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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -62 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 700 674 669
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 2.47% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.72% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 397 453
10th Percentile £325 £314 £313
25th Percentile £401 £394 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £588 £613
90th Percentile £713 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 43 46
10th Percentile £20.26 £24.00 £33.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.88 £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 £64.38 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
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 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 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 22 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 22 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 -55 353 £475 -5.00% 215
North of England -50 110 £440 -1.57% 82
Midlands -31 82 £525 +29.63% 49
South East -53 61 £475 -13.64% 85
West Midlands -36 60 £550 +33.33% 30
North West -22 58 £444 -1.33% 44
Yorkshire -46 47 £453 +5.23% 23
South West -27 45 £450 +10.02% 45
East of England -28 30 £565 +2.73% 23
East Midlands -7 22 £431 +7.81% 19
North East -37 6 £410 -8.89% 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 21 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.14%) Confluence
3 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.71%) Apache
5 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
6 9 (1.29%) ArcGIS
7 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.71%) CMS
8 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.57%) SAS
10 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 101 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.86%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.86%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.57%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.29%) 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 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 344 (49.14%) Power Platform
2 147 (21.00%) Azure
3 108 (15.43%) AWS
4 42 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 40 (5.71%) GCP
6 39 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.57%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.43%) GitHub
10 24 (3.43%) Serverless
11 22 (3.14%) dbt
12 20 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.86%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.57%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.71%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) Wireless
5 2 (0.29%) 2G
5 2 (0.29%) 3G
5 2 (0.29%) 4G
5 2 (0.29%) 5G
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (48.14%) Power BI
2 154 (22.00%) Tableau
3 90 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.86%) Power Query
5 46 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.57%) Data Lake
7 30 (4.29%) Looker
7 30 (4.29%) Metadata
8 27 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.57%) BigQuery
10 23 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (3.00%) Big Data
12 14 (2.00%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.71%) Parquet
13 12 (1.71%) QlikView
14 11 (1.57%) GIS
14 11 (1.57%) PowerPivot
14 11 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (5.43%) JIRA
2 36 (5.14%) Git
3 13 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.71%) Eclipse
5 7 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.71%) GitLab
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) MLflow
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) JMeter
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) 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
1 224 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 220 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 170 (24.29%) Finance
4 70 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.43%) Banking
6 36 (5.14%) Marketing
7 29 (4.14%) Retail
8 21 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.57%) Military
10 15 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.57%) Law
12 11 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.43%) Publishing
14 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Legal
17 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 191 (27.29%) Analyst
2 121 (17.29%) Data Analyst
3 98 (14.00%) Data Engineer
4 93 (13.29%) Developer
5 77 (11.00%) Senior
6 43 (6.14%) Lead
7 39 (5.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 39 (5.57%) Data Scientist
8 33 (4.71%) Business Analyst
9 32 (4.57%) Consultant
10 31 (4.43%) Architect
11 29 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (2.71%) Designer
15 18 (2.57%) Data Manager
16 15 (2.14%) Data Architect
17 13 (1.86%) Performance Analyst
17 13 (1.86%) Python Developer
18 12 (1.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.00%) Pandas
2 35 (5.00%) React
3 29 (4.14%) REST
4 22 (3.14%) Kafka
4 22 (3.14%) NumPy
5 20 (2.86%) PySpark
6 17 (2.43%) JSON
6 17 (2.43%) scikit-learn
7 15 (2.14%) Node.js
7 15 (2.14%) Web Services
8 14 (2.00%) Apache Avro
8 14 (2.00%) CSS
8 14 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (1.57%) HTML
10 10 (1.43%) GeoJSON
10 10 (1.43%) Matplotlib
10 10 (1.43%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.43%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.29%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.43%) PKI
13 8 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.14%) Clustering
13 8 (1.14%) Life Science
13 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.00%) Derivative
14 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.86%) Windows
2 23 (3.29%) Linux
3 8 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (52.00%) Business Intelligence
2 340 (48.57%) Data Visualisation
3 323 (46.14%) Analytics
4 215 (30.71%) Data Modelling
5 188 (26.86%) Agile
6 177 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (25.14%) Decision-Making
8 153 (21.86%) AI
9 140 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
10 133 (19.00%) Validation
11 126 (18.00%) Data Analysis
12 124 (17.71%) Data Science
12 124 (17.71%) ETL
13 122 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
14 118 (16.86%) Dashboard Development
15 113 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (15.71%) Data Engineering
17 101 (14.43%) Data Governance
18 95 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 352 (50.29%) SQL
2 266 (38.00%) Python
3 63 (9.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (8.86%) R
5 39 (5.57%) Java
6 38 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.71%) C#
8 29 (4.14%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.43%) C++
10 14 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.43%) Scala
11 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.14%) VBA
13 5 (0.71%) Bash
14 4 (0.57%) Cypher
14 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.57%) Rust
15 3 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 142 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.71%) Degree
4 21 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.29%) ACCA
12 2 (0.29%) APMG
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) CBAP
12 2 (0.29%) CIMA
12 2 (0.29%) IIBA
12 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.29%) QA
3 28 (4.00%) GDPR
4 25 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.71%) PMO
6 7 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) Basel III
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.57%) Docker
2 14 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
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 29 (4.14%) Terraform
2 24 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.86%) Grafana
5 10 (1.43%) Ansible
6 9 (1.29%) Kibana
7 8 (1.14%) SCCM
8 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.71%) logstash
10 3 (0.43%) Podman
11 2 (0.29%) Cilium
11 2 (0.29%) Packer
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 119 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.57%) Databricks
3 43 (6.14%) SAP
4 39 (5.57%) Google
5 32 (4.57%) Oracle
6 22 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.57%) Splunk
8 17 (2.43%) Adobe
9 15 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.29%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.29%) Remedy
11 9 (1.29%) Sage
12 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.14%) BMC
12 8 (1.14%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) Informatica
14 6 (0.86%) Solace
15 5 (0.71%) Foundry
16 4 (0.57%) Apple