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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 101 110
Rank change year-on-year -102 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 652 733 703
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.62% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.88% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 454 424
10th Percentile £313 £319 £318
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £722 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 47 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £18.40 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.40 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -79 316 £480 -4.00% 1,039
North of England -70 102 £438 +3.06% 295
Midlands -43 82 £539 +6.21% 205
South East -58 66 £419 -23.82% 334
West Midlands -40 62 £550 +5.77% 130
North West -42 48 £500 +22.70% 136
South West -30 46 £450 -40.00% 149
Yorkshire -54 42 £480 +16.36% 106
East of England -39 29 £565 +7.62% 149
East Midlands -13 20 £362 -9.38% 75
North East -38 13 £350 -17.65% 56
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 21 (3.22%) Confluence
2 17 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.77%) CMS
5 5 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.46%) InDesign
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.31%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) Actimize
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (51.99%) Power Platform
2 120 (18.40%) Azure
3 91 (13.96%) AWS
4 44 (6.75%) Snowflake
5 40 (6.13%) GCP
6 33 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.99%) GitHub
8 24 (3.68%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.68%) PowerApps
9 23 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.07%) Serverless
12 18 (2.76%) dbt
13 16 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.30%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.84%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.53%) Figma
17 10 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
18 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.77%) SNMP
2 5 (0.77%) Wireless
3 4 (0.61%) Broadband
3 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.61%) WAN
4 3 (0.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.31%) 2G
5 2 (0.31%) 3G
5 2 (0.31%) 4G
5 2 (0.31%) 5G
5 2 (0.31%) DHCP
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (50.92%) Power BI
2 133 (20.40%) Tableau
3 64 (9.82%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (8.59%) Power Query
5 40 (6.13%) Data Lake
6 36 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 29 (4.45%) Metadata
8 20 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.91%) Looker
10 18 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.45%) Big Data
12 15 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
13 14 (2.15%) GIS
13 14 (2.15%) QlikView
14 12 (1.84%) Star Schema
15 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.38%) Data Mining
17 8 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (6.13%) JIRA
2 34 (5.21%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.92%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.15%) Vite
9 1 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 234 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 227 (34.82%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (21.63%) Finance
4 78 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.67%) Banking
6 24 (3.68%) Military
7 21 (3.22%) Retail
8 20 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.91%) Marketing
10 18 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.99%) Local Government
12 13 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Front Office
15 6 (0.92%) Legal
15 6 (0.92%) Police
15 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (27.15%) Analyst
2 102 (15.64%) Data Analyst
3 99 (15.18%) Developer
4 77 (11.81%) Senior
5 71 (10.89%) Data Engineer
6 38 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 36 (5.52%) Lead
8 34 (5.21%) Data Scientist
9 30 (4.60%) Power BI Developer
10 28 (4.29%) Consultant
11 26 (3.99%) Architect
11 26 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (3.83%) Designer
13 24 (3.68%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.91%) Data Manager
14 19 (2.91%) Performance Analyst
15 17 (2.61%) Data Architect
16 15 (2.30%) Report Analyst
16 15 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
17 13 (1.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.52%) Terraform
2 29 (4.45%) REST
3 25 (3.83%) Pandas
3 25 (3.83%) React
4 24 (3.68%) CSS
5 23 (3.53%) HTML
6 21 (3.22%) PySpark
7 16 (2.45%) NumPy
8 15 (2.30%) scikit-learn
9 11 (1.69%) Web Services
10 10 (1.53%) Flask
10 10 (1.53%) Kafka
10 10 (1.53%) Node.js
11 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.23%) JSON
13 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.07%) Redux
13 7 (1.07%) Vue
14 6 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.75%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.22%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.84%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.23%) PKI
12 7 (1.07%) Clustering
12 7 (1.07%) Derivative
12 7 (1.07%) Life Science
12 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.14%) Windows
2 19 (2.91%) Linux
3 8 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (52.91%) Business Intelligence
2 322 (49.39%) Data Visualisation
3 312 (47.85%) Analytics
4 187 (28.68%) Data Modelling
5 184 (28.22%) Decision-Making
6 178 (27.30%) Agile
7 153 (23.47%) AI
8 150 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (21.63%) Data Analysis
10 127 (19.48%) Actionable Insight
11 124 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (17.18%) Validation
14 107 (16.41%) Dashboard Development
15 104 (15.95%) Data Science
16 99 (15.18%) Data Governance
17 98 (15.03%) ETL
18 97 (14.88%) Data Engineering
19 95 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
20 94 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 317 (48.62%) SQL
2 225 (34.51%) Python
3 66 (10.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 44 (6.75%) R
6 36 (5.52%) Java
7 30 (4.60%) C#
8 19 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.99%) C++
9 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.38%) Scala
12 8 (1.23%) Bash
13 6 (0.92%) Cypher
13 6 (0.92%) VBA
14 5 (0.77%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.61%) Korn
16 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.20%) Degree
4 24 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.92%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.31%) APMG
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) CBAP
14 1 (0.15%) IIBA
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (27.15%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.21%) QA
3 24 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.68%) GDPR
4 14 (2.15%) PMO
5 11 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.77%) GRC
7 4 (0.61%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.31%) Basel III
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (3.37%) Docker
2 12 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.23%) Kibana
3 7 (1.07%) Ansible
3 7 (1.07%) Grafana
3 7 (1.07%) SCCM
4 4 (0.61%) Podman
4 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) logstash
5 2 (0.31%) Packer
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 131 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.98%) Databricks
3 38 (5.83%) SAP
4 33 (5.06%) Google
5 26 (3.99%) Oracle
6 24 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.61%) Adobe
7 17 (2.61%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.99%) Splunk
9 11 (1.69%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.38%) Informatica
12 8 (1.23%) Palantir
12 8 (1.23%) Remedy
13 7 (1.07%) BMC
14 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.77%) Foundry
15 5 (0.77%) Workday
16 4 (0.61%) Ariba
16 4 (0.61%) UiPath