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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 89 134
Rank change year-on-year -32 +45 +5
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 759 702 689
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 2.69% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 3.00% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 460 469
10th Percentile £331 £331 £315
25th Percentile £410 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 27 54
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.13 £26.69
25th Percentile £21.13 £25.50 £35.16
Median hourly rate £59.75 £34.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.19% -25.29% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.25 £51.37
90th Percentile £81.93 £65.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £57.25 £33.66 £46.18
% change year-on-year +70.11% -27.12% -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 29,221 23,402 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.60% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,693 14,362 22,190
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,820 750 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.01 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -31 406 £513 -1.91% 247
North of England -47 111 £431 -6.76% 100
Midlands -7 79 £515 +29.40% 78
West Midlands +2 67 £525 +29.23% 43
South East +3 59 £500 +25.00% 145
North West -33 57 £405 -12.43% 58
Yorkshire -26 48 £522 +22.76% 34
South West -11 43 £750 +62.16% 45
East of England -40 31 £525 +15.64% 17
East Midlands -25 12 £423 +20.71% 35
North East -20 9 £425 -19.05% 9
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 39 (5.14%) Confluence
2 36 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.90%) Apache
4 19 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.32%) SAS
6 8 (1.05%) Apache Pig
7 7 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.79%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.66%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.66%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.53%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.53%) Revit
9 3 (0.40%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.13%) InDesign
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.13%) SPSS
11 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) Primavera
4 2 (0.26%) iTrent
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.13%) Maximo
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 336 (44.27%) Power Platform
2 169 (22.27%) Azure
3 133 (17.52%) AWS
4 63 (8.30%) GCP
5 42 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.48%) Snowflake
7 26 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.29%) dbt
8 25 (3.29%) Serverless
9 23 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.64%) GitHub
10 20 (2.64%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.37%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.24%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.32%) Figma
15 10 (1.32%) Google Analytics
16 9 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
17 7 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.53%) 2G
3 4 (0.53%) 5G
3 4 (0.53%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) Internet
4 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.40%) SNMP
4 3 (0.40%) SSH
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.26%) Network Security
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) SMS
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (44.14%) Power BI
2 151 (19.89%) Tableau
3 82 (10.80%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (4.61%) Big Data
4 35 (4.61%) Power Query
5 33 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.22%) Hadoop
6 32 (4.22%) Metadata
7 30 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.69%) Data Lake
9 23 (3.03%) Looker
10 21 (2.77%) BigQuery
11 20 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (2.50%) Data Mining
13 16 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (2.11%) NoSQL
14 15 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (7.51%) JIRA
2 43 (5.67%) Git
3 18 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.45%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.66%) Gradle
6 5 (0.66%) Storybook
6 5 (0.66%) Xcode
7 4 (0.53%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) GitLab
9 2 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 289 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 207 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (24.24%) Finance
4 67 (8.83%) Banking
5 60 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.69%) Retail
7 26 (3.43%) Marketing
8 22 (2.90%) Publishing
9 21 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.50%) Legal
10 19 (2.50%) Military
11 16 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.98%) Front Office
12 15 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.71%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.05%) Law
16 8 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 181 (23.85%) Analyst
2 119 (15.68%) Developer
3 96 (12.65%) Data Analyst
4 83 (10.94%) Senior
5 76 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 72 (9.49%) Architect
7 54 (7.11%) Data Scientist
8 50 (6.59%) Lead
9 45 (5.93%) Business Analyst
10 42 (5.53%) Consultant
11 41 (5.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 30 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
13 29 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (3.03%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.50%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.37%) Integration Architect
17 18 (2.37%) SQL Analyst
18 16 (2.11%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (2.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.74%) Pandas
2 32 (4.22%) React
3 29 (3.82%) scikit-learn
4 27 (3.56%) PySpark
5 25 (3.29%) NumPy
6 24 (3.16%) Kafka
6 24 (3.16%) Node.js
7 17 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (2.24%) Plotly
8 16 (2.11%) Web Services
9 15 (1.98%) REST
10 14 (1.84%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.84%) HTML
11 13 (1.71%) D3.js
11 13 (1.71%) OAuth
11 13 (1.71%) Vue
12 12 (1.58%) CSS
12 12 (1.58%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.45%) Matplotlib
13 11 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.87%) Algorithms
2 32 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.45%) PMI
9 9 (1.19%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.92%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.79%) Life Science
13 5 (0.66%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.66%) IoT
13 5 (0.66%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.66%) NHS
13 5 (0.66%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.66%) Replication
13 5 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.61%) Linux
2 25 (3.29%) Windows
3 18 (2.37%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Android
5 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (48.35%) Data Visualisation
2 363 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
3 276 (36.36%) Analytics
4 193 (25.43%) Data Modelling
4 193 (25.43%) Decision-Making
5 183 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (21.74%) Agile
6 165 (21.74%) Data Analysis
7 144 (18.97%) Actionable Insight
8 130 (17.13%) Data Science
9 114 (15.02%) AI
10 109 (14.36%) ETL
11 106 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 105 (13.83%) Data Pipeline
13 101 (13.31%) Data Governance
13 101 (13.31%) Machine Learning
14 95 (12.52%) Validation
15 87 (11.46%) Dashboard Development
16 86 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 86 (11.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 336 (44.27%) SQL
2 239 (31.49%) Python
3 51 (6.72%) JavaScript
4 49 (6.46%) R
5 42 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.61%) Java
7 28 (3.69%) C#
8 27 (3.56%) Scala
9 26 (3.43%) C++
9 26 (3.43%) TypeScript
10 16 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.58%) VBA
12 11 (1.45%) Bash
13 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.92%) Groovy
14 7 (0.92%) PHP
15 6 (0.79%) Perl
15 6 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.53%) Go
16 4 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 144 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.01%) Degree
4 31 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.50%) CISSP
7 16 (2.11%) CISM
8 13 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.45%) PhD
10 10 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.92%) CBAP
12 7 (0.92%) CFA
13 5 (0.66%) CEH
13 5 (0.66%) MBA
14 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 40 (5.27%) QA
4 30 (3.95%) GDPR
5 14 (1.84%) PMO
6 12 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.79%) WCAG
8 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
11 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (4.74%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (5.67%) Terraform
2 39 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.03%) Kibana
4 20 (2.64%) Ansible
5 15 (1.98%) logstash
6 12 (1.58%) Grafana
7 8 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.13%) Cacti
10 1 (0.13%) Cilium
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) QRadar
10 1 (0.13%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.25%) Databricks
3 39 (5.14%) Oracle
4 38 (5.01%) Google
5 32 (4.22%) Splunk
6 29 (3.82%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.50%) SAP
8 18 (2.37%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 13 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.58%) Centrify
11 12 (1.58%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.45%) Cisco
12 11 (1.45%) Foundry
13 10 (1.32%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.32%) Sage
14 8 (1.05%) Talend
15 7 (0.92%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.92%) Palantir