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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 96 137
Rank change year-on-year -66 +41 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 681 647 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.69% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.94% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 398 428
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £584
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +5.41% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 38
10th Percentile £21.62 £22.45 £25.70
25th Percentile £40.06 £31.60 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.74 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.91% -42.10% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.47 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £34.74 £60.00
% change year-on-year +77.03% -42.10% -4.76%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -41 362 £488 -2.50% 212
North of England -64 103 £444 -2.42% 104
Midlands -48 60 £525 +31.25% 57
North West -21 56 £420 -9.19% 57
South East -50 56 £500 -9.09% 98
South West -18 48 £475 - 52
West Midlands -49 47 £550 +33.33% 35
Yorkshire -50 42 £469 +17.19% 35
East of England -40 25 £565 -5.83% 28
East Midlands -26 13 £488 +30.00% 22
North East -33 6 £448 -8.21% 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 31 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.35%) Apache
2 16 (2.35%) Confluence
3 13 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.62%) Apache Superset
4 11 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.73%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.59%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 104 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.64%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.73%) 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 (0.15%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.15%) Maya
8 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) iTrent
5 3 (0.44%) Primavera
5 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 316 (46.40%) Power Platform
2 136 (19.97%) Azure
3 118 (17.33%) AWS
4 45 (6.61%) GCP
5 40 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 40 (5.87%) Snowflake
6 26 (3.82%) Serverless
7 25 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (3.08%) dbt
9 19 (2.79%) GitHub
9 19 (2.79%) Power Automate
10 18 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.35%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.47%) SaaS
12 10 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.76%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.88%) Firewall
4 4 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.15%) SNMP
7 1 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (45.52%) Power BI
2 158 (23.20%) Tableau
3 96 (14.10%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (6.61%) Relational Database
5 41 (6.02%) Metadata
6 39 (5.73%) Power Query
7 32 (4.70%) SQL Server
8 30 (4.41%) Looker
9 28 (4.11%) Data Lake
10 26 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.38%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.08%) Big Data
13 19 (2.79%) NoSQL
14 14 (2.06%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.91%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (5.58%) JIRA
2 30 (4.41%) Git
3 13 (1.91%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.76%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.88%) GitLab
6 6 (0.88%) MLflow
7 4 (0.59%) ERwin
8 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.15%) Flyway
10 1 (0.15%) git-flow
10 1 (0.15%) JUnit
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 219 (32.16%) Analytical Skills
2 205 (30.10%) Social Skills
3 175 (25.70%) Finance
4 52 (7.64%) Banking
5 51 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.29%) Retail
7 34 (4.99%) Marketing
8 16 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.35%) Publishing
9 13 (1.91%) Law
9 13 (1.91%) Military
10 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Front Office
14 7 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.03%) Legal
15 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (26.14%) Analyst
2 102 (14.98%) Data Analyst
3 95 (13.95%) Data Engineer
4 93 (13.66%) Developer
5 86 (12.63%) Senior
6 42 (6.17%) Lead
7 38 (5.58%) Consultant
8 37 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 35 (5.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (4.85%) Data Scientist
11 30 (4.41%) Architect
12 26 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
14 22 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 17 (2.50%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.50%) Designer
16 15 (2.20%) SAP Consultant
16 15 (2.20%) Software Engineer
17 13 (1.91%) Transformation Consultant
18 12 (1.76%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.02%) Pandas
2 40 (5.87%) React
3 25 (3.67%) Kafka
4 23 (3.38%) REST
5 20 (2.94%) Node.js
5 20 (2.94%) NumPy
6 19 (2.79%) PySpark
6 19 (2.79%) scikit-learn
7 16 (2.35%) HTML
7 16 (2.35%) JSON
8 15 (2.20%) Web Services
9 14 (2.06%) CSS
9 14 (2.06%) Matplotlib
10 13 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.76%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (1.76%) Seaborn
11 12 (1.76%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.62%) .NET
12 11 (1.62%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.87%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.79%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.17%) Derivative
12 8 (1.17%) Life Science
12 8 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.17%) PKI
12 8 (1.17%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.67%) Windows
2 23 (3.38%) Linux
3 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (49.19%) Business Intelligence
2 331 (48.60%) Data Visualisation
3 283 (41.56%) Analytics
4 206 (30.25%) Data Modelling
5 177 (25.99%) Decision-Making
5 177 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (25.70%) Agile
7 134 (19.68%) Actionable Insight
8 131 (19.24%) AI
9 128 (18.80%) Validation
10 120 (17.62%) Data Pipeline
11 117 (17.18%) ETL
12 113 (16.59%) Dashboard Development
13 111 (16.30%) Data Science
14 104 (15.27%) Data Analysis
15 101 (14.83%) Data Engineering
16 99 (14.54%) Data Governance
17 97 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (13.51%) CI/CD
19 82 (12.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 340 (49.93%) SQL
2 237 (34.80%) Python
3 61 (8.96%) R
4 52 (7.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.73%) Java
7 35 (5.14%) C#
8 30 (4.41%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.79%) C++
10 18 (2.64%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.20%) Scala
12 9 (1.32%) VBA
13 7 (1.03%) Perl
13 7 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.88%) Rust
15 4 (0.59%) Bash
15 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.44%) C
16 3 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 124 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 72 (10.57%) Degree
4 19 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.59%) MBA
12 4 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.44%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
14 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.61%) QA
3 26 (3.82%) GDPR
4 20 (2.94%) PMO
5 18 (2.64%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.59%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) Basel III
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (3.52%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) 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 34 (4.99%) Terraform
2 33 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.64%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.06%) Grafana
5 13 (1.91%) Ansible
5 13 (1.91%) Kibana
6 9 (1.32%) logstash
7 8 (1.17%) SCCM
8 7 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.15%) Istio
10 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 104 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.13%) Databricks
3 42 (6.17%) SAP
4 41 (6.02%) Google
5 29 (4.26%) Oracle
6 18 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.20%) Sage
8 13 (1.91%) Adobe
8 13 (1.91%) Splunk
9 12 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.62%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.47%) Informatica
12 8 (1.17%) Amplitude
13 7 (1.03%) Remedy
14 6 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.88%) Apple
14 6 (0.88%) BMC
14 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.73%) Cognos
15 5 (0.73%) Solace