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

 6 months to
6 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 190 285
Rank change year-on-year -89 +95 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 158 150 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.18% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.31% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 96 81
10th Percentile £353 £323 £313
25th Percentile £400 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £631 £625
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 3
10th Percentile £19.83 £30.18 £17.60
25th Percentile £28.35 £31.64 £20.16
Median hourly rate £67.35 £32.81 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +105.26% +34.30% -13.25%
75th Percentile £82.25 £36.38 £28.84
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £31.49
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £33.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +64.60% -22.09% -15.02%

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 18,750 11,483 17,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.26% 90.56% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,415 7,315 10,792
10th Percentile £280 £240 £238
25th Percentile £400 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 761 1,952
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £15.13
Median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% -6.59% -13.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -69 47 £475 +4.40% 32
Midlands -46 39 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -45 32 £520 +4.00% 47
North West -34 29 £441 -5.11% 23
West Midlands -45 24 £475 +11.76% 14
East Midlands -22 15 £385 +4.90% 18
Yorkshire -50 15 £500 +17.65% 7
East of England -35 14 £463 +15.77% 6
Scotland -3 11 £425 -15.00% 6
South West -40 11 £450 -5.26% 12
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 - 3
North East -19 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -14 1 - - 1
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 10 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.06%) Apache
2 8 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.80%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.90%) Confluence
5 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (20.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.63%) iTrent
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.82%) Azure
3 20 (12.66%) AWS
4 15 (9.49%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.59%) PowerApps
6 11 (6.96%) GCP
7 6 (3.80%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.16%) Serverless
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) 2G
1 2 (1.27%) 5G
1 2 (1.27%) LTE
1 2 (1.27%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.27%) VoIP
2 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Intranet
2 1 (0.63%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (50.00%) Power BI
2 35 (22.15%) Tableau
3 22 (13.92%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (10.13%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.96%) Metadata
6 10 (6.33%) Big Data
7 9 (5.70%) Power Query
8 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.43%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.43%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.16%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.53%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.90%) Parquet
13 3 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 59 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.62%) Finance
4 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.59%) Banking
6 9 (5.70%) Law
7 7 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.43%) Publishing
8 6 (3.80%) Marketing
9 4 (2.53%) Military
10 3 (1.90%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.90%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (33.54%) Analyst
2 33 (20.89%) Developer
3 32 (20.25%) Data Analyst
4 17 (10.76%) Senior
5 12 (7.59%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.33%) Data Scientist
7 9 (5.70%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.43%) Architect
9 7 (4.43%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.80%) Consultant
10 6 (3.80%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.80%) SIEM Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (3.16%) Lead
11 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.53%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.53%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.70%) REST
2 7 (4.43%) Pandas
3 6 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.16%) .NET
4 5 (3.16%) Plotly
4 5 (3.16%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.53%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.90%) Akka
6 3 (1.90%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.90%) NumPy
6 3 (1.90%) React
6 3 (1.90%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.90%) Seaborn
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) PySpark
7 2 (1.27%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
8 1 (0.63%) Kafka
8 1 (0.63%) Play Framework
8 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.70%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.16%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.53%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.90%) CMDB
6 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.90%) IoT
6 3 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Life Science
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 96 (60.76%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (39.24%) Analytics
4 48 (30.38%) Decision-Making
5 47 (29.75%) Agile
6 46 (29.11%) Data Modelling
6 46 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (24.05%) Actionable Insight
8 37 (23.42%) Data Analysis
9 29 (18.35%) Dashboard Development
10 25 (15.82%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (14.56%) ETL
12 21 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (13.29%) Data Science
13 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (12.03%) Data Governance
14 19 (12.03%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (10.76%) Validation
16 16 (10.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.00%) SQL
2 46 (29.11%) Python
3 15 (9.49%) R
4 13 (8.23%) C#
5 11 (6.96%) Java
6 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.80%) Perl
8 6 (3.80%) VBA
9 4 (2.53%) PHP
9 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.90%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.90%) Rust
10 3 (1.90%) Scala
11 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 22 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.76%) Degree
3 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ACCA
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CIMA
7 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.59%) QA
3 5 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.53%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.63%) P3O
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.70%) Kibana
2 8 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.80%) logstash
4 4 (2.53%) Grafana
5 3 (1.90%) Ansible
5 3 (1.90%) Terraform
6 2 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) Databricks
3 11 (6.96%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.70%) Oracle
5 6 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.80%) SAP
6 4 (2.53%) Adobe
6 4 (2.53%) Google
7 3 (1.90%) Brio
7 3 (1.90%) Cognos
8 2 (1.27%) BMC
8 2 (1.27%) Remedy
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.63%) Informatica
9 1 (0.63%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.63%) Talend
9 1 (0.63%) Workday
137 Data Visualisation jobs in the UK excluding London