percentile £313 £306 £275
25th Percentile £375 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.74% -
75th Percentile £525 £548 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% -3.30% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 12
10th Percentile £19.90 £22.11 £21.03
25th Percentile £23.43 £25.54 £22.19
Median hourly rate £31.25 £32.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% -8.75%
75th Percentile £57.81 £35.06 £37.13
90th Percentile £71.45 £35.85 £49.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.48% +0.71% -38.87%

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 15,627 13,699 17,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.96% 85.75% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,544 7,892 11,418
10th Percentile £216 £243 £250
25th Percentile £370 £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 1,744 871 1,248
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -25.97% +36.12%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.86 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.56 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -43 58 £392 -13.00% 39
South East +5 38 £600 +20.60% 65
Yorkshire -18 29 £375 -16.67% 9
Midlands -22 27 £500 +19.40% 34
North West -32 27 £390 -13.14% 28
Scotland +8 23 £463 -13.95% 4
West Midlands -24 17 £507 +22.91% 15
East of England -11 13 £525 +23.53% 18
South West -11 10 £400 -30.43% 27
East Midlands -11 10 £411 -17.75% 18
Wales -1 5 - - 4
Northern Ireland -15 3 £600 +20.00%
North East -12 2 £400 -27.27% 2
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 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.98%) Apache Pig
3 5 (2.84%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 33 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 95 (53.98%) Power Platform
2 48 (27.27%) Azure
3 21 (11.93%) AWS
4 14 (7.95%) GCP
5 11 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 7 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.41%) Figma
8 6 (3.41%) GitHub
9 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.84%) Serverless
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.70%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.70%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) MQTT
2 2 (1.14%) 2G
2 2 (1.14%) 5G
2 2 (1.14%) LTE
2 2 (1.14%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (53.98%) Power BI
2 40 (22.73%) Tableau
3 24 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 23 (13.07%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (9.66%) Power Query
6 12 (6.82%) Hadoop
7 10 (5.68%) Big Data
8 9 (5.11%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.11%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.98%) Apache Hive
9 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.84%) Metadata
10 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.27%) QlikView
11 4 (2.27%) Spotfire
12 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.70%) Looker
13 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.14%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 13 (7.39%) Git
2 6 (3.41%) Gradle
2 6 (3.41%) Storybook
2 6 (3.41%) Xcode
3 4 (2.27%) JIRA
4 3 (1.70%) MLflow
5 2 (1.14%) Selenium
5 2 (1.14%) webpack
6 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (25.00%) Finance
4 17 (9.66%) Banking
5 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.11%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.41%) Legal
8 6 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.84%) Billing
10 4 (2.27%) Military
10 4 (2.27%) Retail
10 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.70%) Local Government
11 3 (1.70%) Marketing
11 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.14%) Law
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 58 (32.95%) Analyst
2 46 (26.14%) Data Analyst
3 45 (25.57%) Developer
4 17 (9.66%) Data Scientist
5 16 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 12 (6.82%) Power BI Developer
8 11 (6.25%) Lead
9 9 (5.11%) Architect
9 9 (5.11%) Senior
10 7 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.98%) React Developer
10 7 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Power BI Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) Report Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Consultant
13 4 (2.27%) Business Analyst
13 4 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.25%) Pandas
2 10 (5.68%) D3.js
2 10 (5.68%) scikit-learn
3 7 (3.98%) NumPy
3 7 (3.98%) React Native
4 6 (3.41%) OAuth
4 6 (3.41%) SVG
4 6 (3.41%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.84%) PySpark
6 4 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.27%) React
6 4 (2.27%) REST
7 3 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.70%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.70%) Web Services
8 2 (1.14%) Akka
8 2 (1.14%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.14%) Plotly
8 2 (1.14%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.34%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.68%) CMDB
2 10 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.70%) Equities
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.57%) AS400
10 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Android
1 6 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.84%) Linux
3 4 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 100 (56.82%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (47.73%) Analytics
4 60 (34.09%) Decision-Making
5 59 (33.52%) Data Analysis
6 54 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (27.84%) Data Modelling
8 44 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
9 42 (23.86%) Agile
10 40 (22.73%) Machine Learning
11 34 (19.32%) Data Science
12 28 (15.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 26 (14.77%) Dashboard Development
14 25 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (11.93%) ETL
15 21 (11.93%) Statistics
16 20 (11.36%) CI/CD
16 20 (11.36%) Data Management
16 20 (11.36%) DevOps
17 19 (10.80%) AI
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.25%) SQL
2 77 (43.75%) Python
3 17 (9.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (8.52%) R
5 11 (6.25%) Scala
6 10 (5.68%) Java
7 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.27%) PHP
9 3 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.14%) C#
10 2 (1.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.57%) LookML
11 1 (0.57%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 25 (14.20%) Degree
2 12 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.68%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) ACCA
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) CIMA
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.98%) GDPR
4 5 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) QA
6 2 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) P3O
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.98%) Grafana
1 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Kibana
3 5 (2.84%) Terraform
4 4 (2.27%) logstash
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.25%) Databricks
3 11 (6.25%) Google
4 10 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.11%) SAP
6 8 (4.55%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.55%) Splunk
7 5 (2.84%) Oracle
8 4 (2.27%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.14%) Cognos
9 2 (1.14%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.14%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.14%) Informatica
9 2 (1.14%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.14%) NetIQ
9 2 (1.14%) Okta
9 2 (1.14%) Talend
9 2 (1.14%) Workday
10 1 (0.57%) Alteryx