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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -55 +30 +14
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 687 617 630
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.59% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.84% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 387 447
10th Percentile £325 £346 £313
25th Percentile £401 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £586
90th Percentile £732 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 38
10th Percentile £21.26 £22.61 £27.30
25th Percentile £35.25 £31.10 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.47 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.85 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -47 366 £488 -2.50% 216
North of England -59 99 £455 -1.62% 91
Midlands -44 64 £494 +21.54% 48
North West -23 55 £420 -9.19% 44
South East -43 54 £500 -4.76% 83
South West -18 49 £500 +5.26% 47
West Midlands -47 48 £500 +19.40% 28
Yorkshire -50 40 £469 +7.76% 33
East of England -46 27 £565 +2.73% 27
East Midlands -25 16 £488 +30.00% 20
North East -27 7 £420 -20.00% 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 34 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.47%) Confluence
3 15 (2.18%) Apache
4 12 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.60%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 102 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.77%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.31%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.29%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.29%) InDesign
7 2 (0.29%) Notion
8 1 (0.15%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.15%) Maya
8 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) iTrent
5 3 (0.44%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 321 (46.72%) Power Platform
2 140 (20.38%) Azure
3 121 (17.61%) AWS
4 46 (6.70%) GCP
5 43 (6.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (5.09%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.93%) Serverless
8 25 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.06%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.77%) dbt
12 18 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.62%) GitHub
13 17 (2.47%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.31%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.75%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.60%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.87%) Firewall
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) Wireless
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (46.00%) Power BI
2 161 (23.44%) Tableau
3 95 (13.83%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (6.55%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.97%) Metadata
6 37 (5.39%) Power Query
7 33 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 32 (4.66%) Looker
9 27 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.78%) Data Lake
11 24 (3.49%) BigQuery
12 22 (3.20%) Big Data
13 20 (2.91%) NoSQL
14 15 (2.18%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (1.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (5.68%) JIRA
2 34 (4.95%) Git
3 11 (1.60%) Eclipse
3 11 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.87%) MLflow
6 4 (0.58%) ERwin
6 4 (0.58%) GitLab
7 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) JMeter
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) git-flow
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 218 (31.73%) Analytical Skills
2 212 (30.86%) Social Skills
3 181 (26.35%) Finance
4 53 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.57%) Banking
6 36 (5.24%) Retail
7 30 (4.37%) Marketing
8 17 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.47%) Publishing
9 14 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.89%) Law
11 12 (1.75%) Military
12 11 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.31%) Legal
13 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.02%) Front Office
15 7 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (25.91%) Analyst
2 102 (14.85%) Data Analyst
3 94 (13.68%) Data Engineer
3 94 (13.68%) Developer
4 90 (13.10%) Senior
5 45 (6.55%) Lead
6 40 (5.82%) Data Scientist
7 39 (5.68%) Business Analyst
7 39 (5.68%) Consultant
8 35 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 32 (4.66%) Architect
10 26 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
12 20 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 17 (2.47%) Data Manager
13 17 (2.47%) Designer
14 16 (2.33%) Software Engineer
15 15 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
16 13 (1.89%) Senior Developer
16 13 (1.89%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.26%) Pandas
2 41 (5.97%) React
3 27 (3.93%) Kafka
4 21 (3.06%) Node.js
4 21 (3.06%) NumPy
4 21 (3.06%) REST
4 21 (3.06%) scikit-learn
5 20 (2.91%) PySpark
6 16 (2.33%) CSS
6 16 (2.33%) HTML
6 16 (2.33%) JSON
7 15 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (2.04%) Matplotlib
8 14 (2.04%) Web Services
9 12 (1.75%) Apache Avro
9 12 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (1.75%) Seaborn
9 12 (1.75%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.60%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.46%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.82%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.91%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.16%) Derivative
9 8 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.16%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.02%) PKI
10 7 (1.02%) PMI
11 6 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.78%) Windows
2 22 (3.20%) Linux
3 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.58%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (49.64%) Business Intelligence
2 337 (49.05%) Data Visualisation
3 286 (41.63%) Analytics
4 217 (31.59%) Data Modelling
5 186 (27.07%) Decision-Making
6 180 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (25.04%) Agile
8 146 (21.25%) Actionable Insight
9 129 (18.78%) AI
10 127 (18.49%) Validation
11 119 (17.32%) Data Pipeline
12 116 (16.89%) Data Science
13 113 (16.45%) Dashboard Development
14 112 (16.30%) ETL
15 110 (16.01%) Data Governance
16 108 (15.72%) Data Analysis
17 99 (14.41%) Data Engineering
18 90 (13.10%) CI/CD
19 88 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 82 (11.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 341 (49.64%) SQL
2 240 (34.93%) Python
3 69 (10.04%) R
4 52 (7.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.68%) Java
7 33 (4.80%) C#
8 31 (4.51%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.91%) C++
10 19 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.62%) Scala
12 10 (1.46%) VBA
13 7 (1.02%) Perl
13 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.87%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Bash
15 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.44%) C
16 3 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 122 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 72 (10.48%) Degree
4 21 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.62%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.58%) CBAP
11 4 (0.58%) MBA
11 4 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) CISM
12 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.29%) IIBA
12 2 (0.29%) PMP
12 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (20.67%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.99%) QA
3 28 (4.08%) GDPR
4 22 (3.20%) PMO
5 19 (2.77%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) WCAG
9 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.15%) P3O
11 1 (0.15%) PERC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.64%) Docker
2 12 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
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 35 (5.09%) Kubernetes
1 35 (5.09%) Terraform
2 17 (2.47%) Prometheus
3 16 (2.33%) Kibana
4 14 (2.04%) Ansible
5 13 (1.89%) Grafana
6 12 (1.75%) logstash
7 8 (1.16%) SCCM
8 7 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.44%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.29%) Cilium
10 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.33%) Databricks
3 43 (6.26%) Google
4 40 (5.82%) SAP
5 31 (4.51%) Oracle
6 20 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.33%) Sage
8 13 (1.89%) Adobe
8 13 (1.89%) Splunk
9 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.46%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.31%) Informatica
12 6 (0.87%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.87%) Apple
12 6 (0.87%) Cognos
12 6 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.87%) Remedy
13 5 (0.73%) BMC
13 5 (0.73%) Solace