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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 99 128
Rank change year-on-year -58 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 700 658 652
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.65% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.90% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 408 443
10th Percentile £325 £320 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -5.81% -1.00%
75th Percentile £576 £578 £584
90th Percentile £720 £679 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £490
% change year-on-year +2.70% -5.61% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 43 43
10th Percentile £18.91 £23.00 £41.25
25th Percentile £34.00 £31.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.18 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.01% -24.30% -2.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +31.01% -23.03% -

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -46 366 £488 -2.50% 135
North of England -49 114 £438 -3.74% 73
North West -13 63 £430 -7.03% 53
Midlands -48 63 £538 +34.38% 52
South East -45 62 £470 -14.55% 84
West Midlands -51 49 £538 +28.36% 28
Yorkshire -52 46 £459 +14.69% 13
South West -17 45 £475 +10.59% 36
East of England -40 27 £565 -5.83% 23
East Midlands -18 14 £544 +45.00% 24
North East -39 6 £448 -0.56% 9
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 27 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.29%) Confluence
3 13 (1.86%) Apache
3 13 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.57%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) SAS
6 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 107 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.57%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.86%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.29%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.57%) Primavera
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) iTrent
5 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 339 (48.43%) Power Platform
2 145 (20.71%) Azure
3 120 (17.14%) AWS
4 46 (6.57%) GCP
5 44 (6.29%) Snowflake
6 40 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.71%) Serverless
9 23 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (3.14%) dbt
11 21 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.86%) GitHub
13 19 (2.71%) Power Automate
14 18 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.43%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.57%) SaaS
17 10 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.71%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) Wireless
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (47.57%) Power BI
2 164 (23.43%) Tableau
3 96 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 46 (6.57%) Power Query
6 42 (6.00%) Metadata
7 33 (4.71%) Data Lake
8 31 (4.43%) SQL Server
9 30 (4.29%) Looker
9 30 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (3.57%) BigQuery
11 22 (3.14%) Big Data
11 22 (3.14%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
13 12 (1.71%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.57%) PowerPivot
14 11 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (5.43%) JIRA
2 32 (4.57%) Git
3 13 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.71%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.86%) GitLab
6 6 (0.86%) MLflow
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) ERwin
8 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 222 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
2 217 (31.00%) Social Skills
3 177 (25.29%) Finance
4 58 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.57%) Banking
6 41 (5.86%) Retail
7 33 (4.71%) Marketing
8 18 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.29%) Publishing
10 15 (2.14%) Military
11 13 (1.86%) Law
12 12 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.00%) Legal
16 6 (0.86%) Automotive
16 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (26.43%) Analyst
2 109 (15.57%) Data Analyst
3 99 (14.14%) Developer
4 96 (13.71%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.71%) Senior
6 40 (5.71%) Lead
7 39 (5.57%) Consultant
8 38 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (5.14%) Business Analyst
10 35 (5.00%) Data Scientist
11 30 (4.29%) Architect
12 29 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
13 25 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 18 (2.57%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.29%) Designer
17 15 (2.14%) SAP Consultant
18 14 (2.00%) Software Engineer
19 13 (1.86%) SQL Analyst
19 13 (1.86%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.86%) React
2 39 (5.57%) Pandas
3 27 (3.86%) Kafka
4 26 (3.71%) REST
5 22 (3.14%) NumPy
6 20 (2.86%) PySpark
7 18 (2.57%) Node.js
8 17 (2.43%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.14%) Web Services
10 14 (2.00%) CSS
10 14 (2.00%) HTML
10 14 (2.00%) JSON
10 14 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.71%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.71%) Matplotlib
12 11 (1.57%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.57%) PyTorch
12 11 (1.57%) RESTful
12 11 (1.57%) Seaborn
12 11 (1.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.71%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.14%) Derivative
12 8 (1.14%) Life Science
12 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.14%) PKI
13 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.00%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.86%) Clustering
14 6 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.57%) Windows
2 23 (3.29%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Unix
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (51.14%) Business Intelligence
2 346 (49.43%) Data Visualisation
3 307 (43.86%) Analytics
4 210 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 183 (26.14%) Agile
5 183 (26.14%) Decision-Making
5 183 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (20.43%) AI
7 138 (19.71%) Actionable Insight
8 135 (19.29%) Validation
9 127 (18.14%) Data Pipeline
10 122 (17.43%) ETL
11 119 (17.00%) Data Science
12 116 (16.57%) Dashboard Development
13 111 (15.86%) Data Analysis
14 107 (15.29%) Data Engineering
15 106 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (14.29%) Data Governance
17 97 (13.86%) CI/CD
18 85 (12.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 352 (50.29%) SQL
2 255 (36.43%) Python
3 64 (9.14%) R
4 63 (9.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 42 (6.00%) Java
7 37 (5.29%) C#
8 32 (4.57%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.71%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.57%) C++
11 14 (2.00%) Scala
12 10 (1.43%) VBA
13 9 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
14 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.86%) Rust
16 5 (0.71%) Bash
17 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.43%) C
18 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 95 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.86%) Degree
4 19 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) MBA
11 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.43%) CBAP
13 2 (0.29%) APMG
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.29%) IIBA
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (21.29%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.71%) QA
3 30 (4.29%) GDPR
4 20 (2.86%) PMO
5 19 (2.71%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (3.29%) Docker
2 12 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (4.71%) Terraform
2 32 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.43%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.00%) Grafana
5 13 (1.86%) Ansible
6 11 (1.57%) Kibana
7 8 (1.14%) SCCM
8 7 (1.00%) logstash
8 7 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.29%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 114 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.86%) Databricks
3 43 (6.14%) SAP
4 42 (6.00%) Google
5 32 (4.57%) Oracle
6 19 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.14%) Adobe
7 15 (2.14%) Sage
8 14 (2.00%) Splunk
9 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.57%) Informatica
11 8 (1.14%) Amplitude
12 7 (1.00%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.00%) Remedy
13 6 (0.86%) Apple
13 6 (0.86%) BMC
14 5 (0.71%) Cognos
14 5 (0.71%) Palantir
14 5 (0.71%) Solace