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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 107 125
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 717 681 691
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 2.52% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.78% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 414 464
10th Percentile £325 £315 £313
25th Percentile £401 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -7.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £584 £600
90th Percentile £726 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.32% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 46 52
10th Percentile £17.97 £23.75 £30.80
25th Percentile £29.23 £31.67 £45.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -28.71% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £46.34 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.90% -25.86% +35.34%

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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -49 374 £488 -2.50% 188
North of England -49 115 £445 - 84
Midlands -41 76 £525 +31.25% 67
South East -42 64 £470 -14.55% 98
North West -7 62 £444 -2.42% 45
West Midlands -51 55 £550 +31.34% 36
Yorkshire -47 48 £455 +12.35% 24
South West -26 45 £450 +10.02% 46
East of England -43 23 £520 -3.26% 33
East Midlands -7 21 £431 +15.00% 31
North East -35 7 £420 -6.67% 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 26 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.95%) Apache
4 13 (1.81%) Confluence
5 11 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.53%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.70%) SAS
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 103 (14.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.95%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.26%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.84%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.84%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.42%) InDesign
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) iTrent
6 2 (0.28%) Primavera
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 356 (49.65%) Power Platform
2 153 (21.34%) Azure
3 120 (16.74%) AWS
4 48 (6.69%) GCP
5 43 (6.00%) Snowflake
6 42 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.35%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.35%) Serverless
10 23 (3.21%) dbt
10 23 (3.21%) GitHub
11 21 (2.93%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.79%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.81%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 3G
5 2 (0.28%) 4G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.28%) 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
1 349 (48.68%) Power BI
2 164 (22.87%) Tableau
3 98 (13.67%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.97%) Relational Database
5 49 (6.83%) Power Query
6 34 (4.74%) Data Lake
6 34 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.46%) Metadata
8 31 (4.32%) Looker
9 29 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (3.77%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.93%) Big Data
12 20 (2.79%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.67%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (1.67%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.53%) PowerPivot
14 11 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (5.44%) JIRA
2 35 (4.88%) Git
3 13 (1.81%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.67%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.70%) GitLab
6 5 (0.70%) MLflow
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.42%) ERwin
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 222 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 221 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (25.66%) Finance
4 68 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.25%) Banking
6 37 (5.16%) Marketing
7 36 (5.02%) Retail
8 18 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.23%) Military
10 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.53%) Law
12 11 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.39%) Publishing
14 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.98%) Legal
15 7 (0.98%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.84%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 194 (27.06%) Analyst
2 119 (16.60%) Data Analyst
3 101 (14.09%) Data Engineer
4 98 (13.67%) Developer
5 84 (11.72%) Senior
6 43 (6.00%) Lead
7 42 (5.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 42 (5.86%) Data Scientist
8 36 (5.02%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.88%) Consultant
10 31 (4.32%) Architect
10 31 (4.32%) Power BI Developer
11 27 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 18 (2.51%) Designer
14 16 (2.23%) Data Manager
15 14 (1.95%) Data Architect
16 13 (1.81%) Performance Analyst
16 13 (1.81%) Python Developer
17 12 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.00%) Pandas
2 38 (5.30%) React
3 27 (3.77%) Kafka
3 27 (3.77%) REST
4 24 (3.35%) NumPy
5 20 (2.79%) PySpark
6 19 (2.65%) scikit-learn
7 16 (2.23%) JSON
8 15 (2.09%) Node.js
8 15 (2.09%) Web Services
9 14 (1.95%) CSS
9 14 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.67%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.67%) Spring
10 12 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.53%) HTML
12 10 (1.39%) GeoJSON
12 10 (1.39%) Seaborn
12 10 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.97%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.26%) PKI
12 8 (1.12%) Life Science
12 8 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.98%) Clustering
13 7 (0.98%) Derivative
13 7 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.63%) Windows
2 23 (3.21%) Linux
3 7 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.84%) Unix
5 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (52.30%) Business Intelligence
2 347 (48.40%) Data Visualisation
3 320 (44.63%) Analytics
4 219 (30.54%) Data Modelling
5 189 (26.36%) Decision-Making
6 187 (26.08%) Agile
7 176 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (22.32%) AI
9 146 (20.36%) Actionable Insight
10 137 (19.11%) Validation
11 133 (18.55%) Data Pipeline
12 128 (17.85%) Data Science
12 128 (17.85%) ETL
13 127 (17.71%) Data Analysis
14 120 (16.74%) Dashboard Development
15 118 (16.46%) Data Engineering
16 112 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 104 (14.50%) Data Governance
18 98 (13.67%) CI/CD
19 96 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 359 (50.07%) SQL
2 264 (36.82%) Python
3 67 (9.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (8.93%) R
5 41 (5.72%) Java
6 39 (5.44%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.46%) C#
8 31 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.37%) C++
10 13 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.67%) Scala
12 11 (1.53%) VBA
13 10 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.70%) Bash
16 4 (0.56%) Cypher
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.56%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 138 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 77 (10.74%) Degree
4 21 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) CBAP
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.28%) ACCA
13 2 (0.28%) APMG
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.28%) CIMA
13 2 (0.28%) IIBA
13 2 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (22.45%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.28%) QA
3 30 (4.18%) GDPR
4 25 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.65%) PMO
6 6 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) WCAG
9 3 (0.42%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (3.49%) Docker
2 13 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) 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 33 (4.60%) Terraform
2 32 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.23%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.95%) Ansible
5 13 (1.81%) Grafana
6 11 (1.53%) Kibana
7 8 (1.12%) logstash
7 8 (1.12%) SCCM
8 7 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.42%) Podman
10 2 (0.28%) Cilium
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.04%) Databricks
3 44 (6.14%) SAP
4 40 (5.58%) Google
5 35 (4.88%) Oracle
6 21 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.23%) Adobe
8 14 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.95%) Splunk
9 12 (1.67%) Sage
10 11 (1.53%) Informatica
10 11 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.26%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.12%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.12%) Palantir
12 8 (1.12%) Remedy
13 7 (0.98%) BMC
14 6 (0.84%) Solace
15 5 (0.70%) Cognos
15 5 (0.70%) Foundry