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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 95 142
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 +4
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 701 655 614
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 2.66% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.92% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 431 422
10th Percentile £325 £349 £313
25th Percentile £410 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £585
90th Percentile £734 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 29 35
10th Percentile £22.02 £21.88 £26.84
25th Percentile £43.13 £25.00 £44.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.76% -44.82% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.36 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.74 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £54.00
% change year-on-year +88.76% -38.69% -16.92%

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 33,845 22,404 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.08% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,654 14,697 21,192
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,105 910 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.70 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -49 372 £500 - 125
North of England -52 103 £450 -2.70% 82
Midlands -24 69 £500 +21.21% 58
North West -22 60 £420 -11.58% 47
South East -36 51 £500 - 87
West Midlands -37 49 £500 +19.40% 34
South West -26 43 £488 +2.63% 39
Yorkshire -42 40 £459 +7.94% 22
East of England -41 34 £565 +18.95% 26
East Midlands -20 20 £441 +20.23% 24
North East -20 6 £448 -0.56% 13
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 33 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.57%) Apache
3 17 (2.43%) Confluence
4 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.57%) 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%) 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
10 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 108 (15.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.57%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 11 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.29%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.29%) InDesign
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) iTrent
4 3 (0.43%) Primavera
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 322 (45.93%) Power Platform
2 145 (20.68%) Azure
3 121 (17.26%) AWS
4 51 (7.28%) GCP
5 47 (6.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 32 (4.56%) Serverless
7 26 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 25 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 23 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.14%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.57%) dbt
12 16 (2.28%) GitHub
13 15 (2.14%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.57%) Google Workspace
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.86%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) Wireless
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) 2G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (45.79%) Power BI
2 160 (22.82%) Tableau
3 92 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (5.56%) Metadata
5 38 (5.42%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.85%) Power Query
7 29 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 27 (3.85%) Looker
9 24 (3.42%) Big Data
10 23 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.85%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.71%) NoSQL
13 16 (2.28%) Hadoop
13 16 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
14 13 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.71%) MySQL
16 11 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (5.28%) Git
1 37 (5.28%) JIRA
2 15 (2.14%) Visual Studio
3 14 (2.00%) Eclipse
4 13 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.86%) MLflow
6 4 (0.57%) ERwin
6 4 (0.57%) GitLab
7 3 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.29%) JMeter
8 2 (0.29%) Postman
8 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 239 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 220 (31.38%) Analytical Skills
3 188 (26.82%) Finance
4 68 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.56%) Banking
6 34 (4.85%) Retail
7 33 (4.71%) Marketing
8 18 (2.57%) Military
9 17 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.00%) Law
11 14 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.00%) Publishing
12 9 (1.28%) Front Office
12 9 (1.28%) Legal
12 9 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 183 (26.11%) Analyst
2 101 (14.41%) Developer
3 100 (14.27%) Data Analyst
4 93 (13.27%) Senior
5 91 (12.98%) Data Engineer
6 48 (6.85%) Lead
7 44 (6.28%) Data Scientist
8 42 (5.99%) Consultant
9 40 (5.71%) Business Analyst
10 37 (5.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 31 (4.42%) Architect
12 25 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
13 22 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (3.00%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 16 (2.28%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (2.14%) SAP Consultant
18 14 (2.00%) Data Manager
18 14 (2.00%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.42%) Pandas
2 39 (5.56%) React
3 30 (4.28%) Kafka
4 28 (3.99%) scikit-learn
5 26 (3.71%) NumPy
6 24 (3.42%) Node.js
7 20 (2.85%) PySpark
8 19 (2.71%) REST
9 17 (2.43%) Web Services
10 16 (2.28%) Matplotlib
11 15 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (2.14%) JSON
12 14 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.00%) Seaborn
12 14 (2.00%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.71%) HTML
13 12 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (1.71%) Plotly
13 12 (1.71%) PyTorch
14 11 (1.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.14%) PMI
12 7 (1.00%) Derivative
12 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.00%) Life Science
12 7 (1.00%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.14%) Linux
2 25 (3.57%) Windows
3 10 (1.43%) Unix
4 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (50.93%) Business Intelligence
2 341 (48.64%) Data Visualisation
3 281 (40.09%) Analytics
4 213 (30.39%) Data Modelling
5 184 (26.25%) Decision-Making
6 183 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.68%) Agile
8 156 (22.25%) Actionable Insight
9 132 (18.83%) Validation
10 124 (17.69%) Data Analysis
11 121 (17.26%) AI
12 117 (16.69%) Data Science
13 113 (16.12%) Data Pipeline
14 110 (15.69%) Dashboard Development
15 107 (15.26%) Data Governance
16 105 (14.98%) ETL
17 99 (14.12%) Data Engineering
18 89 (12.70%) CI/CD
19 84 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
20 80 (11.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 331 (47.22%) SQL
2 244 (34.81%) Python
3 66 (9.42%) R
4 48 (6.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (6.85%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.71%) C#
6 32 (4.56%) Java
7 30 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.57%) C++
9 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.28%) Scala
10 12 (1.71%) VBA
11 7 (1.00%) Perl
11 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.86%) Rust
12 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.57%) Groovy
13 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.57%) PHP
14 3 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 133 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.42%) Degree
4 20 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.85%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CISM
9 4 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.57%) MBA
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.43%) CBAP
10 3 (0.43%) PhD
10 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (18.40%) Data Quality
2 52 (7.42%) QA
3 24 (3.42%) GDPR
4 23 (3.28%) PMO
5 21 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
7 5 (0.71%) WCAG
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
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 29 (4.14%) Docker
2 9 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.85%) Terraform
3 17 (2.43%) Prometheus
4 16 (2.28%) Grafana
4 16 (2.28%) Kibana
5 14 (2.00%) Ansible
6 12 (1.71%) logstash
7 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.71%) SCCM
9 3 (0.43%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.29%) Cilium
11 1 (0.14%) Cacti
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 116 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.13%) Databricks
3 44 (6.28%) Google
4 36 (5.14%) SAP
5 34 (4.85%) Oracle
6 20 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.43%) Sage
8 17 (2.43%) Splunk
9 11 (1.57%) Adobe
10 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.14%) Informatica
11 7 (1.00%) Cognos
11 7 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.86%) Apple
12 6 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.86%) Cisco
12 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.71%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.71%) Solace