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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 112 125
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 709 664 645
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.66% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 397 429
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £719 £680 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% -8.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 43 48
10th Percentile £19.79 £24.00 £34.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.50% -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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -44 359 £480 -3.03% 180
North of England -53 110 £445 - 72
Midlands -46 77 £525 +27.27% 56
South East -50 68 £465 -15.45% 95
North West -25 56 £438 -2.01% 42
West Midlands -49 56 £550 +22.22% 35
Yorkshire -43 50 £469 +13.64% 18
South West -22 47 £450 - 39
East of England -27 31 £565 +2.73% 21
East Midlands -8 21 £375 -6.25% 21
North East -48 5 £400 -11.11% 14
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 (2.96%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.12%) Confluence
3 14 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.55%) Apache
4 11 (1.55%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.41%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.71%) CMS
7 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 103 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.13%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.85%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.56%) InDesign
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) 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 13 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Primavera
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 346 (48.80%) Power Platform
2 150 (21.16%) Azure
3 107 (15.09%) AWS
4 45 (6.35%) GCP
5 43 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 38 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (4.09%) Serverless
9 28 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (3.67%) GitHub
10 26 (3.67%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.82%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.68%) dbt
13 18 (2.54%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.41%) Google Analytics
16 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.69%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.42%) DNS
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) Wireless
3 2 (0.28%) 2G
3 2 (0.28%) 3G
3 2 (0.28%) 4G
3 2 (0.28%) 5G
3 2 (0.28%) DHCP
3 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
3 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Modbus
4 1 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (47.81%) Power BI
2 151 (21.30%) Tableau
3 91 (12.83%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.19%) Power Query
5 47 (6.63%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.51%) Looker
7 31 (4.37%) Data Lake
7 31 (4.37%) Metadata
8 27 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.53%) BigQuery
10 24 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (2.96%) Big Data
12 14 (1.97%) Star Schema
13 13 (1.83%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.83%) QlikView
14 12 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.69%) GIS
14 12 (1.69%) Parquet
15 11 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (5.64%) JIRA
2 35 (4.94%) Git
3 13 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.69%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.85%) GitLab
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.56%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 232 (32.72%) Analytical Skills
2 230 (32.44%) Social Skills
3 170 (23.98%) Finance
4 71 (10.01%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.48%) Banking
6 36 (5.08%) Marketing
7 31 (4.37%) Retail
8 21 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.68%) Military
10 16 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.55%) Law
12 11 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.41%) Publishing
14 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.71%) Front Office
16 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 188 (26.52%) Analyst
2 117 (16.50%) Data Analyst
3 98 (13.82%) Developer
4 95 (13.40%) Data Engineer
5 81 (11.42%) Senior
6 46 (6.49%) Lead
7 41 (5.78%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 32 (4.51%) Consultant
10 31 (4.37%) Architect
10 31 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 23 (3.24%) Designer
13 19 (2.68%) Data Manager
13 19 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (2.26%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.26%) Python Developer
15 13 (1.83%) Performance Analyst
15 13 (1.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.64%) Pandas
2 33 (4.65%) React
3 31 (4.37%) REST
4 23 (3.24%) NumPy
4 23 (3.24%) PySpark
5 21 (2.96%) Kafka
6 20 (2.82%) scikit-learn
7 18 (2.54%) CSS
8 16 (2.26%) JSON
9 15 (2.12%) HTML
9 15 (2.12%) Node.js
9 15 (2.12%) Web Services
10 13 (1.83%) Apache Avro
10 13 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (1.83%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.83%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.41%) .NET
11 10 (1.41%) GeoJSON
11 10 (1.41%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.27%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.19%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.12%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.55%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.41%) PKI
13 9 (1.27%) Clustering
14 8 (1.13%) Life Science
14 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (1.13%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.99%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.23%) Windows
2 23 (3.24%) Linux
3 9 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.85%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (51.90%) Business Intelligence
2 340 (47.95%) Data Visualisation
3 329 (46.40%) Analytics
4 215 (30.32%) Data Modelling
5 192 (27.08%) Agile
6 179 (25.25%) Decision-Making
7 178 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (21.16%) AI
9 141 (19.89%) Actionable Insight
10 132 (18.62%) Validation
11 130 (18.34%) Data Analysis
12 129 (18.19%) Data Science
13 118 (16.64%) Data Pipeline
14 116 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.36%) ETL
15 110 (15.51%) Dashboard Development
16 106 (14.95%) Data Engineering
17 102 (14.39%) Data Governance
18 98 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 96 (13.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 357 (50.35%) SQL
2 273 (38.50%) Python
3 65 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (8.74%) R
5 43 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.50%) Java
7 34 (4.80%) C#
8 27 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.54%) C++
10 16 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.55%) Scala
12 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.99%) VBA
14 6 (0.85%) Bash
15 5 (0.71%) Cypher
15 5 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 144 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.57%) Degree
4 21 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.56%) PhD
8 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.28%) APMG
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.28%) CBAP
10 2 (0.28%) IIBA
10 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (22.85%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.78%) QA
3 27 (3.81%) GDPR
4 25 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.68%) PMO
6 8 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (3.24%) Docker
2 16 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (4.65%) Terraform
2 23 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.12%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.69%) Grafana
5 10 (1.41%) SCCM
6 9 (1.27%) Ansible
7 7 (0.99%) Kibana
8 6 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.42%) Podman
10 2 (0.28%) logstash
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Cilium
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 122 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.87%) Databricks
3 44 (6.21%) SAP
4 38 (5.36%) Google
5 35 (4.94%) Oracle
6 26 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.40%) Adobe
8 16 (2.26%) Splunk
9 15 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.41%) Remedy
12 9 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.27%) BMC
13 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.13%) Palantir
13 8 (1.13%) Sage
14 7 (0.99%) Informatica
15 6 (0.85%) Solace
16 5 (0.71%) Foundry
17 4 (0.56%) Workday