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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 101 111
Rank change year-on-year -108 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 650 729 691
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.65% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.91% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 453 414
10th Percentile £313 £319 £318
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £714 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 46 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £20.27 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.41 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.40 £51.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -21.15% +44.44%
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% +44.44%

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £420
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 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -89 312 £480 -4.00% 733
North of England -73 101 £439 +5.15% 148
Midlands -39 80 £549 +8.28% 119
South East -61 68 £452 -17.91% 182
West Midlands -45 59 £558 +7.21% 84
South West -31 48 £450 -40.00% 83
North West -43 48 £513 +25.77% 70
Yorkshire -53 42 £480 +20.00% 58
East of England -42 29 £565 +7.62% 90
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 35
North East -34 12 £375 -11.76% 20
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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 16 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.54%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.77%) CMS
5 5 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.62%) Apache
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (15.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.46%) InDesign
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.31%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 336 (51.69%) Power Platform
2 122 (18.77%) Azure
3 91 (14.00%) AWS
4 42 (6.46%) Snowflake
5 40 (6.15%) GCP
6 33 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.00%) GitHub
7 26 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.69%) PowerApps
9 23 (3.54%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.23%) Serverless
11 19 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.77%) dbt
13 14 (2.15%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.38%) Figma
16 9 (1.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.54%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.77%) SNMP
2 5 (0.77%) Wireless
3 4 (0.62%) Broadband
3 4 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.62%) WAN
4 3 (0.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.31%) 2G
5 2 (0.31%) 3G
5 2 (0.31%) 4G
5 2 (0.31%) 5G
5 2 (0.31%) DHCP
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (50.62%) Power BI
2 133 (20.46%) Tableau
3 67 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (8.62%) Power Query
5 38 (5.85%) Data Lake
6 37 (5.69%) Relational Database
7 27 (4.15%) Metadata
8 22 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (2.92%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.92%) Looker
10 17 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (2.46%) Big Data
12 15 (2.31%) Qlik Sense
13 14 (2.15%) GIS
13 14 (2.15%) QlikView
14 12 (1.85%) Star Schema
15 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (1.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 40 (6.15%) JIRA
2 35 (5.38%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.92%) GitLab
6 4 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 227 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 220 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (21.69%) Finance
4 78 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.69%) Banking
6 24 (3.69%) Military
7 21 (3.23%) Retail
8 20 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.92%) Marketing
10 17 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.00%) Local Government
13 12 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.08%) Law
16 6 (0.92%) Legal
16 6 (0.92%) Police
16 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 174 (26.77%) Analyst
2 100 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 100 (15.38%) Developer
3 77 (11.85%) Senior
4 72 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 37 (5.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 35 (5.38%) Lead
7 33 (5.08%) Data Scientist
8 29 (4.46%) Consultant
8 29 (4.46%) Power BI Developer
9 27 (4.15%) Architect
10 25 (3.85%) Designer
11 24 (3.69%) Business Analyst
11 24 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.77%) Performance Analyst
13 17 (2.62%) Data Architect
13 17 (2.62%) Data Manager
14 15 (2.31%) Report Analyst
14 15 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.54%) Terraform
2 32 (4.92%) REST
3 25 (3.85%) Pandas
3 25 (3.85%) React
4 23 (3.54%) CSS
5 22 (3.38%) HTML
5 22 (3.38%) PySpark
6 15 (2.31%) NumPy
7 14 (2.15%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.85%) Web Services
9 11 (1.69%) Kafka
10 10 (1.54%) Flask
10 10 (1.54%) Node.js
11 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.08%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.08%) JSON
12 7 (1.08%) Redux
12 7 (1.08%) Vue
13 6 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.08%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.15%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.85%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.38%) PKI
11 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.23%) Clustering
13 7 (1.08%) Derivative
13 7 (1.08%) Life Science
13 7 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.31%) Windows
2 19 (2.92%) Linux
3 9 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (52.77%) Business Intelligence
2 323 (49.69%) Data Visualisation
3 316 (48.62%) Analytics
4 182 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 177 (27.23%) Decision-Making
6 174 (26.77%) Agile
7 152 (23.38%) AI
8 147 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (21.38%) Data Analysis
10 128 (19.69%) Actionable Insight
11 122 (18.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 112 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (16.77%) Validation
14 104 (16.00%) Data Science
15 102 (15.69%) Dashboard Development
16 99 (15.23%) Data Governance
17 98 (15.08%) Data Engineering
18 97 (14.92%) ETL
19 94 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
20 91 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 315 (48.46%) SQL
2 225 (34.62%) Python
3 66 (10.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (7.23%) JavaScript
5 45 (6.92%) R
6 37 (5.69%) Java
7 31 (4.77%) C#
8 21 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.00%) C++
10 13 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.38%) Scala
13 8 (1.23%) Bash
14 6 (0.92%) Cypher
14 6 (0.92%) VBA
15 5 (0.77%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.46%) Korn
16 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 92 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.08%) Degree
4 24 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.92%) PhD
11 4 (0.62%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.31%) APMG
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) CEH
14 1 (0.15%) CIMA
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (26.62%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.38%) QA
3 25 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.85%) GDPR
4 13 (2.00%) PMO
5 11 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.77%) GRC
7 4 (0.62%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.31%) Basel III
9 2 (0.31%) 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%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (3.38%) Docker
2 13 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.23%) Kibana
3 7 (1.08%) Ansible
3 7 (1.08%) Grafana
3 7 (1.08%) SCCM
4 4 (0.62%) Podman
4 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) logstash
5 2 (0.31%) Packer
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 131 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.31%) Databricks
3 37 (5.69%) SAP
4 32 (4.92%) Google
5 27 (4.15%) Oracle
6 25 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.62%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.46%) Adobe
9 12 (1.85%) Splunk
10 11 (1.69%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.38%) Informatica
12 9 (1.38%) Remedy
13 8 (1.23%) BMC
13 8 (1.23%) Palantir
14 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.77%) Foundry
16 4 (0.62%) Ariba
16 4 (0.62%) UiPath
16 4 (0.62%) Workday