Visualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Visualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 153 158
Rank change year-on-year +47 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 291 293 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.42% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.70% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 185 221
10th Percentile £313 £290 £300
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.21%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 32 45
10th Percentile £22.36 £20.55 £23.18
25th Percentile £25.94 £50.92 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.47% - +45.02%
75th Percentile £64.06 - £65.75
90th Percentile £79.09 £77.33 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -42.50% -7.69% +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the UK excluding London

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK excluding London

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 Visualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +17 90 £463 -0.27% 649
Midlands +11 51 £400 -5.88% 563
North West +5 40 £469 -1.32% 300
West Midlands +12 39 £419 -15.19% 294
Yorkshire +19 38 £415 -7.78% 266
South West +44 37 £475 -9.52% 316
East of England +35 36 £650 +44.44% 409
South East +31 36 £525 +16.67% 980
Scotland -3 30 £450 +2.27% 130
East Midlands +10 12 £375 +1.35% 235
North East 0 12 £525 +27.89% 86
Wales +6 7 £275 +71.88% 70
Northern Ireland -10 4 £425 +6.25% 42
Visualisation
UK

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 19 (6.53%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.84%) Apache
3 16 (5.50%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.44%) SAS
5 9 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (3.09%) Confluence
6 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.69%) R Markdown
7 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.34%) TPMS
Applications
1 46 (15.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.37%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.37%) SketchUp
4 2 (0.69%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (0.69%) Maya
4 2 (0.69%) Sketch
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.36%) Power Platform
2 52 (17.87%) AWS
3 44 (15.12%) Azure
4 21 (7.22%) GCP
5 19 (6.53%) GitHub
6 13 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (3.44%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.75%) Adobe Analytics
10 8 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.75%) dbt
11 7 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.41%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.41%) Serverless
11 7 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.72%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
1 5 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) NAS
3 1 (0.34%) SAN
3 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (32.99%) Power BI
2 70 (24.05%) Tableau
3 40 (13.75%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.25%) Hadoop
5 21 (7.22%) Big Data
6 19 (6.53%) Relational Database
7 18 (6.19%) Metadata
8 16 (5.50%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.12%) NoSQL
10 11 (3.78%) Power Query
11 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.75%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.75%) Data Mining
12 8 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.75%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (2.06%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.06%) MySQL
15 5 (1.72%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.44%) Git
1 10 (3.44%) JIRA
2 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.41%) GitLab
4 6 (2.06%) JUnit
5 5 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.37%) Postman
7 3 (1.03%) JMeter
7 3 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.03%) TestNG
7 3 (1.03%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.69%) ERwin
8 2 (0.69%) GDB
9 1 (0.34%) Ant
9 1 (0.34%) Maven
9 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 136 (46.74%) Social Skills
2 96 (32.99%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (16.15%) Finance
4 22 (7.56%) Banking
5 21 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.12%) Marketing
9 11 (3.78%) Retail
10 9 (3.09%) Local Government
11 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.72%) Automotive
12 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.72%) Military
12 5 (1.72%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.37%) Games
14 3 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Law
14 3 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (29.21%) Analyst
2 64 (21.99%) Developer
3 53 (18.21%) Data Analyst
4 39 (13.40%) Senior
5 32 (11.00%) Data Engineer
6 25 (8.59%) Architect
7 16 (5.50%) Data Architect
8 15 (5.15%) Lead
8 15 (5.15%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (4.47%) Data Science Developer
10 13 (4.47%) Power BI Developer
11 12 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.78%) Data Manager
13 9 (3.09%) Data Scientist
13 9 (3.09%) Report Analyst
14 8 (2.75%) Insight Manager
14 8 (2.75%) Service Analyst
15 7 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.22%) Pandas
2 20 (6.87%) NumPy
3 19 (6.53%) React
4 18 (6.19%) scikit-learn
4 18 (6.19%) TensorFlow
5 16 (5.50%) AngularJS
5 16 (5.50%) Matplotlib
5 16 (5.50%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.15%) Seaborn
7 14 (4.81%) Kafka
8 12 (4.12%) CSS
9 11 (3.78%) RESTful
10 8 (2.75%) Node.js
10 8 (2.75%) REST
11 7 (2.41%) HTML
11 7 (2.41%) Spring
12 6 (2.06%) Akka
12 6 (2.06%) PySpark
12 6 (2.06%) Web Services
13 5 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.03%) Algorithms
2 15 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.06%) Replication
7 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.03%) IoT
8 3 (1.03%) NHS
9 2 (0.69%) Animation
9 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.69%) FMCG
9 2 (0.69%) Life Science
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.81%) Linux
2 12 (4.12%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Android
3 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (46.74%) Data Visualisation
2 114 (39.18%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (34.71%) Analytics
4 98 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (33.33%) Data Analysis
6 83 (28.52%) Decision-Making
7 71 (24.40%) Agile
8 61 (20.96%) Data Modelling
9 57 (19.59%) Data Science
10 52 (17.87%) ETL
11 48 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (15.81%) CI/CD
13 41 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
13 41 (14.09%) Artificial Intelligence
14 40 (13.75%) Data Management
15 39 (13.40%) Data Governance
16 37 (12.71%) Data Analytics
17 36 (12.37%) Machine Learning
18 31 (10.65%) Computer Science
19 27 (9.28%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 126 (43.30%) SQL
2 90 (30.93%) Python
3 37 (12.71%) R
4 20 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (6.53%) Java
6 11 (3.78%) Scala
7 9 (3.09%) C#
8 8 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.41%) C++
10 4 (1.37%) Bash
10 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.37%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.69%) Perl
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Ruby
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (17.18%) Degree
1 50 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.15%) Master's Degree
4 14 (4.81%) PhD
5 12 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.03%) CEH
8 3 (1.03%) CISSP
8 3 (1.03%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) ISACA
9 2 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (24.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.15%) QA
3 13 (4.47%) GDPR
4 9 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.72%) WCAG
6 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.69%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) COSHH
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (3.44%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 27 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.81%) Kibana
2 14 (4.81%) Terraform
3 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.41%) Grafana
5 5 (1.72%) logstash
6 4 (1.37%) SCCM
7 3 (1.03%) Ansible
7 3 (1.03%) Istio
7 3 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.69%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.69%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.50%) Google
3 14 (4.81%) Adobe
4 13 (4.47%) SAP
5 11 (3.78%) Oracle
6 8 (2.75%) Databricks
7 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.41%) Teradata
8 6 (2.06%) Ariba
8 6 (2.06%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.06%) Splunk
9 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.37%) HP
11 3 (1.03%) Veritas
12 2 (0.69%) Apple
12 2 (0.69%) Autodesk
12 2 (0.69%) Foundry
12 2 (0.69%) OpenText
12 2 (0.69%) Red Hat