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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 97 138
Rank change year-on-year -55 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 695 642 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.63% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.89% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 418 432
10th Percentile £329 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £401 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £687
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 35
10th Percentile £21.77 £21.88 £26.84
25th Percentile £45.63 £25.00 £44.34
Median hourly rate £63.75 £33.11 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.54% -44.82% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.53 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.74 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £57.50
% change year-on-year +88.76% -42.42% -11.54%

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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -43 362 £490 -2.00% 196
North of England -43 104 £455 -1.62% 80
Midlands -39 66 £494 +19.70% 55
North West -28 58 £420 -9.19% 44
South East -28 57 £500 - 101
West Midlands -39 46 £500 +19.40% 31
South West -26 45 £475 - 43
Yorkshire -45 42 £469 +9.01% 21
East of England -44 32 £565 +18.95% 20
East Midlands -15 20 £441 +20.23% 24
North East -24 7 £420 -6.67% 15
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 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.73%) Confluence
3 16 (2.30%) Apache
4 11 (1.58%) Apache Superset
4 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.58%) SAS
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 106 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.44%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.72%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.29%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.29%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) iTrent
5 3 (0.43%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 318 (45.76%) Power Platform
2 145 (20.86%) Azure
3 123 (17.70%) AWS
4 53 (7.63%) GCP
5 46 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (4.03%) Serverless
7 26 (3.74%) Snowflake
8 25 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 21 (3.02%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.45%) GitHub
12 16 (2.30%) dbt
13 14 (2.01%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.44%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.01%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.86%) Firewall
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) 2G
7 1 (0.14%) 5G
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) SNMP
7 1 (0.14%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (45.47%) Power BI
2 160 (23.02%) Tableau
3 92 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 40 (5.76%) Metadata
6 33 (4.75%) Power Query
7 31 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 28 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 28 (4.03%) Looker
9 26 (3.74%) Big Data
10 25 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.31%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.02%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.45%) Hadoop
14 15 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (1.58%) MySQL
17 11 (1.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (5.76%) JIRA
2 37 (5.32%) Git
3 15 (2.16%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.01%) Eclipse
5 12 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) MLflow
7 4 (0.58%) ERwin
7 4 (0.58%) GitLab
8 3 (0.43%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.29%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Postman
9 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 233 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 219 (31.51%) Analytical Skills
3 188 (27.05%) Finance
4 63 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.19%) Banking
6 35 (5.04%) Retail
7 33 (4.75%) Marketing
8 17 (2.45%) Military
8 17 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.16%) Publishing
10 14 (2.01%) Law
11 13 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.15%) Front Office
13 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Legal
14 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (25.47%) Analyst
2 97 (13.96%) Developer
3 95 (13.67%) Data Analyst
3 95 (13.67%) Data Engineer
4 94 (13.53%) Senior
5 48 (6.91%) Lead
6 45 (6.47%) Data Scientist
7 41 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 38 (5.47%) Consultant
9 37 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.60%) Architect
11 25 (3.60%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 19 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.73%) Software Engineer
14 16 (2.30%) Data Manager
15 15 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
15 15 (2.16%) Designer
15 15 (2.16%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.33%) Pandas
2 40 (5.76%) React
3 29 (4.17%) Kafka
4 26 (3.74%) scikit-learn
5 24 (3.45%) Node.js
6 23 (3.31%) NumPy
7 21 (3.02%) PySpark
8 19 (2.73%) REST
9 17 (2.45%) Web Services
10 16 (2.30%) JSON
10 16 (2.30%) Matplotlib
10 16 (2.30%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (2.01%) PyTorch
12 14 (2.01%) Seaborn
13 12 (1.73%) Apache Avro
13 12 (1.73%) CSS
13 12 (1.73%) HTML
13 12 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (1.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.32%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.60%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.15%) Derivative
11 8 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.15%) PMI
12 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.01%) Life Science
12 7 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.03%) Linux
2 27 (3.88%) Windows
3 8 (1.15%) Unix
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (50.36%) Business Intelligence
2 337 (48.49%) Data Visualisation
3 283 (40.72%) Analytics
4 218 (31.37%) Data Modelling
5 185 (26.62%) Decision-Making
6 183 (26.33%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (25.61%) Agile
8 153 (22.01%) Actionable Insight
9 130 (18.71%) Validation
10 122 (17.55%) AI
11 121 (17.41%) Data Analysis
12 119 (17.12%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (16.69%) Data Science
14 111 (15.97%) Dashboard Development
15 108 (15.54%) Data Governance
15 108 (15.54%) ETL
16 104 (14.96%) Data Engineering
17 93 (13.38%) CI/CD
18 82 (11.80%) DevOps
19 81 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 337 (48.49%) SQL
2 246 (35.40%) Python
3 69 (9.93%) R
4 48 (6.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.61%) C#
7 37 (5.32%) Java
8 32 (4.60%) TypeScript
9 26 (3.74%) C++
10 19 (2.73%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.73%) Scala
11 12 (1.73%) VBA
12 7 (1.01%) Perl
12 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.86%) Rust
14 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.58%) PHP
15 3 (0.43%) C
15 3 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 128 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.50%) Degree
4 20 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.88%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.58%) CISM
9 4 (0.58%) CISSP
9 4 (0.58%) MBA
9 4 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.43%) CBAP
10 3 (0.43%) PhD
10 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.29%) IIBA
11 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (19.28%) Data Quality
2 49 (7.05%) QA
3 27 (3.88%) GDPR
4 22 (3.17%) PMO
5 20 (2.88%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.58%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) PERC
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (4.32%) Docker
2 11 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) 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 41 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.04%) Terraform
3 17 (2.45%) Prometheus
4 16 (2.30%) Grafana
4 16 (2.30%) Kibana
5 15 (2.16%) Ansible
6 12 (1.73%) logstash
7 7 (1.01%) SCCM
7 7 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.43%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Cacti
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.35%) Databricks
3 44 (6.33%) Google
4 37 (5.32%) SAP
5 32 (4.60%) Oracle
6 21 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.45%) Sage
7 17 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.01%) Splunk
9 12 (1.73%) Adobe
10 9 (1.29%) Informatica
11 8 (1.15%) Amplitude
12 7 (1.01%) Cognos
13 6 (0.86%) Apple
13 6 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.72%) Remedy
14 5 (0.72%) Solace