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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -99 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 661 722 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.60% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.86% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 449 403
10th Percentile £318 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £698 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 47 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £27.80 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £53.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -23.08% +52.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +56.46%

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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -89 318 £488 -2.50% 1,160
North of England -72 98 £450 +5.88% 232
Midlands -31 87 £539 +6.95% 154
South East -57 69 £475 -13.64% 231
West Midlands -49 62 £550 +6.80% 90
North West -33 48 £525 +28.83% 122
South West -37 48 £450 -40.00% 121
Yorkshire -58 43 £451 +6.12% 80
East of England -41 29 £565 +5.12% 117
East Midlands -1 25 £375 -6.25% 64
North East -37 8 £375 -11.76% 32
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 20 (3.03%) Confluence
2 15 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.51%) ArcGIS
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.76%) Apache
6 5 (0.76%) CMS
6 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 107 (16.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.91%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.45%) InDesign
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 342 (51.74%) Power Platform
2 129 (19.52%) Azure
3 95 (14.37%) AWS
4 44 (6.66%) GCP
5 41 (6.20%) Snowflake
6 35 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.24%) Power Automate
8 27 (4.08%) GitHub
9 25 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.78%) Serverless
10 24 (3.63%) PowerApps
11 22 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.87%) dbt
14 13 (1.97%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (1.36%) SaaS
18 8 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.51%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.91%) Wireless
3 5 (0.76%) SNMP
4 4 (0.61%) Broadband
4 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.45%) VPN
6 2 (0.30%) 2G
6 2 (0.30%) 3G
6 2 (0.30%) 4G
6 2 (0.30%) 5G
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (50.68%) Power BI
2 135 (20.42%) Tableau
3 70 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (7.87%) Power Query
5 39 (5.90%) Relational Database
6 38 (5.75%) Data Lake
7 29 (4.39%) Metadata
8 23 (3.48%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.33%) Looker
10 21 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 20 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (2.42%) Big Data
13 14 (2.12%) GIS
13 14 (2.12%) Qlik Sense
13 14 (2.12%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.97%) QlikView
15 12 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.82%) Parquet
16 10 (1.51%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 42 (6.35%) JIRA
2 36 (5.45%) Git
3 11 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.91%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.45%) JMeter
8 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 227 (34.34%) Analytical Skills
2 226 (34.19%) Social Skills
3 146 (22.09%) Finance
4 76 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.87%) Banking
6 24 (3.63%) Marketing
6 24 (3.63%) Military
7 22 (3.33%) Retail
8 21 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.36%) Law
12 9 (1.36%) Local Government
13 8 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.91%) Front Office
15 6 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 176 (26.63%) Analyst
2 100 (15.13%) Data Analyst
2 100 (15.13%) Developer
3 85 (12.86%) Senior
4 78 (11.80%) Data Engineer
5 37 (5.60%) Lead
6 34 (5.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 32 (4.84%) Data Scientist
8 30 (4.54%) Architect
8 30 (4.54%) Consultant
9 27 (4.08%) Power BI Developer
10 26 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 24 (3.63%) Designer
11 24 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.72%) Data Architect
12 18 (2.72%) Data Manager
13 17 (2.57%) Python Developer
13 17 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 16 (2.42%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.90%) Terraform
2 34 (5.14%) REST
3 26 (3.93%) Pandas
3 26 (3.93%) React
4 24 (3.63%) CSS
5 23 (3.48%) HTML
5 23 (3.48%) PySpark
6 16 (2.42%) NumPy
7 14 (2.12%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.97%) Web Services
9 12 (1.82%) Flask
9 12 (1.82%) Node.js
10 11 (1.66%) Kafka
11 10 (1.51%) .NET
12 9 (1.36%) JSON
12 9 (1.36%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.36%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.36%) Vue
13 8 (1.21%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.06%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.26%) Data Structures
2 26 (3.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.93%) Management Information System
2 26 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.82%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.51%) PKI
9 10 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.36%) Clustering
10 9 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.06%) Life Science
11 7 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.39%) Windows
2 18 (2.72%) Linux
3 10 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (52.65%) Business Intelligence
2 330 (49.92%) Data Visualisation
3 319 (48.26%) Analytics
4 179 (27.08%) Agile
5 178 (26.93%) Data Modelling
6 177 (26.78%) Decision-Making
7 158 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (22.54%) AI
9 139 (21.03%) Data Analysis
10 129 (19.52%) Actionable Insight
11 122 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 111 (16.79%) Validation
14 106 (16.04%) Data Science
15 101 (15.28%) Data Engineering
16 100 (15.13%) Dashboard Development
16 100 (15.13%) Data Governance
17 99 (14.98%) Data Pipeline
18 96 (14.52%) ETL
19 88 (13.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 317 (47.96%) SQL
2 238 (36.01%) Python
3 61 (9.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 49 (7.41%) R
5 41 (6.20%) Java
6 34 (5.14%) C#
7 21 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.12%) C++
10 12 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.66%) Scala
12 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.36%) VBA
14 7 (1.06%) Bash
15 6 (0.91%) Cypher
16 5 (0.76%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.61%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
18 3 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 130 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.04%) Degree
4 20 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.57%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.76%) PhD
10 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.30%) APMG
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.15%) CEH
13 1 (0.15%) IIBA
13 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (24.81%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.75%) QA
3 28 (4.24%) GDPR
4 27 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.42%) PMO
6 10 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.45%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) Basel III
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (3.33%) Docker
2 15 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.21%) Grafana
2 8 (1.21%) SCCM
3 6 (0.91%) Ansible
3 6 (0.91%) Kibana
4 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.61%) Podman
6 2 (0.30%) Istio
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 136 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.93%) Databricks
3 40 (6.05%) SAP
4 33 (4.99%) Google
5 29 (4.39%) Oracle
5 29 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.57%) Adobe
8 13 (1.97%) Splunk
9 11 (1.66%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.51%) Remedy
10 10 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.36%) BMC
12 8 (1.21%) Palantir
13 7 (1.06%) Informatica
14 6 (0.91%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.76%) Foundry
16 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
16 4 (0.61%) Ariba
16 4 (0.61%) UiPath