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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 105 128
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 706 653 666
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.55% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.79% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 397 452
10th Percentile £325 £315 £313
25th Percentile £401 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £495
% change year-on-year +2.70% -6.57% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 45 49
10th Percentile £18.39 £23.50 £35.15
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -28.95% +23.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £75.45 £65.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.27% -28.95% +40.75%

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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £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 £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -45 366 £488 -2.50% 254
North of England -41 117 £444 -1.33% 97
Midlands -45 69 £520 +30.00% 66
North West -3 66 £438 -5.30% 60
South East -47 64 £470 -14.55% 110
West Midlands -45 49 £550 +31.34% 33
South West -21 46 £450 +4.77% 51
Yorkshire -47 46 £459 +13.98% 26
East of England -39 23 £520 -3.26% 38
East Midlands -7 20 £431 +15.00% 33
North East -36 6 £420 -6.67% 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 24 (3.40%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.12%) Confluence
3 14 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.84%) Apache
5 12 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.56%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.71%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.71%) CMS
7 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.71%) SAS
8 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 102 (14.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.27%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.85%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.85%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.42%) InDesign
9 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.28%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.42%) iTrent
5 3 (0.42%) Primavera
5 3 (0.42%) 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
1 347 (49.15%) Power Platform
2 151 (21.39%) Azure
3 121 (17.14%) AWS
4 46 (6.52%) GCP
5 41 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (5.81%) Snowflake
6 32 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 25 (3.54%) Serverless
8 22 (3.12%) dbt
8 22 (3.12%) Power Automate
9 21 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.97%) GitHub
10 20 (2.83%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.42%) SaaS
12 10 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.84%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.70%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 3G
5 2 (0.28%) 4G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.28%) 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
1 341 (48.30%) Power BI
2 162 (22.95%) Tableau
3 98 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.94%) Power Query
4 49 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.82%) Metadata
6 33 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 33 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 30 (4.25%) Looker
8 29 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 21 (2.97%) NoSQL
11 20 (2.83%) Big Data
12 12 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.70%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (1.56%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.56%) PowerPivot
13 11 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (5.81%) JIRA
2 35 (4.96%) Git
3 13 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.70%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.85%) MLflow
7 5 (0.71%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.57%) ERwin
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 221 (31.30%) Analytical Skills
2 219 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 181 (25.64%) Finance
4 64 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.51%) Banking
6 38 (5.38%) Retail
7 35 (4.96%) Marketing
8 18 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.27%) Military
10 14 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.56%) Law
12 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.42%) Publishing
14 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Legal
15 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (26.63%) Analyst
2 113 (16.01%) Data Analyst
3 98 (13.88%) Data Engineer
4 96 (13.60%) Developer
5 81 (11.47%) Senior
6 41 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 41 (5.81%) Lead
7 39 (5.52%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.38%) Consultant
9 37 (5.24%) Business Analyst
10 33 (4.67%) Architect
11 32 (4.53%) Power BI Developer
12 25 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 17 (2.41%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.41%) Designer
15 14 (1.98%) Data Architect
15 14 (1.98%) SAP Consultant
16 12 (1.70%) Performance Analyst
16 12 (1.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.67%) Pandas
1 40 (5.67%) React
2 26 (3.68%) Kafka
2 26 (3.68%) REST
3 23 (3.26%) NumPy
4 19 (2.69%) PySpark
5 18 (2.55%) scikit-learn
6 16 (2.27%) Node.js
7 15 (2.12%) JSON
7 15 (2.12%) Web Services
8 14 (1.98%) CSS
8 14 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (1.70%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.70%) Apache Avro
9 12 (1.70%) HTML
10 11 (1.56%) Matplotlib
10 11 (1.56%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.56%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.42%) Seaborn
11 10 (1.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (3.26%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.13%) Derivative
10 8 (1.13%) Life Science
10 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.13%) PKI
11 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.85%) Clustering
12 6 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.54%) Windows
2 23 (3.26%) Linux
3 6 (0.85%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (51.56%) Business Intelligence
2 347 (49.15%) Data Visualisation
3 309 (43.77%) Analytics
4 211 (29.89%) Data Modelling
5 185 (26.20%) Decision-Making
6 184 (26.06%) Agile
7 180 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (21.81%) AI
9 140 (19.83%) Actionable Insight
10 137 (19.41%) Validation
11 130 (18.41%) Data Pipeline
12 126 (17.85%) ETL
13 123 (17.42%) Data Analysis
14 122 (17.28%) Data Science
15 116 (16.43%) Dashboard Development
16 113 (16.01%) Data Engineering
17 109 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (14.59%) Data Governance
19 97 (13.74%) CI/CD
20 91 (12.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 350 (49.58%) SQL
2 256 (36.26%) Python
3 66 (9.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (9.07%) R
5 40 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.38%) Java
7 32 (4.53%) TypeScript
8 31 (4.39%) C#
9 17 (2.41%) C++
10 13 (1.84%) Scala
11 12 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.42%) VBA
13 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.71%) Bash
14 5 (0.71%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Korn
16 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.05%) Degree
4 22 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) CBAP
13 2 (0.28%) ACCA
13 2 (0.28%) APMG
13 2 (0.28%) CIMA
13 2 (0.28%) IIBA
13 2 (0.28%) MBA
13 2 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (22.24%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.66%) QA
3 30 (4.25%) GDPR
4 20 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.69%) PMO
6 7 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 3 (0.42%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (3.26%) Docker
2 12 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.39%) Terraform
3 16 (2.27%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.84%) Ansible
4 13 (1.84%) Grafana
5 10 (1.42%) Kibana
6 8 (1.13%) SCCM
7 7 (0.99%) logstash
7 7 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.28%) Cilium
8 2 (0.28%) Packer
8 2 (0.28%) Podman
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 118 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.06%) Databricks
3 46 (6.52%) SAP
4 40 (5.67%) Google
5 34 (4.82%) Oracle
6 20 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.27%) Adobe
8 14 (1.98%) Sage
8 14 (1.98%) Splunk
9 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.70%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.56%) Informatica
12 9 (1.27%) Alteryx
13 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.13%) Palantir
14 7 (0.99%) Remedy
15 6 (0.85%) BMC
16 5 (0.71%) Apple
16 5 (0.71%) Cognos
16 5 (0.71%) Foundry