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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 221 224
Rank change year-on-year -77 +3 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 174 150 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.98% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.10% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 95 102
10th Percentile £344 £289 £285
25th Percentile £400 £369 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -0.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £548
90th Percentile £675 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 1
10th Percentile £24.54 £21.10 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £27.24 £31.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +22.64%
75th Percentile - £33.05 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.26 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £33.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -21.05% +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 22,303 13,649 15,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.36% 89.26% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,031 8,222 9,132
10th Percentile £300 £240 £250
25th Percentile £406 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £685 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,448 1,352 1,546
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.85 £13.85
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £16.87
Median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £44.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 56 £438 +10.47% 31
Midlands -26 40 £400 -3.03% 28
South East -69 35 £550 -4.35% 54
North West -25 32 £438 +17.11% 22
West Midlands -37 25 £455 +7.06% 21
South West -37 23 £463 +2.78% 28
Yorkshire -47 21 £490 +26.45% 7
East Midlands -14 15 £375 -9.09% 7
East of England -17 15 £463 -11.90% 14
Scotland -17 10 £430 -14.00% 8
North East -42 4 £375 -16.67% 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 6 (3.45%) Apache Superset
2 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.72%) Apache
3 3 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.72%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.57%) iTrent
4 1 (0.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 113 (64.94%) Power Platform
2 33 (18.97%) Azure
3 23 (13.22%) AWS
4 12 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 11 (6.32%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.60%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (4.02%) Serverless
9 6 (3.45%) GCP
9 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.87%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.87%) Matillion
11 4 (2.30%) GitHub
12 3 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Broadband
1 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
1 1 (0.57%) Internet
1 1 (0.57%) Intranet
1 1 (0.57%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (64.94%) Power BI
2 39 (22.41%) Tableau
3 23 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.77%) Power Query
4 17 (9.77%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.62%) Relational Database
6 13 (7.47%) Metadata
7 12 (6.90%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.75%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.45%) Big Data
9 6 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.30%) QlikView
12 3 (1.72%) Parquet
12 3 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (5.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 59 (33.91%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.97%) Finance
4 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.60%) Banking
6 7 (4.02%) Law
6 7 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.30%) Marketing
7 4 (2.30%) Military
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Automotive
9 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.15%) Local Government
9 2 (1.15%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (25.29%) Analyst
2 28 (16.09%) Data Analyst
3 27 (15.52%) Developer
4 25 (14.37%) Senior
5 24 (13.79%) Data Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) Architect
7 15 (8.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Power BI Developer
9 12 (6.90%) Data Architect
10 11 (6.32%) Consultant
11 10 (5.75%) Data Visualisation Specialist
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Business Analyst
13 7 (4.02%) Data Consultant
14 6 (3.45%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.87%) Lead
15 5 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
16 4 (2.30%) Administrator
16 4 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 4 (2.30%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.92%) REST
2 6 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 6 (3.45%) TensorFlow
3 5 (2.87%) HTML
4 4 (2.30%) .NET
4 4 (2.30%) CSS
4 4 (2.30%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.30%) Plotly
4 4 (2.30%) PySpark
4 4 (2.30%) Seaborn
5 3 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.72%) Pandas
6 2 (1.15%) Jest
6 2 (1.15%) JSON
6 2 (1.15%) Kafka
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) NumPy
7 1 (0.57%) HTML5
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.32%) Reference Data
3 10 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.17%) Clustering
4 9 (5.17%) PKI
5 8 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.72%) Blog
9 3 (1.72%) CMDB
9 3 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.15%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.15%) Life Science
10 2 (1.15%) NHS
10 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Windows
1 9 (5.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 118 (67.82%) Business Intelligence
3 87 (50.00%) Analytics
4 60 (34.48%) Data Modelling
5 47 (27.01%) Agile
6 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (24.71%) Decision-Making
8 32 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (18.39%) Data Analysis
9 30 (17.24%) AI
10 29 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 28 (16.09%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (16.09%) Data Governance
12 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (14.94%) Data Analytics
13 26 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (14.94%) Validation
14 25 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (14.37%) ETL
15 24 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.25%) SQL
2 40 (22.99%) Python
3 18 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.47%) R
6 10 (5.75%) Java
7 9 (5.17%) C#
7 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.72%) C++
8 3 (1.72%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.72%) Rust
8 3 (1.72%) Scala
8 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.15%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.64%) Degree
3 20 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) APMG
7 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (22.99%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.47%) QA
3 7 (4.02%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) PMO
5 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) GRC
6 2 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.15%) WCAG
7 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.15%) Kibana
2 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.20%) SAP
2 16 (9.20%) ServiceNow
3 14 (8.05%) Oracle
4 9 (5.17%) BMC
4 9 (5.17%) Remedy
5 8 (4.60%) Databricks
6 6 (3.45%) Google
7 5 (2.87%) Informatica
8 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.72%) Adobe
9 3 (1.72%) Foundry
9 3 (1.72%) Palantir
10 2 (1.15%) Brio
10 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.57%) Teradata
11 1 (0.57%) UiPath
11 1 (0.57%) Workday