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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 96 139
Rank change year-on-year -35 +43 -1
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 749 682 655
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.76% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.05% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 465 455
10th Percentile £325 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £579
90th Percentile £738 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.54 £25.47
25th Percentile £24.66 £25.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +88.76% -28.30% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.96 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £32.96 £46.18
% change year-on-year +85.83% -28.63% -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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £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 £614 £638 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -36 416 £500 -2.91% 202
North of England -56 110 £475 +2.70% 117
Midlands -27 66 £500 +25.00% 81
North West -38 58 £420 -11.58% 62
West Midlands -41 53 £500 +21.21% 38
South East -30 52 £500 +11.11% 151
Yorkshire -31 49 £507 +23.66% 38
South West -19 43 £588 +23.68% 44
East of England -31 33 £500 +11.11% 39
East Midlands -23 13 £525 +47.47% 43
North East -20 6 £438 -2.78% 18
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 39 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.14%) Confluence
3 20 (2.67%) Apache
4 17 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 16 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.80%) SAS
8 5 (0.67%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.67%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 12 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.13%) Revit
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.40%) Primavera
4 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 340 (45.39%) Power Platform
2 150 (20.03%) Azure
3 139 (18.56%) AWS
4 51 (6.81%) GCP
5 49 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (4.81%) Snowflake
7 34 (4.54%) Serverless
8 27 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.20%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (3.07%) dbt
11 19 (2.54%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.14%) PowerApps
14 15 (2.00%) GitHub
15 12 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.47%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.87%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.80%) Firewall
4 4 (0.53%) 2G
4 4 (0.53%) 5G
5 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) LTE
6 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) DSL
7 1 (0.13%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (45.26%) Power BI
2 156 (20.83%) Tableau
3 92 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.94%) Metadata
5 36 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.41%) Big Data
7 31 (4.14%) Power Query
8 27 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 26 (3.47%) Looker
9 26 (3.47%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.34%) Hadoop
11 18 (2.40%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
12 17 (2.27%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.87%) MySQL
14 14 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 45 (6.01%) JIRA
2 42 (5.61%) Git
3 18 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.87%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.67%) MLflow
7 4 (0.53%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) GitLab
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 273 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 219 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
3 203 (27.10%) Finance
4 75 (10.01%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.08%) Banking
6 34 (4.54%) Retail
7 28 (3.74%) Marketing
8 26 (3.47%) Publishing
9 20 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.67%) Military
10 18 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.87%) Front Office
12 13 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.47%) Legal
15 10 (1.34%) Law
15 10 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.07%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (25.10%) Analyst
2 113 (15.09%) Developer
3 104 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 90 (12.02%) Senior
5 88 (11.75%) Data Engineer
6 65 (8.68%) Lead
7 56 (7.48%) Architect
8 46 (6.14%) Data Scientist
9 45 (6.01%) Consultant
10 42 (5.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (5.34%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
13 27 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (3.34%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 20 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (2.27%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (2.14%) Designer
19 14 (1.87%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.41%) Pandas
2 37 (4.94%) React
3 33 (4.41%) scikit-learn
4 31 (4.14%) NumPy
5 28 (3.74%) Kafka
6 25 (3.34%) Node.js
7 24 (3.20%) PySpark
8 20 (2.67%) Web Services
9 19 (2.54%) Matplotlib
10 18 (2.40%) Plotly
11 17 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (2.14%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.14%) REST
13 15 (2.00%) Seaborn
13 15 (2.00%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.87%) Vue
15 13 (1.74%) JSON
16 12 (1.60%) PyTorch
17 10 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.14%) Algorithms
3 28 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.07%) Life Science
10 8 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.07%) PMI
11 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.01%) Linux
2 24 (3.20%) Windows
3 10 (1.34%) Unix
4 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (49.40%) Business Intelligence
2 357 (47.66%) Data Visualisation
3 282 (37.65%) Analytics
4 211 (28.17%) Data Modelling
5 198 (26.44%) Decision-Making
6 195 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (22.96%) Agile
8 155 (20.69%) Actionable Insight
9 154 (20.56%) Data Analysis
10 122 (16.29%) Data Science
11 121 (16.15%) ETL
12 118 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
13 115 (15.35%) AI
14 110 (14.69%) Validation
15 104 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
16 102 (13.62%) Data Governance
17 95 (12.68%) Data Engineering
18 94 (12.55%) Machine Learning
19 85 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
20 84 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 344 (45.93%) SQL
2 247 (32.98%) Python
3 55 (7.34%) R
4 48 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (4.41%) C#
7 27 (3.60%) C++
8 26 (3.47%) Java
9 24 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 17 (2.27%) Scala
11 12 (1.60%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.34%) VBA
13 7 (0.93%) Groovy
13 7 (0.93%) Perl
14 6 (0.80%) PHP
15 5 (0.67%) Bash
15 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.53%) C
17 3 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 147 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.95%) Degree
4 32 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.14%) CISM
6 16 (2.14%) CISSP
7 15 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.34%) PhD
9 10 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.53%) CBAP
11 4 (0.53%) CFA
11 4 (0.53%) MBA
11 4 (0.53%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (19.09%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.01%) QA
3 43 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.34%) GDPR
5 19 (2.54%) PMO
6 12 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.80%) WCAG
8 5 (0.67%) SLA
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (4.01%) Docker
2 7 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.94%) Terraform
3 22 (2.94%) Kibana
4 19 (2.54%) Ansible
5 16 (2.14%) Grafana
5 16 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.87%) logstash
7 7 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.40%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Cilium
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.13%) Cacti
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.95%) Databricks
3 45 (6.01%) Google
4 35 (4.67%) Oracle
5 25 (3.34%) SAP
6 20 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.54%) Splunk
8 18 (2.40%) BiZZdesign
9 16 (2.14%) Sage
10 14 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.60%) Centrify
13 11 (1.47%) Adobe
14 8 (1.07%) Amplitude
14 8 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.93%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.93%) Cisco
15 7 (0.93%) Cognos
15 7 (0.93%) Informatica
15 7 (0.93%) MicroStrategy