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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 196 274
Rank change year-on-year -77 +78 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 161 143 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.12% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.24% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 87 86
10th Percentile £357 £324 £310
25th Percentile £400 £393 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £630 £606
UK median daily rate £488 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -8.35% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 3
10th Percentile £20.16 £24.35 £17.60
25th Percentile £29.93 £31.51 £20.16
Median hourly rate £67.42 £32.23 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +109.22% +31.91% -13.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 £35.90 £28.84
90th Percentile £83.78 £82.25 £31.49
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.91% -19.58% +31.58%

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 19,526 11,543 17,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.41% 90.48% 84.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,832 7,256 10,521
10th Percentile £290 £235 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £678 £661 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,050 819 2,050
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.34
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.44 £15.29
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.05 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -62 45 £469 +2.18% 28
Midlands -55 40 £463 +8.82% 20
South East -40 34 £516 +3.25% 67
North West -33 28 £420 -13.50% 22
West Midlands -51 24 £500 +17.65% 10
East Midlands -20 16 £375 +2.18% 10
South West -43 15 £450 -5.26% 23
East of England -33 14 £475 +18.82% 15
Yorkshire -52 14 £500 +14.94% 2
Scotland -9 11 £495 -3.41% 2
North East -23 3 £400 -23.81% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 £463 - 1
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 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.97%) Apache
3 7 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.73%) Apache Superset
5 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.24%) Confluence
6 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.24%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.62%) iTrent
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (53.42%) Power Platform
2 27 (16.77%) Azure
3 22 (13.66%) AWS
4 15 (9.32%) Power Automate
5 11 (6.83%) PowerApps
6 9 (5.59%) GCP
6 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.35%) Serverless
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.86%) dbt
10 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.86%) Matillion
11 2 (1.24%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) 2G
1 1 (0.62%) 5G
1 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) Internet
1 1 (0.62%) Intranet
1 1 (0.62%) LTE
1 1 (0.62%) Mobile Backhaul
1 1 (0.62%) Modbus
1 1 (0.62%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (53.42%) Power BI
2 41 (25.47%) Tableau
3 26 (16.15%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (9.94%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.83%) Metadata
6 10 (6.21%) Power Query
6 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.59%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.97%) Big Data
9 7 (4.35%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.48%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.48%) QlikView
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Git
2 4 (2.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 58 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (19.88%) Finance
4 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.59%) Banking
5 9 (5.59%) Law
6 8 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Marketing
7 6 (3.73%) Publishing
8 4 (2.48%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.48%) Military
9 3 (1.86%) Automotive
9 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Retail
10 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Front Office
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (32.92%) Analyst
2 33 (20.50%) Data Analyst
3 32 (19.88%) Developer
4 19 (11.80%) Senior
5 14 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Architect
9 6 (3.73%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Consultant
9 6 (3.73%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.11%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.11%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.11%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.48%) Business Data Analyst
11 4 (2.48%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.59%) REST
2 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.73%) Pandas
2 6 (3.73%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.11%) .NET
3 5 (3.11%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.48%) Plotly
5 3 (1.86%) Akka
5 3 (1.86%) Matplotlib
5 3 (1.86%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.86%) React
5 3 (1.86%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.86%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.24%) CSS
6 2 (1.24%) Node.js
6 2 (1.24%) NumPy
6 2 (1.24%) PySpark
6 2 (1.24%) RESTful
7 1 (0.62%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.11%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.86%) Clustering
5 3 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.86%) PKI
5 3 (1.86%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) IoT
6 2 (1.24%) Life Science
6 2 (1.24%) NHS
6 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.62%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.97%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Unix
3 3 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 99 (61.49%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (39.13%) Analytics
4 54 (33.54%) Data Modelling
5 50 (31.06%) Decision-Making
6 49 (30.43%) Agile
7 43 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (24.22%) Actionable Insight
9 35 (21.74%) Data Analysis
10 30 (18.63%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (18.01%) Dashboard Development
12 25 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (15.53%) Validation
13 24 (14.91%) Data Science
13 24 (14.91%) ETL
14 21 (13.04%) AI
14 21 (13.04%) Data Engineering
14 21 (13.04%) Data Governance
15 20 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (49.07%) SQL
2 51 (31.68%) Python
3 17 (10.56%) R
4 13 (8.07%) C#
5 12 (7.45%) Java
6 10 (6.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.73%) Perl
8 6 (3.73%) VBA
9 4 (2.48%) PHP
9 4 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.86%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.86%) Rust
10 3 (1.86%) Scala
10 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.24%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 26 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.94%) Degree
4 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ACCA
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) CIMA
8 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.32%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.48%) PMO
5 3 (1.86%) GDPR
6 2 (1.24%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.62%) P3O
7 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.59%) Kibana
2 8 (4.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.73%) logstash
4 4 (2.48%) Grafana
5 3 (1.86%) Ansible
5 3 (1.86%) Terraform
6 2 (1.24%) SCCM
7 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Databricks
3 11 (6.83%) Oracle
4 10 (6.21%) SAP
4 10 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.86%) Adobe
6 3 (1.86%) BMC
6 3 (1.86%) Brio
6 3 (1.86%) Cognos
6 3 (1.86%) Google
6 3 (1.86%) Informatica
6 3 (1.86%) Remedy
7 2 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.62%) Kepware
8 1 (0.62%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.62%) Siemens
8 1 (0.62%) Workday