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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 104 106
Rank change year-on-year -101 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 654 735 697
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.63% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.89% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 457 420
10th Percentile £313 £319 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £643
90th Percentile £694 £718 £781
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 46 50
10th Percentile £21.08 £18.38 £29.90
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £53.70 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -78 320 £480 -4.00% 990
North of England -74 98 £438 +3.06% 218
Midlands -38 82 £539 +6.21% 172
South East -62 66 £419 -20.19% 276
West Midlands -44 63 £550 +5.77% 111
South West -33 48 £450 -40.00% 105
North West -34 46 £500 +23.46% 108
Yorkshire -55 40 £476 +6.85% 78
East of England -38 29 £515 -1.90% 106
East Midlands -15 19 £362 -9.38% 61
North East -32 13 £350 -17.65% 33
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 20 (3.06%) Confluence
2 19 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.92%) Apache
6 5 (0.76%) CMS
6 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.46%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.76%) 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 9 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.22%) 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%) 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 (51.83%) Power Platform
2 121 (18.50%) Azure
3 92 (14.07%) AWS
4 45 (6.88%) Snowflake
5 40 (6.12%) GCP
6 31 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.98%) GitHub
8 24 (3.67%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.67%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (3.21%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.75%) dbt
11 18 (2.75%) Serverless
12 15 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (2.29%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
14 10 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.53%) Figma
14 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.76%) SNMP
2 5 (0.76%) 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%) HTTP
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (50.76%) Power BI
2 131 (20.03%) Tableau
3 61 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (8.87%) Power Query
5 40 (6.12%) Data Lake
6 36 (5.50%) Relational Database
7 28 (4.28%) Metadata
8 21 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.91%) Looker
10 18 (2.75%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (2.45%) Big Data
13 15 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
14 14 (2.14%) GIS
14 14 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (2.14%) QlikView
15 11 (1.68%) Star Schema
16 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.38%) Data Mining
18 8 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 39 (5.96%) JIRA
2 33 (5.05%) Git
3 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 7 (1.07%) 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%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.15%) fastlane
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 233 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 228 (34.86%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (21.71%) Finance
4 78 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.65%) Banking
6 24 (3.67%) Military
7 21 (3.21%) Retail
8 20 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.91%) Marketing
10 18 (2.75%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.99%) Local Government
13 11 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.38%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.92%) Front Office
18 6 (0.92%) Legal
18 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 174 (26.61%) Analyst
2 99 (15.14%) Developer
3 98 (14.98%) Data Analyst
4 76 (11.62%) Senior
5 70 (10.70%) Data Engineer
6 39 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 37 (5.66%) Lead
8 35 (5.35%) Data Scientist
9 31 (4.74%) Power BI Developer
10 30 (4.59%) Consultant
11 26 (3.98%) Architect
12 25 (3.82%) Designer
12 25 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.67%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.91%) Performance Analyst
15 17 (2.60%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.60%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.45%) Report Analyst
17 15 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
18 13 (1.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.50%) Terraform
2 30 (4.59%) REST
3 25 (3.82%) React
4 24 (3.67%) HTML
5 23 (3.52%) CSS
5 23 (3.52%) Pandas
6 22 (3.36%) PySpark
7 16 (2.45%) NumPy
8 14 (2.14%) scikit-learn
9 11 (1.68%) Kafka
9 11 (1.68%) Web Services
10 10 (1.53%) Flask
10 10 (1.53%) Node.js
11 9 (1.38%) JSON
11 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.22%) PyTorch
13 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.07%) Redux
13 7 (1.07%) Vue
14 6 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.57%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.13%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.83%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.22%) Clustering
11 8 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.22%) PKI
12 7 (1.07%) Derivative
12 7 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.13%) Windows
2 20 (3.06%) Linux
3 8 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (52.75%) Business Intelligence
2 320 (48.93%) Data Visualisation
3 310 (47.40%) Analytics
4 189 (28.90%) Data Modelling
5 184 (28.13%) Decision-Making
6 176 (26.91%) Agile
7 155 (23.70%) AI
8 149 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (22.02%) Data Analysis
10 126 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
11 122 (18.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 118 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (16.82%) Validation
14 108 (16.51%) Dashboard Development
15 104 (15.90%) Data Science
16 98 (14.98%) Data Governance
17 97 (14.83%) ETL
18 96 (14.68%) Data Engineering
18 96 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
19 93 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 319 (48.78%) SQL
2 226 (34.56%) Python
3 67 (10.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 45 (6.88%) R
5 37 (5.66%) Java
6 29 (4.43%) C#
7 19 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.99%) C++
8 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.38%) Bash
10 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.22%) Scala
12 6 (0.92%) Cypher
12 6 (0.92%) Gremlin
12 6 (0.92%) VBA
13 4 (0.61%) Korn
14 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 92 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.47%) Degree
4 24 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.07%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
14 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.15%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.05%) QA
3 24 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.67%) GDPR
4 15 (2.29%) PMO
5 11 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.76%) 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%) CDISC
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (3.21%) Docker
2 12 (1.83%) 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 12 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.38%) Kibana
3 8 (1.22%) Ansible
4 7 (1.07%) Grafana
4 7 (1.07%) SCCM
5 4 (0.61%) Podman
5 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.46%) Argo
6 3 (0.46%) logstash
7 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
7 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 128 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.26%) Databricks
3 35 (5.35%) SAP
4 33 (5.05%) Google
5 26 (3.98%) Oracle
6 24 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.60%) Adobe
7 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.99%) Splunk
9 11 (1.68%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.38%) Informatica
12 8 (1.22%) Palantir
12 8 (1.22%) Remedy
13 7 (1.07%) BMC
14 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.76%) Foundry
16 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
16 4 (0.61%) Ariba
16 4 (0.61%) UiPath