Data Visualisation Contracts in the North West

Data Visualization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 114 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 20 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.83% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.97% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 25
10th Percentile £358 £350 £403
25th Percentile £417 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £576 £625
90th Percentile £726 £611 £656
England median daily rate £455 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -9.00% -2.44% +0.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +16 12 £455 +1.11% 47
Cheshire -3 4 £725 +40.10% 15
Merseyside - 3 £625 - 6
Data Visualisation
England

Data Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Tableau
2 10 (50.00%) Power BI
3 5 (25.00%) Data Mining
4 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (20.00%) MySQL
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
6 2 (10.00%) Big Data
6 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (5.00%) GIS
7 1 (5.00%) HBase
7 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (5.00%) Pentaho
7 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.00%) Flyway
2 1 (5.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (5.00%) Mocha
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) D3.js
1 3 (15.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) Jest
3 1 (5.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (50.00%) Data Science
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 4 (20.00%) Data Strategy
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Predictive Modelling
8 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Brio
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow