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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -95 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 662 713 657
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.57% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 2.82% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 434 397
10th Percentile £317 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £395 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £768
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 48 49
10th Percentile £19.43 £28.76 £29.30
25th Percentile £28.25 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +52.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +56.46%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -79 326 £488 -2.50% 369
North of England -69 98 £451 +8.02% 88
Midlands -49 84 £539 +6.16% 78
South East -53 69 £470 -14.55% 123
West Midlands -40 62 £550 +4.76% 38
North West -43 49 £500 +23.46% 43
South West -28 47 £450 -18.18% 71
Yorkshire -57 43 £466 +16.38% 31
East of England -48 25 £565 +5.12% 51
East Midlands -10 22 £375 -6.25% 40
North East -46 7 £400 -8.57% 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 18 (2.72%) Confluence
2 16 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.51%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.36%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.91%) Apache
7 5 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 108 (16.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (1.06%) CPLEX
5 7 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.45%) InDesign
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.30%) Notion
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 342 (51.66%) Power Platform
2 136 (20.54%) Azure
3 98 (14.80%) AWS
4 45 (6.80%) GCP
5 39 (5.89%) Snowflake
6 36 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (4.23%) GitHub
9 27 (4.08%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.78%) Serverless
11 24 (3.63%) PowerApps
12 21 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.87%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.87%) dbt
14 12 (1.81%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.66%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) Wireless
2 5 (0.76%) SNMP
3 4 (0.60%) Broadband
3 4 (0.60%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.60%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.60%) WAN
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) 2G
5 2 (0.30%) 3G
5 2 (0.30%) 4G
5 2 (0.30%) 5G
5 2 (0.30%) DHCP
5 2 (0.30%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) Network Security
5 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) HTTP
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (50.60%) Power BI
2 138 (20.85%) Tableau
3 75 (11.33%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.70%) Power Query
5 41 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 37 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 31 (4.68%) Metadata
8 25 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.47%) Looker
10 21 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (3.02%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.57%) Big Data
13 14 (2.11%) GIS
14 13 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.96%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (1.81%) Parquet
15 12 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
16 11 (1.66%) QlikView
17 10 (1.51%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 39 (5.89%) JIRA
2 37 (5.59%) Git
3 6 (0.91%) GitLab
4 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.60%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.15%) Flyway
8 1 (0.15%) Gatling
8 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Storybook
8 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 235 (35.50%) Analytical Skills
2 218 (32.93%) Social Skills
3 143 (21.60%) Finance
4 76 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.01%) Banking
6 26 (3.93%) Marketing
7 22 (3.32%) Retail
8 21 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.57%) Military
10 15 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.51%) Local Government
13 10 (1.51%) Publishing
14 9 (1.36%) Law
14 9 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.06%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (26.44%) Analyst
2 101 (15.26%) Data Analyst
3 95 (14.35%) Developer
4 86 (12.99%) Senior
5 84 (12.69%) Data Engineer
6 38 (5.74%) Lead
7 34 (5.14%) Data Scientist
8 31 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 30 (4.53%) Architect
9 30 (4.53%) Consultant
10 25 (3.78%) Business Analyst
10 25 (3.78%) Power BI Developer
11 24 (3.63%) Designer
12 23 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (2.87%) Data Manager
13 19 (2.87%) Python Developer
14 18 (2.72%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 16 (2.42%) Performance Analyst
16 15 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.74%) Terraform
2 35 (5.29%) REST
3 33 (4.98%) Pandas
4 27 (4.08%) React
5 24 (3.63%) CSS
6 23 (3.47%) HTML
7 22 (3.32%) PySpark
8 20 (3.02%) NumPy
9 19 (2.87%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.96%) Flask
10 13 (1.96%) Kafka
11 11 (1.66%) .NET
11 11 (1.66%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.66%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.36%) JSON
12 9 (1.36%) Vue
13 8 (1.21%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.21%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.21%) Web Services
14 7 (1.06%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.25%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.81%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.81%) Reference Data
12 10 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.51%) PKI
12 10 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.36%) Clustering
14 8 (1.21%) NHS
15 7 (1.06%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.47%) Windows
2 12 (1.81%) Linux
3 10 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (52.57%) Business Intelligence
2 336 (50.76%) Data Visualisation
3 320 (48.34%) Analytics
4 179 (27.04%) Data Modelling
5 178 (26.89%) Decision-Making
6 170 (25.68%) Agile
7 159 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (22.21%) AI
9 137 (20.69%) Data Analysis
10 128 (19.34%) Actionable Insight
11 121 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 112 (16.92%) Data Science
14 103 (15.56%) Data Engineering
14 103 (15.56%) Validation
15 102 (15.41%) Data Pipeline
16 101 (15.26%) Data Governance
17 100 (15.11%) Dashboard Development
18 99 (14.95%) ETL
19 88 (13.29%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 321 (48.49%) SQL
2 246 (37.16%) Python
3 61 (9.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (7.85%) R
5 42 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.19%) Java
7 28 (4.23%) C#
8 22 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.66%) Scala
10 11 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.36%) VBA
12 8 (1.21%) C++
13 7 (1.06%) Bash
14 6 (0.91%) Cypher
15 5 (0.76%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 130 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.78%) Degree
4 19 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.60%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.30%) APMG
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.15%) SANS
13 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (24.62%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.89%) QA
3 30 (4.53%) GDPR
4 27 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.27%) PMO
6 9 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.45%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) Basel III
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (3.47%) Docker
2 15 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.36%) Grafana
3 8 (1.21%) SCCM
4 6 (0.91%) Ansible
4 6 (0.91%) Kibana
4 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.60%) Podman
6 2 (0.30%) Istio
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 129 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.91%) Databricks
3 39 (5.89%) SAP
4 32 (4.83%) Google
5 31 (4.68%) Oracle
6 29 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.72%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.42%) Adobe
9 12 (1.81%) Splunk
10 11 (1.66%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.51%) Remedy
11 10 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.36%) BMC
13 8 (1.21%) Palantir
14 6 (0.91%) Informatica
14 6 (0.91%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.76%) Foundry
16 4 (0.60%) Ariba
16 4 (0.60%) Solace
16 4 (0.60%) Workday