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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 101 134
Rank change year-on-year -57 +33 +11
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 670 629 628
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.59% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.84% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 402 437
10th Percentile £325 £350 £313
25th Percentile £402 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.08%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 38
10th Percentile £20.75 £22.54 £27.30
25th Percentile £37.69 £30.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72.99 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.96 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -44 356 £488 -2.50% 164
North of England -55 94 £453 -2.16% 79
Midlands -39 65 £494 +19.70% 45
North West -29 53 £420 -9.19% 37
South East -43 53 £510 -7.27% 85
South West -26 47 £488 +2.63% 47
West Midlands -35 47 £500 +21.21% 25
Yorkshire -52 37 £459 +3.67% 27
East of England -42 27 £565 +2.73% 23
East Midlands -19 18 £488 +27.12% 20
North East -28 7 £420 -20.00% 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 35 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.54%) Confluence
3 16 (2.39%) Apache
4 11 (1.64%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) SAS
8 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
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 95 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.84%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.30%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.30%) Notion
8 1 (0.15%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
8 1 (0.15%) Maya
8 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.45%) iTrent
5 3 (0.45%) Primavera
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 306 (45.67%) Power Platform
2 137 (20.45%) Azure
3 120 (17.91%) AWS
4 48 (7.16%) GCP
5 44 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.93%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.18%) Serverless
8 24 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.99%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.69%) dbt
14 16 (2.39%) GitHub
15 15 (2.24%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (1.34%) Google Workspace
17 9 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.90%) Firewall
4 4 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.45%) Wireless
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.30%) 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%) SSH
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (45.07%) Power BI
2 158 (23.58%) Tableau
3 92 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 40 (5.97%) Metadata
6 32 (4.78%) Looker
6 32 (4.78%) Power Query
6 32 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.88%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (3.58%) BigQuery
9 23 (3.43%) Big Data
10 20 (2.99%) NoSQL
11 15 (2.24%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
12 13 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.49%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (5.67%) JIRA
2 34 (5.07%) Git
3 12 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.64%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.90%) MLflow
7 4 (0.60%) ERwin
7 4 (0.60%) GitLab
8 3 (0.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.30%) JMeter
9 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.15%) Flyway
10 1 (0.15%) git-flow
10 1 (0.15%) NUnit
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 212 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
2 206 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 175 (26.12%) Finance
4 55 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.87%) Banking
6 34 (5.07%) Retail
7 31 (4.63%) Marketing
8 17 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.39%) Publishing
10 14 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.94%) Law
11 13 (1.94%) Military
12 11 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.34%) Legal
14 9 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.04%) Front Office
17 6 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 171 (25.52%) Analyst
2 94 (14.03%) Data Analyst
2 94 (14.03%) Data Engineer
3 93 (13.88%) Senior
4 90 (13.43%) Developer
5 44 (6.57%) Lead
6 42 (6.27%) Data Scientist
7 39 (5.82%) Business Analyst
7 39 (5.82%) Consultant
8 34 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 31 (4.63%) Architect
10 25 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (3.43%) Power BI Developer
12 20 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 16 (2.39%) Data Manager
13 16 (2.39%) Software Engineer
14 15 (2.24%) Designer
14 15 (2.24%) SAP Consultant
15 14 (2.09%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.27%) Pandas
2 39 (5.82%) React
3 27 (4.03%) Kafka
4 21 (3.13%) Node.js
4 21 (3.13%) NumPy
4 21 (3.13%) scikit-learn
5 20 (2.99%) PySpark
5 20 (2.99%) REST
6 16 (2.39%) JSON
7 15 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (2.09%) Matplotlib
8 14 (2.09%) Web Services
9 13 (1.94%) CSS
9 13 (1.94%) HTML
10 12 (1.79%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.79%) Seaborn
10 12 (1.79%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.64%) PyTorch
12 10 (1.49%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.82%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.19%) Derivative
9 8 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.04%) Life Science
10 7 (1.04%) PKI
10 7 (1.04%) PMI
10 7 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.88%) Windows
2 22 (3.28%) Linux
3 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (49.10%) Business Intelligence
2 325 (48.51%) Data Visualisation
3 276 (41.19%) Analytics
4 215 (32.09%) Data Modelling
5 183 (27.31%) Decision-Making
6 175 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 167 (24.93%) Agile
8 146 (21.79%) Actionable Insight
9 124 (18.51%) Validation
10 120 (17.91%) AI
11 119 (17.76%) Data Pipeline
12 115 (17.16%) Data Science
13 108 (16.12%) ETL
14 107 (15.97%) Data Governance
15 106 (15.82%) Dashboard Development
16 105 (15.67%) Data Analysis
17 100 (14.93%) Data Engineering
18 91 (13.58%) CI/CD
19 84 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
20 81 (12.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 330 (49.25%) SQL
2 237 (35.37%) Python
3 68 (10.15%) R
4 48 (7.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (6.27%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.52%) Java
7 34 (5.07%) C#
8 32 (4.78%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.99%) C++
9 20 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.69%) Scala
11 10 (1.49%) VBA
12 8 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.04%) Perl
13 7 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.90%) Rust
15 4 (0.60%) Bash
15 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.45%) C
16 3 (0.45%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 123 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.30%) Degree
4 20 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.60%) CBAP
9 4 (0.60%) MBA
9 4 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.30%) CISM
10 2 (0.30%) IIBA
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (20.30%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.87%) QA
3 27 (4.03%) GDPR
4 22 (3.28%) PMO
5 20 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.75%) SLA
8 4 (0.60%) WCAG
9 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) NIST
10 2 (0.30%) P3O
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.15%) PERC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (3.73%) Docker
2 12 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) HDFS
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
Systems Management
1 35 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.07%) Terraform
3 17 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 16 (2.39%) Kibana
5 14 (2.09%) Ansible
6 13 (1.94%) Grafana
7 12 (1.79%) logstash
8 7 (1.04%) SCCM
8 7 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.45%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.30%) Cilium
10 2 (0.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.15%) Databricks
3 42 (6.27%) Google
4 39 (5.82%) SAP
5 30 (4.48%) Oracle
6 21 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.39%) Sage
8 13 (1.94%) Splunk
9 11 (1.64%) Adobe
9 11 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.49%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.34%) Informatica
12 6 (0.90%) Apple
12 6 (0.90%) Cognos
12 6 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.90%) Remedy
13 5 (0.75%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.75%) BMC
13 5 (0.75%) Solace