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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 105 129
Rank change year-on-year -67 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 698 650 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 2.55% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.80% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 396 452
10th Percentile £325 £315 £313
25th Percentile £402 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.25% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £728 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £463 £495
% change year-on-year +3.78% -6.57% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 45 50
10th Percentile £18.39 £23.50 £35.70
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 £63.00
% change year-on-year +8.27% -26.70% +36.42%

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 37,198 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,460 14,972 20,715
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 £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,331 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -41 368 £488 -2.50% 147
North of England -40 115 £450 - 87
North West -7 65 £438 -5.30% 53
South East -44 63 £465 -15.45% 96
Midlands -50 63 £550 +37.50% 54
West Midlands -52 48 £550 +31.34% 26
South West -25 46 £450 +10.02% 36
Yorkshire -43 46 £459 +13.98% 22
East of England -46 22 £565 +5.12% 35
East Midlands -12 15 £544 +45.00% 28
North East -41 5 £448 -0.56% 14
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 25 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.86%) Apache
3 13 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.72%) CMS
5 5 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.72%) SAS
6 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
8 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 104 (14.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.86%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.86%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.43%) InDesign
9 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.29%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) 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%) 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
1 341 (48.85%) Power Platform
2 147 (21.06%) Azure
3 119 (17.05%) AWS
4 46 (6.59%) GCP
5 42 (6.02%) Snowflake
6 40 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.58%) Serverless
9 24 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (3.15%) dbt
10 22 (3.15%) GitHub
10 22 (3.15%) Power Automate
11 21 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.87%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.43%) SaaS
14 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) Wireless
5 2 (0.29%) 2G
5 2 (0.29%) 3G
5 2 (0.29%) 4G
5 2 (0.29%) 5G
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.29%) 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
1 335 (47.99%) Power BI
2 163 (23.35%) Tableau
3 96 (13.75%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 47 (6.73%) Power Query
6 35 (5.01%) Metadata
7 33 (4.73%) Data Lake
8 31 (4.44%) Looker
8 31 (4.44%) SQL Server
9 29 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.72%) BigQuery
11 21 (3.01%) NoSQL
12 20 (2.87%) Big Data
13 13 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (1.58%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.58%) PowerPivot
14 11 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.43%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (5.59%) JIRA
2 33 (4.73%) Git
3 13 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) MLflow
7 5 (0.72%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.57%) ERwin
9 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.29%) JMeter
10 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) Flyway
11 1 (0.14%) git-flow
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 217 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 215 (30.80%) Analytical Skills
3 179 (25.64%) Finance
4 60 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.45%) Banking
6 39 (5.59%) Retail
7 36 (5.16%) Marketing
8 18 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.29%) Military
10 14 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.72%) Law
13 11 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.58%) Publishing
14 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.00%) Legal
15 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (26.93%) Analyst
2 114 (16.33%) Data Analyst
3 96 (13.75%) Data Engineer
4 94 (13.47%) Developer
5 81 (11.60%) Senior
6 40 (5.73%) Lead
7 39 (5.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 38 (5.44%) Consultant
8 38 (5.44%) Data Scientist
9 36 (5.16%) Business Analyst
10 30 (4.30%) Power BI Developer
11 29 (4.15%) Architect
12 25 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 17 (2.44%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.44%) Designer
15 14 (2.01%) SAP Consultant
16 13 (1.86%) Software Engineer
17 12 (1.72%) Performance Analyst
17 12 (1.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.73%) Pandas
1 40 (5.73%) React
2 26 (3.72%) Kafka
3 25 (3.58%) REST
4 23 (3.30%) NumPy
5 19 (2.72%) PySpark
6 18 (2.58%) scikit-learn
7 16 (2.29%) Node.js
8 15 (2.15%) JSON
8 15 (2.15%) Web Services
9 14 (2.01%) CSS
9 14 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.72%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.72%) HTML
11 11 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.58%) Matplotlib
11 11 (1.58%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.58%) TensorFlow
12 10 (1.43%) Seaborn
12 10 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.88%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (3.30%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.15%) Life Science
11 8 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.15%) PKI
12 7 (1.00%) Derivative
12 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.86%) Clustering
13 6 (0.86%) NHS
13 6 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.58%) Windows
2 23 (3.30%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Unix
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (51.58%) Business Intelligence
2 343 (49.14%) Data Visualisation
3 308 (44.13%) Analytics
4 206 (29.51%) Data Modelling
5 184 (26.36%) Decision-Making
6 183 (26.22%) Agile
7 178 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (21.92%) AI
9 141 (20.20%) Actionable Insight
10 138 (19.77%) Validation
11 129 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
12 123 (17.62%) Data Science
12 123 (17.62%) ETL
13 120 (17.19%) Data Analysis
14 117 (16.76%) Dashboard Development
15 109 (15.62%) Data Engineering
16 106 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (14.47%) Data Governance
18 96 (13.75%) CI/CD
19 87 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 349 (50.00%) SQL
2 257 (36.82%) Python
3 64 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (9.03%) R
5 40 (5.73%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.44%) Java
7 31 (4.44%) C#
7 31 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.44%) C++
9 13 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.86%) Scala
10 10 (1.43%) VBA
11 9 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.72%) Bash
13 5 (0.72%) Rust
14 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.43%) C
15 3 (0.43%) Korn
15 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.74%) Degree
4 19 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.43%) CBAP
12 2 (0.29%) ACCA
12 2 (0.29%) APMG
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) CIMA
12 2 (0.29%) IIBA
12 2 (0.29%) MBA
12 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (22.21%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.73%) QA
3 29 (4.15%) GDPR
4 20 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.72%) PMO
6 6 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 3 (0.43%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) 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 (3.30%) Docker
2 12 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
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 32 (4.58%) Kubernetes
1 32 (4.58%) Terraform
2 16 (2.29%) Prometheus
3 13 (1.86%) Ansible
3 13 (1.86%) Grafana
4 10 (1.43%) Kibana
5 8 (1.15%) SCCM
6 7 (1.00%) logstash
6 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.29%) Cilium
7 2 (0.29%) Packer
7 2 (0.29%) Podman
8 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 113 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.03%) Databricks
3 45 (6.45%) SAP
4 40 (5.73%) Google
5 33 (4.73%) Oracle
6 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.29%) Adobe
8 14 (2.01%) Sage
8 14 (2.01%) Splunk
9 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.58%) Informatica
11 9 (1.29%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.15%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.15%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) Remedy
14 6 (0.86%) BMC
15 5 (0.72%) Apple
15 5 (0.72%) Cognos
15 5 (0.72%) Foundry