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

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -98 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 665 722 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.60% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.86% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 449 403
10th Percentile £319 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £696 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 47 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £27.80 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £53.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -23.08% +52.94%
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% +56.46%

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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -88 319 £488 -2.50% 1,163
North of England -73 100 £450 +5.88% 231
Midlands -38 87 £539 +6.95% 155
South East -59 69 £475 -13.64% 229
West Midlands -50 62 £550 +6.80% 92
North West -30 48 £525 +28.83% 117
South West -34 48 £450 -40.00% 119
Yorkshire -59 43 £451 +6.12% 83
East of England -48 29 £565 +5.12% 114
East Midlands +2 25 £375 -6.25% 63
North East -37 10 £410 -3.53% 33
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 20 (3.01%) Confluence
2 16 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.50%) ArcGIS
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.75%) Apache
6 5 (0.75%) CMS
6 5 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 108 (16.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.90%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.75%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.45%) InDesign
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 344 (51.73%) Power Platform
2 130 (19.55%) Azure
3 98 (14.74%) AWS
4 45 (6.77%) GCP
5 41 (6.17%) Snowflake
6 35 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.21%) Power Automate
8 27 (4.06%) GitHub
9 25 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.76%) Serverless
10 24 (3.61%) PowerApps
11 23 (3.46%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.86%) dbt
14 13 (1.95%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (1.35%) SaaS
18 8 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.50%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.90%) Wireless
3 5 (0.75%) SNMP
4 4 (0.60%) Broadband
4 4 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.60%) WAN
5 3 (0.45%) VPN
6 2 (0.30%) 2G
6 2 (0.30%) 3G
6 2 (0.30%) 4G
6 2 (0.30%) 5G
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (50.68%) Power BI
2 136 (20.45%) Tableau
3 71 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (8.12%) Power Query
5 40 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.86%) Data Lake
7 29 (4.36%) Metadata
8 24 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.31%) Looker
10 21 (3.16%) BigQuery
11 20 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (2.41%) Big Data
14 15 (2.26%) Qlik Sense
15 14 (2.11%) GIS
15 14 (2.11%) QlikView
15 14 (2.11%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
16 12 (1.80%) Parquet
17 10 (1.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (6.32%) JIRA
2 37 (5.56%) Git
3 11 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.50%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.90%) GitLab
6 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.45%) JMeter
8 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
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%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 228 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 227 (34.14%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (22.11%) Finance
4 77 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.82%) Banking
6 24 (3.61%) Marketing
6 24 (3.61%) Military
7 22 (3.31%) Retail
8 21 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.35%) Law
11 9 (1.35%) Local Government
12 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.90%) Front Office
14 6 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 177 (26.62%) Analyst
2 101 (15.19%) Data Analyst
3 100 (15.04%) Developer
4 85 (12.78%) Senior
5 81 (12.18%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.56%) Lead
7 34 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 32 (4.81%) Data Scientist
9 30 (4.51%) Architect
9 30 (4.51%) Consultant
10 27 (4.06%) Business Analyst
10 27 (4.06%) Power BI Developer
11 24 (3.61%) Designer
11 24 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.71%) Data Architect
12 18 (2.71%) Data Manager
13 17 (2.56%) Python Developer
13 17 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 16 (2.41%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.86%) Terraform
2 34 (5.11%) REST
3 26 (3.91%) Pandas
3 26 (3.91%) React
4 24 (3.61%) CSS
5 23 (3.46%) HTML
5 23 (3.46%) PySpark
6 16 (2.41%) NumPy
7 14 (2.11%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.95%) Web Services
9 12 (1.80%) Flask
9 12 (1.80%) Node.js
10 11 (1.65%) Kafka
11 10 (1.50%) .NET
12 9 (1.35%) JSON
12 9 (1.35%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.35%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.35%) Vue
13 8 (1.20%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.05%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.37%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.06%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.80%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.50%) PKI
9 10 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.35%) Clustering
10 9 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.05%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.05%) Life Science
11 7 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.36%) Windows
2 19 (2.86%) Linux
3 10 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.90%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
2 333 (50.08%) Data Visualisation
3 320 (48.12%) Analytics
4 182 (27.37%) Data Modelling
5 180 (27.07%) Agile
6 177 (26.62%) Decision-Making
7 159 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (22.41%) AI
9 139 (20.90%) Data Analysis
10 129 (19.40%) Actionable Insight
11 122 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (18.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 113 (16.99%) Validation
14 106 (15.94%) Data Science
15 103 (15.49%) Data Governance
16 102 (15.34%) Data Engineering
17 101 (15.19%) Dashboard Development
17 101 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
18 99 (14.89%) ETL
19 89 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 321 (48.27%) SQL
2 238 (35.79%) Python
3 62 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (7.37%) JavaScript
4 49 (7.37%) R
5 41 (6.17%) Java
6 34 (5.11%) C#
7 21 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.11%) C++
10 12 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.65%) Scala
12 10 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.35%) VBA
14 7 (1.05%) Bash
15 6 (0.90%) Cypher
16 5 (0.75%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
18 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.98%) Degree
4 20 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (3.01%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.75%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.30%) APMG
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.15%) ACCA
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (25.11%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.71%) QA
3 29 (4.36%) GDPR
4 27 (4.06%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.41%) PMO
6 10 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.75%) GRC
7 5 (0.75%) WCAG
8 3 (0.45%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) Basel III
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (3.31%) Docker
2 15 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.20%) Grafana
2 8 (1.20%) SCCM
3 7 (1.05%) Kibana
4 6 (0.90%) Ansible
5 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.60%) Podman
7 2 (0.30%) Istio
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
7 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 138 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.87%) Databricks
3 40 (6.02%) SAP
4 34 (5.11%) Google
5 29 (4.36%) Oracle
5 29 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.56%) Adobe
8 13 (1.95%) Splunk
9 12 (1.80%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.50%) Remedy
10 10 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.35%) BMC
11 9 (1.35%) Informatica
12 8 (1.20%) Palantir
13 6 (0.90%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.75%) Foundry
15 4 (0.60%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.60%) Ariba
15 4 (0.60%) UiPath
1,978 Visualisation jobs in England