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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 94 137
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 -1
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 765 686 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.65% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.94% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 454 450
10th Percentile £333 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £586
90th Percentile £738 £738 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.69 £26.54
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £59.50 £31.91 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +86.49% -30.91% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.63 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +75.81% -32.87% -28.95%

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 30,350 23,294 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.25% 90.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,414 14,536 22,024
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,891 752 2,034
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.48 £72.68
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -23 424 £500 -3.85% 192
North of England -47 112 £469 +1.35% 95
Midlands -19 69 £500 +25.31% 75
West Midlands -29 57 £500 +21.21% 36
North West -32 56 £420 -9.19% 50
Yorkshire -28 52 £514 +23.11% 32
South East -9 51 £500 +21.21% 151
South West -11 50 £680 +51.00% 44
East of England -35 28 £500 +10.13% 38
East Midlands -27 12 £423 +18.68% 38
North East -24 7 £425 -19.05% 13
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 38 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.18%) Confluence
3 22 (2.88%) Apache
4 20 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.92%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.78%) SAS
8 5 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.65%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 105 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.70%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.52%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.52%) Revit
6 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.39%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.39%) Primavera
5 2 (0.26%) iTrent
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 343 (44.84%) Power Platform
2 155 (20.26%) Azure
3 142 (18.56%) AWS
4 61 (7.97%) GCP
5 43 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (4.84%) Snowflake
7 34 (4.44%) Serverless
8 26 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.40%) dbt
9 24 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.09%) GitHub
14 15 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (1.44%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.18%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.65%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) 2G
4 4 (0.52%) 5G
5 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.26%) DNS
6 2 (0.26%) LTE
6 2 (0.26%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
6 2 (0.26%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) DSL
7 1 (0.13%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (44.71%) Power BI
2 158 (20.65%) Tableau
3 83 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.31%) Big Data
5 33 (4.31%) Metadata
6 32 (4.18%) Looker
7 29 (3.79%) Hadoop
8 28 (3.66%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.66%) Power Query
9 26 (3.40%) BigQuery
10 25 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 21 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.09%) Data Mining
12 16 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (2.09%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
13 15 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (5.88%) JIRA
2 38 (4.97%) Git
3 15 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.05%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.65%) MLflow
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.39%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 287 (37.52%) Social Skills
2 215 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
3 205 (26.80%) Finance
4 69 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.10%) Banking
6 36 (4.71%) Retail
7 30 (3.92%) Marketing
8 24 (3.14%) Publishing
9 20 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.96%) Military
11 15 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.83%) Legal
13 13 (1.70%) Front Office
14 11 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 187 (24.44%) Analyst
2 112 (14.64%) Developer
3 104 (13.59%) Data Analyst
4 85 (11.11%) Senior
5 84 (10.98%) Data Engineer
6 68 (8.89%) Architect
7 62 (8.10%) Lead
8 56 (7.32%) Data Scientist
9 45 (5.88%) Consultant
10 42 (5.49%) Business Analyst
11 39 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 29 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (3.66%) Power BI Developer
14 24 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.61%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 18 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
16 18 (2.35%) Integration Architect
16 18 (2.35%) Senior Data Engineer
17 16 (2.09%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.36%) Pandas
2 34 (4.44%) React
3 32 (4.18%) scikit-learn
4 29 (3.79%) Kafka
5 28 (3.66%) NumPy
5 28 (3.66%) PySpark
6 22 (2.88%) Node.js
7 17 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (2.22%) Plotly
8 15 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 15 (1.96%) REST
9 14 (1.83%) JSON
9 14 (1.83%) Matplotlib
9 14 (1.83%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.83%) Vue
9 14 (1.83%) Web Services
10 13 (1.70%) HTML
11 11 (1.44%) CSS
11 11 (1.44%) Seaborn
12 10 (1.31%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.44%) Algorithms
1 34 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 30 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.44%) PMI
6 11 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.05%) Life Science
8 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (0.92%) NHS
10 6 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.78%) IoT
10 6 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.53%) Linux
2 20 (2.61%) Windows
3 14 (1.83%) Unix
4 4 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (48.24%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (47.84%) Data Visualisation
3 284 (37.12%) Analytics
4 202 (26.41%) Data Modelling
5 197 (25.75%) Decision-Making
6 184 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (22.48%) Agile
8 154 (20.13%) Data Analysis
9 146 (19.08%) Actionable Insight
10 136 (17.78%) Data Science
11 121 (15.82%) AI
12 116 (15.16%) Data Pipeline
13 111 (14.51%) ETL
14 103 (13.46%) Machine Learning
14 103 (13.46%) Validation
15 102 (13.33%) Data Governance
16 100 (13.07%) Data Engineering
16 100 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 98 (12.81%) Dashboard Development
18 92 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 345 (45.10%) SQL
2 253 (33.07%) Python
3 56 (7.32%) R
4 48 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (4.05%) Java
7 28 (3.66%) C#
8 23 (3.01%) C++
8 23 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.61%) Scala
10 14 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.18%) VBA
12 8 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.92%) Bash
13 7 (0.92%) Groovy
13 7 (0.92%) PHP
14 6 (0.78%) Perl
15 4 (0.52%) C
15 4 (0.52%) Go
15 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.20%) Degree
4 34 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.09%) CISM
7 16 (2.09%) CISSP
8 14 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.70%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.44%) PhD
12 10 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.92%) CBAP
15 5 (0.65%) MBA
16 4 (0.52%) CFA
17 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.39%) Postgraduate
18 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (16.60%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.27%) Accessibility
3 43 (5.62%) QA
4 27 (3.53%) GDPR
5 19 (2.48%) PMO
6 13 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.78%) WCAG
8 4 (0.52%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.39%) SLA
10 2 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.26%) EMIR
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) PERC
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (4.31%) Docker
2 7 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) HDFS
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.23%) Terraform
3 22 (2.88%) Kibana
4 19 (2.48%) Ansible
5 17 (2.22%) Grafana
6 16 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.83%) logstash
8 7 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.39%) SCCM
11 2 (0.26%) Cilium
11 2 (0.26%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
12 1 (0.13%) Cacti
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.50%) Databricks
3 45 (5.88%) Google
4 34 (4.44%) Oracle
5 25 (3.27%) Splunk
6 23 (3.01%) SAP
7 21 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.35%) BiZZdesign
9 13 (1.70%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.70%) Sage
9 13 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.57%) Centrify
11 11 (1.44%) Adobe
11 11 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.31%) Cisco
13 9 (1.18%) Foundry
14 8 (1.05%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.92%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.92%) Cognos
15 7 (0.92%) MicroStrategy