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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 108 123
Rank change year-on-year -59 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 705 677 685
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 2.49% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.75% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 405 462
10th Percentile £325 £314 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £588 £612
90th Percentile £720 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 46 51
10th Percentile £18.02 £23.75 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.60 £31.67 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.75 £48.09 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% -26.02% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £48.09 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.57% -26.02% +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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -47 361 £485 -3.00% 145
North of England -53 114 £450 +0.33% 109
Midlands -43 75 £550 +37.50% 72
South East -49 64 £470 -14.55% 107
North West -23 61 £450 -0.55% 55
West Midlands -45 54 £550 +33.33% 38
Yorkshire -47 48 £455 +7.06% 35
South West -20 45 £450 +6.64% 46
East of England -35 26 £565 +2.73% 44
East Midlands -6 21 £431 +15.00% 34
North East -39 7 £420 -6.67% 21
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 22 (3.12%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.70%) Apache
3 12 (1.70%) Confluence
4 11 (1.56%) Apache Superset
5 8 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.13%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.71%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 102 (14.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.28%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.85%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.57%) InDesign
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.28%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Primavera
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 352 (49.93%) Power Platform
2 148 (20.99%) Azure
3 114 (16.17%) AWS
4 43 (6.10%) GCP
5 41 (5.82%) Snowflake
6 40 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.55%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.40%) GitHub
10 24 (3.40%) Serverless
11 21 (2.98%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.98%) dbt
12 20 (2.84%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
14 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 (0.43%) 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%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (48.94%) Power BI
2 156 (22.13%) Tableau
3 91 (12.91%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.09%) Power Query
5 46 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.54%) Data Lake
7 30 (4.26%) Looker
8 29 (4.11%) Metadata
9 28 (3.97%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.55%) BigQuery
10 25 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.70%) Big Data
12 16 (2.27%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.56%) PowerPivot
13 11 (1.56%) QlikView
13 11 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (1.56%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 36 (5.11%) Git
1 36 (5.11%) JIRA
2 13 (1.84%) Visual Studio
3 12 (1.70%) Eclipse
4 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.71%) GitLab
5 5 (0.71%) MLflow
6 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.28%) ERwin
7 2 (0.28%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Flyway
8 1 (0.14%) git-flow
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 220 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 218 (30.92%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (24.54%) Finance
4 71 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.09%) Banking
6 37 (5.25%) Marketing
7 31 (4.40%) Retail
8 19 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.55%) Military
10 15 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.56%) Law
12 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.42%) Publishing
14 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.85%) Legal
17 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 197 (27.94%) Analyst
2 121 (17.16%) Data Analyst
3 95 (13.48%) Data Engineer
4 93 (13.19%) Developer
5 78 (11.06%) Senior
6 45 (6.38%) Lead
7 39 (5.53%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (5.11%) Business Analyst
10 35 (4.96%) Consultant
11 30 (4.26%) Architect
12 29 (4.11%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.84%) Designer
16 17 (2.41%) Data Manager
17 14 (1.99%) Data Architect
18 13 (1.84%) Performance Analyst
18 13 (1.84%) Python Developer
19 12 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.10%) Pandas
2 37 (5.25%) React
3 28 (3.97%) REST
4 23 (3.26%) Kafka
4 23 (3.26%) NumPy
5 20 (2.84%) PySpark
6 18 (2.55%) scikit-learn
7 15 (2.13%) JSON
7 15 (2.13%) Node.js
7 15 (2.13%) Web Services
8 14 (1.99%) CSS
8 14 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (1.70%) Apache Avro
10 11 (1.56%) HTML
11 10 (1.42%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.42%) GeoJSON
11 10 (1.42%) Matplotlib
11 10 (1.42%) Seaborn
12 9 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.09%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.40%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.42%) PKI
12 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.13%) Clustering
12 8 (1.13%) Life Science
12 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.99%) Derivative
13 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.83%) Windows
2 23 (3.26%) Linux
3 8 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.85%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (52.34%) Business Intelligence
2 342 (48.51%) Data Visualisation
3 315 (44.68%) Analytics
4 215 (30.50%) Data Modelling
5 188 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 186 (26.38%) Agile
7 173 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (21.84%) AI
9 142 (20.14%) Actionable Insight
10 133 (18.87%) Validation
11 127 (18.01%) Data Analysis
12 125 (17.73%) ETL
13 124 (17.59%) Data Science
14 123 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
15 119 (16.88%) Dashboard Development
16 113 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 108 (15.32%) Data Engineering
18 105 (14.89%) Data Governance
19 98 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
20 93 (13.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 353 (50.07%) SQL
2 264 (37.45%) Python
3 65 (9.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (8.94%) R
5 39 (5.53%) Java
5 39 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.54%) C#
7 30 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.41%) C++
9 14 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.56%) Scala
11 10 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.42%) VBA
12 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.71%) Bash
14 4 (0.57%) Cypher
14 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.57%) Rust
15 3 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 141 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.64%) Degree
4 19 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.43%) CBAP
11 3 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.28%) ACCA
12 2 (0.28%) APMG
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.28%) CIMA
12 2 (0.28%) IIBA
12 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (22.55%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.38%) QA
3 29 (4.11%) GDPR
4 25 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.70%) PMO
6 6 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) 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 21 (2.98%) Docker
2 14 (1.99%) 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 (4.54%) Terraform
2 27 (3.83%) Kubernetes
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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.85%) logstash
9 3 (0.43%) Podman
10 2 (0.28%) Cilium
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.93%) Databricks
3 44 (6.24%) SAP
4 38 (5.39%) Google
5 33 (4.68%) Oracle
6 22 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.41%) Adobe
8 15 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.99%) Splunk
10 11 (1.56%) Sage
10 11 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.28%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.28%) Remedy
12 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.13%) BMC
12 8 (1.13%) Informatica
12 8 (1.13%) Palantir
13 6 (0.85%) Solace
14 5 (0.71%) Foundry
14 5 (0.71%) Workday