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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 98 132
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 +15
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 734 664 685
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 2.50% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.80% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 425 457
10th Percentile £331 £330 £317
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £513
% change year-on-year +0.78% -3.19% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 53
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £29.88 £25.63 £35.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £82.25 - £63.30
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £39.68 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.66% -14.08% -28.95%

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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -22 387 £500 -4.76% 142
North of England -40 108 £425 -8.11% 89
Midlands -6 72 £525 +31.25% 69
West Midlands +1 58 £525 +29.23% 34
South East +3 56 £500 +29.70% 164
Yorkshire -12 52 £500 +17.65% 32
North West -33 51 £400 -13.51% 46
South West -10 42 £750 +57.89% 46
East of England -25 39 £525 +13.02% 52
East Midlands -15 14 £404 +13.41% 34
North East -18 7 £400 -25.58% 11
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 36 (4.90%) Confluence
2 34 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.95%) Apache
4 18 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.18%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.91%) WebLogic
7 10 (1.36%) SAS
8 8 (1.09%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.68%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.68%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.14%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.23%) Siemens NX
5 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.54%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.54%) Revit
7 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.41%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.14%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.14%) Simulink
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
10 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Endur
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 317 (43.19%) Power Platform
2 173 (23.57%) Azure
3 129 (17.57%) AWS
4 59 (8.04%) GCP
5 37 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.63%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.41%) Serverless
8 24 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (2.86%) dbt
11 20 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.72%) GitHub
11 20 (2.72%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.45%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.91%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.77%) Figma
16 10 (1.36%) Google Analytics
17 7 (0.95%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.04%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.54%) 2G
3 4 (0.54%) 5G
3 4 (0.54%) Internet
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.41%) SNMP
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) SSH
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) 4G
6 1 (0.14%) NAS
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (43.05%) Power BI
2 139 (18.94%) Tableau
3 79 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (5.18%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.63%) Big Data
5 34 (4.63%) Power Query
6 28 (3.81%) Hadoop
7 27 (3.68%) Metadata
8 26 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 25 (3.41%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.27%) Looker
11 20 (2.72%) Data Mining
12 19 (2.59%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (1.50%) Apache Hive
15 11 (1.50%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (1.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.95%) JIRA
2 44 (5.99%) Git
3 17 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.32%) Visual Studio
4 15 (2.04%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.95%) Gradle
5 7 (0.95%) Storybook
5 7 (0.95%) Xcode
6 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) webpack
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) NUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 294 (40.05%) Social Skills
2 206 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (23.71%) Finance
4 65 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.45%) Banking
6 28 (3.81%) Marketing
6 28 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (3.13%) Military
7 23 (3.13%) Retail
8 22 (3.00%) Publishing
9 17 (2.32%) Legal
10 16 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.04%) Front Office
11 15 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.36%) Law
14 10 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (23.84%) Analyst
2 122 (16.62%) Developer
3 95 (12.94%) Data Analyst
4 76 (10.35%) Senior
5 72 (9.81%) Architect
6 63 (8.58%) Data Engineer
7 52 (7.08%) Data Scientist
8 46 (6.27%) Lead
9 43 (5.86%) Business Analyst
10 38 (5.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.90%) Consultant
12 29 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.72%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.45%) Integration Architect
18 15 (2.04%) SQL Analyst
19 14 (1.91%) Designer
19 14 (1.91%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.50%) Pandas
2 29 (3.95%) React
2 29 (3.95%) scikit-learn
3 28 (3.81%) Node.js
4 27 (3.68%) PySpark
5 25 (3.41%) NumPy
6 21 (2.86%) Web Services
7 20 (2.72%) Kafka
8 18 (2.45%) D3.js
9 17 (2.32%) Plotly
10 16 (2.18%) REST
11 15 (2.04%) OAuth
12 14 (1.91%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.91%) HTML
13 12 (1.63%) CSS
13 12 (1.63%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.63%) Vue
14 11 (1.50%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.59%) Algorithms
2 35 (4.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.59%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.23%) PMI
9 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 7 (0.95%) Replication
11 6 (0.82%) Life Science
11 6 (0.82%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.82%) NHS
11 6 (0.82%) Reinsurance
11 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.68%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.40%) Linux
2 37 (5.04%) Windows
3 27 (3.68%) Unix
4 8 (1.09%) Android
5 7 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (47.82%) Business Intelligence
2 346 (47.14%) Data Visualisation
3 265 (36.10%) Analytics
4 182 (24.80%) Data Modelling
4 182 (24.80%) Decision-Making
5 170 (23.16%) Data Analysis
6 167 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 155 (21.12%) Agile
8 127 (17.30%) Actionable Insight
8 127 (17.30%) Data Science
9 99 (13.49%) Machine Learning
10 97 (13.22%) AI
10 97 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 93 (12.67%) ETL
12 92 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
13 90 (12.26%) Data Governance
14 87 (11.85%) Validation
15 86 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 76 (10.35%) Dashboard Development
16 76 (10.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 328 (44.69%) SQL
2 234 (31.88%) Python
3 54 (7.36%) JavaScript
4 51 (6.95%) R
5 40 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (4.63%) C++
6 34 (4.63%) Java
7 31 (4.22%) C#
8 26 (3.54%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.41%) Scala
10 16 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.50%) Bash
12 10 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.09%) VBA
14 7 (0.95%) Go
14 7 (0.95%) Groovy
14 7 (0.95%) PHP
15 6 (0.82%) Perl
15 6 (0.82%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 153 (20.84%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.95%) Degree
4 31 (4.22%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.45%) CISSP
7 16 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.04%) CISM
9 13 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.63%) PhD
11 11 (1.50%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.95%) CFA
14 5 (0.68%) CBAP
14 5 (0.68%) CEH
14 5 (0.68%) MBA
15 3 (0.41%) GIAC
15 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (14.31%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.95%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.50%) QA
4 28 (3.81%) GDPR
5 13 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.63%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.54%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.41%) EMIR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.41%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.27%) GxP
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (4.09%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (4.63%) Terraform
2 31 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.18%) Kibana
4 13 (1.77%) Ansible
5 11 (1.50%) Grafana
6 8 (1.09%) logstash
7 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.54%) Argo
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.14%) Cacti
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.14%) QRadar
11 1 (0.14%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.95%) Oracle
3 47 (6.40%) Databricks
4 38 (5.18%) Splunk
5 33 (4.50%) Google
6 31 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.59%) Cisco
9 18 (2.45%) AppDynamics
10 16 (2.18%) SAP
11 15 (2.04%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (2.04%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.77%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.63%) Centrify
14 11 (1.50%) Foundry
14 11 (1.50%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.23%) Siemens
16 8 (1.09%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.95%) Palantir
17 7 (0.95%) Talend