Data Visualisation Specialist Contracts

Data Visualization Specialist
UK

The median Data Visualization Specialist daily rate in the UK is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 594 679
Rank change year-on-year +48 +85 +197
Contract jobs requiring a Data Visualisation Specialist 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £256 - -
25th Percentile £258 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £563 £613 -
90th Percentile £585 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £259 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,079 40,388 53,054
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,553 25,970 36,860
10th Percentile £288 £286 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,311 2,837 1,549
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.01% +94.88%

Data Visualisation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Visualisation Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation Specialist in the UK

Data Visualisation Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation Specialist.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation Specialist in the UK

Data Visualisation Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation Specialist over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation Specialist in the UK

Data Visualisation Specialist
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Visualisation Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +67 4 £405 -29.57% 3
UK excluding London - 3 £259 - 2
London +35 2 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £259 - 2
North of England - 2 £259 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £260 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Data Visualisation Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Data Visualisation Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Visualisation Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Tableau
2 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (60.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) Looker
4 2 (40.00%) Tableau Desktop
4 2 (40.00%) Storytelling
4 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) UX Design
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Alteryx
4 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe
4 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Validation

Data Visualisation Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Looker
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau Desktop
4 1 (20.00%) Power Query
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Alteryx