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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 101 132
Rank change year-on-year -56 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 699 614 629
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 2.58% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.83% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 381 447
10th Percentile £325 £350 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £586
90th Percentile £738 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 37 37
10th Percentile £21.51 £22.31 £35.25
25th Percentile £31.50 £30.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.71 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -43 374 £488 -2.50% 214
North of England -57 102 £459 -0.81% 88
Midlands -49 65 £500 +25.00% 47
North West -25 57 £420 -9.19% 43
South East -38 55 £500 -4.76% 85
South West -18 49 £500 +5.26% 50
West Midlands -44 49 £500 +19.40% 31
Yorkshire -46 41 £475 +9.20% 33
East of England -38 27 £565 -5.83% 27
East Midlands -27 16 £488 +30.00% 16
North East -29 7 £420 -20.00% 15
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 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.43%) Confluence
3 15 (2.15%) Apache
4 13 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.57%) CMS
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.43%) SAS
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 106 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.72%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.72%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.29%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.29%) InDesign
7 2 (0.29%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) iTrent
5 3 (0.43%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 329 (47.07%) Power Platform
2 147 (21.03%) Azure
3 121 (17.31%) AWS
4 47 (6.72%) GCP
5 45 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (5.87%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.86%) Serverless
8 26 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (3.29%) Power Automate
11 21 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.86%) dbt
13 19 (2.72%) PowerApps
14 18 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (2.58%) GitHub
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.57%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.86%) Firewall
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) Wireless
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) SSH
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (46.35%) Power BI
2 166 (23.75%) Tableau
3 99 (14.16%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.87%) Metadata
6 39 (5.58%) Power Query
7 34 (4.86%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.72%) Looker
9 29 (4.15%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (3.43%) BigQuery
12 23 (3.29%) Big Data
13 20 (2.86%) NoSQL
14 14 (2.00%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.86%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
16 11 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (5.58%) JIRA
2 35 (5.01%) Git
3 12 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) MLflow
7 5 (0.72%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) ERwin
9 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.29%) JMeter
10 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) Flyway
11 1 (0.14%) git-flow
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 224 (32.05%) Analytical Skills
2 216 (30.90%) Social Skills
3 184 (26.32%) Finance
4 52 (7.44%) Banking
4 52 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.29%) Retail
6 33 (4.72%) Marketing
7 17 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.43%) Publishing
8 14 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.86%) Law
10 12 (1.72%) Military
11 11 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Legal
15 7 (1.00%) Front Office
15 7 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (26.18%) Analyst
2 105 (15.02%) Data Analyst
3 96 (13.73%) Data Engineer
4 95 (13.59%) Developer
5 92 (13.16%) Senior
6 45 (6.44%) Lead
7 40 (5.72%) Consultant
7 40 (5.72%) Data Scientist
8 39 (5.58%) Business Analyst
9 36 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.58%) Architect
11 27 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (3.58%) Power BI Developer
13 21 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 17 (2.43%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.43%) Designer
15 16 (2.29%) Software Engineer
16 15 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
17 13 (1.86%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.86%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.29%) Pandas
2 41 (5.87%) React
3 27 (3.86%) Kafka
4 22 (3.15%) NumPy
4 22 (3.15%) REST
4 22 (3.15%) scikit-learn
5 21 (3.00%) Node.js
5 21 (3.00%) PySpark
6 16 (2.29%) CSS
6 16 (2.29%) HTML
6 16 (2.29%) JSON
7 15 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (2.15%) Matplotlib
8 14 (2.00%) Web Services
9 13 (1.86%) Seaborn
9 13 (1.86%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.72%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (1.57%) .NET
11 11 (1.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.87%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (3.86%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.14%) Derivative
9 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.14%) PKI
9 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.00%) Life Science
10 7 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.72%) Windows
2 22 (3.15%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.57%) Unix
6 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (49.93%) Business Intelligence
2 346 (49.50%) Data Visualisation
3 292 (41.77%) Analytics
4 221 (31.62%) Data Modelling
5 187 (26.75%) Decision-Making
6 183 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
7 180 (25.75%) Agile
8 147 (21.03%) Actionable Insight
9 134 (19.17%) AI
10 129 (18.45%) Validation
11 124 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
12 119 (17.02%) Data Science
13 117 (16.74%) ETL
14 115 (16.45%) Dashboard Development
15 111 (15.88%) Data Analysis
16 109 (15.59%) Data Governance
17 104 (14.88%) Data Engineering
18 94 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (13.16%) CI/CD
20 84 (12.02%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 352 (50.36%) SQL
2 248 (35.48%) Python
3 69 (9.87%) R
4 54 (7.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (6.01%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.58%) Java
7 34 (4.86%) C#
8 31 (4.43%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.86%) C++
10 19 (2.72%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.58%) Scala
12 10 (1.43%) VBA
13 7 (1.00%) Perl
13 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.86%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) Bash
15 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 124 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 95 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.59%) Degree
4 22 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.57%) CBAP
10 4 (0.57%) MBA
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.29%) CISM
11 2 (0.29%) CISSP
11 2 (0.29%) IIBA
11 2 (0.29%) PMP
11 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (20.60%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.87%) QA
3 28 (4.01%) GDPR
4 22 (3.15%) PMO
5 19 (2.72%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.58%) Docker
2 12 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
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 35 (5.01%) Kubernetes
1 35 (5.01%) Terraform
2 17 (2.43%) Prometheus
3 16 (2.29%) Kibana
4 14 (2.00%) Ansible
5 13 (1.86%) Grafana
6 12 (1.72%) logstash
7 8 (1.14%) SCCM
8 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 2 (0.29%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.73%) Databricks
3 43 (6.15%) Google
3 43 (6.15%) SAP
4 31 (4.43%) Oracle
5 20 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.29%) Sage
7 13 (1.86%) Adobe
7 13 (1.86%) Splunk
8 11 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.43%) Amplitude
9 10 (1.43%) Informatica
10 7 (1.00%) Remedy
11 6 (0.86%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.86%) Apple
11 6 (0.86%) BMC
11 6 (0.86%) Cognos
11 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.72%) Solace