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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 204 261
Rank change year-on-year -13 +57 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 165 167 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.03% 0.97% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.16% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 109 114
10th Percentile £297 £285 £277
25th Percentile £366 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £456 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.75% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 16
10th Percentile £17.30 £20.97 £15.61
25th Percentile £21.76 £22.69 £20.05
Median hourly rate £31.25 £26.17 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.43% -0.32% -25.00%
75th Percentile £45.16 £30.27 £32.32
90th Percentile £69.98 £32.36 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £38.96 £37.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year +3.89% +16.03% -7.66%

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 14,292 14,418 18,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 83.68% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 8,163 12,353
10th Percentile £225 £245 £256
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,584 998 1,303
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% -8.14% +65.29%
75th Percentile £39.63 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.31% -10.11% +36.92%

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 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -34 58 £381 -15.28% 35
South East +22 39 £600 +24.48% 175
Yorkshire -17 35 £350 -22.22% 10
North West -34 22 £388 -12.82% 19
Scotland +16 21 £463 +31.02% 3
Midlands -26 18 £507 +22.91% 31
East of England +3 13 £525 +5.00% 20
West Midlands -27 11 £514 +28.50% 17
South West +8 9 £400 -30.43% 26
East Midlands -10 7 £413 -10.81% 14
Wales - 5 £183 - 6
Northern Ireland -16 3 £600 +20.00% 3
North East -7 1 £400 -38.22% 6
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 9 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.24%) Apache Pig
3 4 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.82%) SAS
4 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (20.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.21%) Maple
4 2 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 90 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 44 (26.67%) Azure
3 21 (12.73%) AWS
4 13 (7.88%) GCP
5 8 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.85%) Serverless
6 7 (4.24%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.24%) GitHub
6 7 (4.24%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.64%) Figma
7 6 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) MQTT
2 1 (0.61%) 2G
2 1 (0.61%) 5G
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) LTE
2 1 (0.61%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (53.94%) Power BI
2 43 (26.06%) Tableau
3 25 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (12.73%) Relational Database
5 18 (10.91%) Power Query
6 14 (8.48%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.45%) Big Data
8 8 (4.85%) Data Mining
8 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.24%) Apache Hive
9 7 (4.24%) Looker
10 6 (3.64%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.64%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.42%) QlikView
12 4 (2.42%) Spotfire
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) Gradle
2 6 (3.64%) Storybook
2 6 (3.64%) Xcode
3 5 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.82%) MLflow
5 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.21%) Selenium
5 2 (1.21%) webpack
6 1 (0.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Postman
6 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 66 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 57 (34.55%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.24%) Finance
4 18 (10.91%) Banking
5 11 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Retail
8 5 (3.03%) Billing
8 5 (3.03%) Legal
9 3 (1.82%) Local Government
9 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.21%) Automotive
10 2 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Electronics
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 58 (35.15%) Analyst
2 47 (28.48%) Data Analyst
3 40 (24.24%) Developer
4 15 (9.09%) Architect
4 15 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 14 (8.48%) Data Scientist
6 12 (7.27%) Power BI Developer
7 10 (6.06%) Lead
7 10 (6.06%) Senior
8 8 (4.85%) React Developer
9 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.64%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Power BI Analyst
10 6 (3.64%) Report Analyst
11 5 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.06%) D3.js
2 9 (5.45%) scikit-learn
3 8 (4.85%) Pandas
4 7 (4.24%) React Native
5 6 (3.64%) OAuth
5 6 (3.64%) SVG
6 5 (3.03%) Kafka
6 5 (3.03%) NumPy
6 5 (3.03%) React
6 5 (3.03%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.42%) PySpark
8 3 (1.82%) JSON
8 3 (1.82%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.82%) RESTful
8 3 (1.82%) Web Services
9 2 (1.21%) Django
9 2 (1.21%) Matplotlib
9 2 (1.21%) REST
9 2 (1.21%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.85%) CMDB
3 8 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.24%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.64%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.03%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.21%) Equities
9 2 (1.21%) IoT
9 2 (1.21%) Life Science
9 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Android
1 6 (3.64%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 87 (52.73%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (46.67%) Analytics
4 57 (34.55%) Decision-Making
5 51 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (30.30%) Data Modelling
7 48 (29.09%) Data Analysis
8 42 (25.45%) Agile
9 39 (23.64%) Machine Learning
10 38 (23.03%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (23.03%) Data Science
11 27 (16.36%) ETL
12 26 (15.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 25 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (15.15%) DevOps
14 21 (12.73%) Dashboard Development
14 21 (12.73%) Data Management
15 20 (12.12%) AI
15 20 (12.12%) Data Engineering
15 20 (12.12%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 96 (58.18%) SQL
2 74 (44.85%) Python
3 16 (9.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (7.88%) Scala
5 12 (7.27%) Java
6 11 (6.67%) R
7 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.21%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) LookML
11 1 (0.61%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (16.36%) Degree
2 10 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.21%) ACCA
7 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.21%) CIMA
7 2 (1.21%) PhD
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.79%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.64%) GDPR
4 4 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.21%) GRC
5 2 (1.21%) WCAG
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.61%) HL7
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (1.82%) Grafana
4 2 (1.21%) Kibana
5 1 (0.61%) logstash
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) SAP
3 10 (6.06%) Google
4 9 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.85%) Databricks
5 8 (4.85%) OpenAI
5 8 (4.85%) Splunk
6 7 (4.24%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.42%) Oracle
7 4 (2.42%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.82%) Cognos
9 2 (1.21%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.21%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.21%) Informatica
9 2 (1.21%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.21%) NetIQ
9 2 (1.21%) Okta
9 2 (1.21%) Workday
10 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.61%) IFS