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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 95 143
Rank change year-on-year -45 +48 -2
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 738 656 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.71% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.98% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 440 430
10th Percentile £327 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £583
90th Percentile £726 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 27 36
10th Percentile £18.28 £22.63 £25.81
25th Percentile £29.56 £26.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +94.30% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -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 32,977 22,016 32,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.99% 90.82% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,149 14,501 21,512
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 2,015 852 2,158
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.96 £15.78
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.64 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -41 412 £500 - 160
North of England -54 100 £469 +1.35% 87
Midlands -27 70 £500 +19.40% 80
North West -38 57 £420 -9.19% 46
South East -36 52 £500 +5.26% 118
West Midlands -41 51 £500 +17.65% 37
South West -28 40 £488 +2.63% 42
Yorkshire -48 40 £496 +18.80% 26
East of England -36 35 £525 +16.15% 25
East Midlands -15 19 £450 +22.62% 43
North East -20 6 £438 -2.78% 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 35 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.39%) Confluence
3 20 (2.71%) Apache
4 15 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.49%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.81%) SAS
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 335 (45.39%) Power Platform
2 153 (20.73%) Azure
3 140 (18.97%) AWS
4 51 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 51 (6.91%) GCP
5 38 (5.15%) Serverless
6 34 (4.61%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.12%) dbt
10 23 (3.12%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.17%) GitHub
11 16 (2.17%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.49%) Google Workspace
14 9 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.81%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) 2G
4 4 (0.54%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
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%) VoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (45.26%) Power BI
2 155 (21.00%) Tableau
3 98 (13.28%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (5.28%) Metadata
5 38 (5.15%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.47%) Power Query
7 29 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.79%) Big Data
9 26 (3.52%) Looker
10 25 (3.39%) Data Lake
11 23 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (2.85%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.57%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.57%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (2.44%) Hadoop
15 17 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (2.03%) MySQL
17 13 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
18 12 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 44 (5.96%) JIRA
2 42 (5.69%) Git
3 18 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.90%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.81%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 262 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 228 (30.89%) Analytical Skills
3 198 (26.83%) Finance
4 78 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.32%) Banking
6 36 (4.88%) Retail
7 31 (4.20%) Marketing
8 22 (2.98%) Publishing
9 20 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.44%) Military
11 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.03%) Law
13 12 (1.63%) Front Office
13 12 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.22%) Legal
15 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (24.66%) Analyst
2 114 (15.45%) Developer
3 97 (13.14%) Data Analyst
3 97 (13.14%) Senior
4 95 (12.87%) Data Engineer
5 57 (7.72%) Lead
6 46 (6.23%) Architect
7 43 (5.83%) Consultant
7 43 (5.83%) Data Scientist
8 40 (5.42%) Business Analyst
9 39 (5.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 26 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
10 26 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (2.98%) Software Engineer
12 21 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 21 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
15 15 (2.03%) Designer
16 14 (1.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.78%) Pandas
2 39 (5.28%) React
3 33 (4.47%) NumPy
4 32 (4.34%) Kafka
5 30 (4.07%) scikit-learn
6 26 (3.52%) Node.js
7 22 (2.98%) REST
7 22 (2.98%) Web Services
8 20 (2.71%) Plotly
8 20 (2.71%) PySpark
9 19 (2.57%) AngularJS
10 18 (2.44%) Matplotlib
11 17 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (2.17%) Seaborn
13 15 (2.03%) JSON
13 15 (2.03%) Vue
14 14 (1.90%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (1.49%) HTML
16 11 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 27 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.08%) PMI
11 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Life Science
11 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.07%) Linux
2 25 (3.39%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (50.27%) Business Intelligence
2 368 (49.86%) Data Visualisation
3 290 (39.30%) Analytics
4 220 (29.81%) Data Modelling
5 193 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (25.88%) Decision-Making
7 170 (23.04%) Agile
8 156 (21.14%) Actionable Insight
9 143 (19.38%) Data Analysis
10 119 (16.12%) AI
10 119 (16.12%) ETL
10 119 (16.12%) Validation
11 118 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
11 118 (15.99%) Data Science
12 109 (14.77%) Dashboard Development
13 105 (14.23%) Data Governance
14 100 (13.55%) Data Engineering
15 92 (12.47%) CI/CD
16 89 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 85 (11.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 350 (47.43%) SQL
2 247 (33.47%) Python
3 60 (8.13%) R
4 48 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (5.15%) C#
7 27 (3.66%) Java
8 26 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.39%) C++
10 16 (2.17%) Scala
11 15 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.63%) VBA
13 7 (0.95%) Perl
14 6 (0.81%) Groovy
14 6 (0.81%) PHP
14 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.81%) Rust
14 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.54%) Bash
15 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 142 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.89%) Degree
4 25 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.49%) CISM
9 11 (1.49%) CISSP
10 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.95%) PhD
11 7 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.54%) CBAP
12 4 (0.54%) CFA
12 4 (0.54%) MBA
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.50%) QA
3 35 (4.74%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.79%) GDPR
5 23 (3.12%) PMO
6 12 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.20%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.88%) Terraform
3 21 (2.85%) Kibana
4 18 (2.44%) Ansible
5 17 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.17%) Grafana
7 14 (1.90%) logstash
8 7 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.54%) SCCM
10 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.27%) Cilium
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.35%) Databricks
3 45 (6.10%) Google
4 35 (4.74%) Oracle
5 27 (3.66%) SAP
6 20 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.44%) Splunk
9 17 (2.30%) Sage
10 13 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
11 12 (1.63%) Adobe
12 10 (1.36%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.36%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.22%) Centrify
14 8 (1.08%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco
15 7 (0.95%) Cognos
15 7 (0.95%) Informatica
15 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
16 6 (0.81%) Bloomberg