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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 99 129
Rank change year-on-year -15 +30 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 732 665 688
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.49% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.79% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 426 458
10th Percentile £331 £330 £315
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £513
% change year-on-year +0.78% -3.19% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 55
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £29.88 £25.63 £36.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £48.92
90th Percentile £82.25 - £62.85
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £39.68 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.66% -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 27,375 23,793 32,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.27% 89.07% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,424 14,594 21,607
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,725 761 1,484
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.86 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -22 385 £500 -4.76% 147
North of England -35 108 £425 -8.11% 114
Midlands -6 72 £525 +31.25% 92
West Midlands +2 58 £525 +29.23% 40
South East +4 56 £500 +29.70% 203
Yorkshire -7 52 £500 +17.65% 47
North West -38 51 £400 -13.51% 50
South West -8 42 £750 +57.89% 79
East of England -26 39 £525 +13.02% 87
East Midlands -17 14 £404 +13.41% 51
North East -17 7 £400 -25.58% 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 36 (4.92%) Confluence
2 33 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.96%) Apache
4 17 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.91%) WebLogic
7 10 (1.37%) SAS
8 8 (1.09%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.96%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.68%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.68%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.14%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
12 1 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.23%) Siemens NX
5 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.55%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.55%) Revit
7 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.41%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.14%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.14%) Simulink
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
10 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Endur
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 316 (43.17%) Power Platform
2 171 (23.36%) Azure
3 128 (17.49%) AWS
4 58 (7.92%) GCP
5 36 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.51%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.42%) Serverless
8 24 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.73%) dbt
10 20 (2.73%) GitHub
10 20 (2.73%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.46%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.78%) Figma
15 10 (1.37%) Google Analytics
16 7 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.19%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.05%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.55%) 2G
3 4 (0.55%) 5G
3 4 (0.55%) Internet
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) 4G
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) NAS
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (43.03%) Power BI
2 139 (18.99%) Tableau
3 78 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.64%) Big Data
5 34 (4.64%) Power Query
6 28 (3.83%) Hadoop
7 27 (3.69%) Metadata
8 25 (3.42%) Data Lake
9 24 (3.28%) Looker
10 23 (3.14%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.73%) Data Mining
12 19 (2.60%) BigQuery
13 18 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (1.50%) Apache Hive
16 11 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 10 (1.37%) MySQL
17 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.97%) JIRA
2 44 (6.01%) Git
3 17 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.32%) Visual Studio
4 15 (2.05%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.96%) Gradle
5 7 (0.96%) Storybook
5 7 (0.96%) Xcode
6 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) webpack
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) NUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 294 (40.16%) Social Skills
2 206 (28.14%) Analytical Skills
3 172 (23.50%) Finance
4 65 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.47%) Banking
6 28 (3.83%) Marketing
6 28 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (3.14%) Military
7 23 (3.14%) Retail
8 22 (3.01%) Publishing
9 17 (2.32%) Legal
10 16 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.05%) Front Office
11 15 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.37%) Law
14 10 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (23.91%) Analyst
2 121 (16.53%) Developer
3 95 (12.98%) Data Analyst
4 75 (10.25%) Senior
5 72 (9.84%) Architect
6 62 (8.47%) Data Engineer
7 52 (7.10%) Data Scientist
8 46 (6.28%) Lead
9 43 (5.87%) Business Analyst
10 38 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.92%) Consultant
12 29 (3.96%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.69%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.73%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.46%) Integration Architect
18 15 (2.05%) SQL Analyst
19 14 (1.91%) Designer
19 14 (1.91%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.51%) Pandas
2 29 (3.96%) React
2 29 (3.96%) scikit-learn
3 28 (3.83%) Node.js
4 27 (3.69%) PySpark
5 25 (3.42%) NumPy
6 21 (2.87%) Web Services
7 19 (2.60%) Kafka
8 18 (2.46%) D3.js
9 17 (2.32%) Plotly
10 16 (2.19%) REST
11 15 (2.05%) OAuth
12 14 (1.91%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.91%) HTML
13 12 (1.64%) CSS
13 12 (1.64%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.64%) Vue
14 11 (1.50%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.60%) Algorithms
2 35 (4.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.23%) PMI
9 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 7 (0.96%) Replication
11 6 (0.82%) Life Science
11 6 (0.82%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.82%) NHS
11 6 (0.82%) Reinsurance
11 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.68%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.42%) Linux
2 37 (5.05%) Windows
3 27 (3.69%) Unix
4 8 (1.09%) Android
5 7 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (47.81%) Business Intelligence
2 346 (47.27%) Data Visualisation
3 263 (35.93%) Analytics
4 182 (24.86%) Data Modelling
4 182 (24.86%) Decision-Making
5 169 (23.09%) Data Analysis
6 167 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
7 155 (21.17%) Agile
8 127 (17.35%) Actionable Insight
8 127 (17.35%) Data Science
9 99 (13.52%) Machine Learning
10 97 (13.25%) AI
10 97 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 92 (12.57%) ETL
12 91 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
13 90 (12.30%) Data Governance
14 86 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 86 (11.75%) Validation
15 76 (10.38%) Dashboard Development
15 76 (10.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 327 (44.67%) SQL
2 232 (31.69%) Python
3 54 (7.38%) JavaScript
4 51 (6.97%) R
5 40 (5.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (4.64%) C++
7 33 (4.51%) Java
8 31 (4.23%) C#
9 26 (3.55%) TypeScript
10 24 (3.28%) Scala
11 16 (2.19%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.50%) Bash
13 10 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.09%) VBA
15 7 (0.96%) Go
15 7 (0.96%) Groovy
15 7 (0.96%) PHP
16 6 (0.82%) Perl
16 6 (0.82%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 153 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.84%) Degree
4 31 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.46%) CISSP
5 18 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.05%) CISM
8 13 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.64%) PhD
10 11 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.96%) CFA
13 5 (0.68%) CBAP
13 5 (0.68%) CEH
13 5 (0.68%) MBA
14 3 (0.41%) GIAC
14 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.21%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.97%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.51%) QA
4 27 (3.69%) GDPR
5 13 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.64%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.55%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.41%) EMIR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.41%) 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 29 (3.96%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (4.64%) Terraform
2 30 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.19%) Kibana
4 13 (1.78%) Ansible
5 11 (1.50%) Grafana
6 8 (1.09%) logstash
7 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.55%) Argo
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.14%) Cacti
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.14%) QRadar
11 1 (0.14%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.97%) Oracle
3 46 (6.28%) Databricks
4 38 (5.19%) Splunk
5 33 (4.51%) Google
6 31 (4.23%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.87%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.60%) Cisco
9 18 (2.46%) AppDynamics
10 16 (2.19%) SAP
11 15 (2.05%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (2.05%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.78%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.64%) Centrify
14 11 (1.50%) Foundry
14 11 (1.50%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.23%) Siemens
16 8 (1.09%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.96%) Palantir
17 7 (0.96%) Talend