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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 217 209
Rank change year-on-year -91 -8 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 175 163 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.16% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 107 108
10th Percentile £314 £296 £263
25th Percentile £371 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £540
90th Percentile £690 £625 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £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 - £48.88 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £38.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.52% -4.43% +23.76%

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 22,813 14,044 14,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.03% 89.10% 83.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,682 8,442 8,237
10th Percentile £300 £225 £241
25th Percentile £409 £368 £380
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 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,862 1,526 1,061
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.14 £18.16
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -
75th Percentile £65.22 £40.65 £66.61
90th Percentile £77.50 £66.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -66 49 £425 +13.33% 82
Midlands -30 39 £455 -10.26% 73
South East -64 34 £525 -12.50% 115
West Midlands -27 28 £470 -8.56% 55
South West -21 26 £475 +18.75% 35
North West -38 26 £438 +14.89% 42
Scotland -23 17 £415 -12.63% 35
Yorkshire -55 13 £440 +25.71% 28
East of England -34 12 £465 -11.43% 40
East Midlands -10 11 £252 -38.79% 18
North East -29 11 £350 -12.50% 12
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 39
Wales -10 2 £356 +95.21% 15
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 (1.71%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.71%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.71%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 43 (24.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (70.29%) Power Platform
2 34 (19.43%) Azure
3 18 (10.29%) AWS
4 13 (7.43%) Snowflake
5 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.57%) Power Automate
7 7 (4.00%) Google Analytics
7 7 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.43%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (3.43%) GitHub
8 6 (3.43%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.29%) GCP
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.71%) Matillion
10 3 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (70.29%) Power BI
2 34 (19.43%) Tableau
3 29 (16.57%) Power Query
4 16 (9.14%) Metadata
5 14 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 13 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.86%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.57%) Data Mining
9 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.29%) Big Data
10 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.71%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.14%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.43%) JIRA
2 4 (2.29%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 71 (40.57%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.57%) Finance
4 19 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.71%) Banking
6 6 (3.43%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.86%) Military
8 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Local Government
9 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Police
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 42 (24.00%) Analyst
2 27 (15.43%) Developer
3 24 (13.71%) Data Engineer
3 24 (13.71%) Senior
4 23 (13.14%) Data Analyst
5 19 (10.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 18 (10.29%) Power BI Developer
7 13 (7.43%) Architect
8 12 (6.86%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.71%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 8 (4.57%) Consultant
10 8 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Performance Analyst
11 7 (4.00%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.43%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.43%) Lead
13 5 (2.86%) Business Analyst
14 4 (2.29%) Administrator
14 4 (2.29%) Procurement Manager
14 4 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.14%) REST
2 5 (2.86%) HTML
3 4 (2.29%) PySpark
3 4 (2.29%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.29%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.71%) CSS
5 2 (1.14%) Jest
5 2 (1.14%) JSON
5 2 (1.14%) Kafka
5 2 (1.14%) React
5 2 (1.14%) SOAP
6 1 (0.57%) Akka
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.57%) Pandas
6 1 (0.57%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.57%) Playwright
6 1 (0.57%) Plotly
6 1 (0.57%) Sass
6 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.29%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.00%) Clustering
5 7 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.00%) PKI
6 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.29%) CMDB
7 4 (2.29%) Social Media
8 3 (1.71%) Blog
8 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.14%) Life Science
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.57%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.57%) Windows
1 8 (4.57%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 126 (72.00%) Business Intelligence
3 95 (54.29%) Analytics
4 66 (37.71%) Data Modelling
5 54 (30.86%) Decision-Making
6 46 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.86%) Agile
8 38 (21.71%) Data Analysis
9 36 (20.57%) AI
10 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (17.14%) Actionable Insight
12 30 (17.14%) Data Analytics
13 28 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (15.43%) Data Governance
15 26 (14.86%) Dashboard Development
16 23 (13.14%) Data Engineering
16 23 (13.14%) Validation
17 21 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
17 21 (12.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 81 (46.29%) SQL
2 45 (25.71%) Python
3 29 (16.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.14%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.14%) R
6 8 (4.57%) Java
7 5 (2.86%) C#
8 3 (1.71%) Scala
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.14%) Degree
4 10 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.71%) PhD
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) APMG
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (26.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.00%) QA
3 9 (5.14%) GDPR
4 5 (2.86%) PMO
5 4 (2.29%) GRC
6 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.14%) GMP
7 2 (1.14%) WCAG
8 1 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.57%) GxP
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 46 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.57%) SAP
3 11 (6.29%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.14%) Google
5 7 (4.00%) BMC
5 7 (4.00%) Remedy
6 6 (3.43%) Databricks
6 6 (3.43%) Oracle
7 4 (2.29%) Adobe
7 4 (2.29%) Ariba
7 4 (2.29%) Informatica
7 4 (2.29%) Splunk
8 3 (1.71%) Foundry
8 3 (1.71%) Palantir
9 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.57%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.57%) Teradata
10 1 (0.57%) UiPath