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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 106 117
Rank change year-on-year -83 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 680 682 663
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 2.47% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.72% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 412 425
10th Percentile £313 £303 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £713 £675 £720
UK median daily rate £488 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 45 52
10th Percentile £21.08 £26.16 £31.75
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +56.46%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -73 326 £488 -2.50% 186
North of England -69 105 £451 +4.88% 84
Midlands -35 85 £528 +17.33% 60
West Midlands -35 64 £550 +4.76% 35
South East -66 64 £458 -16.82% 116
North West -30 52 £473 +5.70% 40
South West -18 48 £450 - 52
Yorkshire -47 48 £471 +17.81% 31
East of England -30 35 £565 +2.73% 38
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 25
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 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 18 (2.65%) Apache Spark
1 18 (2.65%) Confluence
2 10 (1.47%) ArcGIS
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Superset
3 9 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.03%) Apache
5 5 (0.74%) CMS
5 5 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.59%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 105 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.18%) CPLEX
4 8 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.59%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.44%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.29%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.29%) Notion
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
1 10 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 338 (49.71%) Power Platform
2 142 (20.88%) Azure
3 103 (15.15%) AWS
4 44 (6.47%) GCP
5 37 (5.44%) Snowflake
6 36 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (4.12%) Serverless
9 27 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (3.97%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.68%) GitHub
11 23 (3.38%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.65%) dbt
13 12 (1.76%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.62%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.76%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.59%) Wireless
4 3 (0.44%) Firewall
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) 2G
5 2 (0.29%) 3G
5 2 (0.29%) 4G
5 2 (0.29%) 5G
5 2 (0.29%) Broadband
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.29%) SNMP
6 1 (0.15%) Modbus
6 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (48.82%) Power BI
2 137 (20.15%) Tableau
3 87 (12.79%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (7.65%) Power Query
5 42 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 35 (5.15%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.71%) Metadata
8 27 (3.97%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.53%) Looker
10 22 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.94%) BigQuery
12 18 (2.65%) Big Data
13 14 (2.06%) GIS
13 14 (2.06%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
14 13 (1.91%) QlikView
15 12 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.76%) Parquet
16 11 (1.62%) PowerPivot
16 11 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (6.62%) JIRA
2 36 (5.29%) Git
3 13 (1.91%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.76%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.03%) GitLab
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.44%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.15%) Flyway
10 1 (0.15%) JUnit
10 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.15%) MLflow
10 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.15%) Storybook
10 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 220 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 216 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (22.65%) Finance
4 68 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.79%) Banking
6 26 (3.82%) Marketing
7 24 (3.53%) Retail
8 22 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.94%) Military
10 19 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.76%) Law
13 11 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.18%) Publishing
17 7 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.03%) Local Government
18 6 (0.88%) Front Office
18 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (25.74%) Analyst
2 102 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 98 (14.41%) Developer
4 86 (12.65%) Data Engineer
5 84 (12.35%) Senior
6 43 (6.32%) Lead
7 35 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 35 (5.15%) Data Scientist
8 32 (4.71%) Architect
8 32 (4.71%) Consultant
9 27 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 27 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
10 24 (3.53%) Designer
11 21 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (2.94%) Python Developer
13 19 (2.79%) Data Architect
13 19 (2.79%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (1.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.00%) Pandas
1 34 (5.00%) REST
2 30 (4.41%) React
3 23 (3.38%) CSS
4 22 (3.24%) HTML
4 22 (3.24%) PySpark
5 20 (2.94%) NumPy
6 16 (2.35%) scikit-learn
7 15 (2.21%) Web Services
8 14 (2.06%) Node.js
9 13 (1.91%) Flask
9 13 (1.91%) Kafka
10 12 (1.76%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.76%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.47%) JSON
11 10 (1.47%) Vue
12 8 (1.18%) .NET
12 8 (1.18%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.18%) Matplotlib
12 8 (1.18%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.91%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.76%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.47%) PKI
14 9 (1.32%) Clustering
14 9 (1.32%) Derivative
15 7 (1.03%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.41%) Windows
2 22 (3.24%) Linux
3 9 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.88%) Unix
5 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (51.47%) Business Intelligence
2 331 (48.68%) Data Visualisation
3 322 (47.35%) Analytics
4 194 (28.53%) Data Modelling
5 186 (27.35%) Agile
6 175 (25.74%) Decision-Making
7 172 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.32%) AI
9 130 (19.12%) Actionable Insight
10 126 (18.53%) Data Analysis
11 120 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (17.06%) Validation
13 114 (16.76%) Data Science
14 109 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 108 (15.88%) ETL
16 104 (15.29%) Data Governance
16 104 (15.29%) Data Pipeline
17 98 (14.41%) Data Engineering
18 97 (14.26%) CI/CD
19 94 (13.82%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 328 (48.24%) SQL
2 246 (36.18%) Python
3 66 (9.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (7.50%) R
5 48 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.03%) Java
7 34 (5.00%) C#
8 25 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.50%) C++
10 15 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.76%) Scala
12 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.47%) VBA
14 7 (1.03%) Bash
15 5 (0.74%) Cypher
15 5 (0.74%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.59%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.59%) Rust
17 3 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 137 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 95 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.21%) Degree
4 19 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (2.79%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.74%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.59%) PhD
9 4 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.29%) APMG
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (22.79%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.88%) QA
3 28 (4.12%) GDPR
4 21 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.35%) PMO
6 6 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.74%) GRC
8 4 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.59%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) Basel III
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (3.82%) Docker
2 16 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (6.18%) Terraform
2 17 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.47%) Grafana
4 9 (1.32%) SCCM
5 7 (1.03%) Ansible
5 7 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.74%) Kibana
7 3 (0.44%) Podman
8 2 (0.29%) Istio
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
8 2 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 127 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.68%) Databricks
3 41 (6.03%) SAP
4 36 (5.29%) Google
4 36 (5.29%) Oracle
5 32 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.06%) Adobe
8 11 (1.62%) Alteryx
8 11 (1.62%) Splunk
9 10 (1.47%) Remedy
10 9 (1.32%) BMC
10 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.18%) Palantir
12 7 (1.03%) Informatica
13 5 (0.74%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.74%) Foundry
13 5 (0.74%) Sage
14 4 (0.59%) Apple
14 4 (0.59%) UiPath