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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 91 134
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 +2
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 751 704 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.69% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.00% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 461 466
10th Percentile £342 £331 £317
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £598
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 52
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.98 £26.39
25th Percentile £20.17 £25.25 £35.47
Median hourly rate £59.75 £33.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +77.54% -27.12% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.25 £51.81
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +67.63% -28.95% -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 29,172 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.59% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,676 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £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 1,836 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -26 409 £520 - 232
North of England -54 111 £456 -1.35% 93
Midlands -11 72 £508 +29.22% 74
West Midlands -5 60 £514 +28.50% 41
North West -34 57 £409 -11.62% 51
South East 0 56 £500 +25.00% 132
Yorkshire -28 49 £519 +22.00% 34
South West -11 45 £750 +57.89% 40
East of England -41 29 £513 +10.33% 15
East Midlands -25 12 £423 +20.71% 33
North East -22 8 £450 -14.29% 9
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 39 (5.19%) Apache Spark
1 39 (5.19%) Confluence
2 24 (3.20%) Apache
3 20 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.07%) Apache Pig
6 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.67%) SAS
8 5 (0.67%) Smallworld
8 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 105 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.53%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.53%) Revit
8 3 (0.40%) ProjectWise
8 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.27%) InDesign
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.40%) Primavera
3 2 (0.27%) iTrent
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.13%) Maximo
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 333 (44.34%) Power Platform
2 169 (22.50%) Azure
3 132 (17.58%) AWS
4 64 (8.52%) GCP
5 43 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.39%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.60%) dbt
8 25 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.33%) Serverless
9 24 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.66%) GitHub
11 19 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (2.53%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.26%) Amazon S3
14 15 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.33%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.20%) Figma
17 7 (0.93%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.33%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.67%) Firewall
4 4 (0.53%) 2G
4 4 (0.53%) 5G
5 3 (0.40%) Internet
5 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.40%) SNMP
5 3 (0.40%) SSH
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%) SSL
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (44.21%) Power BI
2 149 (19.84%) Tableau
3 82 (10.92%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.53%) Big Data
5 33 (4.39%) Power Query
6 32 (4.26%) Hadoop
6 32 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 31 (4.13%) Metadata
8 29 (3.86%) Data Lake
9 28 (3.73%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.33%) Looker
11 21 (2.80%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.53%) Data Mining
12 19 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (2.26%) NoSQL
14 16 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
17 12 (1.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.79%) JIRA
2 39 (5.19%) Git
3 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.33%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.67%) Gradle
6 5 (0.67%) Storybook
6 5 (0.67%) Xcode
7 4 (0.53%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) GitLab
9 2 (0.27%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 283 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 206 (27.43%) Analytical Skills
3 189 (25.17%) Finance
4 67 (8.92%) Banking
5 58 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.13%) Retail
7 25 (3.33%) Marketing
8 22 (2.93%) Publishing
9 20 (2.66%) Legal
10 18 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.40%) Military
10 18 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.00%) Front Office
13 13 (1.73%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.07%) Law
16 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 173 (23.04%) Analyst
2 118 (15.71%) Developer
3 91 (12.12%) Data Analyst
4 85 (11.32%) Senior
5 81 (10.79%) Data Engineer
6 72 (9.59%) Architect
7 55 (7.32%) Data Scientist
8 53 (7.06%) Lead
9 43 (5.73%) Consultant
10 42 (5.59%) Business Analyst
11 40 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 29 (3.86%) Power BI Developer
12 29 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.93%) Software Engineer
15 18 (2.40%) Integration Architect
15 18 (2.40%) Report Analyst
15 18 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.40%) SQL Analyst
16 17 (2.26%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.06%) Pandas
2 34 (4.53%) React
3 30 (3.99%) scikit-learn
4 29 (3.86%) PySpark
5 27 (3.60%) Kafka
6 26 (3.46%) NumPy
7 23 (3.06%) Node.js
8 17 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (2.26%) Plotly
9 15 (2.00%) REST
9 15 (2.00%) Web Services
10 14 (1.86%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.73%) D3.js
11 13 (1.73%) HTML
11 13 (1.73%) OAuth
11 13 (1.73%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.73%) Vue
12 11 (1.46%) CSS
12 11 (1.46%) Matplotlib
13 10 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.19%) Algorithms
2 32 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.46%) PMI
9 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.07%) Life Science
10 8 (1.07%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.67%) Genomics
13 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.39%) Linux
2 23 (3.06%) Windows
3 17 (2.26%) Unix
4 6 (0.80%) Android
5 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (48.47%) Data Visualisation
2 358 (47.67%) Business Intelligence
3 271 (36.09%) Analytics
4 192 (25.57%) Decision-Making
5 191 (25.43%) Data Modelling
6 180 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (21.04%) Data Analysis
8 156 (20.77%) Agile
9 143 (19.04%) Actionable Insight
10 133 (17.71%) Data Science
11 122 (16.25%) AI
12 105 (13.98%) Data Pipeline
12 105 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 104 (13.85%) ETL
14 102 (13.58%) Machine Learning
15 97 (12.92%) Data Governance
16 93 (12.38%) Validation
17 91 (12.12%) Data Engineering
18 87 (11.58%) Dashboard Development
19 85 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 328 (43.68%) SQL
2 245 (32.62%) Python
3 50 (6.66%) R
4 49 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.93%) Java
7 28 (3.73%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.60%) C#
9 26 (3.46%) Scala
10 25 (3.33%) C++
11 16 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.46%) Bash
12 11 (1.46%) VBA
13 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.93%) Groovy
14 7 (0.93%) PHP
15 6 (0.80%) Perl
15 6 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.53%) Go
16 4 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 140 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 77 (10.25%) Degree
4 32 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.53%) CISSP
7 16 (2.13%) CISM
8 13 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.46%) PhD
10 10 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.93%) CBAP
12 7 (0.93%) CFA
13 5 (0.67%) CEH
13 5 (0.67%) MBA
14 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (14.65%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.79%) Accessibility
3 41 (5.46%) QA
4 29 (3.86%) GDPR
5 14 (1.86%) PMO
6 12 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.80%) WCAG
8 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (4.13%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
3 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (5.73%) Terraform
2 36 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.93%) Kibana
4 21 (2.80%) Ansible
5 15 (2.00%) logstash
6 13 (1.73%) Grafana
7 10 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.27%) Cilium
10 2 (0.27%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) QRadar
11 1 (0.13%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 117 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.86%) Databricks
3 40 (5.33%) Google
4 32 (4.26%) Splunk
5 31 (4.13%) Oracle
6 25 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.40%) BiZZdesign
7 18 (2.40%) SAP
8 15 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 12 (1.60%) Centrify
10 12 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.46%) Foundry
12 10 (1.33%) Cisco
12 10 (1.33%) Sage
13 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
14 7 (0.93%) Adobe
14 7 (0.93%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.93%) Palantir