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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 204 263
Rank change year-on-year -79 +59 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 159 139 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.07% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.19% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 94
10th Percentile £368 £315 £302
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -0.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £628 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 2
10th Percentile £21.85 £24.35 £16.74
25th Percentile £38.25 £31.51 £18.03
Median hourly rate £67.50 £32.23 £20.16
Median % change year-on-year +109.46% +59.85% -16.83%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.84 £22.30
90th Percentile £83.80 £82.25 £23.58
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £32.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.11% -22.45% +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 20,274 11,718 17,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.45% 90.57% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,092 7,313 10,295
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 855 2,138
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.13 £12.46
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.95 £15.39
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 46 £480 +6.67% 37
South East -47 35 £520 +4.00% 41
Midlands -45 34 £488 +18.18% 18
North West -28 28 £420 -7.69% 20
West Midlands -49 24 £500 +17.65% 12
South West -32 20 £475 +16.14% 17
Yorkshire -65 15 £500 +17.65% 11
East of England -38 12 £463 +15.63% 10
Scotland -2 11 £450 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -27 10 £385 -6.67% 6
North East -29 3 £400 -23.81% 7
Northern Ireland +5 2 £463 +32.14% 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 10 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.40%) Apache
3 6 (3.77%) Apache Superset
4 5 (3.14%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (20.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.89%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.26%) Eloqua
3 2 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.63%) iTrent
4 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (56.60%) Power Platform
2 27 (16.98%) Azure
3 23 (14.47%) AWS
4 13 (8.18%) Power Automate
5 11 (6.92%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.40%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.40%) Serverless
7 6 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.14%) GCP
8 5 (3.14%) Matillion
8 5 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.89%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.89%) dbt
9 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.26%) GitHub
10 2 (1.26%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) Internet
1 1 (0.63%) Intranet
1 1 (0.63%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (56.60%) Power BI
2 39 (24.53%) Tableau
3 25 (15.72%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (10.06%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
6 11 (6.92%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.92%) Metadata
7 9 (5.66%) Power Query
8 8 (5.03%) Big Data
9 6 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.77%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.52%) QlikView
11 4 (2.52%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Git
1 5 (3.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.63%) GitLab
2 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (29.56%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.61%) Finance
4 11 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.66%) Law
7 7 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.77%) Publishing
9 4 (2.52%) Marketing
10 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.89%) Automotive
10 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Retail
11 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) German Language
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (34.59%) Analyst
2 33 (20.75%) Data Analyst
3 28 (17.61%) Developer
4 21 (13.21%) Senior
5 15 (9.43%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.66%) Architect
6 9 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Data Scientist
7 7 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.77%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (3.77%) SIEM Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Consultant
9 5 (3.14%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Data Consultant
9 5 (3.14%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.52%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) REST
2 6 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.77%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.52%) .NET
3 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.52%) CSS
3 4 (2.52%) Pandas
3 4 (2.52%) Plotly
3 4 (2.52%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.89%) Akka
4 3 (1.89%) HTML
4 3 (1.89%) Matplotlib
4 3 (1.89%) PySpark
4 3 (1.89%) React
4 3 (1.89%) RESTful
4 3 (1.89%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.26%) Jest
5 2 (1.26%) Node.js
5 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.63%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.03%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.77%) Clustering
4 6 (3.77%) PKI
4 6 (3.77%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.89%) Life Science
7 3 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.26%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.26%) NHS
8 2 (1.26%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Windows
1 6 (3.77%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 97 (61.01%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (39.62%) Analytics
4 55 (34.59%) Data Modelling
5 52 (32.70%) Agile
6 44 (27.67%) Decision-Making
7 38 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (22.01%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (18.24%) Data Analysis
11 28 (17.61%) Validation
12 26 (16.35%) AI
12 26 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (15.72%) Dashboard Development
14 24 (15.09%) Data Engineering
14 24 (15.09%) ETL
15 23 (14.47%) Data Governance
16 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (11.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 76 (47.80%) SQL
2 40 (25.16%) Python
3 13 (8.18%) C#
3 13 (8.18%) Java
4 12 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.92%) R
6 8 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.77%) Perl
8 5 (3.14%) VBA
9 4 (2.52%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.89%) C++
10 3 (1.89%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.89%) Rust
10 3 (1.89%) Scala
11 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Degree
4 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) ACCA
8 1 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (23.27%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.43%) QA
3 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.52%) PMO
5 2 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (1.26%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (1.26%) WCAG
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.66%) Kibana
2 6 (3.77%) logstash
3 4 (2.52%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.89%) Ansible
4 3 (1.89%) Terraform
5 2 (1.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.18%) Databricks
2 13 (8.18%) SAP
3 12 (7.55%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.92%) Oracle
5 6 (3.77%) BMC
5 6 (3.77%) Remedy
6 5 (3.14%) Informatica
7 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.89%) Adobe
8 3 (1.89%) Brio
8 3 (1.89%) Cognos
8 3 (1.89%) Google
9 2 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.63%) Palantir
10 1 (0.63%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.63%) UiPath
10 1 (0.63%) Workday