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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -60 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 714 664 643
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.66% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 396 426
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -8.10% -2.44%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £612
90th Percentile £718 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +3.49% -8.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 43 49
10th Percentile £23.57 £24.33 £35.25
25th Percentile £30.73 £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 £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - £65.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -44 364 £480 -2.54% 205
North of England -53 110 £450 +2.27% 83
Midlands -38 77 £532 +28.97% 62
South East -48 68 £465 -15.45% 102
North West -30 57 £438 -2.01% 47
West Midlands -51 56 £550 +22.22% 41
Yorkshire -52 49 £469 +13.64% 24
South West -25 48 £450 -1.64% 43
East of England -30 31 £565 +2.73% 29
East Midlands -8 21 £375 -6.25% 21
North East -45 5 £400 -11.11% 14
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 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.10%) Confluence
3 14 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.54%) Apache
4 11 (1.54%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.40%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 103 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.12%) CPLEX
4 8 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.84%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.56%) InDesign
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.28%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) 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 (48.60%) Power Platform
2 150 (21.01%) Azure
3 108 (15.13%) AWS
4 45 (6.30%) GCP
5 43 (6.02%) Snowflake
6 38 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (4.06%) Serverless
9 28 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (3.78%) Power Automate
11 26 (3.64%) GitHub
12 21 (2.94%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.66%) dbt
14 16 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.40%) Google Analytics
16 10 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.68%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.56%) Wireless
3 3 (0.42%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) 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 (47.62%) Power BI
2 152 (21.29%) Tableau
3 91 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.14%) Power Query
5 47 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 32 (4.48%) Looker
7 31 (4.34%) Metadata
8 27 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.50%) BigQuery
10 24 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.80%) Big Data
12 14 (1.96%) Star Schema
13 13 (1.82%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.68%) GIS
14 12 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (1.68%) Parquet
14 12 (1.68%) QlikView
15 11 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (5.60%) JIRA
2 36 (5.04%) Git
3 13 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.68%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.84%) GitLab
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.56%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 233 (32.63%) Analytical Skills
2 231 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 171 (23.95%) Finance
4 73 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.42%) Banking
6 36 (5.04%) Marketing
7 31 (4.34%) Retail
8 21 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.80%) Military
10 16 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.54%) Law
12 11 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.40%) Publishing
14 9 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 190 (26.61%) Analyst
2 118 (16.53%) Data Analyst
3 99 (13.87%) Developer
4 95 (13.31%) Data Engineer
5 81 (11.34%) Senior
6 47 (6.58%) Lead
7 41 (5.74%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 33 (4.62%) Consultant
10 31 (4.34%) Architect
10 31 (4.34%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.92%) Power BI Developer
12 23 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 23 (3.22%) Designer
13 19 (2.66%) Data Manager
13 19 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (2.24%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.24%) Python Developer
15 13 (1.82%) Performance Analyst
15 13 (1.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.60%) Pandas
2 33 (4.62%) React
3 31 (4.34%) REST
4 23 (3.22%) NumPy
4 23 (3.22%) PySpark
5 21 (2.94%) Kafka
6 20 (2.80%) scikit-learn
7 18 (2.52%) CSS
8 16 (2.24%) JSON
9 15 (2.10%) HTML
9 15 (2.10%) Node.js
9 15 (2.10%) Web Services
10 13 (1.82%) Apache Avro
10 13 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (1.82%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.82%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.40%) .NET
11 10 (1.40%) GeoJSON
11 10 (1.40%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.26%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.28%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.08%) Algorithms
3 22 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.40%) PKI
11 9 (1.26%) Clustering
12 8 (1.12%) Life Science
12 8 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.98%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.20%) Windows
2 23 (3.22%) Linux
3 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.84%) Unix
5 5 (0.70%) 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 (51.68%) Business Intelligence
2 343 (48.04%) Data Visualisation
3 332 (46.50%) Analytics
4 216 (30.25%) Data Modelling
5 192 (26.89%) Agile
6 180 (25.21%) Decision-Making
7 178 (24.93%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (21.15%) AI
9 141 (19.75%) Actionable Insight
10 133 (18.63%) Validation
11 131 (18.35%) Data Analysis
12 129 (18.07%) Data Science
13 118 (16.53%) Data Pipeline
14 117 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (16.39%) ETL
15 111 (15.55%) Dashboard Development
16 106 (14.85%) Data Engineering
17 101 (14.15%) Data Governance
18 98 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
19 97 (13.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 356 (49.86%) SQL
2 274 (38.38%) Python
3 65 (9.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (8.82%) R
5 44 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.46%) Java
7 34 (4.76%) C#
8 27 (3.78%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.52%) C++
10 16 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.54%) Scala
12 10 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.98%) VBA
14 6 (0.84%) Bash
15 5 (0.70%) Cypher
15 5 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 145 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.62%) Degree
4 21 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.56%) PhD
8 4 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (0.28%) APMG
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.28%) CBAP
9 2 (0.28%) IIBA
9 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (22.97%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.88%) QA
3 27 (3.78%) GDPR
4 25 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.66%) PMO
6 8 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
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 (3.22%) Docker
2 16 (2.24%) 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 31 (4.34%) Terraform
2 22 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.10%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.68%) Grafana
5 10 (1.40%) SCCM
6 8 (1.12%) Ansible
7 6 (0.84%) Kibana
7 6 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.42%) Podman
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Cilium
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 122 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.66%) Databricks
3 44 (6.16%) SAP
4 38 (5.32%) Google
5 36 (5.04%) Oracle
6 26 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.38%) Adobe
7 17 (2.38%) Splunk
8 15 (2.10%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.40%) Remedy
11 9 (1.26%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.26%) BMC
12 8 (1.12%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.12%) Palantir
12 8 (1.12%) Sage
13 7 (0.98%) Informatica
14 6 (0.84%) Solace
15 5 (0.70%) Foundry
16 4 (0.56%) Brio