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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 217 207
Rank change year-on-year -81 -10 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 177 163 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.06% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.18% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 100 103
10th Percentile £328 £297 £263
25th Percentile £400 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £544
90th Percentile £675 £603 £610
UK median daily rate £488 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £17.30 £20.97
25th Percentile £38.35 £21.76 £22.69
Median hourly rate £62.00 £31.64 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +95.95% +20.92% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £32.35 £30.27
90th Percentile £77.15 £35.81 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.38% -20.00% +31.54%

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 22,733 13,758 14,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.99% 89.17% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,040 8,275 8,627
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £410 £368 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £657 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,645 1,423 1,248
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.38 £65.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -75 50 £438 +13.03% 48
Midlands -18 44 £420 +1.82% 32
South East -61 36 £550 -8.33% 68
North West -46 30 £438 +16.80% 19
West Midlands -29 27 £470 -7.39% 19
South West -29 24 £475 +18.75% 27
East Midlands -8 17 £375 -9.09% 13
Yorkshire -58 16 £480 +23.87% 20
Scotland -32 14 £410 -18.00% 12
East of England -24 12 - - 16
North East -37 5 £350 -12.50% 9
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 8
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 5 (2.82%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (21.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.56%) iTrent
3 1 (0.56%) Primavera
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (67.23%) Power Platform
2 32 (18.08%) Azure
3 22 (12.43%) AWS
4 13 (7.34%) Power Automate
5 12 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 11 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.08%) PowerApps
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.95%) GitHub
9 7 (3.95%) Serverless
10 6 (3.39%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.82%) GCP
12 4 (2.26%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.26%) Matillion
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (67.23%) Power BI
2 39 (22.03%) Tableau
3 22 (12.43%) Power Query
4 17 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.60%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.34%) Metadata
6 11 (6.21%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.21%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.52%) Data Mining
8 6 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.26%) Big Data
10 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.69%) MySQL
11 3 (1.69%) Parquet
11 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.52%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 66 (37.29%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (36.16%) Social Skills
3 34 (19.21%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.21%) Banking
6 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.39%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.39%) Law
8 5 (2.82%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Retail
10 2 (1.13%) Automotive
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
10 2 (1.13%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 41 (23.16%) Analyst
2 28 (15.82%) Developer
2 28 (15.82%) Senior
3 25 (14.12%) Data Analyst
4 24 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.47%) Architect
5 15 (8.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 14 (7.91%) Power BI Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.21%) Consultant
8 11 (6.21%) Data Visualisation Specialist
9 7 (3.95%) Data Consultant
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Lead
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.26%) Designer
12 4 (2.26%) Senior Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) REST
2 5 (2.82%) HTML
3 4 (2.26%) .NET
3 4 (2.26%) CSS
3 4 (2.26%) Plotly
3 4 (2.26%) PySpark
3 4 (2.26%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.26%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.13%) Jest
5 2 (1.13%) JSON
5 2 (1.13%) Kafka
5 2 (1.13%) Node.js
5 2 (1.13%) Pandas
5 2 (1.13%) React
5 2 (1.13%) SOAP
6 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.56%) HTML5
6 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.56%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.21%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.08%) Clustering
3 9 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.08%) PKI
4 8 (4.52%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.26%) CMDB
7 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.26%) Social Media
8 3 (1.69%) Blog
9 2 (1.13%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.13%) Life Science
9 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.13%) NHS
9 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.65%) Windows
1 10 (5.65%) 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 62 (35.03%) Data Modelling
5 49 (27.68%) Decision-Making
6 46 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.60%) Agile
8 36 (20.34%) AI
9 34 (19.21%) Data Analysis
10 33 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (17.51%) Data Analytics
11 31 (17.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (16.38%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (15.25%) Data Governance
14 26 (14.69%) Dashboard Development
14 26 (14.69%) Data Engineering
15 25 (14.12%) Validation
16 23 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
18 20 (11.30%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.50%) SQL
2 41 (23.16%) Python
3 21 (11.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.21%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.21%) R
6 10 (5.65%) Java
7 9 (5.08%) C#
8 3 (1.69%) C++
8 3 (1.69%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.69%) Rust
8 3 (1.69%) Scala
9 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.13%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.86%) Degree
4 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) APMG
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.21%) QA
3 8 (4.52%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) GRC
5 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.13%) GMP
6 2 (1.13%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
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
Vendors
1 51 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.30%) SAP
3 16 (9.04%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.21%) Oracle
5 9 (5.08%) BMC
5 9 (5.08%) Remedy
6 7 (3.95%) Databricks
6 7 (3.95%) Google
7 4 (2.26%) Ariba
7 4 (2.26%) Informatica
8 3 (1.69%) Foundry
8 3 (1.69%) Palantir
9 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) Adobe
10 1 (0.56%) Brio
10 1 (0.56%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.56%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk
10 1 (0.56%) Teradata
10 1 (0.56%) Workday