Data Visualisation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Visualization
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 75
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 1.10% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.20% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £344
25th Percentile £413 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.25%
75th Percentile £438 - £750
90th Percentile - - £775
Scotland median daily rate £463 £483 £625
% change year-on-year -4.15% -22.80% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 538 583 836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.34% 91.24% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 305 496
10th Percentile £221 £226 £202
25th Percentile £406 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £635 £626
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 9
10th Percentile £16.55 £16.86 £12.95
25th Percentile - £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.13% -16.65%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.00 - £55.26
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Visualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Visualisation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Munging
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) logstash