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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 111 123
Rank change year-on-year -63 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 719 680 654
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 2.47% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.72% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 403 439
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £612
90th Percentile £711 £685 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 43 46
10th Percentile £19.79 £24.00 £33.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.63 £46.20
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 - £66.25
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 38,601 25,022 29,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.73% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,205 16,045 19,444
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £421 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,390 1,351 1,859
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -55 361 £480 -4.00% 187
North of England -53 113 £445 - 78
Midlands -32 84 £537 +30.18% 49
South East -63 65 £470 -14.55% 86
West Midlands -38 62 £550 +22.22% 31
North West -19 60 £450 +0.67% 44
Yorkshire -46 49 £455 +9.64% 22
South West -20 47 £450 - 42
East of England -35 31 £565 +2.73% 20
East Midlands -8 22 £431 +7.81% 18
North East -45 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 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.23%) Confluence
3 14 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.53%) Apache
4 11 (1.53%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.39%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 104 (14.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.25%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.11%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.83%) 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 14 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.25%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 349 (48.54%) Power Platform
2 151 (21.00%) Azure
3 113 (15.72%) AWS
4 42 (5.84%) GCP
5 41 (5.70%) Snowflake
6 40 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (3.76%) Serverless
10 26 (3.62%) Power Automate
11 25 (3.48%) GitHub
12 22 (3.06%) dbt
13 21 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 20 (2.78%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.39%) Google Analytics
17 10 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.81%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 3G
5 2 (0.28%) 4G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (47.57%) Power BI
2 155 (21.56%) Tableau
3 90 (12.52%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.09%) Power Query
5 46 (6.40%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.59%) Data Lake
7 31 (4.31%) Metadata
8 30 (4.17%) Looker
9 28 (3.89%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.48%) BigQuery
11 23 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (2.92%) Big Data
13 14 (1.95%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.95%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.67%) GIS
14 12 (1.67%) Parquet
14 12 (1.67%) QlikView
15 11 (1.53%) PowerPivot
15 11 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (5.70%) JIRA
2 36 (5.01%) Git
3 13 (1.81%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.67%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.70%) GitLab
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.56%) MLflow
8 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Flyway
9 1 (0.14%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Storybook
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 231 (32.13%) Analytical Skills
2 229 (31.85%) Social Skills
3 171 (23.78%) Finance
4 73 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.37%) Banking
6 36 (5.01%) Marketing
7 30 (4.17%) Retail
8 21 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.50%) Military
10 16 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.53%) Law
12 11 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Publishing
14 9 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Legal
16 5 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 190 (26.43%) Analyst
2 121 (16.83%) Data Analyst
3 99 (13.77%) Data Engineer
4 95 (13.21%) Developer
5 80 (11.13%) Senior
6 45 (6.26%) Lead
7 42 (5.84%) Data Scientist
8 39 (5.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 34 (4.73%) Architect
10 33 (4.59%) Business Analyst
11 32 (4.45%) Consultant
12 29 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
13 22 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.92%) Designer
15 20 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.64%) Data Manager
17 16 (2.23%) Data Architect
18 15 (2.09%) Python Developer
19 13 (1.81%) Performance Analyst
20 12 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.84%) Pandas
2 35 (4.87%) React
3 31 (4.31%) REST
4 22 (3.06%) Kafka
4 22 (3.06%) NumPy
5 21 (2.92%) PySpark
6 19 (2.64%) scikit-learn
7 17 (2.36%) JSON
8 16 (2.23%) CSS
9 15 (2.09%) Node.js
9 15 (2.09%) Web Services
10 14 (1.95%) Apache Avro
10 14 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (1.81%) HTML
12 12 (1.67%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.67%) TensorFlow
13 10 (1.39%) GeoJSON
13 10 (1.39%) Matplotlib
14 9 (1.25%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.25%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.23%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.53%) PKI
13 9 (1.25%) Clustering
13 9 (1.25%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.11%) Life Science
14 8 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.17%) Windows
2 23 (3.20%) Linux
3 9 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.83%) Unix
5 5 (0.70%) 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
1 370 (51.46%) Business Intelligence
2 348 (48.40%) Data Visualisation
3 329 (45.76%) Analytics
4 221 (30.74%) Data Modelling
5 193 (26.84%) Agile
6 182 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
7 179 (24.90%) Decision-Making
8 154 (21.42%) AI
9 141 (19.61%) Actionable Insight
10 136 (18.92%) Validation
11 130 (18.08%) Data Analysis
11 130 (18.08%) Data Science
12 122 (16.97%) Data Pipeline
12 122 (16.97%) ETL
13 119 (16.55%) Dashboard Development
14 115 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (15.30%) Data Engineering
16 105 (14.60%) Data Governance
17 97 (13.49%) CI/CD
17 97 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 363 (50.49%) SQL
2 276 (38.39%) Python
3 65 (9.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (8.48%) R
5 41 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.29%) Java
7 33 (4.59%) C#
8 29 (4.03%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.36%) C++
10 15 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.39%) Scala
11 10 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.11%) VBA
13 5 (0.70%) Bash
14 4 (0.56%) Cypher
14 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.56%) Rust
15 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 147 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 103 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.13%) Degree
4 21 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.42%) PhD
10 3 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) CBAP
11 2 (0.28%) IIBA
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (22.25%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.12%) QA
3 28 (3.89%) GDPR
4 25 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.78%) PMO
6 8 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
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%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 20 (2.78%) Docker
2 15 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) 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 32 (4.45%) Terraform
2 24 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.81%) Grafana
5 10 (1.39%) Ansible
5 10 (1.39%) SCCM
6 9 (1.25%) Kibana
7 7 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.70%) logstash
9 3 (0.42%) Podman
10 2 (0.28%) Cilium
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 123 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.32%) Databricks
3 44 (6.12%) SAP
4 38 (5.29%) Google
5 33 (4.59%) Oracle
6 25 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.36%) Adobe
7 17 (2.36%) Splunk
8 15 (2.09%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.39%) Remedy
11 9 (1.25%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.25%) BMC
11 9 (1.25%) Sage
12 8 (1.11%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.11%) Palantir
13 7 (0.97%) Informatica
14 6 (0.83%) Solace
15 5 (0.70%) Foundry
16 4 (0.56%) Workday