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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 100 118
Rank change year-on-year -102 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 652 716 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 2.61% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.87% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 447 403
10th Percentile £313 £317 £321
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £643
90th Percentile £696 £718 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 44 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £25.02 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.72 £46.18
Median hourly rate £53.70 £51.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -21.15% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +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 39,170 24,908 27,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 90.84% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 15,798 17,347
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,504 1,266
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.85 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -81 312 £488 -2.50% 807
North of England -65 101 £450 +9.76% 203
Midlands -44 83 £539 +6.21% 167
South East -55 67 £465 -11.43% 225
West Midlands -50 60 £565 +8.65% 104
North West -40 48 £525 +28.83% 97
South West -32 47 £450 -40.00% 109
Yorkshire -53 44 £451 +12.75% 77
East of England -47 30 £565 +5.12% 101
East Midlands -7 23 £375 -6.25% 63
North East -31 10 £410 -3.53% 30
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 20 (3.07%) Confluence
2 17 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.77%) CMS
5 5 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 107 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.46%) InDesign
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.31%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.31%) Notion
11 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 338 (51.84%) Power Platform
2 125 (19.17%) Azure
3 94 (14.42%) AWS
4 45 (6.90%) GCP
5 41 (6.29%) Snowflake
6 33 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.83%) GitHub
7 25 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 23 (3.53%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.37%) Serverless
10 20 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (2.91%) dbt
12 13 (1.99%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.84%) Adobe Analytics
14 10 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.38%) SaaS
16 8 (1.23%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.92%) Wireless
3 5 (0.77%) SNMP
4 4 (0.61%) Broadband
4 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) VPN
6 2 (0.31%) 2G
6 2 (0.31%) 3G
6 2 (0.31%) 4G
6 2 (0.31%) 5G
6 2 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.31%) DNS
6 2 (0.31%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (50.77%) Power BI
2 134 (20.55%) Tableau
3 69 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (8.44%) Power Query
5 39 (5.98%) Data Lake
5 39 (5.98%) Relational Database
6 30 (4.60%) Metadata
7 23 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 22 (3.37%) BigQuery
9 21 (3.22%) Looker
10 18 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (2.45%) Big Data
12 15 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
13 14 (2.15%) GIS
13 14 (2.15%) QlikView
13 14 (2.15%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (1.69%) Parquet
16 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 40 (6.13%) JIRA
2 36 (5.52%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.77%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 229 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 226 (34.66%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (22.55%) Finance
4 75 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.52%) Banking
6 24 (3.68%) Military
7 23 (3.53%) Marketing
8 22 (3.37%) Retail
9 21 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Law
13 9 (1.38%) Local Government
14 8 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.92%) Legal
16 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (26.53%) Analyst
2 100 (15.34%) Data Analyst
3 94 (14.42%) Developer
4 80 (12.27%) Senior
5 79 (12.12%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.67%) Lead
7 33 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 31 (4.75%) Data Scientist
9 30 (4.60%) Architect
10 28 (4.29%) Consultant
11 27 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 25 (3.83%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.68%) Designer
13 24 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.76%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.76%) Data Manager
15 16 (2.45%) Performance Analyst
15 16 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 15 (2.30%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.83%) Terraform
2 33 (5.06%) REST
3 24 (3.68%) CSS
3 24 (3.68%) Pandas
3 24 (3.68%) React
4 23 (3.53%) HTML
5 22 (3.37%) PySpark
6 14 (2.15%) NumPy
6 14 (2.15%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.99%) Web Services
8 11 (1.69%) Kafka
9 10 (1.53%) Flask
9 10 (1.53%) Node.js
10 9 (1.38%) JSON
10 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.07%) .NET
11 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.07%) Redux
11 7 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.67%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.84%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.53%) PKI
11 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.38%) Clustering
12 9 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.07%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.07%) Life Science
13 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.45%) Windows
2 18 (2.76%) Linux
3 10 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (52.76%) Business Intelligence
2 326 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 316 (48.47%) Analytics
4 182 (27.91%) Data Modelling
5 177 (27.15%) Agile
6 174 (26.69%) Decision-Making
7 154 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (22.39%) AI
9 139 (21.32%) Data Analysis
10 127 (19.48%) Actionable Insight
11 120 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 113 (17.33%) Validation
14 103 (15.80%) Data Governance
15 102 (15.64%) Data Science
16 101 (15.49%) Data Engineering
17 99 (15.18%) Data Pipeline
18 97 (14.88%) Dashboard Development
18 97 (14.88%) ETL
19 89 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 318 (48.77%) SQL
2 230 (35.28%) Python
3 62 (9.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (7.52%) JavaScript
5 47 (7.21%) R
6 40 (6.13%) Java
7 31 (4.75%) C#
8 21 (3.22%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.15%) C++
11 12 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.69%) Scala
13 10 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.23%) VBA
15 7 (1.07%) Bash
16 6 (0.92%) Cypher
17 5 (0.77%) Gremlin
18 4 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
19 3 (0.46%) Korn
19 3 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 126 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 85 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.20%) Degree
4 20 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.31%) APMG
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) IIBA
14 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (26.07%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.37%) QA
3 29 (4.45%) GDPR
4 26 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.30%) PMO
6 10 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.77%) GRC
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.31%) Basel III
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 21 (3.22%) Docker
2 15 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.23%) Grafana
2 8 (1.23%) SCCM
3 7 (1.07%) Kibana
4 6 (0.92%) Ansible
5 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Podman
7 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
7 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 135 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.74%) Databricks
3 40 (6.13%) SAP
4 35 (5.37%) Google
5 29 (4.45%) Oracle
6 28 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.61%) Adobe
9 13 (1.99%) Splunk
10 12 (1.84%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.53%) Remedy
11 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.38%) BMC
12 9 (1.38%) Informatica
13 8 (1.23%) Palantir
14 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.77%) Foundry
16 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
16 4 (0.61%) Ariba
16 4 (0.61%) UiPath