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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 222 222
Rank change year-on-year -78 0 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 173 160 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.04% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.17% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 98 102
10th Percentile £358 £296 £265
25th Percentile £403 £366 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £538
90th Percentile £675 £608 £611
UK median daily rate £488 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £17.30 £20.97
25th Percentile £31.50 £21.76 £22.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £31.64 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +113.34% +20.92% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £32.35 £30.27
90th Percentile £78.85 £35.81 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.41% -20.00% +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 22,386 13,663 14,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.00% 89.13% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,973 8,208 8,803
10th Percentile £300 £240 £250
25th Percentile £407 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,393 1,334
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £16.64
Median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -72 51 £438 +14.89% 73
Midlands -33 41 £440 +5.07% 45
South East -60 36 £550 -8.33% 68
North West -43 31 £438 +17.58% 43
West Midlands -34 26 £470 -7.34% 29
South West -25 25 £475 +5.56% 48
Yorkshire -53 17 £460 +20.66% 23
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -9.09% 16
East of England -24 13 £475 -9.52% 23
Scotland -26 12 £415 -17.00% 21
North East -43 4 £375 -11.76% 7
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 (3.47%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.73%) Apache
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.73%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.58%) iTrent
3 1 (0.58%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 115 (66.47%) Power Platform
2 32 (18.50%) Azure
3 23 (13.29%) AWS
4 12 (6.94%) Power Automate
5 10 (5.78%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.05%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.05%) Serverless
9 6 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.47%) GCP
10 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.31%) GitHub
11 4 (2.31%) Matillion
12 3 (1.73%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.73%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (66.47%) Power BI
2 40 (23.12%) Tableau
3 19 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (10.40%) Power Query
4 18 (10.40%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.51%) Metadata
6 12 (6.94%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.62%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.47%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.89%) Big Data
10 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.73%) MySQL
12 3 (1.73%) Parquet
12 3 (1.73%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (4.62%) JIRA
2 3 (1.73%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (35.26%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 33 (19.08%) Finance
4 15 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.78%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Law
6 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.89%) Military
8 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Automotive
9 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Local Government
9 2 (1.16%) Police
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.58%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 39 (22.54%) Analyst
2 28 (16.18%) Developer
3 26 (15.03%) Data Analyst
3 26 (15.03%) Senior
4 24 (13.87%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.67%) Architect
5 15 (8.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 14 (8.09%) Power BI Developer
7 12 (6.94%) Consultant
7 12 (6.94%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.36%) Data Visualisation Specialist
9 8 (4.62%) Data Consultant
10 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Lead
12 5 (2.89%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.31%) .NET Developer
13 4 (2.31%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.14%) REST
2 5 (2.89%) .NET
2 5 (2.89%) HTML
2 5 (2.89%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.89%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.31%) CSS
3 4 (2.31%) Plotly
3 4 (2.31%) PySpark
4 3 (1.73%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.16%) Jest
5 2 (1.16%) JSON
5 2 (1.16%) Kafka
5 2 (1.16%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) Pandas
5 2 (1.16%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.16%) SOAP
6 1 (0.58%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.58%) HTML5
6 1 (0.58%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.36%) Reference Data
3 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Clustering
4 9 (5.20%) PKI
5 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
8 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.73%) Blog
9 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.73%) Social Media
10 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.16%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.16%) Life Science
10 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Windows
1 10 (5.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 116 (67.05%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (50.87%) Analytics
4 61 (35.26%) Data Modelling
5 44 (25.43%) Decision-Making
6 42 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (23.12%) Agile
8 33 (19.08%) AI
9 31 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.92%) Data Analytics
10 30 (17.34%) Data Analysis
11 29 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (16.18%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (16.18%) Data Engineering
13 27 (15.61%) Data Governance
14 24 (13.87%) Dashboard Development
15 23 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
15 23 (13.29%) Validation
16 22 (12.72%) ETL
16 22 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.93%) SQL
2 40 (23.12%) Python
3 19 (10.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.51%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.51%) R
5 10 (5.78%) Java
6 9 (5.20%) C#
6 9 (5.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.73%) C++
7 3 (1.73%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.73%) Rust
7 3 (1.73%) Scala
7 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.16%) VBA
9 1 (0.58%) C
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.56%) Degree
4 12 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) APMG
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.36%) QA
3 8 (4.62%) GDPR
4 4 (2.31%) GRC
5 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.73%) PMO
6 2 (1.16%) GMP
6 2 (1.16%) WCAG
7 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.58%) GxP
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Kibana
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.83%) SAP
3 16 (9.25%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.94%) Oracle
5 9 (5.20%) BMC
5 9 (5.20%) Remedy
6 7 (4.05%) Databricks
7 6 (3.47%) Google
8 4 (2.31%) Informatica
9 3 (1.73%) Ariba
9 3 (1.73%) Foundry
9 3 (1.73%) Palantir
9 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.58%) Brio
10 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.58%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.58%) Planon
10 1 (0.58%) Teradata
10 1 (0.58%) UiPath
10 1 (0.58%) Workday