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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 15 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.94% 1.52% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.72% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 8
10th Percentile £283 £340 £335
25th Percentile £370 £354 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £412 £427
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% -3.69% -5.06%
75th Percentile £514 £588 £544
90th Percentile £535 £638 £623
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +27.27% -25.00% +22.22%

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 680 582 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.97% 88.45% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 385 384
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £400 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +10.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £591
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 23
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.43
25th Percentile £15.62 £21.63 £23.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +296.40%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.25 £69.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £27.63
% change year-on-year -7.36% -21.85% +63.12%

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 4 January 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Power Automate
2 4 (26.67%) PowerApps
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
3 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
4 3 (20.00%) Power Query
5 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (6.67%) OLTP
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Scientist
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Report Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Cleansing Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) KYC Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) NumPy
2 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Decision-Making
3 6 (40.00%) Data Collection
4 5 (33.33%) Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Data Science
4 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Data Munging
5 4 (26.67%) Linear Algebra
5 4 (26.67%) Naive Bayes
5 4 (26.67%) Statistics
5 4 (26.67%) Support Vector Machines
6 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) Scala
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (20.00%) R
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) logstash
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle