Data Visualisation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Visualization
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 65 89
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 17 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.50% 1.57% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.78% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 15
10th Percentile £234 £352 £226
25th Percentile £353 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -8.47% -3.06%
75th Percentile £438 £469 £530
90th Percentile £514 £526 £617
North West median daily rate £390 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -13.72% -4.84% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Visualisation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in Manchester

Data Visualisation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Bolton - 1 - - 4
Data Visualisation
North West

Data Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Figma
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) Tableau
4 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.88%) Looker
5 1 (5.88%) Metadata
5 1 (5.88%) Power Query
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Gradle
1 2 (11.76%) Storybook
1 2 (11.76%) Xcode
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft BI Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) D3.js
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) React Native
1 2 (11.76%) SVG
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Android
2 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 12 (70.59%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Data Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
6 4 (23.53%) Mathematics
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (17.65%) Statistics
7 3 (17.65%) Web Development
8 2 (11.76%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) PHP
3 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.88%) LookML
5 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Google