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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 94 133
Rank change year-on-year -31 +39 +11
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 748 704 693
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 2.66% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.98% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 455 467
10th Percentile £325 £327 £319
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £738 £738 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.36% -3.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £27.30
25th Percentile £23.03 £25.00 £35.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 £39.68 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.51% -14.08% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £49.77
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £34.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.91% -25.29% -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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -21 406 £503 -4.06% 147
North of England -51 104 £425 -8.11% 120
Midlands -4 75 £515 +31.00% 95
West Midlands +7 64 £525 +31.25% 44
South East +6 57 £500 +29.70% 175
North West -38 52 £397 -14.27% 71
Yorkshire -27 46 £522 +22.76% 37
South West -13 43 £750 +57.89% 59
East of England -28 34 £525 +16.67% 44
East Midlands -30 11 £395 +12.86% 50
North East -22 9 £425 -19.05% 13
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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 35 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.07%) Apache
4 19 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.34%) SAS
7 8 (1.07%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.94%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.67%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.67%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (15.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.14%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.53%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.53%) Revit
7 4 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.40%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.13%) InDesign
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) iTrent
4 2 (0.27%) 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
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 336 (44.92%) Power Platform
2 170 (22.73%) Azure
3 132 (17.65%) AWS
4 65 (8.69%) GCP
5 40 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.34%) Serverless
9 24 (3.21%) dbt
10 23 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (2.94%) GitHub
12 20 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.67%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.41%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.27%) Amazon S3
15 15 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.60%) Figma
17 10 (1.34%) Google Analytics
18 8 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
19 7 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.87%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.53%) 2G
3 4 (0.53%) 5G
3 4 (0.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.40%) SNMP
4 3 (0.40%) SSH
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (44.79%) Power BI
2 148 (19.79%) Tableau
3 84 (11.23%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.95%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.68%) Power Query
6 33 (4.41%) Big Data
6 33 (4.41%) Metadata
7 32 (4.28%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.74%) Hadoop
9 23 (3.07%) Looker
9 23 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 19 (2.54%) Data Mining
12 16 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 15 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.74%) MySQL
14 13 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 58 (7.75%) JIRA
2 44 (5.88%) Git
3 18 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.74%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.94%) Gradle
6 7 (0.94%) Storybook
6 7 (0.94%) Xcode
7 4 (0.53%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) GitLab
9 2 (0.27%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 285 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 205 (27.41%) Analytical Skills
3 186 (24.87%) Finance
4 62 (8.29%) Banking
5 61 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.74%) Retail
7 26 (3.48%) Marketing
8 24 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (2.94%) Publishing
10 21 (2.81%) Military
11 18 (2.41%) Legal
12 15 (2.01%) Front Office
13 14 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.74%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.20%) Law
17 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 179 (23.93%) Analyst
2 120 (16.04%) Developer
3 96 (12.83%) Data Analyst
4 82 (10.96%) Senior
5 72 (9.63%) Architect
5 72 (9.63%) Data Engineer
6 52 (6.95%) Data Scientist
7 49 (6.55%) Lead
8 45 (6.02%) Business Analyst
9 41 (5.48%) Consultant
10 40 (5.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 30 (4.01%) Power BI Developer
12 29 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (3.34%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.54%) Report Analyst
16 18 (2.41%) Integration Architect
17 17 (2.27%) SQL Analyst
18 16 (2.14%) Designer
19 15 (2.01%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.68%) Pandas
2 33 (4.41%) React
3 29 (3.88%) scikit-learn
4 27 (3.61%) PySpark
5 26 (3.48%) Node.js
6 25 (3.34%) NumPy
7 24 (3.21%) Kafka
8 18 (2.41%) Plotly
8 18 (2.41%) Web Services
9 16 (2.14%) D3.js
10 15 (2.01%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.01%) OAuth
10 15 (2.01%) REST
11 14 (1.87%) HTML
12 13 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (1.74%) Vue
13 12 (1.60%) CSS
13 12 (1.60%) TensorFlow
14 11 (1.47%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.95%) Algorithms
2 31 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.47%) PMI
9 9 (1.20%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.94%) Replication
12 6 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.67%) Genomics
13 5 (0.67%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.67%) Life Science
13 5 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.95%) Linux
2 28 (3.74%) Windows
3 20 (2.67%) Unix
4 8 (1.07%) Android
5 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) 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
1 362 (48.40%) Business Intelligence
2 359 (47.99%) Data Visualisation
3 268 (35.83%) Analytics
4 190 (25.40%) Decision-Making
5 189 (25.27%) Data Modelling
6 178 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (22.19%) Data Analysis
8 161 (21.52%) Agile
9 137 (18.32%) Actionable Insight
10 129 (17.25%) Data Science
11 114 (15.24%) AI
12 107 (14.30%) ETL
13 104 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 103 (13.77%) Machine Learning
15 102 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
16 99 (13.24%) Data Governance
17 95 (12.70%) Validation
18 86 (11.50%) DevOps
19 85 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
20 82 (10.96%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 334 (44.65%) SQL
2 235 (31.42%) Python
3 53 (7.09%) JavaScript
4 49 (6.55%) R
5 43 (5.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.81%) Java
7 29 (3.88%) C#
8 28 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.61%) C++
9 27 (3.61%) Scala
10 16 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.60%) VBA
12 11 (1.47%) Bash
13 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.94%) Go
14 7 (0.94%) Groovy
14 7 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.80%) Perl
15 6 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 147 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.63%) Degree
4 29 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.54%) CISSP
5 19 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.14%) CISM
7 13 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.47%) PhD
9 10 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.94%) CFA
12 6 (0.80%) CBAP
13 5 (0.67%) CEH
13 5 (0.67%) MBA
14 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 39 (5.21%) QA
4 29 (3.88%) GDPR
5 14 (1.87%) PMO
6 12 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.80%) WCAG
8 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (4.81%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (5.35%) Terraform
2 37 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.54%) Kibana
4 17 (2.27%) Ansible
5 11 (1.47%) Grafana
5 11 (1.47%) logstash
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.13%) Cacti
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) QRadar
10 1 (0.13%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.09%) Databricks
3 42 (5.61%) Oracle
4 37 (4.95%) Google
5 31 (4.14%) Splunk
6 29 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.54%) SAP
8 18 (2.41%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.60%) Centrify
12 12 (1.60%) Cisco
12 12 (1.60%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.47%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.47%) Foundry
14 9 (1.20%) Sage
15 8 (1.07%) Informatica
15 8 (1.07%) Talend
16 7 (0.94%) MicroStrategy