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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 93 142
Rank change year-on-year -45 +49 -3
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 738 671 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 2.77% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 3.04% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 450 446
10th Percentile £325 £331 £314
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £604 £583
90th Percentile £725 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 27 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.63 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.72 £26.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.49% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £32.23 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.07% -30.22% -28.95%

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 32,394 22,046 32,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.25% 90.85% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,755 14,514 21,646
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,983 845 2,157
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -39 412 £500 -2.44% 160
North of England -52 104 £475 +2.70% 87
Midlands -28 69 £500 +21.21% 80
North West -32 56 £420 -9.19% 46
South East -30 55 £500 +11.11% 118
West Midlands -40 52 £500 +19.40% 37
Yorkshire -34 45 £507 +23.72% 26
South West -28 37 £488 +2.63% 42
East of England -32 33 £500 +11.11% 25
East Midlands -20 17 £469 +27.72% 43
North East -19 6 £438 -2.78% 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 37 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.20%) Confluence
3 21 (2.85%) Apache
4 17 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.08%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.81%) SAS
8 5 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.68%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 109 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
5 11 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.27%) InDesign
10 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Maya
10 1 (0.14%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) iTrent
5 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
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
1 327 (44.31%) Power Platform
2 151 (20.46%) Azure
3 138 (18.70%) AWS
4 54 (7.32%) GCP
5 47 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (4.88%) Serverless
7 34 (4.61%) Snowflake
8 29 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.12%) dbt
11 22 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (2.98%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.30%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.17%) GitHub
14 12 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.49%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.81%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) 2G
4 4 (0.54%) 5G
5 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) LTE
6 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Wireless
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) DSL
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (44.17%) Power BI
2 150 (20.33%) Tableau
3 91 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.42%) Metadata
5 39 (5.28%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.47%) Power Query
7 29 (3.93%) Big Data
8 27 (3.66%) Looker
8 27 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.25%) Data Lake
10 22 (2.98%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.71%) Hadoop
13 19 (2.57%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
16 15 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (2.03%) MySQL
17 14 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
18 12 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 49 (6.64%) JIRA
2 41 (5.56%) Git
3 18 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.90%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.81%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 265 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 224 (30.35%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (27.10%) Finance
4 76 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.45%) Banking
6 36 (4.88%) Retail
7 30 (4.07%) Marketing
8 24 (3.25%) Publishing
9 20 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.44%) Military
11 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.76%) Front Office
12 13 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.49%) Law
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
14 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (24.53%) Analyst
2 115 (15.58%) Developer
3 96 (13.01%) Senior
4 95 (12.87%) Data Analyst
5 89 (12.06%) Data Engineer
6 60 (8.13%) Lead
7 51 (6.91%) Architect
8 44 (5.96%) Consultant
8 44 (5.96%) Data Scientist
9 40 (5.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 39 (5.28%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (3.66%) Power BI Developer
13 22 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 22 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 20 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (2.17%) Designer
17 15 (2.03%) Data Business Analyst
18 14 (1.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.91%) Pandas
2 38 (5.15%) React
3 35 (4.74%) NumPy
4 32 (4.34%) scikit-learn
5 31 (4.20%) Kafka
6 26 (3.52%) Node.js
7 21 (2.85%) Web Services
8 19 (2.57%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.57%) Plotly
8 19 (2.57%) REST
9 18 (2.44%) Matplotlib
9 18 (2.44%) PySpark
10 17 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (2.17%) Seaborn
12 15 (2.03%) JSON
12 15 (2.03%) Vue
13 14 (1.90%) TensorFlow
14 12 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (1.49%) HTML
15 11 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.93%) Algorithms
2 29 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 24 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.08%) PMI
10 7 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) Life Science
10 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.07%) Linux
2 24 (3.25%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (49.05%) Business Intelligence
2 358 (48.51%) Data Visualisation
3 284 (38.48%) Analytics
4 211 (28.59%) Data Modelling
5 198 (26.83%) Decision-Making
6 193 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (23.58%) Agile
8 155 (21.00%) Actionable Insight
9 144 (19.51%) Data Analysis
10 120 (16.26%) AI
11 117 (15.85%) Validation
12 116 (15.72%) Data Science
13 114 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
14 113 (15.31%) ETL
15 107 (14.50%) Dashboard Development
16 102 (13.82%) Data Governance
17 98 (13.28%) Data Engineering
18 88 (11.92%) Machine Learning
19 86 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
20 85 (11.52%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 341 (46.21%) SQL
2 241 (32.66%) Python
3 58 (7.86%) R
4 46 (6.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (6.10%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.88%) C#
7 27 (3.66%) Java
8 26 (3.52%) C++
9 24 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 16 (2.17%) Scala
11 14 (1.90%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.49%) VBA
13 7 (0.95%) Perl
14 6 (0.81%) Groovy
14 6 (0.81%) PHP
15 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.68%) Rust
16 4 (0.54%) Bash
16 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 137 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.98%) Degree
4 33 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 23 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.17%) CISM
6 16 (2.17%) CISSP
7 15 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.36%) PhD
9 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.54%) CBAP
12 4 (0.54%) CFA
12 4 (0.54%) MBA
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.10%) QA
3 37 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.66%) GDPR
5 23 (3.12%) PMO
6 12 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (4.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.88%) Terraform
3 21 (2.85%) Kibana
4 18 (2.44%) Ansible
5 17 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.17%) Grafana
7 14 (1.90%) logstash
8 7 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.54%) SCCM
9 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.27%) Cilium
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.81%) Databricks
3 48 (6.50%) Google
4 33 (4.47%) Oracle
5 25 (3.39%) SAP
6 19 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
7 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.30%) Sage
8 17 (2.30%) Splunk
9 13 (1.76%) CyberArk
10 12 (1.63%) Adobe
10 12 (1.63%) Centrify
11 9 (1.22%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.08%) Amplitude
13 7 (0.95%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.95%) Cisco
13 7 (0.95%) Cognos
13 7 (0.95%) Informatica
13 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy