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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 109 118
Rank change year-on-year -76 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 700 683 654
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 2.46% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.71% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 415 427
10th Percentile £325 £304 £313
25th Percentile £400 £393 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £704 £675 £717
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 44 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £25.24 £31.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £33.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -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 39,011 25,247 28,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.77% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,277 16,138 18,662
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,657
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -72 348 £475 -5.00% 330
North of England -48 106 £455 +5.81% 116
Midlands -39 85 £515 +21.18% 75
South East -57 65 £450 -18.18% 119
West Midlands -39 64 £550 +6.70% 47
North West -27 52 £473 +5.70% 59
Yorkshire -38 49 £471 +17.81% 40
South West -23 46 £463 +2.78% 53
East of England -27 34 £565 +2.73% 50
East Midlands -6 21 £375 -6.25% 28
North East -44 6 £410 -8.89% 18
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 17 (2.43%) Apache Spark
1 17 (2.43%) Confluence
2 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
2 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.43%) ArcGIS
4 8 (1.14%) Apache
5 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) SAS
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 106 (15.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.14%) CPLEX
4 8 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.57%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.43%) InDesign
9 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.29%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 11 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 351 (50.14%) Power Platform
2 147 (21.00%) Azure
3 108 (15.43%) AWS
4 44 (6.29%) GCP
5 41 (5.86%) Snowflake
6 38 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (4.29%) Serverless
9 29 (4.14%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (3.71%) GitHub
12 23 (3.29%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.86%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.43%) dbt
15 16 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.57%) Google Analytics
17 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.71%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.57%) Wireless
4 2 (0.29%) 2G
4 2 (0.29%) 3G
4 2 (0.29%) 4G
4 2 (0.29%) 5G
4 2 (0.29%) DHCP
4 2 (0.29%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
4 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) SNMP
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (49.14%) Power BI
2 148 (21.14%) Tableau
3 88 (12.57%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.29%) Power Query
5 47 (6.71%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.86%) Metadata
7 32 (4.57%) Data Lake
8 30 (4.29%) Looker
9 27 (3.86%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.29%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.71%) Big Data
13 14 (2.00%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.86%) GIS
14 13 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.86%) QlikView
15 12 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.71%) Parquet
15 12 (1.71%) Qlik Sense
16 11 (1.57%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 42 (6.00%) JIRA
2 36 (5.14%) Git
3 13 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.71%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) GitLab
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) MLflow
8 3 (0.43%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 225 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
1 225 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 163 (23.29%) Finance
3 74 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.86%) Banking
5 32 (4.57%) Marketing
6 27 (3.86%) Retail
7 21 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.86%) Military
9 17 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.71%) Law
12 10 (1.43%) Publishing
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.71%) Front Office
15 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 186 (26.57%) Analyst
2 114 (16.29%) Data Analyst
3 100 (14.29%) Developer
4 92 (13.14%) Data Engineer
5 81 (11.57%) Senior
6 43 (6.14%) Lead
7 40 (5.71%) Data Scientist
8 37 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 32 (4.57%) Architect
9 32 (4.57%) Business Analyst
9 32 (4.57%) Consultant
10 28 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
11 24 (3.43%) Designer
12 23 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 19 (2.71%) Data Manager
13 19 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.57%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.43%) Python Developer
16 14 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
17 13 (1.86%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.57%) Pandas
2 32 (4.57%) REST
3 30 (4.29%) React
4 22 (3.14%) NumPy
5 21 (3.00%) PySpark
6 20 (2.86%) CSS
7 19 (2.71%) scikit-learn
8 18 (2.57%) HTML
9 16 (2.29%) Kafka
10 15 (2.14%) Node.js
10 15 (2.14%) Web Services
11 14 (2.00%) JSON
12 12 (1.71%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.71%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.57%) Apache Avro
13 11 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (1.43%) .NET
14 10 (1.43%) Flask
14 10 (1.43%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.43%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.00%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.43%) Reference Data
11 9 (1.29%) Clustering
11 9 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.29%) PKI
12 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.14%) NHS
13 7 (1.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.14%) Windows
2 22 (3.14%) Linux
3 9 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Android
6 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (52.57%) Business Intelligence
2 340 (48.57%) Data Visualisation
3 331 (47.29%) Analytics
4 209 (29.86%) Data Modelling
5 192 (27.43%) Agile
6 178 (25.43%) Decision-Making
7 176 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (20.57%) AI
9 131 (18.71%) Actionable Insight
10 126 (18.00%) Data Analysis
11 124 (17.71%) Validation
12 123 (17.57%) Data Science
13 118 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (16.43%) ETL
15 114 (16.29%) Data Pipeline
16 109 (15.57%) Dashboard Development
17 105 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 103 (14.71%) Data Engineering
18 103 (14.71%) Data Governance
19 92 (13.14%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 350 (50.00%) SQL
2 260 (37.14%) Python
3 65 (9.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (8.43%) R
5 46 (6.57%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.43%) Java
7 34 (4.86%) C#
8 24 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.43%) C++
10 16 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.57%) Scala
12 10 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.00%) VBA
14 6 (0.86%) Bash
15 5 (0.71%) Cypher
15 5 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Rust
17 3 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 148 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.43%) Degree
4 22 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.57%) PhD
9 4 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.29%) APMG
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (23.43%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.00%) QA
3 26 (3.71%) GDPR
4 21 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.57%) PMO
6 8 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.57%) GRC
7 4 (0.57%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) Basel III
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (3.43%) Docker
2 16 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (5.14%) Terraform
2 20 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.57%) Grafana
5 8 (1.14%) SCCM
6 7 (1.00%) Ansible
7 6 (0.86%) Kibana
8 4 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.43%) Podman
10 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 123 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.86%) Databricks
3 43 (6.14%) SAP
4 38 (5.43%) Oracle
5 37 (5.29%) Google
6 28 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.71%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.43%) Adobe
9 15 (2.14%) Splunk
10 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.43%) Remedy
12 9 (1.29%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.29%) BMC
13 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.14%) Palantir
14 7 (1.00%) Informatica
15 6 (0.86%) Sage
16 5 (0.71%) Foundry
17 4 (0.57%) Apple
17 4 (0.57%) Brio