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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 186 282
Rank change year-on-year -64 +96 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 161 156 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.13% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.27% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 98 90
10th Percentile £313 £306 £313
25th Percentile £377 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £573
90th Percentile £625 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 10
10th Percentile £17.13 £21.90 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.00 £21.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.25 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +12.23% +61.08%
75th Percentile £76.48 £82.25 £44.88
90th Percentile £84.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £42.87 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.60% +0.71% -45.74%

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 15,956 12,248 17,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.97% 88.35% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,802 7,164 10,848
10th Percentile £230 £234 £250
25th Percentile £380 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,716 691 1,480
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.50 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.12 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% -23.05% +53.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.93 £63.07
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -55 59 £393 -20.79% 42
North West -32 30 £392 -15.81% 23
South East -23 27 £506 +22.73% 80
Midlands -38 27 £500 +25.00% 41
Yorkshire -37 25 £375 -11.76% 15
Scotland +3 18 £420 -6.67% 12
West Midlands -36 18 £500 +23.08% 21
East of England -20 16 £525 +27.27% 25
East Midlands -19 9 £395 +57.68% 20
South West -25 6 £450 -28.00% 30
Northern Ireland -13 5 £463 -7.50% 5
Wales -2 4 - - 8
North East -17 4 £400 -27.27% 4
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 14 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.97%) Apache
3 7 (4.35%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.24%) Confluence
6 2 (1.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 36 (22.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.93%) Power Platform
2 39 (24.22%) Azure
3 18 (11.18%) AWS
4 12 (7.45%) GCP
5 9 (5.59%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.35%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.73%) Figma
7 6 (3.73%) GitHub
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.48%) Serverless
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.86%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) 2G
1 2 (1.24%) 5G
1 2 (1.24%) LTE
1 2 (1.24%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (50.93%) Power BI
2 38 (23.60%) Tableau
3 21 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (11.18%) Relational Database
5 13 (8.07%) Hadoop
6 11 (6.83%) Big Data
6 11 (6.83%) Power Query
7 10 (6.21%) Metadata
8 9 (5.59%) Apache Hive
8 9 (5.59%) Data Mining
9 7 (4.35%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.48%) Impala
11 4 (2.48%) QlikView
12 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.86%) Looker
12 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.86%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) Git
2 6 (3.73%) Gradle
2 6 (3.73%) Storybook
2 6 (3.73%) Xcode
3 4 (2.48%) JIRA
4 3 (1.86%) MLflow
5 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.62%) Selenium
5 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 61 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 45 (27.95%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.84%) Finance
4 15 (9.32%) Banking
5 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.35%) Publishing
8 6 (3.73%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.73%) Legal
8 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Billing
10 4 (2.48%) Law
10 4 (2.48%) Military
10 4 (2.48%) Retail
11 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.86%) Marketing
11 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (32.92%) Analyst
2 43 (26.71%) Data Analyst
3 40 (24.84%) Developer
4 17 (10.56%) Data Scientist
5 15 (9.32%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Senior
7 11 (6.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Power BI Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Architect
9 8 (4.97%) Report Analyst
9 8 (4.97%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.35%) Lead
10 7 (4.35%) React Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Data Analyst
13 4 (2.48%) Business Analyst
13 4 (2.48%) Consultant
13 4 (2.48%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.21%) Pandas
2 9 (5.59%) scikit-learn
3 7 (4.35%) D3.js
3 7 (4.35%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.73%) OAuth
4 6 (3.73%) React Native
4 6 (3.73%) SVG
5 5 (3.11%) PySpark
6 4 (2.48%) Akka
6 4 (2.48%) NumPy
6 4 (2.48%) REST
7 3 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.86%) Plotly
7 3 (1.86%) React
8 2 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.24%) Kafka
8 2 (1.24%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.24%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.24%) Torch
8 2 (1.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.59%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.97%) CMDB
3 8 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.73%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.73%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.11%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.11%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.86%) Equities
8 2 (1.24%) IoT
8 2 (1.24%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Android
2 6 (3.73%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 89 (55.28%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (39.75%) Analytics
4 52 (32.30%) Decision-Making
4 52 (32.30%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (29.19%) Data Analysis
6 43 (26.71%) Data Modelling
7 40 (24.84%) Agile
8 38 (23.60%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (19.88%) Machine Learning
10 30 (18.63%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (16.77%) Data Science
12 22 (13.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 21 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
14 19 (11.80%) ETL
14 19 (11.80%) Statistics
15 17 (10.56%) AI
15 17 (10.56%) CI/CD
16 16 (9.94%) Data Architecture
16 16 (9.94%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (60.25%) SQL
2 68 (42.24%) Python
3 17 (10.56%) Java
4 14 (8.70%) R
5 13 (8.07%) Scala
6 11 (6.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.97%) C#
9 7 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.73%) Perl
10 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.48%) PHP
11 4 (2.48%) VBA
12 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.62%) LookML
13 1 (0.62%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.80%) Degree
2 13 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.48%) QA
5 3 (1.86%) GDPR
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.62%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.35%) Kibana
3 6 (3.73%) Terraform
4 4 (2.48%) Grafana
5 3 (1.86%) logstash
6 2 (1.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.70%) Databricks
3 11 (6.83%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.21%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.97%) Google
5 8 (4.97%) Splunk
6 7 (4.35%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.86%) Oracle
7 3 (1.86%) SAP
7 3 (1.86%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.24%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.24%) Cognos
8 2 (1.24%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.24%) Informatica
8 2 (1.24%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.24%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.24%) Okta
8 2 (1.24%) Talend
9 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.62%) Workday