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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 97 138
Rank change year-on-year -67 +41 +8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 690 651 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.67% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.93% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 398 429
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £583 £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 44 40 38
10th Percentile £21.62 £22.45 £36.20
25th Percentile £40.06 £31.60 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £36.24 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -39.60% -4.38%
75th Percentile £71.47 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £36.24 £60.00
% change year-on-year +69.70% -39.60% -4.00%

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -39 367 £488 -2.50% 143
North of England -62 106 £438 -3.85% 87
Midlands -55 62 £525 +31.25% 46
North West -20 57 £420 -9.19% 54
South East -42 56 £500 -9.09% 86
West Midlands -52 49 £550 +33.33% 29
South West -17 47 £475 - 47
Yorkshire -56 44 £463 +15.63% 26
East of England -43 25 £565 -5.83% 19
East Midlands -30 13 £488 +30.00% 17
North East -30 6 £448 -8.21% 9
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 31 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.46%) Confluence
3 16 (2.32%) Apache
4 13 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.59%) Apache Superset
5 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.72%) CMS
7 4 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.58%) SAS
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 105 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.30%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.72%) 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 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.58%) 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%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 323 (46.81%) Power Platform
2 139 (20.14%) Azure
3 120 (17.39%) AWS
4 45 (6.52%) GCP
5 41 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (5.80%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.91%) Serverless
8 22 (3.19%) Amazon S3
8 22 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (3.19%) dbt
9 20 (2.90%) GitHub
10 19 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.61%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.32%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.45%) SaaS
13 10 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.87%) Firewall
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) SNMP
7 1 (0.14%) SSH
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (45.94%) Power BI
2 158 (22.90%) Tableau
3 98 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.96%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.94%) Metadata
5 41 (5.94%) Power Query
6 32 (4.64%) Data Lake
6 32 (4.64%) SQL Server
7 30 (4.35%) Looker
8 27 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (3.33%) BigQuery
10 22 (3.19%) Big Data
11 19 (2.75%) NoSQL
12 14 (2.03%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.88%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (5.65%) JIRA
2 32 (4.64%) Git
3 13 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.74%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.87%) GitLab
6 6 (0.87%) MLflow
7 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.58%) ERwin
8 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 223 (32.32%) Analytical Skills
2 211 (30.58%) Social Skills
3 175 (25.36%) Finance
4 53 (7.68%) Banking
5 52 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.22%) Retail
7 34 (4.93%) Marketing
8 17 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.32%) Publishing
10 13 (1.88%) Law
10 13 (1.88%) Military
11 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.01%) Front Office
15 7 (1.01%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.01%) Legal
16 6 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (25.80%) Analyst
2 100 (14.49%) Data Analyst
3 98 (14.20%) Data Engineer
4 94 (13.62%) Developer
5 85 (12.32%) Senior
6 41 (5.94%) Lead
7 38 (5.51%) Consultant
8 37 (5.36%) Business Analyst
9 36 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 34 (4.93%) Data Scientist
11 31 (4.49%) Architect
12 26 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.62%) Power BI Developer
14 22 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 17 (2.46%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.46%) Designer
16 15 (2.17%) SAP Consultant
16 15 (2.17%) Software Engineer
17 13 (1.88%) Performance Analyst
17 13 (1.88%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.94%) Pandas
1 41 (5.94%) React
2 26 (3.77%) Kafka
3 24 (3.48%) REST
4 20 (2.90%) Node.js
4 20 (2.90%) NumPy
4 20 (2.90%) PySpark
5 19 (2.75%) scikit-learn
6 17 (2.46%) HTML
7 16 (2.32%) JSON
8 15 (2.17%) CSS
8 15 (2.17%) Web Services
9 14 (2.03%) Matplotlib
9 14 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.74%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (1.74%) Seaborn
10 12 (1.74%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.59%) .NET
11 11 (1.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.94%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.75%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.16%) Derivative
12 8 (1.16%) Life Science
12 8 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.16%) PKI
13 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.62%) Windows
2 23 (3.33%) Linux
3 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.72%) Unix
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
1 343 (49.71%) Business Intelligence
2 338 (48.99%) Data Visualisation
3 292 (42.32%) Analytics
4 208 (30.14%) Data Modelling
5 183 (26.52%) Agile
6 182 (26.38%) Decision-Making
7 180 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (20.00%) AI
9 137 (19.86%) Actionable Insight
10 130 (18.84%) Validation
11 123 (17.83%) Data Pipeline
12 119 (17.25%) ETL
13 114 (16.52%) Dashboard Development
13 114 (16.52%) Data Science
14 108 (15.65%) Data Engineering
15 104 (15.07%) Data Analysis
16 102 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (14.64%) Data Governance
18 95 (13.77%) CI/CD
19 84 (12.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 347 (50.29%) SQL
2 244 (35.36%) Python
3 62 (8.99%) R
4 54 (7.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.94%) Java
7 36 (5.22%) C#
8 31 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.75%) C++
9 19 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.17%) Scala
11 10 (1.45%) VBA
12 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.01%) Perl
14 6 (0.87%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Bash
15 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 126 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.72%) Degree
4 19 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.32%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.58%) MBA
10 4 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.43%) CBAP
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) IIBA
12 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.29%) PMP
12 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (21.01%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.67%) QA
3 27 (3.91%) GDPR
4 20 (2.90%) PMO
5 19 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (3.48%) Docker
2 12 (1.74%) 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 36 (5.22%) Terraform
2 33 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 15 (2.17%) Grafana
5 14 (2.03%) Ansible
6 13 (1.88%) Kibana
7 9 (1.30%) logstash
8 8 (1.16%) SCCM
9 7 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.29%) Cilium
10 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 108 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.43%) Databricks
3 42 (6.09%) SAP
4 41 (5.94%) Google
5 31 (4.49%) Oracle
6 18 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.32%) Adobe
8 15 (2.17%) Sage
9 13 (1.88%) Splunk
10 12 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.45%) Informatica
13 8 (1.16%) Amplitude
14 7 (1.01%) Remedy
15 6 (0.87%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.87%) Apple
15 6 (0.87%) BMC
15 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.72%) Cognos
16 5 (0.72%) Solace