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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 97 144
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 -5
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 739 665 620
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.74% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.02% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 450 433
10th Percentile £327 £331 £316
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £583
90th Percentile £733 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 27 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £27.25 £26.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.49% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -28.95%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -47 415 £500 -2.44% 160
North of England -53 101 £469 +1.35% 87
Midlands -36 69 £500 +21.21% 80
North West -34 56 £420 -9.19% 46
West Midlands -36 52 £500 +19.40% 37
South East -37 50 £500 +5.26% 118
Yorkshire -37 42 £500 +19.76% 26
South West -26 40 £488 +2.63% 42
East of England -27 35 £525 +16.15% 25
East Midlands -19 17 £469 +27.72% 43
North East -19 6 £438 -2.78% 17
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 35 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.79%) Confluence
3 20 (2.71%) Apache
4 15 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.35%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.81%) SAS
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.14%) Revit
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 332 (44.93%) Power Platform
2 149 (20.16%) Azure
3 140 (18.94%) AWS
4 52 (7.04%) GCP
5 48 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (5.01%) Serverless
7 35 (4.74%) Snowflake
8 29 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (3.11%) dbt
11 22 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.71%) Power Automate
13 16 (2.17%) GitHub
14 15 (2.03%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.49%) Google Workspace
17 10 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.89%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.81%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) 2G
4 4 (0.54%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (44.79%) Power BI
2 155 (20.97%) Tableau
3 94 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (5.28%) Metadata
5 37 (5.01%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.47%) Power Query
7 28 (3.79%) Big Data
7 28 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.65%) Looker
9 24 (3.25%) Data Lake
10 22 (2.98%) BigQuery
10 22 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.57%) NoSQL
11 19 (2.57%) Oracle Reports
12 18 (2.44%) Hadoop
13 15 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (2.03%) MySQL
14 14 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 47 (6.36%) JIRA
2 42 (5.68%) Git
3 18 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.89%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.81%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 263 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 230 (31.12%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (27.06%) Finance
4 77 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.44%) Banking
6 36 (4.87%) Retail
7 31 (4.19%) Marketing
8 22 (2.98%) Publishing
9 21 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.44%) Military
11 17 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.76%) Front Office
12 13 (1.76%) Law
13 12 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
14 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (24.63%) Analyst
2 115 (15.56%) Developer
3 97 (13.13%) Senior
4 96 (12.99%) Data Analyst
5 93 (12.58%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.85%) Lead
7 49 (6.63%) Architect
8 45 (6.09%) Consultant
9 43 (5.82%) Data Scientist
10 40 (5.41%) Business Analyst
10 40 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 27 (3.65%) Power BI Developer
11 27 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.98%) Software Engineer
12 22 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (2.03%) Designer
17 14 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.77%) Pandas
2 39 (5.28%) React
3 33 (4.47%) NumPy
4 32 (4.33%) Kafka
5 30 (4.06%) scikit-learn
6 26 (3.52%) Node.js
7 22 (2.98%) Web Services
8 21 (2.84%) REST
9 20 (2.71%) PySpark
10 19 (2.57%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.57%) Plotly
11 18 (2.44%) Matplotlib
12 17 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (2.17%) Seaborn
14 15 (2.03%) JSON
14 15 (2.03%) Vue
15 14 (1.89%) TensorFlow
16 12 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
17 11 (1.49%) HTML
17 11 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.79%) Algorithms
3 28 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 24 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.08%) PMI
11 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Life Science
11 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.06%) Linux
2 25 (3.38%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (49.80%) Business Intelligence
2 363 (49.12%) Data Visualisation
3 289 (39.11%) Analytics
4 217 (29.36%) Data Modelling
5 192 (25.98%) Decision-Making
5 192 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (22.73%) Agile
7 153 (20.70%) Actionable Insight
8 142 (19.22%) Data Analysis
9 119 (16.10%) Data Science
10 118 (15.97%) AI
11 117 (15.83%) Data Pipeline
11 117 (15.83%) Validation
12 116 (15.70%) ETL
13 110 (14.88%) Dashboard Development
14 106 (14.34%) Data Governance
15 101 (13.67%) Data Engineering
16 89 (12.04%) CI/CD
17 88 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 85 (11.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 349 (47.23%) SQL
2 248 (33.56%) Python
3 60 (8.12%) R
4 47 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 36 (4.87%) C#
6 28 (3.79%) Java
7 26 (3.52%) C++
7 26 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.17%) Scala
9 15 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.62%) VBA
11 7 (0.95%) Perl
12 6 (0.81%) Groovy
12 6 (0.81%) PHP
12 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.68%) Rust
14 4 (0.54%) Bash
14 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 141 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 109 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.15%) Degree
4 27 (3.65%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.89%) CISM
8 14 (1.89%) CISSP
9 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.08%) PhD
11 8 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.54%) CBAP
13 4 (0.54%) CFA
13 4 (0.54%) MBA
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (18.40%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.36%) QA
3 35 (4.74%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.79%) GDPR
5 23 (3.11%) PMO
6 12 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.19%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.87%) Terraform
3 21 (2.84%) Kibana
4 18 (2.44%) Ansible
5 17 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.17%) Grafana
7 14 (1.89%) logstash
8 7 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.54%) SCCM
10 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.27%) Cilium
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.47%) Databricks
3 46 (6.22%) Google
4 35 (4.74%) Oracle
5 27 (3.65%) SAP
6 20 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.44%) Splunk
9 17 (2.30%) Sage
10 16 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
11 13 (1.76%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.62%) Adobe
12 12 (1.62%) Centrify
13 10 (1.35%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.08%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.95%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco
15 7 (0.95%) Cognos
15 7 (0.95%) Informatica
15 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy