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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 97 129
Rank change year-on-year -24 +32 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 742 674 678
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 2.52% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.82% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 435 451
10th Percentile £331 £331 £319
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 53
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £29.88 £25.63 £35.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £82.25 - £63.30
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £39.68 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.66% -14.08% -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 27,954 23,866 31,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.33% 89.11% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,831 14,651 21,413
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,737 769 1,474
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -23 394 £500 -3.85% 152
North of England -41 109 £425 -8.11% 115
Midlands -1 73 £525 +31.25% 78
West Midlands +3 59 £525 +29.23% 35
South East +1 56 £500 +29.70% 178
Yorkshire -15 52 £500 +17.65% 41
North West -32 52 £403 -12.97% 60
South West -10 42 £750 +57.89% 58
East of England -23 39 £525 +13.02% 59
East Midlands -20 14 £404 +13.41% 42
North East -21 7 £400 -25.58% 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 36 (4.85%) Confluence
2 34 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.91%) Apache
4 18 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.89%) WebLogic
7 10 (1.35%) SAS
8 8 (1.08%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.67%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.67%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 109 (14.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.21%) Siemens NX
5 6 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.54%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.54%) Revit
7 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.40%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.13%) InDesign
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.13%) Simulink
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) iTrent
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 321 (43.26%) Power Platform
2 174 (23.45%) Azure
3 131 (17.65%) AWS
4 59 (7.95%) GCP
5 37 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.58%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.37%) Serverless
8 24 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (2.83%) dbt
11 20 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.70%) GitHub
11 20 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.43%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.75%) Figma
16 10 (1.35%) Google Analytics
17 7 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.02%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.54%) 2G
3 4 (0.54%) 5G
3 4 (0.54%) Internet
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.40%) SNMP
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) SMS
5 2 (0.27%) SSH
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (43.13%) Power BI
2 143 (19.27%) Tableau
3 79 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (5.12%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.58%) Big Data
5 34 (4.58%) Power Query
6 28 (3.77%) Hadoop
7 27 (3.64%) Metadata
7 27 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.50%) Data Lake
9 24 (3.23%) Looker
10 20 (2.70%) BigQuery
10 20 (2.70%) Data Mining
11 19 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (1.48%) Apache Hive
14 11 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (7.01%) JIRA
2 44 (5.93%) Git
3 17 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 15 (2.02%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.94%) Gradle
5 7 (0.94%) Storybook
5 7 (0.94%) Xcode
6 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) webpack
8 1 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.13%) NUnit
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) Snyk
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 295 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 210 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (23.85%) Finance
4 65 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.49%) Banking
6 28 (3.77%) Marketing
6 28 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.23%) Retail
8 23 (3.10%) Military
9 22 (2.96%) Publishing
10 18 (2.43%) Legal
11 16 (2.16%) Front Office
11 16 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.35%) Law
14 10 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (23.85%) Analyst
2 122 (16.44%) Developer
3 96 (12.94%) Data Analyst
4 77 (10.38%) Senior
5 73 (9.84%) Architect
6 64 (8.63%) Data Engineer
7 53 (7.14%) Data Scientist
8 47 (6.33%) Lead
9 43 (5.80%) Business Analyst
10 38 (5.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.85%) Consultant
12 29 (3.91%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.64%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.70%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.43%) Integration Architect
18 16 (2.16%) SQL Analyst
19 14 (1.89%) Designer
19 14 (1.89%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.45%) Pandas
2 31 (4.18%) React
3 30 (4.04%) scikit-learn
4 28 (3.77%) Node.js
5 27 (3.64%) PySpark
6 25 (3.37%) NumPy
7 21 (2.83%) Web Services
8 20 (2.70%) Kafka
9 18 (2.43%) D3.js
10 17 (2.29%) Plotly
11 16 (2.16%) REST
12 15 (2.02%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.02%) OAuth
13 14 (1.89%) HTML
14 13 (1.75%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.75%) Vue
15 12 (1.62%) CSS
16 11 (1.48%) Matplotlib
16 11 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
17 10 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.66%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 27 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.21%) PMI
10 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.08%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.94%) Replication
12 6 (0.81%) Life Science
12 6 (0.81%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.81%) NHS
12 6 (0.81%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.33%) Linux
2 37 (4.99%) Windows
3 27 (3.64%) Unix
4 8 (1.08%) Android
5 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (47.71%) Business Intelligence
2 351 (47.30%) Data Visualisation
3 270 (36.39%) Analytics
4 183 (24.66%) Data Modelling
4 183 (24.66%) Decision-Making
5 171 (23.05%) Data Analysis
6 169 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (21.29%) Agile
8 131 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
9 130 (17.52%) Data Science
10 103 (13.88%) AI
11 101 (13.61%) Machine Learning
12 100 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 96 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
14 95 (12.80%) ETL
15 90 (12.13%) Data Governance
15 90 (12.13%) Validation
16 88 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (10.38%) Dashboard Development
17 77 (10.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 331 (44.61%) SQL
2 236 (31.81%) Python
3 54 (7.28%) JavaScript
4 52 (7.01%) R
5 41 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (4.58%) C++
6 34 (4.58%) Java
7 31 (4.18%) C#
8 27 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.37%) Scala
10 16 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.48%) Bash
12 10 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.08%) VBA
14 7 (0.94%) Go
14 7 (0.94%) Groovy
14 7 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.81%) Perl
15 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 153 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.84%) Degree
4 31 (4.18%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.43%) CISSP
7 16 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.02%) CISM
9 13 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.62%) PhD
11 11 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.94%) CFA
14 5 (0.67%) CBAP
14 5 (0.67%) CEH
14 5 (0.67%) MBA
15 3 (0.40%) GIAC
15 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 34 (4.58%) QA
4 28 (3.77%) GDPR
5 13 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.62%) PMO
7 6 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.54%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) EMIR
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.27%) GxP
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (4.04%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (4.58%) Terraform
2 31 (4.18%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.16%) Kibana
4 13 (1.75%) Ansible
5 11 (1.48%) Grafana
6 8 (1.08%) logstash
7 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.54%) Argo
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.13%) Cacti
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.13%) QRadar
11 1 (0.13%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.87%) Oracle
3 49 (6.60%) Databricks
4 38 (5.12%) Splunk
5 33 (4.45%) Google
6 31 (4.18%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.83%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.56%) Cisco
9 18 (2.43%) AppDynamics
10 16 (2.16%) SAP
11 15 (2.02%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (2.02%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.62%) Centrify
13 12 (1.62%) OpenAI
14 11 (1.48%) Foundry
15 9 (1.21%) Siemens
16 8 (1.08%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.94%) Palantir
17 7 (0.94%) Talend