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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 51 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 27 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.30% 2.06% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 2.30% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 13
10th Percentile £323 £374 £235
25th Percentile £382 £402 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £444
90th Percentile £634 £638 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £406 £425
% change year-on-year +29.23% -4.41% -5.56%

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 707 565 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.54% 89.54% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 383 392
10th Percentile £263 £200 £258
25th Percentile £400 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £638 £702 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.34
25th Percentile £16.15 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% -6.13% +29.94%

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 February 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 (18.52%) OpenStack
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Pig
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
2 4 (14.81%) PowerApps
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (11.11%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 5 (18.52%) Data Mining
3 4 (14.81%) Apache Hive
3 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.11%) Power Query
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) OLTP
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Report Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) KYC Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Data Visualisation
2 11 (40.74%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (33.33%) Analytics
3 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (29.63%) SIEM
5 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
5 7 (25.93%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (22.22%) Data Collection
6 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 6 (22.22%) Security Operations
6 6 (22.22%) Threat Detection
7 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
7 5 (18.52%) Data Science
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Naive Bayes
8 4 (14.81%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Scala
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (11.11%) R
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kibana
1 8 (29.63%) logstash
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 3 (11.11%) Cognos
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Teradata