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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 210 237
Rank change year-on-year -82 +27 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 162 147 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.21% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 91 103
10th Percentile £371 £313 £302
25th Percentile £403 £371 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -8.60% +0.54%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £546
90th Percentile £634 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 2
10th Percentile £17.69 £24.35 £16.74
25th Percentile £41.63 £31.51 £18.03
Median hourly rate £68.75 £32.23 £20.16
Median % change year-on-year +113.34% +59.85% -22.46%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.84 £22.30
90th Percentile £83.78 £82.25 £23.58
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.79% -16.93% +50.92%

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 21,011 12,123 17,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.73% 90.55% 82.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,498 7,478 10,307
10th Percentile £301 £235 £250
25th Percentile £404 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 957 2,205
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.17 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.27 £61.60
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -54 53 £450 +3.51% 83
South East -49 37 £516 -6.14% 98
Midlands -45 35 £488 +18.18% 53
North West -22 31 £435 +0.29% 47
West Midlands -42 25 £500 +17.65% 25
South West -33 19 £475 +16.14% 32
Yorkshire -58 19 £500 +25.00% 23
East of England -31 11 £463 +28.23% 51
Scotland -13 10 £450 -10.00% 39
East Midlands -20 10 £488 +18.54% 28
North East -33 3 £400 -17.95% 13
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 6 (3.70%) Apache Superset
2 5 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.47%) Apache
4 3 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.85%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.23%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.62%) iTrent
4 1 (0.62%) Primavera
4 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (61.73%) Power Platform
2 29 (17.90%) Azure
3 23 (14.20%) AWS
4 12 (7.41%) Power Automate
5 11 (6.79%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.32%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.32%) Serverless
8 6 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.09%) Matillion
9 5 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.85%) dbt
10 3 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.85%) GCP
11 2 (1.23%) GitHub
11 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) Internet
1 1 (0.62%) Intranet
1 1 (0.62%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (61.73%) Power BI
2 38 (23.46%) Tableau
3 23 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (9.88%) Relational Database
5 15 (9.26%) Power Query
6 14 (8.64%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.79%) Metadata
8 10 (6.17%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.70%) Big Data
10 5 (3.09%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.09%) QlikView
10 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) JIRA
2 4 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 56 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 51 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (16.67%) Finance
4 13 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.17%) Banking
6 8 (4.94%) Law
7 7 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.70%) Publishing
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Marketing
10 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.85%) Automotive
10 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.62%) Billing
12 1 (0.62%) Electronics
12 1 (0.62%) Front Office
12 1 (0.62%) German Language
12 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (32.72%) Analyst
2 32 (19.75%) Data Analyst
2 32 (19.75%) Developer
3 17 (10.49%) Senior
4 15 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 12 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 11 (6.79%) Power BI Developer
7 10 (6.17%) Architect
8 9 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Consultant
11 5 (3.09%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.09%) Data Scientist
11 5 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.09%) SQL Analyst
12 4 (2.47%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.47%) Business Data Analyst
12 4 (2.47%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.02%) REST
2 4 (2.47%) .NET
2 4 (2.47%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.47%) CSS
2 4 (2.47%) Plotly
2 4 (2.47%) PySpark
2 4 (2.47%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.47%) TensorFlow
3 3 (1.85%) Akka
3 3 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.85%) HTML
3 3 (1.85%) Matplotlib
3 3 (1.85%) React
3 3 (1.85%) RESTful
3 3 (1.85%) Seaborn
4 2 (1.23%) Jest
4 2 (1.23%) Node.js
4 2 (1.23%) Pandas
5 1 (0.62%) Playwright
5 1 (0.62%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.02%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.94%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.70%) Clustering
3 6 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.70%) PKI
3 6 (3.70%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.85%) Blog
5 3 (1.85%) Life Science
5 3 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
6 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.70%) Windows
1 6 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 107 (66.05%) Business Intelligence
3 68 (41.98%) Analytics
4 54 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 50 (30.86%) Agile
6 45 (27.78%) Decision-Making
7 41 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.75%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (17.90%) Data Analysis
9 29 (17.90%) Validation
10 27 (16.67%) AI
10 27 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
10 27 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (16.05%) Data Engineering
12 25 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (14.20%) ETL
14 22 (13.58%) Data Governance
14 22 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (12.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.68%) SQL
2 37 (22.84%) Python
3 15 (9.26%) C#
4 14 (8.64%) Java
5 13 (8.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.79%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.17%) R
9 6 (3.70%) Perl
10 5 (3.09%) VBA
11 3 (1.85%) C++
11 3 (1.85%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.85%) Rust
11 3 (1.85%) Scala
11 3 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.88%) Degree
4 9 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) ACCA
7 1 (0.62%) APMG
7 1 (0.62%) CIMA
7 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.26%) QA
3 5 (3.09%) PMO
4 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.85%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (1.23%) WCAG
6 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.70%) Kibana
2 3 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.85%) logstash
3 2 (1.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) SCCM
3 2 (1.23%) Terraform
4 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.64%) SAP
3 11 (6.79%) Oracle
3 11 (6.79%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.56%) Databricks
5 6 (3.70%) BMC
5 6 (3.70%) Remedy
6 5 (3.09%) Informatica
7 4 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.85%) Adobe
8 3 (1.85%) Brio
8 3 (1.85%) Cognos
8 3 (1.85%) Google
9 2 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.62%) Palantir
10 1 (0.62%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.62%) UiPath
10 1 (0.62%) Workday