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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 100 132
Rank change year-on-year -69 +32 +10
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 699 663 653
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.64% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.89% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 411 442
10th Percentile £325 £318 £313
25th Percentile £401 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £581 £588
90th Percentile £726 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £463 £490
% change year-on-year +4.86% -5.61% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 43 46
10th Percentile £18.91 £23.00 £41.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.64 £46.20
Median hourly rate £54.50 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -28.95% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £77.15 £65.00 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £60.50
% change year-on-year +13.69% -23.67% +18.05%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -43 368 £488 -2.50% 105
North of England -55 116 £450 - 80
North West -15 65 £437 -5.62% 48
South East -45 63 £470 -14.55% 93
Midlands -54 62 £550 +37.50% 62
West Midlands -51 48 £550 +31.34% 29
South West -35 47 £475 +16.14% 42
Yorkshire -50 46 £459 +13.98% 22
East of England -46 22 £565 +2.73% 33
East Midlands -18 14 £544 +45.00% 33
North East -39 6 £448 -0.56% 12
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 25 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.15%) Confluence
3 14 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.86%) Apache
4 13 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.86%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.72%) CMS
7 5 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.72%) SAS
8 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 104 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.43%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.86%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.86%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.43%) InDesign
9 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.29%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) iTrent
5 3 (0.43%) Primavera
5 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 341 (48.78%) Power Platform
2 147 (21.03%) Azure
3 119 (17.02%) AWS
4 46 (6.58%) GCP
5 42 (6.01%) Snowflake
6 40 (5.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.72%) Serverless
9 24 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (3.15%) dbt
10 22 (3.15%) GitHub
11 21 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 21 (3.00%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.57%) SaaS
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) Wireless
5 2 (0.29%) 2G
5 2 (0.29%) 3G
5 2 (0.29%) 4G
5 2 (0.29%) 5G
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (47.93%) Power BI
2 163 (23.32%) Tableau
3 97 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (7.01%) Relational Database
5 46 (6.58%) Power Query
6 37 (5.29%) Metadata
7 33 (4.72%) Data Lake
8 31 (4.43%) Looker
9 30 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (4.29%) SQL Server
10 26 (3.72%) BigQuery
11 21 (3.00%) NoSQL
12 20 (2.86%) Big Data
13 13 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.57%) Hadoop
15 11 (1.57%) PowerPivot
15 11 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (5.72%) JIRA
2 32 (4.58%) Git
3 13 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) MLflow
7 5 (0.72%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.57%) ERwin
9 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.29%) JMeter
10 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) Flyway
11 1 (0.14%) git-flow
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 218 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 217 (31.04%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (25.32%) Finance
4 58 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.58%) Banking
6 40 (5.72%) Retail
7 35 (5.01%) Marketing
8 19 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.15%) Military
10 13 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.72%) Law
12 11 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.57%) Publishing
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.00%) Legal
14 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.86%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (26.90%) Analyst
2 113 (16.17%) Data Analyst
3 96 (13.73%) Data Engineer
4 94 (13.45%) Developer
5 82 (11.73%) Senior
6 40 (5.72%) Lead
7 39 (5.58%) Consultant
8 37 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (5.15%) Business Analyst
10 35 (5.01%) Data Scientist
11 30 (4.29%) Architect
12 29 (4.15%) Power BI Developer
13 25 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 18 (2.58%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.43%) Designer
17 15 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
18 13 (1.86%) Software Engineer
18 13 (1.86%) Transformation Consultant
19 12 (1.72%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.01%) React
2 38 (5.44%) Pandas
3 27 (3.86%) Kafka
4 26 (3.72%) REST
5 21 (3.00%) NumPy
6 19 (2.72%) PySpark
7 17 (2.43%) Node.js
8 16 (2.29%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.15%) JSON
9 15 (2.15%) Web Services
10 14 (2.00%) CSS
10 14 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (1.86%) HTML
12 12 (1.72%) Apache Avro
13 11 (1.57%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.57%) Matplotlib
13 11 (1.57%) RESTful
14 10 (1.43%) .NET
14 10 (1.43%) Spring
14 10 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.87%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.14%) Derivative
10 8 (1.14%) Life Science
10 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.14%) PKI
11 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) Clustering
12 6 (0.86%) NHS
12 6 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.58%) Windows
2 23 (3.29%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Unix
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (51.50%) Business Intelligence
2 343 (49.07%) Data Visualisation
3 309 (44.21%) Analytics
4 206 (29.47%) Data Modelling
5 187 (26.75%) Decision-Making
6 186 (26.61%) Agile
7 180 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (21.17%) AI
9 139 (19.89%) Actionable Insight
10 138 (19.74%) Validation
11 128 (18.31%) Data Pipeline
12 122 (17.45%) ETL
13 120 (17.17%) Data Science
14 118 (16.88%) Data Analysis
15 116 (16.60%) Dashboard Development
16 108 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (15.45%) Data Engineering
17 102 (14.59%) Data Governance
18 97 (13.88%) CI/CD
19 87 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 347 (49.64%) SQL
2 255 (36.48%) Python
3 63 (9.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (8.87%) R
5 42 (6.01%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.29%) Java
7 33 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 31 (4.43%) C#
9 17 (2.43%) C++
10 14 (2.00%) Scala
11 13 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.43%) VBA
13 9 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.86%) Rust
16 5 (0.72%) Bash
17 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.43%) C
18 3 (0.43%) PromQL
18 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.87%) Degree
4 20 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.43%) CBAP
10 3 (0.43%) MBA
11 2 (0.29%) APMG
11 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.29%) IIBA
11 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.87%) QA
3 29 (4.15%) GDPR
4 19 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.72%) PMO
5 7 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.72%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (3.29%) Docker
2 12 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (4.72%) Terraform
2 32 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.43%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.00%) Grafana
5 13 (1.86%) Ansible
6 11 (1.57%) Kibana
7 8 (1.14%) SCCM
8 7 (1.00%) logstash
8 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 115 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.87%) Databricks
3 45 (6.44%) SAP
4 42 (6.01%) Google
5 32 (4.58%) Oracle
6 20 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.29%) Adobe
8 15 (2.15%) Sage
9 14 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 14 (2.00%) Splunk
10 11 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.57%) Informatica
11 8 (1.14%) Alteryx
11 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
11 8 (1.14%) Palantir
12 7 (1.00%) Remedy
13 6 (0.86%) Apple
13 6 (0.86%) BMC
14 5 (0.72%) Cognos
14 5 (0.72%) Foundry