Data Visualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Visualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 197 274 322
Rank change year-on-year +77 +48 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 143 126 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.61% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.72% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 86 101
10th Percentile £324 £310 £350
25th Percentile £393 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £594
90th Percentile £630 £606 £668
UK median daily rate £458 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -8.35% -0.40% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £24.35 £17.60 £18.13
25th Percentile £31.51 £20.16 £18.91
Median hourly rate £32.23 £24.43 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +31.91% -13.25% -19.54%
75th Percentile £35.90 £28.84 £32.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £31.49 £39.38
UK median hourly rate £34.18 £42.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year -19.58% +31.58% -7.71%

All Process and 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Data Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Data Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +11 41 £459 -8.25% 114
South West +63 28 £475 -14.22% 37
East of England +41 20 £400 -11.17% 47
North West +14 20 £486 +2.22% 67
Midlands +28 19 £425 - 63
South East +47 18 £500 +2.56% 158
Scotland +2 16 £513 +6.77% 16
Yorkshire -2 14 £435 -18.31% 37
West Midlands +20 13 £425 -8.11% 39
North East +5 7 £525 +24.11% 12
East Midlands +11 6 £367 -8.25% 21
Wales - 3 £238 - 8
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 8
Data Visualisation
UK

Data Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.99%) SAS
3 7 (4.90%) Apache
4 5 (3.50%) Confluence
5 4 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 40 (27.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.70%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) FastStats
2 1 (0.70%) FastStats PeopleStage
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (49.65%) Power Platform
2 16 (11.19%) Azure
3 11 (7.69%) AWS
3 11 (7.69%) GCP
4 7 (4.90%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.50%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.80%) GitHub
7 4 (2.80%) Serverless
7 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.10%) dbt
8 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.10%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.40%) OCI
9 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (49.65%) Power BI
2 45 (31.47%) Tableau
3 26 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.69%) Data Mining
6 9 (6.29%) Hadoop
6 9 (6.29%) Metadata
7 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.90%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.20%) Big Data
9 6 (4.20%) MySQL
10 5 (3.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.80%) Power Query
11 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.10%) Looker
12 3 (2.10%) QlikView
12 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) JIRA
2 3 (2.10%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.70%) Ant
4 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.70%) ERwin
4 1 (0.70%) Flyway
4 1 (0.70%) Gradle
4 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.70%) JUnit
4 1 (0.70%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) Mocha
4 1 (0.70%) Mockito
4 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (51.75%) Social Skills
2 51 (35.66%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (22.38%) Finance
4 17 (11.89%) Banking
5 11 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.29%) Marketing
7 7 (4.90%) Local Government
8 5 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.40%) Law
9 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (32.17%) Analyst
2 31 (21.68%) Developer
3 24 (16.78%) Data Analyst
4 12 (8.39%) Data Engineer
4 12 (8.39%) Senior
5 11 (7.69%) Architect
6 10 (6.99%) Data Manager
6 10 (6.99%) Insight Manager
6 10 (6.99%) Power BI Developer
7 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Data Scientist
9 7 (4.90%) Analytics Manager
9 7 (4.90%) Data Analytics Manager
9 7 (4.90%) Report Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Scala Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Service Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Strategy Manager
10 6 (4.20%) SAP Analyst
10 6 (4.20%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) Akka
2 6 (4.20%) Pandas
2 6 (4.20%) React
3 5 (3.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.50%) Kafka
3 5 (3.50%) NumPy
3 5 (3.50%) Play Framework
3 5 (3.50%) PySpark
4 4 (2.80%) D3.js
4 4 (2.80%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.10%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.40%) .NET
6 2 (1.40%) JavaFX
6 2 (1.40%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.40%) RESTful
7 1 (0.70%) J2EE
7 1 (0.70%) Node.js
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.70%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.29%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.59%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.80%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.40%) IoT
7 2 (1.40%) Life Science
7 2 (1.40%) NHS
7 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) CMDB
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) FMCG
8 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 80 (55.94%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (46.85%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (35.66%) Analytics
5 50 (34.97%) Data Analysis
6 45 (31.47%) Decision-Making
7 32 (22.38%) Data Modelling
8 31 (21.68%) Data Science
9 27 (18.88%) Agile
10 26 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (15.38%) ETL
12 18 (12.59%) Migration
13 16 (11.19%) CI/CD
13 16 (11.19%) Data Analytics
13 16 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (10.49%) Data Extraction
14 15 (10.49%) Data Integration
15 14 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
16 13 (9.09%) Data Governance
17 12 (8.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (53.15%) SQL
2 27 (18.88%) Python
3 15 (10.49%) R
4 10 (6.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (6.29%) Java
5 9 (6.29%) Scala
6 3 (2.10%) VBA
7 2 (1.40%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.70%) ABAP
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.70%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.29%) Degree
3 18 (12.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) PhD
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.40%) ISACA
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PMP
8 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.90%) GDPR
3 5 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.40%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.90%) Kibana
2 4 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.40%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.40%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.39%) SAP
3 8 (5.59%) Oracle
4 7 (4.90%) Adobe
4 7 (4.90%) Databricks
4 7 (4.90%) Teradata
5 6 (4.20%) Ariba
6 5 (3.50%) Google
7 3 (2.10%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.40%) Brio
8 2 (1.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.40%) Veritas
8 2 (1.40%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.70%) Cognos
9 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.70%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.70%) Informatica
9 1 (0.70%) Sybase
9 1 (0.70%) VMware