Visualisation Contract Job Trends in England

Visualization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -102 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 654 736 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.63% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.89% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 456 410
10th Percentile £313 £319 £318
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 47 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £18.40 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.40 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Visualisation job vacancy trend in England

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in England

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in England

Visualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. 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
London -79 313 £480 -4.00% 880
North of England -73 103 £438 +3.06% 189
Midlands -44 83 £528 +4.14% 138
South East -57 68 £452 -17.91% 221
West Midlands -37 62 £550 +5.77% 96
North West -39 49 £500 +22.70% 94
South West -29 46 £450 -40.00% 104
Yorkshire -54 42 £480 +12.94% 70
East of England -41 30 £565 +7.62% 107
East Midlands -10 21 £375 -6.25% 42
North East -30 13 £350 -17.65% 25
Visualisation
UK

Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 21 (3.21%) Confluence
2 17 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.76%) CMS
5 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.46%) InDesign
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.31%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (51.83%) Power Platform
2 123 (18.81%) Azure
3 90 (13.76%) AWS
4 44 (6.73%) Snowflake
5 40 (6.12%) GCP
6 33 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.98%) GitHub
7 26 (3.98%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.67%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.36%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.06%) Serverless
11 19 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.75%) dbt
13 15 (2.29%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.38%) Figma
16 9 (1.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.76%) SNMP
2 5 (0.76%) Wireless
3 4 (0.61%) Broadband
3 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.61%) WAN
4 3 (0.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.31%) 2G
5 2 (0.31%) 3G
5 2 (0.31%) 4G
5 2 (0.31%) 5G
5 2 (0.31%) DHCP
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) HTTP
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (50.76%) Power BI
2 131 (20.03%) Tableau
3 65 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (8.56%) Power Query
5 38 (5.81%) Data Lake
6 37 (5.66%) Relational Database
7 28 (4.28%) Metadata
8 22 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.91%) Looker
10 18 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.45%) Big Data
13 15 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
14 14 (2.14%) GIS
14 14 (2.14%) QlikView
15 12 (1.83%) Star Schema
16 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
17 9 (1.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 40 (6.12%) JIRA
2 35 (5.35%) Git
3 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.92%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.15%) fastlane
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 233 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 224 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (21.56%) Finance
4 79 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.65%) Banking
6 24 (3.67%) Military
7 21 (3.21%) Retail
8 20 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.91%) Marketing
10 18 (2.75%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.99%) Local Government
12 13 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Front Office
15 6 (0.92%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.92%) Police
15 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (27.06%) Analyst
2 102 (15.60%) Data Analyst
3 99 (15.14%) Developer
4 79 (12.08%) Senior
5 73 (11.16%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 36 (5.50%) Lead
8 34 (5.20%) Data Scientist
9 29 (4.43%) Power BI Developer
10 28 (4.28%) Consultant
11 27 (4.13%) Architect
12 26 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.82%) Designer
14 24 (3.67%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.91%) Performance Analyst
16 17 (2.60%) Data Architect
16 17 (2.60%) Data Manager
17 15 (2.29%) Report Analyst
17 15 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
18 14 (2.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.50%) Terraform
2 31 (4.74%) REST
3 25 (3.82%) Pandas
3 25 (3.82%) React
4 23 (3.52%) CSS
5 22 (3.36%) HTML
5 22 (3.36%) PySpark
6 16 (2.45%) NumPy
7 15 (2.29%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.68%) Kafka
8 11 (1.68%) Web Services
9 10 (1.53%) Flask
9 10 (1.53%) Node.js
10 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.22%) JSON
12 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.07%) Redux
12 7 (1.07%) Vue
13 6 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.88%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 27 (4.13%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.83%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.38%) PKI
12 8 (1.22%) Clustering
13 7 (1.07%) Derivative
13 7 (1.07%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.28%) Windows
2 19 (2.91%) Linux
3 9 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (52.91%) Business Intelligence
2 326 (49.85%) Data Visualisation
3 315 (48.17%) Analytics
4 185 (28.29%) Data Modelling
5 183 (27.98%) Decision-Making
6 178 (27.22%) Agile
7 151 (23.09%) AI
8 150 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (21.41%) Data Analysis
10 129 (19.72%) Actionable Insight
11 123 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (17.28%) Validation
14 106 (16.21%) Dashboard Development
15 103 (15.75%) Data Science
16 99 (15.14%) Data Governance
16 99 (15.14%) ETL
17 98 (14.98%) Data Engineering
18 95 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
19 93 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 317 (48.47%) SQL
2 224 (34.25%) Python
3 66 (10.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (7.03%) JavaScript
5 44 (6.73%) R
6 37 (5.66%) Java
7 31 (4.74%) C#
8 20 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.99%) C++
10 13 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.38%) Scala
12 8 (1.22%) Bash
13 6 (0.92%) Cypher
13 6 (0.92%) VBA
14 5 (0.76%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.46%) Korn
15 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.16%) Degree
4 24 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.92%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.31%) APMG
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.20%) QA
3 25 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 24 (3.67%) GDPR
5 14 (2.14%) PMO
6 11 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
8 4 (0.61%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.46%) GMP
10 2 (0.31%) Basel III
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) P3O
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (3.36%) Docker
2 13 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.22%) Kibana
3 7 (1.07%) Ansible
3 7 (1.07%) Grafana
3 7 (1.07%) SCCM
4 4 (0.61%) Podman
4 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) logstash
5 2 (0.31%) Packer
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 131 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.26%) Databricks
3 38 (5.81%) SAP
4 33 (5.05%) Google
5 26 (3.98%) Oracle
6 25 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.60%) Adobe
7 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.99%) Splunk
9 11 (1.68%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.38%) Informatica
11 9 (1.38%) Remedy
12 8 (1.22%) BMC
12 8 (1.22%) Palantir
13 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.76%) Foundry
15 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.61%) Ariba
15 4 (0.61%) UiPath