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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 113 124
Rank change year-on-year -65 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 702 668 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 2.42% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.67% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 403 421
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £612
90th Percentile £714 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +2.98% -7.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 43 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £24.33 £31.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
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 £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -50 359 £475 -5.00% 310
North of England -43 105 £453 +4.02% 110
Midlands -36 80 £549 +33.09% 74
South East -54 65 £450 -18.18% 127
West Midlands -44 59 £558 +23.89% 46
North West -32 52 £450 +0.67% 57
Yorkshire -44 48 £469 +13.64% 35
South West -27 45 £475 +2.15% 51
East of England -27 32 £565 +2.73% 43
East Midlands -4 21 £375 -6.25% 28
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 19
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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.14%) Confluence
3 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
3 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.42%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.28%) Apache
6 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.71%) CMS
7 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.57%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 102 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.14%) CPLEX
4 8 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.57%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.43%) InDesign
9 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.28%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
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%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 347 (49.43%) Power Platform
2 147 (20.94%) Azure
3 108 (15.38%) AWS
4 45 (6.41%) GCP
5 42 (5.98%) Snowflake
6 37 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (4.13%) Serverless
8 28 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (3.99%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.70%) GitHub
10 22 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.85%) Amazon S3
12 17 (2.42%) dbt
13 16 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.42%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.71%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.57%) Wireless
3 3 (0.43%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
4 2 (0.28%) 2G
4 2 (0.28%) 3G
4 2 (0.28%) 4G
4 2 (0.28%) 5G
4 2 (0.28%) DHCP
4 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) SNMP
4 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (48.43%) Power BI
2 145 (20.66%) Tableau
3 89 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.26%) Power Query
5 47 (6.70%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.70%) Metadata
7 32 (4.56%) Data Lake
8 30 (4.27%) Looker
9 27 (3.85%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.28%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.71%) Big Data
13 14 (1.99%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.71%) GIS
15 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.71%) Parquet
15 12 (1.71%) QlikView
16 11 (1.57%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 40 (5.70%) JIRA
2 37 (5.27%) Git
3 13 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.71%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.85%) GitLab
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) MLflow
8 3 (0.43%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 228 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 224 (31.91%) Analytical Skills
3 171 (24.36%) Finance
4 73 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.98%) Banking
6 34 (4.84%) Marketing
7 29 (4.13%) Retail
8 21 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.85%) Military
10 16 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.57%) Law
13 10 (1.42%) Publishing
14 9 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.71%) Front Office
15 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 184 (26.21%) Analyst
2 114 (16.24%) Data Analyst
3 98 (13.96%) Developer
4 93 (13.25%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.68%) Senior
6 46 (6.55%) Lead
7 41 (5.84%) Data Scientist
8 37 (5.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 34 (4.84%) Consultant
10 31 (4.42%) Architect
10 31 (4.42%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.99%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.99%) Designer
14 20 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.71%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.42%) Data Architect
17 16 (2.28%) Python Developer
18 13 (1.85%) Data Consultant
18 13 (1.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.70%) Pandas
2 32 (4.56%) React
2 32 (4.56%) REST
3 22 (3.13%) NumPy
3 22 (3.13%) PySpark
4 19 (2.71%) Kafka
4 19 (2.71%) scikit-learn
5 18 (2.56%) CSS
6 15 (2.14%) HTML
6 15 (2.14%) JSON
6 15 (2.14%) Node.js
6 15 (2.14%) Web Services
7 12 (1.71%) Apache Avro
7 12 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (1.71%) PyTorch
7 12 (1.71%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.42%) .NET
8 10 (1.42%) GeoJSON
8 10 (1.42%) Matplotlib
9 9 (1.28%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.26%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 22 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.42%) PKI
11 9 (1.28%) Clustering
11 9 (1.28%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.00%) Derivative
13 7 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.27%) Windows
2 23 (3.28%) Linux
3 9 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.85%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (52.56%) Business Intelligence
2 335 (47.72%) Data Visualisation
3 330 (47.01%) Analytics
4 213 (30.34%) Data Modelling
5 189 (26.92%) Agile
6 177 (25.21%) Decision-Making
7 176 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (21.08%) AI
9 134 (19.09%) Actionable Insight
10 129 (18.38%) Validation
11 127 (18.09%) Data Analysis
12 125 (17.81%) Data Science
13 118 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.52%) Data Pipeline
15 114 (16.24%) ETL
16 108 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
17 105 (14.96%) Data Engineering
18 102 (14.53%) Data Governance
19 100 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
20 95 (13.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 348 (49.57%) SQL
2 263 (37.46%) Python
3 65 (9.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 60 (8.55%) R
5 44 (6.27%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.70%) Java
7 34 (4.84%) C#
8 26 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.42%) C++
10 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.57%) Scala
12 10 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.00%) VBA
14 6 (0.85%) Bash
15 5 (0.71%) Cypher
15 5 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Rust
17 3 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 146 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.40%) Degree
4 22 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.85%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.57%) PhD
10 4 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (23.36%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.84%) QA
3 26 (3.70%) GDPR
4 23 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.56%) PMO
6 8 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.57%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) GRC
8 3 (0.43%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (3.28%) Docker
2 16 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) 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 34 (4.84%) Terraform
2 22 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.71%) Grafana
5 8 (1.14%) Ansible
5 8 (1.14%) SCCM
6 6 (0.85%) Kibana
6 6 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.43%) Podman
8 2 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Cilium
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.40%) Databricks
3 44 (6.27%) SAP
4 38 (5.41%) Google
5 37 (5.27%) Oracle
6 27 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.28%) Adobe
8 16 (2.28%) Splunk
9 13 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.42%) Remedy
11 9 (1.28%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.28%) BMC
12 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.14%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) Informatica
13 7 (1.00%) Sage
14 6 (0.85%) Solace
15 5 (0.71%) Foundry
16 4 (0.57%) Apple