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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 103 118
Rank change year-on-year -90 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 670 694 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 2.52% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.77% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 423 426
10th Percentile £317 £304 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £718 £675 £719
UK median daily rate £488 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +3.72% -6.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 46 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £27.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +42.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +44.44%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -68 327 £500 - 190
North of England -70 101 £450 +4.65% 92
Midlands -39 83 £539 +6.21% 55
West Midlands -43 62 £550 +4.76% 28
South East -60 62 £458 -16.82% 112
North West -28 50 £473 +5.70% 49
South West -26 47 £450 - 52
Yorkshire -49 46 £466 +16.38% 31
East of England -23 34 £565 +5.12% 38
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 27
North East -38 6 £410 -8.89% 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 18 (2.69%) Confluence
2 16 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.49%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.19%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.90%) Apache
7 5 (0.75%) CMS
7 5 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 102 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.19%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.45%) InDesign
9 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 333 (49.70%) Power Platform
2 139 (20.75%) Azure
3 101 (15.07%) AWS
4 42 (6.27%) GCP
5 38 (5.67%) Snowflake
6 35 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.73%) GitHub
10 25 (3.73%) Serverless
11 22 (3.28%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.69%) dbt
13 13 (1.94%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.64%) Ethernet
1 11 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.45%) VPN
2 3 (0.45%) Wireless
3 2 (0.30%) 2G
3 2 (0.30%) 3G
3 2 (0.30%) 4G
3 2 (0.30%) 5G
3 2 (0.30%) Broadband
3 2 (0.30%) DHCP
3 2 (0.30%) DNS
3 2 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
3 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.30%) SNMP
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (48.66%) Power BI
2 133 (19.85%) Tableau
3 84 (12.54%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.61%) Power Query
5 41 (6.12%) Relational Database
6 37 (5.52%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.78%) Metadata
8 27 (4.03%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.58%) Looker
10 22 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (3.13%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.54%) Big Data
13 14 (2.09%) GIS
13 14 (2.09%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.94%) Qlik Sense
14 13 (1.94%) QlikView
15 12 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.79%) Parquet
16 11 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (6.42%) JIRA
2 36 (5.37%) Git
3 13 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.79%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.90%) GitLab
6 5 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.45%) JMeter
9 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.15%) JUnit
10 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.15%) MLflow
10 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.15%) Storybook
10 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 217 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 216 (32.24%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (22.39%) Finance
4 66 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.91%) Banking
6 26 (3.88%) Marketing
7 23 (3.43%) Retail
8 22 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (3.13%) Military
10 19 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.79%) Law
11 12 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.19%) Local Government
14 8 (1.19%) Publishing
15 7 (1.04%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.90%) Front Office
16 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 172 (25.67%) Analyst
2 98 (14.63%) Data Analyst
3 96 (14.33%) Developer
4 87 (12.99%) Data Engineer
5 86 (12.84%) Senior
6 40 (5.97%) Lead
7 34 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 34 (5.07%) Data Scientist
8 33 (4.93%) Architect
9 31 (4.63%) Consultant
10 27 (4.03%) Business Analyst
11 26 (3.88%) Power BI Developer
12 24 (3.58%) Designer
13 23 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.99%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.84%) Data Architect
15 19 (2.84%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 14 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
18 13 (1.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.97%) Terraform
2 34 (5.07%) Pandas
2 34 (5.07%) REST
3 31 (4.63%) React
4 24 (3.58%) CSS
5 23 (3.43%) HTML
6 21 (3.13%) PySpark
7 20 (2.99%) NumPy
8 16 (2.39%) scikit-learn
9 14 (2.09%) Node.js
9 14 (2.09%) Web Services
10 13 (1.94%) Flask
10 13 (1.94%) Kafka
11 11 (1.64%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.64%) TensorFlow
12 10 (1.49%) Vue
13 9 (1.34%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.34%) JSON
14 8 (1.19%) .NET
14 8 (1.19%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.87%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.84%) Algorithms
7 18 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.79%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.49%) PKI
12 10 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.34%) Clustering
13 9 (1.34%) Derivative
14 7 (1.04%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.04%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.48%) Windows
2 21 (3.13%) Linux
3 9 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.75%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (50.90%) Business Intelligence
2 326 (48.66%) Data Visualisation
3 313 (46.72%) Analytics
4 187 (27.91%) Data Modelling
5 178 (26.57%) Agile
6 170 (25.37%) Decision-Making
7 167 (24.93%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.64%) AI
9 128 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
10 127 (18.96%) Data Analysis
11 114 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 112 (16.72%) Validation
13 110 (16.42%) Data Science
14 107 (15.97%) ETL
15 101 (15.07%) Data Governance
15 101 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
16 96 (14.33%) Data Engineering
17 93 (13.88%) Dashboard Development
18 92 (13.73%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 319 (47.61%) SQL
2 241 (35.97%) Python
3 64 (9.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 50 (7.46%) R
5 48 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.12%) Java
7 33 (4.93%) C#
8 26 (3.88%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.54%) C++
10 15 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.64%) Scala
12 10 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.49%) VBA
13 7 (1.04%) Bash
14 5 (0.75%) Cypher
14 5 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.60%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.60%) Rust
16 3 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 133 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.39%) Degree
4 20 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.75%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.60%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.30%) APMG
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (22.54%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.52%) QA
3 28 (4.18%) GDPR
4 22 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.24%) PMO
6 6 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.75%) GRC
7 5 (0.75%) WCAG
8 4 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.30%) Basel III
9 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (3.43%) Docker
2 15 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
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 14 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.19%) Grafana
2 8 (1.19%) SCCM
3 6 (0.90%) Ansible
3 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.75%) Kibana
5 3 (0.45%) Podman
6 2 (0.30%) Istio
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 124 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.81%) Databricks
3 40 (5.97%) SAP
4 36 (5.37%) Google
5 34 (5.07%) Oracle
6 30 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.09%) Adobe
9 11 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.49%) Remedy
10 10 (1.49%) Splunk
11 9 (1.34%) BMC
11 9 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.19%) Palantir
13 7 (1.04%) Informatica
14 5 (0.75%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.75%) Foundry
14 5 (0.75%) SnapLogic
15 4 (0.60%) Solace
15 4 (0.60%) UiPath