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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 101 127
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +16
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 754 676 699
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.46% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.77% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 436 469
10th Percentile £328 £332 £313
25th Percentile £405 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £625
90th Percentile £738 £767 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 53
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £31.19 £25.63 £35.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 - £59.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £39.68 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.81% -14.08% -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 27,843 24,416 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.51% 88.85% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,784 15,001 21,658
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,756 802 1,433
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.34 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -18 400 £500 -4.76% 258
North of England -29 110 £430 -7.03% 76
Midlands -5 73 £520 +26.06% 88
West Midlands -8 59 £525 +27.27% 55
South East +3 57 £500 +29.03% 178
North West -25 53 £405 -12.43% 32
Yorkshire -14 52 £500 +11.11% 36
South West +4 43 £750 +57.89% 58
East of England -18 40 £525 +15.64% 72
East Midlands -20 14 £404 +13.41% 30
North East -20 7 £400 -27.27% 9
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 36 (4.77%) Confluence
2 35 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.98%) Apache
4 17 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.86%) WebLogic
7 10 (1.33%) SAS
8 8 (1.06%) Apache Pig
9 6 (0.80%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.66%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.66%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.27%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.46%) Siemens NX
5 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.53%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.53%) Revit
8 4 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.40%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.13%) InDesign
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.13%) Simulink
11 1 (0.13%) SPSS
11 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.46%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 328 (43.50%) Power Platform
2 174 (23.08%) Azure
3 132 (17.51%) AWS
4 62 (8.22%) GCP
5 36 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 36 (4.77%) Snowflake
6 26 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 25 (3.32%) Serverless
8 21 (2.79%) dbt
8 21 (2.79%) Power Automate
9 20 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (2.65%) GitHub
10 19 (2.52%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.72%) Figma
14 11 (1.46%) Google Analytics
15 7 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.12%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.53%) 2G
3 4 (0.53%) 5G
3 4 (0.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.40%) SNMP
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) SSH
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (43.37%) Power BI
2 147 (19.50%) Tableau
3 82 (10.88%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 37 (4.91%) Power Query
6 35 (4.64%) Big Data
7 29 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 28 (3.71%) Metadata
9 26 (3.45%) Data Lake
10 24 (3.18%) SQL Server
11 23 (3.05%) Looker
12 20 (2.65%) Data Mining
13 19 (2.52%) BigQuery
14 18 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
16 12 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (1.46%) Apache Hive
17 11 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (1.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.76%) JIRA
2 47 (6.23%) Git
3 18 (2.39%) Visual Studio
4 17 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.12%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.93%) Gradle
6 7 (0.93%) Storybook
6 7 (0.93%) Xcode
7 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.27%) GitLab
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.27%) webpack
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Snyk
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 307 (40.72%) Social Skills
2 215 (28.51%) Analytical Skills
3 176 (23.34%) Finance
4 68 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.36%) Banking
6 31 (4.11%) Marketing
7 29 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (3.18%) Military
9 23 (3.05%) Retail
10 22 (2.92%) Publishing
11 21 (2.79%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.25%) Legal
13 15 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.99%) Front Office
13 15 (1.99%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.33%) Law
15 10 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (24.67%) Analyst
2 121 (16.05%) Developer
3 101 (13.40%) Data Analyst
4 75 (9.95%) Senior
5 73 (9.68%) Architect
6 64 (8.49%) Data Engineer
7 54 (7.16%) Data Scientist
8 47 (6.23%) Lead
9 43 (5.70%) Business Analyst
10 37 (4.91%) Consultant
11 36 (4.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 29 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (3.71%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.71%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.52%) Report Analyst
16 18 (2.39%) Integration Architect
17 16 (2.12%) SQL Analyst
18 15 (1.99%) SQL Data Analyst
19 14 (1.86%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.77%) Pandas
2 29 (3.85%) Node.js
2 29 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 28 (3.71%) PySpark
3 28 (3.71%) React
4 26 (3.45%) NumPy
5 22 (2.92%) Web Services
6 21 (2.79%) Kafka
7 18 (2.39%) D3.js
8 17 (2.25%) Plotly
9 16 (2.12%) HTML
9 16 (2.12%) REST
10 15 (1.99%) OAuth
11 14 (1.86%) CSS
12 13 (1.72%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.46%) Matplotlib
13 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.46%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.46%) Vue
14 10 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.70%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.32%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.19%) PMI
10 8 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.06%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.93%) Replication
12 6 (0.80%) Life Science
12 6 (0.80%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.80%) NHS
12 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.37%) Linux
2 39 (5.17%) Windows
3 27 (3.58%) Unix
4 8 (1.06%) Android
5 7 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (48.28%) Business Intelligence
2 353 (46.82%) Data Visualisation
3 273 (36.21%) Analytics
4 194 (25.73%) Data Modelling
5 191 (25.33%) Decision-Making
6 180 (23.87%) Data Analysis
7 170 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.09%) Agile
9 136 (18.04%) Actionable Insight
10 129 (17.11%) Data Science
11 101 (13.40%) Machine Learning
12 99 (13.13%) AI
13 98 (13.00%) ETL
14 96 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 93 (12.33%) Data Governance
15 93 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
16 89 (11.80%) Validation
17 88 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 78 (10.34%) Dashboard Development
18 78 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 338 (44.83%) SQL
2 242 (32.10%) Python
3 57 (7.56%) JavaScript
4 53 (7.03%) R
5 44 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.64%) C++
7 33 (4.38%) Java
8 32 (4.24%) C#
9 26 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 24 (3.18%) Scala
11 16 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.59%) Bash
13 10 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.93%) Go
15 7 (0.93%) Groovy
15 7 (0.93%) PHP
15 7 (0.93%) VBA
16 6 (0.80%) Perl
17 4 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 158 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.81%) Degree
4 32 (4.24%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.39%) CISSP
5 18 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.99%) CISM
8 13 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.59%) PhD
10 11 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.93%) CFA
13 5 (0.66%) CBAP
13 5 (0.66%) CEH
13 5 (0.66%) MBA
14 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (14.72%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 32 (4.24%) QA
4 27 (3.58%) GDPR
5 13 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.59%) PMO
7 6 (0.80%) WCAG
8 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) EMIR
10 3 (0.40%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.27%) GxP
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (4.24%) Docker
2 9 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (4.64%) Terraform
2 30 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.25%) Kibana
4 14 (1.86%) Ansible
5 12 (1.59%) Grafana
6 9 (1.19%) logstash
7 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Argo
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.13%) Cacti
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.13%) QRadar
11 1 (0.13%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.90%) Oracle
3 47 (6.23%) Databricks
4 38 (5.04%) Splunk
5 34 (4.51%) Google
6 31 (4.11%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.79%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.52%) Cisco
9 18 (2.39%) AppDynamics
10 16 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.99%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (1.99%) SAP
12 13 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.59%) Centrify
14 11 (1.46%) Foundry
14 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
15 10 (1.33%) Siemens
16 8 (1.06%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.93%) Palantir
17 7 (0.93%) Talend