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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 104 133
Rank change year-on-year -53 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 704 619 634
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 2.60% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.84% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 382 451
10th Percentile £325 £341 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £726 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 37 37
10th Percentile £22.02 £22.31 £35.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.86 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -39 376 £488 -2.50% 209
North of England -56 103 £455 -1.62% 88
Midlands -45 66 £494 +23.44% 45
North West -21 57 £420 -10.40% 43
South East -34 56 £500 -4.76% 84
South West -11 50 £500 +5.26% 50
West Midlands -47 50 £500 +19.40% 30
Yorkshire -51 42 £469 +7.76% 33
East of England -38 27 £565 -13.08% 27
East Midlands -22 16 £488 +30.00% 15
North East -33 7 £420 -20.00% 15
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 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.41%) Confluence
3 16 (2.27%) Apache
4 13 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.56%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.43%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 107 (15.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.28%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.28%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.28%) InDesign
7 2 (0.28%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Maya
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) iTrent
5 3 (0.43%) Primavera
5 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
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
1 334 (47.44%) Power Platform
2 147 (20.88%) Azure
3 121 (17.19%) AWS
4 47 (6.68%) GCP
5 45 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (5.82%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.84%) Serverless
8 24 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (3.41%) Power Automate
9 21 (2.98%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.98%) dbt
9 21 (2.98%) PowerApps
10 18 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.56%) GitHub
11 10 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.28%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.70%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.85%) Firewall
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) Wireless
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) Network Security
6 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.28%) SMS
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) SSH
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (46.59%) Power BI
2 167 (23.72%) Tableau
3 101 (14.35%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.68%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.82%) Metadata
6 39 (5.54%) Power Query
7 34 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.69%) Looker
9 30 (4.26%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (3.41%) BigQuery
12 23 (3.27%) Big Data
13 20 (2.84%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.99%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (5.54%) JIRA
2 35 (4.97%) Git
3 13 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.70%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.85%) MLflow
7 5 (0.71%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) ERwin
9 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.28%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) Selenium
10 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.14%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 225 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
2 216 (30.68%) Social Skills
3 183 (25.99%) Finance
4 54 (7.67%) Banking
5 51 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.26%) Retail
7 33 (4.69%) Marketing
8 17 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.41%) Publishing
9 14 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.85%) Law
10 13 (1.85%) Military
11 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Legal
15 7 (0.99%) Front Office
15 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (26.14%) Analyst
2 105 (14.91%) Data Analyst
3 97 (13.78%) Data Engineer
4 95 (13.49%) Developer
5 90 (12.78%) Senior
6 45 (6.39%) Lead
7 39 (5.54%) Business Analyst
7 39 (5.54%) Consultant
7 39 (5.54%) Data Scientist
8 36 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 32 (4.55%) Architect
10 27 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
11 25 (3.55%) Power BI Developer
12 21 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 18 (2.56%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.41%) Designer
14 17 (2.41%) Software Engineer
15 15 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
16 13 (1.85%) Senior Developer
16 13 (1.85%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.11%) Pandas
2 41 (5.82%) React
3 27 (3.84%) Kafka
4 23 (3.27%) REST
5 22 (3.13%) Node.js
6 21 (2.98%) NumPy
6 21 (2.98%) PySpark
6 21 (2.98%) scikit-learn
7 16 (2.27%) CSS
7 16 (2.27%) HTML
7 16 (2.27%) JSON
8 15 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (2.13%) Matplotlib
8 15 (2.13%) Web Services
9 13 (1.85%) Seaborn
9 13 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.70%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (1.56%) .NET
11 11 (1.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.82%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.14%) Derivative
9 8 (1.14%) Life Science
9 8 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.14%) PKI
9 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.84%) Windows
2 24 (3.41%) Linux
3 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 347 (49.29%) Data Visualisation
3 294 (41.76%) Analytics
4 223 (31.68%) Data Modelling
5 188 (26.70%) Decision-Making
6 186 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (25.99%) Agile
8 147 (20.88%) Actionable Insight
9 136 (19.32%) AI
10 130 (18.47%) Validation
11 125 (17.76%) Data Pipeline
12 118 (16.76%) Data Science
12 118 (16.76%) ETL
13 116 (16.48%) Dashboard Development
14 112 (15.91%) Data Analysis
15 108 (15.34%) Data Governance
16 105 (14.91%) Data Engineering
17 95 (13.49%) CI/CD
17 95 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 85 (12.07%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 357 (50.71%) SQL
2 250 (35.51%) Python
3 69 (9.80%) R
4 56 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (6.11%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.68%) Java
7 36 (5.11%) C#
8 31 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.98%) C++
10 19 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.56%) Scala
12 10 (1.42%) VBA
13 8 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.99%) Perl
14 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.85%) Rust
16 4 (0.57%) Bash
16 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.43%) C
17 3 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 125 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.65%) Degree
4 22 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.57%) CBAP
10 4 (0.57%) MBA
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) CISM
11 2 (0.28%) IIBA
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (20.88%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.82%) QA
3 29 (4.12%) GDPR
4 22 (3.13%) PMO
5 19 (2.70%) 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 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (3.69%) Docker
2 12 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
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 35 (4.97%) Kubernetes
1 35 (4.97%) Terraform
2 17 (2.41%) Prometheus
3 16 (2.27%) Kibana
4 14 (1.99%) Ansible
5 13 (1.85%) Grafana
6 12 (1.70%) logstash
7 8 (1.14%) SCCM
8 7 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.28%) Cilium
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
9 2 (0.28%) SysTrack
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
Vendors
1 107 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.65%) Databricks
3 43 (6.11%) Google
4 42 (5.97%) SAP
5 31 (4.40%) Oracle
6 20 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.27%) Sage
8 13 (1.85%) Adobe
8 13 (1.85%) Splunk
9 12 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.42%) Amplitude
10 10 (1.42%) Informatica
11 7 (0.99%) Remedy
12 6 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.85%) Apple
12 6 (0.85%) BMC
12 6 (0.85%) Cognos
12 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.71%) Solace