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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 99 138
Rank change year-on-year -46 +39 +4
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 711 651 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 2.66% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.93% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 426 431
10th Percentile £325 £343 £313
25th Percentile £410 £401 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £586
90th Percentile £726 £681 £675
UK median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 36
10th Percentile £19.71 £22.61 £25.81
25th Percentile £40.00 £27.19 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.81 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.28% -37.40% -16.92%
75th Percentile £70.71 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.85 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.81 £48.09
% change year-on-year +84.88% -29.70% -26.02%

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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -39 390 £490 -2.00% 156
North of England -57 96 £453 -2.16% 99
Midlands -36 71 £500 +21.21% 68
North West -22 57 £420 -11.58% 56
West Midlands -36 51 £500 +19.40% 40
South East -38 50 £500 - 86
South West -29 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -47 35 £469 +10.29% 26
East of England -35 34 £565 +10.24% 33
East Midlands -18 20 £450 +22.62% 28
North East -23 7 £420 -13.85% 18
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 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.67%) Apache
2 19 (2.67%) Confluence
3 14 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.55%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.84%) SAS
7 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 105 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.69%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.28%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.28%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) iTrent
4 3 (0.42%) Primavera
4 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Actimize
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 322 (45.29%) Power Platform
2 149 (20.96%) Azure
3 135 (18.99%) AWS
4 52 (7.31%) GCP
5 48 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (5.34%) Serverless
7 28 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 28 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (3.94%) Snowflake
8 25 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (2.95%) dbt
10 21 (2.95%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.25%) GitHub
12 15 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.55%) Google Workspace
13 11 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.97%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.84%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) 2G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (45.15%) Power BI
2 161 (22.64%) Tableau
3 93 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.63%) Metadata
4 40 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.78%) Power Query
6 28 (3.94%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.66%) Big Data
7 26 (3.66%) Looker
8 24 (3.38%) Data Lake
9 23 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (2.81%) BigQuery
11 19 (2.67%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (2.25%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.97%) MySQL
15 13 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 11 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 42 (5.91%) Git
2 38 (5.34%) JIRA
3 16 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.11%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.97%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.84%) MLflow
7 4 (0.56%) ERwin
7 4 (0.56%) GitLab
8 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.28%) Postman
9 2 (0.28%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) JMeter
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 247 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 222 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (27.71%) Finance
4 72 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.03%) Banking
6 34 (4.78%) Retail
7 32 (4.50%) Marketing
8 18 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.53%) Military
8 18 (2.53%) Publishing
9 16 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.97%) Law
12 13 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.55%) Front Office
14 9 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.27%) Legal
14 9 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (25.74%) Analyst
2 108 (15.19%) Developer
3 98 (13.78%) Data Analyst
3 98 (13.78%) Senior
4 92 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 49 (6.89%) Lead
6 45 (6.33%) Data Scientist
7 43 (6.05%) Consultant
8 42 (5.91%) Business Analyst
9 37 (5.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (4.64%) Architect
11 25 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
12 24 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (3.09%) Software Engineer
14 21 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.25%) Data Business Analyst
16 14 (1.97%) Python Developer
16 14 (1.97%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.83%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.03%) Pandas
2 39 (5.49%) React
3 32 (4.50%) Kafka
4 31 (4.36%) NumPy
4 31 (4.36%) scikit-learn
5 25 (3.52%) Node.js
6 22 (3.09%) REST
6 22 (3.09%) Web Services
7 21 (2.95%) PySpark
8 19 (2.67%) Plotly
9 16 (2.25%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (2.25%) Matplotlib
10 15 (2.11%) JSON
11 14 (1.97%) Seaborn
11 14 (1.97%) TensorFlow
12 12 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.69%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.69%) Vue
13 11 (1.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.36%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.94%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.13%) PMI
12 7 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.98%) Life Science
12 7 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.84%) Derivative
13 6 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.08%) Linux
2 25 (3.52%) Windows
3 10 (1.41%) Unix
4 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (50.49%) Business Intelligence
2 352 (49.51%) Data Visualisation
3 286 (40.23%) Analytics
4 213 (29.96%) Data Modelling
5 186 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (25.74%) Decision-Making
7 175 (24.61%) Agile
8 150 (21.10%) Actionable Insight
9 134 (18.85%) Data Analysis
10 127 (17.86%) Validation
11 124 (17.44%) Data Science
12 122 (17.16%) AI
13 116 (16.32%) Data Pipeline
14 108 (15.19%) Dashboard Development
15 107 (15.05%) ETL
16 104 (14.63%) Data Governance
17 101 (14.21%) Data Engineering
18 93 (13.08%) CI/CD
19 83 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
20 80 (11.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 341 (47.96%) SQL
2 248 (34.88%) Python
3 62 (8.72%) R
4 48 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (5.49%) C#
7 30 (4.22%) Java
8 28 (3.94%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.52%) C++
10 18 (2.53%) Scala
11 15 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.69%) VBA
13 7 (0.98%) Perl
13 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.84%) PHP
14 6 (0.84%) Rust
14 6 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.70%) Groovy
16 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.14%) Degree
4 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.81%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) CISM
10 4 (0.56%) CISSP
10 4 (0.56%) MBA
10 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CBAP
11 3 (0.42%) CFA
11 3 (0.42%) PhD
11 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (18.85%) Data Quality
2 52 (7.31%) QA
3 25 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.52%) GDPR
4 23 (3.23%) PMO
5 11 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.70%) SLA
6 5 (0.70%) WCAG
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.14%) P3O
9 1 (0.14%) PERC
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.36%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.06%) Terraform
3 19 (2.67%) Kibana
4 17 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.25%) Ansible
5 16 (2.25%) Grafana
6 13 (1.83%) logstash
7 7 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.70%) SCCM
9 3 (0.42%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.28%) Cilium
11 1 (0.14%) Cacti
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.14%) Databricks
3 44 (6.19%) Google
4 35 (4.92%) Oracle
5 33 (4.64%) SAP
6 21 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.39%) Sage
8 17 (2.39%) Splunk
9 11 (1.55%) Adobe
10 8 (1.13%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.13%) Informatica
11 7 (0.98%) Cognos
12 6 (0.84%) Apple
12 6 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco
12 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.70%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.70%) Bloomberg