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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 219 223
Rank change year-on-year -74 +4 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 177 150 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.97% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.09% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 95 100
10th Percentile £348 £289 £282
25th Percentile £400 £369 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -0.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £539
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 22,363 13,755 15,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.26% 89.27% 83.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,053 8,279 9,087
10th Percentile £300 £240 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £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 £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,469 1,366 1,516
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.85 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -61 57 £439 +10.72% 68
Midlands -24 40 £400 -3.03% 36
South East -59 37 £550 -4.35% 68
North West -21 33 £438 +17.11% 37
West Midlands -36 25 £455 +7.06% 24
South West -31 23 £463 +2.78% 39
Yorkshire -43 21 £490 +26.45% 21
East Midlands -10 15 £375 -9.09% 12
East of England -18 15 £463 -11.90% 25
Scotland -20 10 £430 -14.00% 16
North East -41 4 £375 -16.67% 10
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 (3.39%) Apache Superset
2 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.69%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.13%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.56%) iTrent
4 1 (0.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 115 (64.97%) Power Platform
2 33 (18.64%) Azure
3 23 (12.99%) AWS
4 12 (6.78%) Power Automate
5 11 (6.21%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.52%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.95%) Serverless
9 6 (3.39%) GCP
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.82%) Matillion
11 4 (2.26%) GitHub
11 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.69%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Intranet
2 1 (0.56%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (64.97%) Power BI
2 39 (22.03%) Tableau
3 23 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.60%) Power Query
4 17 (9.60%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
6 13 (7.34%) Metadata
7 12 (6.78%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.65%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.39%) Big Data
9 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.26%) QlikView
12 3 (1.69%) Parquet
12 3 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (5.08%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (34.46%) Analytical Skills
2 57 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 35 (19.77%) Finance
4 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.52%) Banking
6 7 (3.95%) Law
6 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.26%) Marketing
7 4 (2.26%) Military
8 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Automotive
9 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.13%) Local Government
9 2 (1.13%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 45 (25.42%) Analyst
2 29 (16.38%) Data Analyst
3 27 (15.25%) Developer
4 26 (14.69%) Senior
5 24 (13.56%) Data Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Architect
7 15 (8.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 13 (7.34%) Power BI Developer
9 12 (6.78%) Consultant
9 12 (6.78%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.65%) Data Visualisation Specialist
11 8 (4.52%) Data Consultant
11 8 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.39%) Data Scientist
14 5 (2.82%) Lead
14 5 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 4 (2.26%) .NET Developer
15 4 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 4 (2.26%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) REST
2 6 (3.39%) PyTorch
2 6 (3.39%) TensorFlow
3 5 (2.82%) HTML
4 4 (2.26%) .NET
4 4 (2.26%) CSS
4 4 (2.26%) Matplotlib
4 4 (2.26%) Plotly
4 4 (2.26%) PySpark
4 4 (2.26%) Seaborn
5 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.69%) Pandas
6 2 (1.13%) Jest
6 2 (1.13%) JSON
6 2 (1.13%) Kafka
6 2 (1.13%) Node.js
6 2 (1.13%) NumPy
7 1 (0.56%) Faiss
7 1 (0.56%) LangChain
7 1 (0.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.21%) Reference Data
3 10 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.08%) Clustering
4 9 (5.08%) PKI
5 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.26%) CMDB
7 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.69%) Blog
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.13%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.13%) Life Science
9 2 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.08%) Windows
1 9 (5.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 120 (67.80%) Business Intelligence
3 89 (50.28%) Analytics
4 61 (34.46%) Data Modelling
5 48 (27.12%) Agile
6 45 (25.42%) Decision-Making
7 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (18.64%) Data Analysis
9 32 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.51%) AI
11 29 (16.38%) Actionable Insight
11 29 (16.38%) Data Engineering
11 29 (16.38%) Data Governance
12 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (15.25%) Data Analytics
14 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (14.69%) Validation
15 25 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (14.12%) ETL
16 24 (13.56%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.50%) SQL
2 40 (22.60%) Python
3 18 (10.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.91%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.91%) R
5 10 (5.65%) Java
6 9 (5.08%) C#
6 9 (5.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.69%) C++
7 3 (1.69%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.69%) Rust
7 3 (1.69%) Scala
7 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.13%) VBA
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.43%) Degree
3 20 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) APMG
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (24.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.34%) QA
3 7 (3.95%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) GRC
4 4 (2.26%) PMO
5 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.13%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.13%) Kibana
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.60%) SAP
2 17 (9.60%) ServiceNow
3 14 (7.91%) Oracle
4 9 (5.08%) BMC
4 9 (5.08%) Remedy
5 8 (4.52%) Databricks
6 6 (3.39%) Google
7 5 (2.82%) Informatica
8 4 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.69%) Adobe
9 3 (1.69%) Foundry
9 3 (1.69%) Palantir
10 2 (1.13%) Ariba
10 2 (1.13%) Brio
10 2 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.56%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.56%) Teradata
11 1 (0.56%) Workday