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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -94 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 657 723 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 2.62% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.88% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 453 403
10th Percentile £313 £319 £321
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £640
90th Percentile £694 £714 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 44 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £25.02 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.72 £46.18
Median hourly rate £53.70 £51.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -21.15% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +44.44%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -81 316 £485 -3.00% 801
North of England -73 101 £445 +6.59% 198
Midlands -46 83 £539 +6.16% 165
South East -55 68 £465 -11.43% 222
West Midlands -42 60 £565 +7.62% 103
South West -32 47 £450 -40.00% 108
North West -40 47 £525 +28.05% 93
Yorkshire -54 44 £451 +12.75% 75
East of England -45 30 £565 +7.62% 97
East Midlands -12 23 £375 -6.25% 62
North East -33 11 £400 -5.88% 31
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 21 (3.20%) Confluence
2 17 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.52%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.76%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.76%) CMS
5 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 109 (16.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.91%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.46%) InDesign
10 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.30%) Notion
11 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 342 (52.05%) Power Platform
2 126 (19.18%) Azure
3 96 (14.61%) AWS
4 45 (6.85%) GCP
5 42 (6.39%) Snowflake
6 34 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.81%) GitHub
7 25 (3.81%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 22 (3.35%) Serverless
11 20 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.89%) dbt
13 14 (2.13%) Google Analytics
14 13 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.37%) SaaS
17 8 (1.22%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.52%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.91%) Wireless
3 5 (0.76%) SNMP
4 4 (0.61%) Broadband
4 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) VPN
6 2 (0.30%) 2G
6 2 (0.30%) 3G
6 2 (0.30%) 4G
6 2 (0.30%) 5G
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (50.99%) Power BI
2 136 (20.70%) Tableau
3 69 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (8.37%) Power Query
5 40 (6.09%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.94%) Data Lake
7 29 (4.41%) Metadata
8 23 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.35%) BigQuery
10 21 (3.20%) Looker
11 19 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.44%) Big Data
14 15 (2.28%) Qlik Sense
15 14 (2.13%) GIS
15 14 (2.13%) QlikView
15 14 (2.13%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.83%) Parquet
17 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (6.39%) JIRA
2 36 (5.48%) Git
3 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.76%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 234 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 226 (34.40%) Analytical Skills
3 148 (22.53%) Finance
4 78 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.61%) Banking
6 24 (3.65%) Military
7 23 (3.50%) Marketing
8 22 (3.35%) Retail
9 21 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.83%) Local Government
14 9 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.22%) Law
15 8 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 177 (26.94%) Analyst
2 101 (15.37%) Data Analyst
3 96 (14.61%) Developer
4 80 (12.18%) Senior
5 79 (12.02%) Data Engineer
6 36 (5.48%) Lead
7 35 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 32 (4.87%) Data Scientist
9 30 (4.57%) Architect
10 28 (4.26%) Consultant
11 27 (4.11%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.96%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.65%) Designer
13 24 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.74%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.74%) Data Manager
14 18 (2.74%) Performance Analyst
15 16 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 15 (2.28%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.78%) Terraform
2 33 (5.02%) REST
3 25 (3.81%) Pandas
4 24 (3.65%) CSS
4 24 (3.65%) React
5 23 (3.50%) HTML
6 22 (3.35%) PySpark
7 15 (2.28%) NumPy
8 14 (2.13%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.83%) Web Services
10 11 (1.67%) Kafka
11 10 (1.52%) Flask
11 10 (1.52%) Node.js
12 9 (1.37%) JSON
12 9 (1.37%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.37%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.07%) .NET
13 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.07%) Redux
13 7 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.46%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.83%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.52%) PKI
12 10 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.37%) Clustering
13 9 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.07%) Derivative
14 7 (1.07%) Life Science
14 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.41%) Windows
2 18 (2.74%) Linux
3 10 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (53.27%) Business Intelligence
2 327 (49.77%) Data Visualisation
3 318 (48.40%) Analytics
4 183 (27.85%) Data Modelling
5 179 (27.25%) Agile
6 176 (26.79%) Decision-Making
7 153 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (22.53%) AI
9 141 (21.46%) Data Analysis
10 129 (19.63%) Actionable Insight
11 121 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (17.20%) Validation
14 103 (15.68%) Data Science
15 102 (15.53%) Data Engineering
15 102 (15.53%) Data Governance
16 100 (15.22%) Dashboard Development
17 99 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
17 99 (15.07%) ETL
18 90 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 323 (49.16%) SQL
2 233 (35.46%) Python
3 64 (9.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 48 (7.31%) R
6 40 (6.09%) Java
7 32 (4.87%) C#
8 21 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.28%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.13%) C++
11 13 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.67%) Scala
13 10 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.22%) VBA
15 7 (1.07%) Bash
16 6 (0.91%) Cypher
17 5 (0.76%) Gremlin
18 4 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
19 3 (0.46%) Korn
19 3 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 126 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.11%) Degree
4 21 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.76%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.30%) APMG
13 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) IIBA
14 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (26.18%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.33%) QA
3 29 (4.41%) GDPR
4 26 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.28%) PMO
6 10 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) Basel III
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 22 (3.35%) Docker
2 15 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.22%) Grafana
2 8 (1.22%) SCCM
3 7 (1.07%) Kibana
4 6 (0.91%) Ansible
5 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Podman
7 2 (0.30%) Istio
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
7 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 135 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.68%) Databricks
3 40 (6.09%) SAP
4 36 (5.48%) Google
5 28 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.11%) Oracle
7 18 (2.74%) Adobe
7 18 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.13%) Splunk
9 12 (1.83%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.52%) Remedy
10 10 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.37%) BMC
11 9 (1.37%) Informatica
12 8 (1.22%) Palantir
13 6 (0.91%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.76%) Foundry
15 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.61%) Ariba
15 4 (0.61%) UiPath