Visualisation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Visualization
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 22 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.59% 3.07% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 3.43% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 13
10th Percentile £320 £361 £235
25th Percentile £353 £388 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% +12.28%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £450
90th Percentile £634 £638 £590
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +21.21% -21.43% +9.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 467 637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.61% 89.46% 83.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 334 418
10th Percentile £312 £190 £250
25th Percentile £405 £377 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £575
90th Percentile £651 £700 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.05 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.35 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% -32.66% +67.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.75
% change year-on-year +26.86% -20.31% +28.39%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Visualisation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in Birmingham

Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (22.73%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.55%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 4 (18.18%) PowerApps
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (13.64%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (22.73%) Power BI
3 4 (18.18%) Power Query
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Data Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Security Specialist
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Junior
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Data Visualisation
2 10 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (36.36%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (36.36%) SIEM
4 7 (31.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
5 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 6 (27.27%) Threat Detection
6 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 4 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 4 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (13.64%) R
4 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kibana
1 8 (36.36%) logstash
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Cognos
3 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.55%) Teradata