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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 97 139
Rank change year-on-year -63 +42 +11
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 684 642 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.68% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.94% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 394 429
10th Percentile £325 £327 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £471 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.83% -2.39%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £583
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +5.41% -3.14% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 38 38
10th Percentile £20.72 £22.36 £25.70
25th Percentile £36.50 £31.51 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.71 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.11 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -4.76%

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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -47 364 £488 -2.50% 237
North of England -63 102 £444 -4.11% 103
Midlands -47 62 £520 +30.00% 54
South East -42 56 £500 -9.09% 108
North West -22 55 £413 -10.81% 56
South West -16 48 £475 - 53
West Midlands -50 48 £550 +33.33% 32
Yorkshire -56 43 £463 +15.63% 34
East of England -40 26 £565 -5.83% 30
East Midlands -26 14 £488 +30.00% 22
North East -34 7 £420 -13.85% 16
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 32 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.34%) Apache
2 16 (2.34%) Confluence
3 13 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.61%) Apache Superset
4 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.73%) CMS
6 4 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 105 (15.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.29%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.29%) InDesign
7 2 (0.29%) Notion
8 1 (0.15%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.15%) Maya
8 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) iTrent
5 3 (0.44%) Primavera
5 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 315 (46.05%) Power Platform
2 137 (20.03%) Azure
3 119 (17.40%) AWS
4 46 (6.73%) GCP
5 40 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 40 (5.85%) Snowflake
6 26 (3.80%) Serverless
7 25 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.07%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (3.07%) dbt
9 19 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 18 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.63%) GitHub
11 16 (2.34%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.46%) SaaS
12 10 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.75%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.88%) Firewall
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) Wireless
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.15%) SNMP
7 1 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (45.18%) Power BI
2 158 (23.10%) Tableau
3 96 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.73%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.99%) Metadata
6 37 (5.41%) Power Query
7 33 (4.82%) SQL Server
8 30 (4.39%) Looker
9 29 (4.24%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.36%) BigQuery
12 22 (3.22%) Big Data
13 19 (2.78%) NoSQL
14 14 (2.05%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (1.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (5.56%) JIRA
2 30 (4.39%) Git
3 13 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.75%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.88%) MLflow
7 5 (0.73%) GitLab
8 4 (0.58%) ERwin
9 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.29%) JMeter
10 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.15%) Flyway
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
11 1 (0.15%) JUnit
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 222 (32.46%) Analytical Skills
2 208 (30.41%) Social Skills
3 175 (25.58%) Finance
4 53 (7.75%) Banking
5 51 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.41%) Retail
7 34 (4.97%) Marketing
8 16 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.34%) Publishing
9 13 (1.90%) Military
10 12 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.75%) Law
11 11 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.02%) Front Office
14 7 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.02%) Legal
15 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (26.32%) Analyst
2 103 (15.06%) Data Analyst
3 95 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 91 (13.30%) Developer
5 86 (12.57%) Senior
6 43 (6.29%) Lead
7 38 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 38 (5.56%) Consultant
8 34 (4.97%) Data Scientist
9 33 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 30 (4.39%) Architect
11 26 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 22 (3.22%) Power BI Developer
13 18 (2.63%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.49%) Designer
15 15 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
15 15 (2.19%) Software Engineer
16 13 (1.90%) Transformation Consultant
17 12 (1.75%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.14%) Pandas
2 40 (5.85%) React
3 25 (3.65%) Kafka
4 23 (3.36%) REST
5 20 (2.92%) Node.js
5 20 (2.92%) NumPy
5 20 (2.92%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.78%) PySpark
7 16 (2.34%) HTML
7 16 (2.34%) JSON
8 15 (2.19%) Web Services
9 14 (2.05%) CSS
9 14 (2.05%) Matplotlib
10 13 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (1.90%) TensorFlow
11 12 (1.75%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (1.75%) Seaborn
12 11 (1.61%) .NET
12 11 (1.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.85%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.17%) Derivative
11 8 (1.17%) Life Science
11 8 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.17%) PKI
11 8 (1.17%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.02%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.51%) Windows
2 22 (3.22%) Linux
3 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (48.83%) Business Intelligence
2 331 (48.39%) Data Visualisation
3 285 (41.67%) Analytics
4 209 (30.56%) Data Modelling
5 179 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (26.02%) Decision-Making
7 175 (25.58%) Agile
8 135 (19.74%) Actionable Insight
9 132 (19.30%) AI
10 128 (18.71%) Validation
11 122 (17.84%) Data Pipeline
12 117 (17.11%) ETL
13 113 (16.52%) Dashboard Development
14 112 (16.37%) Data Science
15 106 (15.50%) Data Analysis
16 102 (14.91%) Data Engineering
17 99 (14.47%) Data Governance
18 98 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (13.45%) CI/CD
20 82 (11.99%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 343 (50.15%) SQL
2 239 (34.94%) Python
3 62 (9.06%) R
4 50 (7.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.70%) Java
7 35 (5.12%) C#
8 30 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.78%) C++
10 18 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.19%) Scala
12 9 (1.32%) VBA
13 7 (1.02%) Perl
13 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.88%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Bash
15 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.44%) C
16 3 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 125 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 72 (10.53%) Degree
4 19 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.58%) MBA
12 4 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.44%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
14 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.58%) QA
3 27 (3.95%) GDPR
4 21 (3.07%) PMO
5 18 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) WCAG
9 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.15%) P3O
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (3.51%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
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 34 (4.97%) Terraform
2 33 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.05%) Grafana
5 13 (1.90%) Ansible
5 13 (1.90%) Kibana
6 9 (1.32%) logstash
7 8 (1.17%) SCCM
8 7 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.15%) Istio
10 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 104 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.23%) Databricks
3 42 (6.14%) SAP
4 41 (5.99%) Google
5 29 (4.24%) Oracle
6 18 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.19%) Sage
8 13 (1.90%) Adobe
8 13 (1.90%) Splunk
9 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.61%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.46%) Informatica
12 8 (1.17%) Amplitude
13 7 (1.02%) Remedy
14 6 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.88%) Apple
14 6 (0.88%) BMC
14 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.73%) Cognos
15 5 (0.73%) Solace