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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 92 142
Rank change year-on-year -46 +50 -3
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 737 668 620
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.75% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.03% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 452 433
10th Percentile £327 £331 £316
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £583
90th Percentile £726 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 27 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £27.25 £26.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.49% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -37 415 £500 -2.58% 160
North of England -54 101 £475 +2.70% 87
Midlands -30 69 £500 +21.21% 80
North West -27 55 £420 -9.19% 46
West Midlands -33 52 £500 +19.40% 37
South East -37 49 £500 +11.11% 118
Yorkshire -37 43 £500 +21.95% 26
South West -27 40 £488 +2.63% 42
East of England -36 34 £500 +10.62% 25
East Midlands -24 17 £469 +27.72% 43
North East -19 6 £438 -2.78% 17
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 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.80%) Confluence
3 20 (2.71%) Apache
4 16 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.36%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.81%) SAS
8 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 110 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.14%) Revit
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) iTrent
5 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 333 (45.18%) Power Platform
2 148 (20.08%) Azure
3 140 (19.00%) AWS
4 52 (7.06%) GCP
5 47 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (5.02%) Serverless
7 35 (4.75%) Snowflake
8 29 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.53%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.12%) dbt
11 22 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (2.85%) Power Automate
13 16 (2.17%) GitHub
13 16 (2.17%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.49%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.81%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) 2G
4 4 (0.54%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (45.05%) Power BI
2 155 (21.03%) Tableau
3 93 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (5.29%) Metadata
5 37 (5.02%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.48%) Power Query
7 28 (3.80%) Big Data
8 27 (3.66%) Looker
8 27 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.26%) Data Lake
10 22 (2.99%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (2.58%) NoSQL
13 18 (2.44%) Hadoop
13 18 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (2.04%) MySQL
15 14 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 47 (6.38%) JIRA
2 41 (5.56%) Git
3 18 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.90%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.81%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 264 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 231 (31.34%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (27.14%) Finance
4 76 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.46%) Banking
6 36 (4.88%) Retail
7 31 (4.21%) Marketing
8 23 (3.12%) Publishing
9 21 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.44%) Military
11 17 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.76%) Front Office
13 12 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.63%) Law
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
14 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (24.83%) Analyst
2 115 (15.60%) Developer
3 96 (13.03%) Data Analyst
3 96 (13.03%) Senior
4 92 (12.48%) Data Engineer
5 59 (8.01%) Lead
6 48 (6.51%) Architect
7 45 (6.11%) Consultant
8 43 (5.83%) Data Scientist
9 40 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 40 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 28 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (3.66%) Power BI Developer
12 22 (2.99%) Software Engineer
12 22 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (2.04%) Designer
17 14 (1.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.78%) Pandas
2 38 (5.16%) React
3 33 (4.48%) NumPy
4 31 (4.21%) Kafka
5 30 (4.07%) scikit-learn
6 26 (3.53%) Node.js
7 22 (2.99%) Web Services
8 20 (2.71%) REST
9 19 (2.58%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.58%) Plotly
9 19 (2.58%) PySpark
10 18 (2.44%) Matplotlib
11 17 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (2.17%) Seaborn
13 15 (2.04%) JSON
13 15 (2.04%) Vue
14 14 (1.90%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (1.49%) HTML
16 11 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.16%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.09%) PMI
11 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Life Science
11 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.07%) Linux
2 24 (3.26%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (49.93%) Business Intelligence
2 360 (48.85%) Data Visualisation
3 288 (39.08%) Analytics
4 217 (29.44%) Data Modelling
5 195 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (26.05%) Decision-Making
7 168 (22.80%) Agile
8 153 (20.76%) Actionable Insight
9 143 (19.40%) Data Analysis
10 118 (16.01%) AI
10 118 (16.01%) Data Science
11 116 (15.74%) Data Pipeline
11 116 (15.74%) Validation
12 115 (15.60%) ETL
13 109 (14.79%) Dashboard Development
14 104 (14.11%) Data Governance
15 100 (13.57%) Data Engineering
16 90 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (11.80%) CI/CD
18 85 (11.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 347 (47.08%) SQL
2 246 (33.38%) Python
3 60 (8.14%) R
4 47 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (6.24%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.88%) C#
7 27 (3.66%) Java
8 26 (3.53%) C++
9 25 (3.39%) TypeScript
10 16 (2.17%) Scala
11 14 (1.90%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.63%) VBA
13 7 (0.95%) Perl
14 6 (0.81%) Groovy
14 6 (0.81%) PHP
14 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.68%) Rust
16 4 (0.54%) Bash
16 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.18%) Degree
4 27 (3.66%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.90%) CISM
8 14 (1.90%) CISSP
9 11 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.09%) PhD
11 8 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.54%) CBAP
13 4 (0.54%) CFA
13 4 (0.54%) MBA
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.38%) QA
3 36 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.80%) GDPR
5 23 (3.12%) PMO
6 12 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.21%) Docker
2 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.88%) Terraform
3 21 (2.85%) Kibana
4 18 (2.44%) Ansible
5 17 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.17%) Grafana
7 14 (1.90%) logstash
8 7 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.54%) SCCM
10 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.27%) Cilium
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.23%) Databricks
3 46 (6.24%) Google
4 34 (4.61%) Oracle
5 27 (3.66%) SAP
6 19 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.44%) Splunk
8 17 (2.31%) Sage
9 16 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
10 13 (1.76%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.63%) Adobe
11 12 (1.63%) Centrify
12 10 (1.36%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.09%) Amplitude
14 7 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.95%) Cisco
14 7 (0.95%) Cognos
14 7 (0.95%) Informatica
14 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy