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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 97 136
Rank change year-on-year -46 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 709 654 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 2.67% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.93% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 428 429
10th Percentile £325 £344 £313
25th Percentile £410 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £726 £679 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 28 36
10th Percentile £19.71 £21.80 £25.81
25th Percentile £40.00 £24.43 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.96 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.21% -38.96% -16.92%
75th Percentile £70.71 £59.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.11 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £46.18
% change year-on-year +89.62% -28.63% -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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -37 388 £490 -3.21% 163
North of England -55 98 £450 -2.70% 101
Midlands -32 70 £500 +21.21% 67
North West -34 57 £420 -11.58% 56
West Midlands -42 51 £500 +19.40% 39
South East -26 50 £500 - 88
South West -26 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -48 37 £463 +8.82% 28
East of England -38 34 £565 +10.24% 32
East Midlands -21 19 £441 +20.23% 28
North East -17 7 £420 -6.67% 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 35 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.68%) Apache
2 19 (2.68%) Confluence
3 14 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.55%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.85%) SAS
7 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 106 (14.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.54%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.69%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.28%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.28%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) iTrent
4 3 (0.42%) Primavera
4 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Actimize
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 320 (45.13%) Power Platform
2 148 (20.87%) Azure
3 131 (18.48%) AWS
4 52 (7.33%) GCP
5 49 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (5.22%) Serverless
7 28 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 28 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 27 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (2.96%) dbt
11 21 (2.96%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.26%) GitHub
13 15 (2.12%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.55%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.12%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.97%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.85%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) 2G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (44.99%) Power BI
2 162 (22.85%) Tableau
3 93 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.64%) Metadata
5 37 (5.22%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.80%) Power Query
7 28 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.67%) Big Data
8 26 (3.67%) Looker
9 25 (3.53%) Data Lake
10 23 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.82%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.68%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (2.26%) Hadoop
15 14 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.97%) MySQL
16 13 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 39 (5.50%) Git
2 38 (5.36%) JIRA
3 15 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.12%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.97%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.85%) MLflow
6 4 (0.56%) ERwin
6 4 (0.56%) GitLab
7 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) Postman
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 245 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 220 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (27.79%) Finance
4 71 (10.01%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.77%) Banking
6 33 (4.65%) Marketing
6 33 (4.65%) Retail
7 18 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.54%) Military
8 16 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.26%) Publishing
9 15 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.97%) Law
11 13 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.55%) Front Office
13 9 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.27%) Legal
13 9 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (26.09%) Analyst
2 105 (14.81%) Developer
3 100 (14.10%) Data Analyst
4 97 (13.68%) Senior
5 92 (12.98%) Data Engineer
6 48 (6.77%) Lead
7 45 (6.35%) Data Scientist
8 43 (6.06%) Consultant
9 42 (5.92%) Business Analyst
10 37 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 32 (4.51%) Architect
12 25 (3.53%) Power BI Developer
13 24 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 16 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
17 13 (1.83%) SAP Consultant
17 13 (1.83%) Transformation Consultant
18 12 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.63%) Pandas
2 39 (5.50%) React
3 32 (4.51%) Kafka
4 29 (4.09%) scikit-learn
5 28 (3.95%) NumPy
6 24 (3.39%) Node.js
7 21 (2.96%) PySpark
8 19 (2.68%) REST
8 19 (2.68%) Web Services
9 16 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (2.26%) Matplotlib
9 16 (2.26%) Plotly
10 15 (2.12%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.12%) JSON
11 14 (1.97%) Seaborn
11 14 (1.97%) TensorFlow
12 12 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.69%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.69%) Vue
13 11 (1.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.51%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.37%) Data Structures
3 26 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.13%) PMI
12 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.99%) Life Science
12 7 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.85%) Derivative
13 6 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.09%) Linux
2 25 (3.53%) Windows
3 10 (1.41%) Unix
4 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (50.35%) Business Intelligence
2 348 (49.08%) Data Visualisation
3 282 (39.77%) Analytics
4 213 (30.04%) Data Modelling
5 184 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
6 181 (25.53%) Decision-Making
7 173 (24.40%) Agile
8 153 (21.58%) Actionable Insight
9 130 (18.34%) Data Analysis
9 130 (18.34%) Validation
10 122 (17.21%) Data Science
11 120 (16.93%) AI
12 116 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
13 108 (15.23%) Dashboard Development
14 107 (15.09%) ETL
15 104 (14.67%) Data Governance
16 101 (14.25%) Data Engineering
17 93 (13.12%) CI/CD
18 82 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 81 (11.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 339 (47.81%) SQL
2 244 (34.41%) Python
3 64 (9.03%) R
4 48 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.50%) C#
6 30 (4.23%) Java
7 28 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.53%) C++
9 18 (2.54%) Scala
10 15 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.69%) VBA
12 7 (0.99%) Perl
12 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.85%) Rust
13 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.71%) Groovy
14 5 (0.71%) PHP
15 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.17%) Degree
4 20 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) CISM
10 4 (0.56%) CISSP
10 4 (0.56%) MBA
10 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CBAP
11 3 (0.42%) CFA
11 3 (0.42%) PhD
11 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.28%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (18.62%) Data Quality
2 53 (7.48%) QA
3 25 (3.53%) GDPR
4 24 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 23 (3.24%) PMO
6 11 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
7 5 (0.71%) WCAG
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) PERC
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (4.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.94%) Terraform
3 19 (2.68%) Kibana
4 17 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.26%) Grafana
6 15 (2.12%) Ansible
7 13 (1.83%) logstash
8 7 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.71%) SCCM
10 3 (0.42%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.28%) Cilium
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.03%) Databricks
3 44 (6.21%) Google
4 35 (4.94%) Oracle
5 33 (4.65%) SAP
6 21 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.40%) Sage
8 17 (2.40%) Splunk
9 11 (1.55%) Adobe
10 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.13%) Informatica
11 7 (0.99%) Cognos
12 6 (0.85%) Apple
12 6 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco
12 6 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.71%) Solace