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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 208 274
Rank change year-on-year -16 +66 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 169 150 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.00% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.15% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 96 98
10th Percentile £312 £313 £279
25th Percentile £375 £392 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £566
90th Percentile £625 £638 £629
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile £20.97 £22.11 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.03 £25.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - +0.56% +3.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.06 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.34 £35.85 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £40.37 £33.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.16% -3.21% -38.87%

All Process and 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 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -41 59 £390 -16.13% 27
South East -10 30 £525 +9.38% 54
Yorkshire -33 29 £375 -16.67% 6
North West -28 28 £389 -16.40% 18
Midlands -28 27 £488 +18.18% 19
Scotland +11 22 £425 -11.92% 7
West Midlands -26 16 £504 +22.06% 9
East of England -19 14 £525 +23.53% 17
East Midlands -14 11 £404 -5.00% 10
South West -13 8 £450 -28.00% 21
Wales +6 5 - - 4
Northern Ireland -15 5 £463 -7.50% 1
North East -13 2 £400 -27.27% 3
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 16 (9.47%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.33%) Apache
3 7 (4.14%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.18%) Confluence
6 2 (1.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.59%) IIS
7 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (20.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 90 (53.25%) Power Platform
2 42 (24.85%) Azure
3 20 (11.83%) AWS
4 16 (9.47%) GCP
5 11 (6.51%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.73%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.55%) Figma
8 6 (3.55%) GitHub
8 6 (3.55%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.96%) Serverless
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.78%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.78%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) MQTT
2 2 (1.18%) 2G
2 2 (1.18%) 5G
2 2 (1.18%) LTE
2 2 (1.18%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (53.25%) Power BI
2 42 (24.85%) Tableau
3 23 (13.61%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (13.61%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.28%) Hadoop
4 14 (8.28%) Power Query
5 13 (7.69%) Big Data
6 9 (5.33%) Apache Hive
6 9 (5.33%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.33%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.96%) Metadata
7 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.37%) Impala
8 4 (2.37%) QlikView
8 4 (2.37%) Spotfire
8 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.78%) Looker
9 3 (1.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) Gradle
2 6 (3.55%) Storybook
2 6 (3.55%) Xcode
3 4 (2.37%) JIRA
4 3 (1.78%) MLflow
5 2 (1.18%) Selenium
5 2 (1.18%) webpack
6 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 71 (42.01%) Social Skills
2 48 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (24.26%) Finance
4 17 (10.06%) Banking
5 16 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.92%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.55%) Legal
8 6 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.96%) Billing
9 5 (2.96%) Retail
10 4 (2.37%) Military
11 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.78%) Marketing
11 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Law
12 2 (1.18%) Publishing
12 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.59%) Advertising
13 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (32.54%) Analyst
2 47 (27.81%) Data Analyst
3 40 (23.67%) Developer
4 19 (11.24%) Data Scientist
5 18 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 11 (6.51%) Senior
8 10 (5.92%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.33%) Lead
10 8 (4.73%) Architect
11 7 (4.14%) React Developer
11 7 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.55%) Senior Data Analyst
13 5 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 5 (2.96%) Consultant
14 4 (2.37%) Applications Engineer
14 4 (2.37%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.69%) Pandas
2 12 (7.10%) scikit-learn
3 10 (5.92%) D3.js
4 8 (4.73%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.14%) NumPy
5 7 (4.14%) React Native
6 6 (3.55%) OAuth
6 6 (3.55%) REST
6 6 (3.55%) SVG
7 5 (2.96%) PySpark
8 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.37%) React
9 3 (1.78%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.78%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.78%) Web Services
10 2 (1.18%) Django
10 2 (1.18%) JSON
10 2 (1.18%) Matplotlib
10 2 (1.18%) Next.js
10 2 (1.18%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.33%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.73%) CMDB
3 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.14%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.96%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.37%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.78%) Equities
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.59%) AS400
10 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.55%) Android
2 6 (3.55%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 96 (56.80%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (44.38%) Analytics
4 57 (33.73%) Decision-Making
5 55 (32.54%) Data Analysis
6 53 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (27.81%) Data Modelling
8 44 (26.04%) Actionable Insight
9 40 (23.67%) Agile
10 38 (22.49%) Machine Learning
11 33 (19.53%) Data Science
12 32 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 23 (13.61%) Dashboard Development
15 22 (13.02%) ETL
16 21 (12.43%) Statistics
17 19 (11.24%) Data Management
18 18 (10.65%) Statistical Modelling
19 17 (10.06%) Computer Science
19 17 (10.06%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 103 (60.95%) SQL
2 84 (49.70%) Python
3 17 (10.06%) R
4 14 (8.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (6.51%) Java
5 11 (6.51%) Scala
6 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.37%) PHP
8 3 (1.78%) C#
8 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) VBA
10 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.59%) LookML
10 1 (0.59%) Perl
10 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.59%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 24 (14.20%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (2.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.78%) QA
6 2 (1.18%) GRC
6 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.59%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (5.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Grafana
1 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.55%) Kibana
3 5 (2.96%) Terraform
4 4 (2.37%) logstash
5 1 (0.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.69%) Databricks
3 11 (6.51%) Google
3 11 (6.51%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.73%) OpenAI
5 8 (4.73%) Splunk
6 5 (2.96%) SAP
7 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle
9 2 (1.18%) Cognos
9 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.18%) Informatica
9 2 (1.18%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.18%) NetIQ
9 2 (1.18%) Okta
9 2 (1.18%) Talend
10 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.59%) IFS
10 1 (0.59%) Workday