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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 111 126
Rank change year-on-year -63 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 707 676 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 2.47% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.73% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 397 453
10th Percentile £325 £314 £313
25th Percentile £401 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £587 £575 £613
90th Percentile £712 £680 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 44 46
10th Percentile £20.26 £24.75 £33.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.94 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - £66.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +40.75%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -54 359 £475 -5.00% 213
North of England -45 110 £440 -1.57% 79
Midlands -34 82 £525 +29.63% 49
South East -59 62 £475 -13.64% 80
West Midlands -41 60 £550 +33.33% 29
North West -18 59 £450 +0.67% 43
Yorkshire -47 47 £453 +5.23% 21
South West -27 45 £450 +10.02% 44
East of England -34 30 £565 +2.73% 23
East Midlands -7 22 £431 +7.81% 20
North East -40 5 £400 -11.11% 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 22 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.26%) Confluence
3 14 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.70%) Apache
5 11 (1.56%) Apache Superset
6 9 (1.27%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.71%) CMS
8 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.57%) SAS
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 102 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.27%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.13%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.85%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.57%) InDesign
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Primavera
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%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 345 (48.80%) Power Platform
2 149 (21.07%) Azure
3 110 (15.56%) AWS
4 42 (5.94%) GCP
4 42 (5.94%) Snowflake
5 40 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 25 (3.54%) Power Automate
8 25 (3.54%) Serverless
9 24 (3.39%) GitHub
10 23 (3.25%) dbt
11 21 (2.97%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.83%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.41%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.84%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.70%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 3G
5 2 (0.28%) 4G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (47.81%) Power BI
2 154 (21.78%) Tableau
3 91 (12.87%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.79%) Power Query
5 46 (6.51%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.67%) Data Lake
7 30 (4.24%) Looker
7 30 (4.24%) Metadata
8 28 (3.96%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.54%) BigQuery
10 23 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (3.11%) Big Data
12 15 (2.12%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.70%) Parquet
13 12 (1.70%) QlikView
13 12 (1.70%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.56%) GIS
14 11 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (5.52%) JIRA
2 36 (5.09%) Git
3 13 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.70%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.71%) GitLab
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) MLflow
8 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Flyway
9 1 (0.14%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Storybook
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 225 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 223 (31.54%) Social Skills
3 171 (24.19%) Finance
4 69 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.50%) Banking
6 36 (5.09%) Marketing
7 30 (4.24%) Retail
8 22 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.55%) Military
10 16 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.56%) Law
12 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.41%) Publishing
14 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Front Office
17 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 190 (26.87%) Analyst
2 120 (16.97%) Data Analyst
3 99 (14.00%) Data Engineer
4 93 (13.15%) Developer
5 79 (11.17%) Senior
6 44 (6.22%) Lead
7 41 (5.80%) Data Scientist
8 39 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 33 (4.67%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.53%) Architect
10 32 (4.53%) Consultant
11 29 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.83%) Designer
15 18 (2.55%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.26%) Data Architect
17 13 (1.84%) Performance Analyst
17 13 (1.84%) Python Developer
18 12 (1.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.94%) Pandas
2 35 (4.95%) React
3 30 (4.24%) REST
4 22 (3.11%) Kafka
4 22 (3.11%) NumPy
5 21 (2.97%) PySpark
6 18 (2.55%) scikit-learn
7 17 (2.40%) JSON
8 15 (2.12%) Node.js
8 15 (2.12%) Web Services
9 14 (1.98%) Apache Avro
9 14 (1.98%) CSS
9 14 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (1.56%) HTML
10 11 (1.56%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.56%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.41%) GeoJSON
11 10 (1.41%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.27%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.27%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.36%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.24%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.56%) PKI
11 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.27%) Clustering
12 8 (1.13%) Life Science
12 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.96%) Windows
2 23 (3.25%) Linux
3 9 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.85%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (51.91%) Business Intelligence
2 344 (48.66%) Data Visualisation
3 327 (46.25%) Analytics
4 220 (31.12%) Data Modelling
5 190 (26.87%) Agile
6 179 (25.32%) Decision-Making
7 178 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (21.78%) AI
9 141 (19.94%) Actionable Insight
10 134 (18.95%) Validation
11 128 (18.10%) Data Science
12 127 (17.96%) Data Analysis
13 124 (17.54%) ETL
14 123 (17.40%) Data Pipeline
15 119 (16.83%) Dashboard Development
16 113 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (15.84%) Data Engineering
18 103 (14.57%) Data Governance
19 96 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
20 92 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 357 (50.50%) SQL
2 270 (38.19%) Python
3 63 (8.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (8.63%) R
5 39 (5.52%) Java
5 39 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 33 (4.67%) C#
7 29 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.40%) C++
9 15 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.41%) Scala
10 10 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.13%) VBA
12 5 (0.71%) Bash
13 4 (0.57%) Cypher
13 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.57%) Rust
14 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 144 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.17%) Degree
4 21 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (0.42%) PhD
9 3 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.28%) ACCA
10 2 (0.28%) APMG
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.28%) CBAP
10 2 (0.28%) CIMA
10 2 (0.28%) IIBA
10 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (22.21%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.22%) QA
3 29 (4.10%) GDPR
4 25 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.69%) PMO
6 8 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.55%) Docker
2 15 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 30 (4.24%) Terraform
2 24 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.84%) Grafana
5 10 (1.41%) Ansible
6 9 (1.27%) Kibana
7 8 (1.13%) SCCM
8 7 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.71%) logstash
10 3 (0.42%) Podman
11 2 (0.28%) Cilium
11 2 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.48%) Databricks
3 43 (6.08%) SAP
4 38 (5.37%) Google
5 32 (4.53%) Oracle
6 23 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.40%) Adobe
7 17 (2.40%) Splunk
8 15 (2.12%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.41%) Remedy
11 9 (1.27%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.27%) BMC
11 9 (1.27%) Sage
12 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.13%) Informatica
12 8 (1.13%) Palantir
13 6 (0.85%) Solace
14 5 (0.71%) Foundry
15 4 (0.57%) Apple