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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 91 133
Rank change year-on-year -43 +42 +8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 736 686 651
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 2.80% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.09% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 459 453
10th Percentile £325 £330 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £580
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 41
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.63 £25.38
25th Percentile £24.12 £26.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.49% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £71.25
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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
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 £615 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -41 409 £500 -2.82% 177
North of England -59 107 £475 +2.70% 98
Midlands -32 66 £500 +23.38% 71
North West -30 58 £420 -11.58% 52
South East -30 54 £500 +11.11% 134
West Midlands -41 51 £500 +21.21% 31
Yorkshire -36 46 £507 +21.50% 31
South West -26 36 £488 +2.63% 43
East of England -26 34 £500 +11.11% 23
East Midlands -24 15 £469 +31.67% 40
North East -22 6 £438 -2.78% 16
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 37 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.21%) Confluence
3 21 (2.85%) Apache
4 18 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 17 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.95%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.82%) SAS
8 5 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.68%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
5 11 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.27%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
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%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 333 (45.24%) Power Platform
2 151 (20.52%) Azure
3 139 (18.89%) AWS
4 48 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 48 (6.52%) GCP
5 37 (5.03%) Serverless
6 36 (4.89%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (3.13%) dbt
10 22 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.31%) GitHub
11 17 (2.31%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.49%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.82%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) 2G
4 4 (0.54%) 5G
5 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) LTE
6 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) DSL
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (45.11%) Power BI
2 150 (20.38%) Tableau
3 90 (12.23%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (5.16%) Metadata
4 38 (5.16%) Relational Database
5 32 (4.35%) Power Query
6 31 (4.21%) Big Data
7 27 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.53%) Looker
9 25 (3.40%) Data Lake
10 21 (2.85%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 18 (2.45%) NoSQL
13 16 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
13 16 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (2.04%) MySQL
15 14 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 47 (6.39%) JIRA
2 42 (5.71%) Git
3 18 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.90%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.82%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
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%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 260 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 219 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (26.77%) Finance
4 75 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.34%) Banking
6 34 (4.62%) Retail
7 26 (3.53%) Marketing
7 26 (3.53%) Publishing
8 21 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (2.45%) Military
10 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.77%) Front Office
12 12 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Law
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
14 9 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (24.59%) Analyst
2 119 (16.17%) Developer
3 97 (13.18%) Data Analyst
4 95 (12.91%) Senior
5 89 (12.09%) Data Engineer
6 64 (8.70%) Lead
7 48 (6.52%) Architect
8 46 (6.25%) Consultant
9 44 (5.98%) Data Scientist
10 43 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 39 (5.30%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 22 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 16 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
18 15 (2.04%) Designer
18 15 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.93%) Pandas
2 38 (5.16%) React
3 35 (4.76%) NumPy
4 32 (4.35%) scikit-learn
5 30 (4.08%) Kafka
6 27 (3.67%) Node.js
7 20 (2.72%) PySpark
7 20 (2.72%) Web Services
8 19 (2.58%) AngularJS
9 18 (2.45%) Matplotlib
9 18 (2.45%) Plotly
10 17 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (2.17%) REST
11 16 (2.17%) Seaborn
12 15 (2.04%) Vue
13 14 (1.90%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.77%) JSON
15 11 (1.49%) PyTorch
16 10 (1.36%) HTML
16 10 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.94%) Algorithms
2 29 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.09%) PMI
9 8 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.95%) Life Science
10 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.21%) Linux
2 24 (3.26%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (49.46%) Business Intelligence
2 350 (47.55%) Data Visualisation
3 280 (38.04%) Analytics
4 209 (28.40%) Data Modelling
5 199 (27.04%) Decision-Making
6 195 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (23.23%) Agile
8 153 (20.79%) Actionable Insight
9 147 (19.97%) Data Analysis
10 119 (16.17%) AI
10 119 (16.17%) Data Science
11 116 (15.76%) Data Pipeline
11 116 (15.76%) ETL
12 112 (15.22%) Validation
13 105 (14.27%) Dashboard Development
14 102 (13.86%) Data Governance
15 97 (13.18%) Data Engineering
16 89 (12.09%) Machine Learning
17 85 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (11.14%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 336 (45.65%) SQL
2 239 (32.47%) Python
3 57 (7.74%) R
4 45 (6.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (5.84%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.76%) C#
7 26 (3.53%) Java
8 25 (3.40%) C++
9 24 (3.26%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.04%) Scala
11 13 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.36%) VBA
13 7 (0.95%) Groovy
13 7 (0.95%) Perl
14 6 (0.82%) PHP
15 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.54%) Bash
16 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 140 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 109 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.73%) Degree
4 33 (4.48%) Master's Degree
5 23 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.17%) CISM
6 16 (2.17%) CISSP
7 15 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.36%) PhD
8 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.54%) CBAP
10 4 (0.54%) CFA
10 4 (0.54%) MBA
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.98%) QA
3 41 (5.57%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.40%) GDPR
5 21 (2.85%) PMO
6 12 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.68%) SLA
7 5 (0.68%) WCAG
8 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
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 9001
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (4.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.16%) Terraform
3 22 (2.99%) Kibana
4 18 (2.45%) Ansible
5 16 (2.17%) Grafana
5 16 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.90%) logstash
7 7 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.41%) SCCM
9 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.27%) Cilium
11 1 (0.14%) Cacti
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.97%) Databricks
3 43 (5.84%) Google
4 33 (4.48%) Oracle
5 24 (3.26%) SAP
6 19 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.45%) BiZZdesign
8 16 (2.17%) Sage
8 16 (2.17%) Splunk
9 15 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.77%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.63%) Centrify
12 10 (1.36%) Adobe
13 8 (1.09%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.95%) Cisco
14 7 (0.95%) Informatica
14 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
15 6 (0.82%) Cognos