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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 222 215
Rank change year-on-year -87 -7 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 179 161 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.05% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.18% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 103 98
10th Percentile £327 £298 £289
25th Percentile £400 £369 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £475 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +4.97% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 2
10th Percentile £21.08 £15.70 £20.97
25th Percentile £41.23 £17.50 £22.69
Median hourly rate £54.70 £20.92 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year +161.47% -20.05% -1.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £26.87 £30.27
90th Percentile £74.60 £34.12 £32.36
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year +28.34% -8.33% +31.50%

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 22,760 13,612 14,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.76% 89.17% 83.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,900 8,181 8,414
10th Percentile £300 £235 £243
25th Percentile £410 £369 £387
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 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,726 1,446 1,177
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.08 £22.32 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.61% -48.10% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.82 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £67.00 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -74 51 £425 +11.48% 76
Midlands -28 42 £420 -8.65% 73
South East -61 37 £550 -8.33% 105
North West -41 29 £438 +16.80% 32
West Midlands -32 27 £470 -7.98% 53
South West -25 24 £475 +5.56% 47
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -9.09% 20
Scotland -31 15 £405 -19.00% 31
Yorkshire -65 15 £460 +20.66% 30
East of England -31 13 £465 -11.43% 32
North East -28 8 £375 -6.25% 14
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 24
Wales -12 1 £400 +31.69% 19
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 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.68%) Apache Superset
1 3 (1.68%) Confluence
1 3 (1.68%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.68%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (22.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.12%) 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
1 122 (68.16%) Power Platform
2 32 (17.88%) Azure
3 22 (12.29%) AWS
4 13 (7.26%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.70%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (4.47%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.35%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (3.35%) GitHub
8 6 (3.35%) Serverless
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.79%) GCP
9 5 (2.79%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.23%) Matillion
11 3 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (68.16%) Power BI
2 39 (21.79%) Tableau
3 23 (12.85%) Power Query
4 17 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.50%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.26%) Metadata
6 12 (6.70%) Data Lake
7 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.47%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.79%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.23%) Big Data
10 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.68%) QlikView
11 3 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) JIRA
2 4 (2.23%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 66 (36.87%) Analytical Skills
1 66 (36.87%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.99%) Finance
3 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.70%) Banking
5 6 (3.35%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.79%) Law
6 5 (2.79%) Military
7 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Automotive
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Local Government
8 2 (1.12%) Police
9 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) Analyst
2 28 (15.64%) Developer
3 27 (15.08%) Senior
4 25 (13.97%) Data Analyst
5 24 (13.41%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 15 (8.38%) Architect
7 15 (8.38%) Power BI Developer
8 12 (6.70%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.15%) Data Visualisation Specialist
10 10 (5.59%) Consultant
11 7 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.35%) Data Consultant
13 5 (2.79%) Lead
13 5 (2.79%) Performance Analyst
13 5 (2.79%) Report Analyst
13 5 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.79%) Senior Manager
14 4 (2.23%) Senior Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.17%) REST
2 5 (2.79%) HTML
3 4 (2.23%) CSS
3 4 (2.23%) PySpark
3 4 (2.23%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.23%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.68%) .NET
4 3 (1.68%) Plotly
5 2 (1.12%) Jest
5 2 (1.12%) JSON
5 2 (1.12%) Kafka
5 2 (1.12%) Pandas
5 2 (1.12%) React
5 2 (1.12%) SOAP
6 1 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.56%) Playwright
6 1 (0.56%) Redux
6 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.56%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.15%) Reference Data
3 9 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.03%) Clustering
3 9 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.03%) PKI
4 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.23%) CMDB
7 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.23%) Social Media
8 3 (1.68%) Blog
9 2 (1.12%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.12%) Life Science
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.59%) Windows
1 10 (5.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.12%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 124 (69.27%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (51.40%) Analytics
4 65 (36.31%) Data Modelling
5 48 (26.82%) Decision-Making
5 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (22.91%) Agile
7 37 (20.67%) AI
8 36 (20.11%) Data Analysis
9 34 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (16.76%) Actionable Insight
12 29 (16.20%) Data Analytics
12 29 (16.20%) Data Governance
13 26 (14.53%) Data Engineering
14 25 (13.97%) Dashboard Development
14 25 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (13.41%) Validation
16 23 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
17 22 (12.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.69%) SQL
2 40 (22.35%) Python
3 24 (13.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.59%) R
7 9 (5.03%) Java
8 8 (4.47%) C#
9 3 (1.68%) C++
9 3 (1.68%) Scala
10 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.12%) Rust
10 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.29%) Degree
4 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) APMG
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
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 44 (24.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.15%) QA
3 9 (5.03%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) GRC
4 4 (2.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.12%) GMP
6 2 (1.12%) 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 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.68%) Kibana
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.17%) SAP
3 15 (8.38%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.59%) Oracle
5 9 (5.03%) BMC
5 9 (5.03%) Remedy
6 8 (4.47%) Google
7 7 (3.91%) Databricks
8 5 (2.79%) Informatica
9 4 (2.23%) Ariba
10 3 (1.68%) Foundry
10 3 (1.68%) Palantir
11 2 (1.12%) Adobe
11 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.12%) Splunk
12 1 (0.56%) Brio
12 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.56%) GoldenSource
12 1 (0.56%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.56%) Teradata