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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 197 279
Rank change year-on-year -78 +82 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 157 148 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.17% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.29% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 85
10th Percentile £328 £315 £303
25th Percentile £391 £368 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -8.60% -5.10%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £630 £625
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 4
10th Percentile £19.83 £30.18 £15.92
25th Percentile £27.60 £31.64 £15.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £32.81 £20.22
Median % change year-on-year +82.87% +62.31% -28.21%
75th Percentile £82.25 £36.38 £26.64
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £30.60
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £33.11 £36.50
% change year-on-year +35.91% -9.29% -27.01%

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 18,244 11,443 17,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.83% 90.54% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 7,289 10,948
10th Percentile £263 £243 £232
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 726 1,937
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.34 £15.17
Median hourly rate £29.61 £31.76 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +1.63% -13.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.47%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -67 45 £463 +2.78% 30
Midlands -50 35 £463 +12.12% 29
South East -38 32 £513 +12.33% 56
North West -29 29 £420 -7.69% 22
West Midlands -52 23 £488 +16.42% 14
Scotland +3 15 £402 -19.55% 7
East of England -33 14 £463 +15.77% 5
Yorkshire -59 13 £500 +21.95% 7
East Midlands -24 12 £423 +15.12% 15
South West -47 8 £450 -5.26% 13
Northern Ireland -2 5 £463 -11.90% 6
Wales -7 3 - - 2
North East -22 3 £400 -23.81% 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 15 (9.55%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.73%) Apache
3 8 (5.10%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (20.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.77%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.92%) Azure
3 22 (14.01%) AWS
4 13 (8.28%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.64%) GCP
6 11 (7.01%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.82%) Serverless
8 6 (3.82%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.91%) dbt
11 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) 2G
1 2 (1.27%) 5G
1 2 (1.27%) LTE
1 2 (1.27%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.27%) VoIP
2 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) Intranet
2 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (47.77%) Power BI
2 34 (21.66%) Tableau
3 22 (14.01%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (10.83%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.64%) Big Data
6 9 (5.73%) Hadoop
6 9 (5.73%) Metadata
6 9 (5.73%) Power Query
7 7 (4.46%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.18%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.55%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.55%) Impala
10 4 (2.55%) QlikView
10 4 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.27%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) MLflow
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 59 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.03%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (22.29%) Finance
4 16 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.55%) Banking
6 7 (4.46%) Law
6 7 (4.46%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.46%) Publishing
7 6 (3.82%) Marketing
8 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.55%) Military
10 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.64%) Automotive
12 1 (0.64%) Electronics
12 1 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 58 (36.94%) Analyst
2 37 (23.57%) Data Analyst
3 31 (19.75%) Developer
4 15 (9.55%) Senior
5 11 (7.01%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.01%) Data Scientist
6 9 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.46%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.82%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Architect
9 6 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.82%) Lead
9 6 (3.82%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (3.82%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Consultant
10 5 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.18%) SQL Analyst
11 4 (2.55%) Perl Developer
11 4 (2.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) Pandas
2 8 (5.10%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.10%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.82%) REST
4 5 (3.18%) NumPy
5 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.91%) .NET
6 3 (1.91%) Akka
6 3 (1.91%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.91%) Plotly
6 3 (1.91%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.91%) React
6 3 (1.91%) Seaborn
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) PySpark
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 2 (1.27%) Torch
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.01%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.18%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.18%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.55%) CMDB
7 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.91%) Equities
7 3 (1.91%) IoT
7 3 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 93 (59.24%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (40.13%) Analytics
4 49 (31.21%) Decision-Making
4 49 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (29.94%) Agile
6 45 (28.66%) Data Modelling
7 41 (26.11%) Actionable Insight
8 40 (25.48%) Data Analysis
9 27 (17.20%) Dashboard Development
10 26 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (14.65%) Data Science
11 23 (14.65%) ETL
11 23 (14.65%) Machine Learning
12 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (11.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 18 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (10.19%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (52.87%) SQL
2 56 (35.67%) Python
3 16 (10.19%) R
4 10 (6.37%) C#
4 10 (6.37%) Java
5 9 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) Perl
7 6 (3.82%) VBA
8 4 (2.55%) PHP
9 3 (1.91%) Scala
9 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Degree
2 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.10%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) ACCA
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) CIMA
8 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.01%) QA
3 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.55%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.64%) P3O
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Kibana
2 7 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.82%) logstash
3 6 (3.82%) Terraform
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.91%) Ansible
6 2 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) Databricks
3 11 (7.01%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.46%) Oracle
5 6 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.18%) Google
7 4 (2.55%) Adobe
8 3 (1.91%) Cognos
9 2 (1.27%) Brio
9 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.64%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.64%) BMC
10 1 (0.64%) Informatica
10 1 (0.64%) Remedy
10 1 (0.64%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.64%) Talend