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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 106 119
Rank change year-on-year -93 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 656 701 666
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 2.53% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.78% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 425 408
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -5.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £710 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.75% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 47 49
10th Percentile £21.08 £27.80 £29.50
25th Percentile £28.38 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +44.44%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -68 326 £488 -2.50% 355
North of England -70 99 £451 +7.90% 75
Midlands -43 80 £549 +8.23% 60
South East -60 64 £470 -14.55% 105
West Midlands -47 59 £565 +7.62% 30
North West -38 50 £498 +22.09% 41
South West -21 47 £450 -5.26% 65
Yorkshire -55 44 £451 +12.75% 24
East of England -32 27 £565 +5.12% 46
East Midlands -7 21 £375 -6.25% 30
North East -38 6 £410 -8.89% 11
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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 16 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.52%) ArcGIS
3 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.22%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.91%) Apache
7 5 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 103 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.07%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.46%) InDesign
9 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.30%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Notion
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 336 (51.22%) Power Platform
2 136 (20.73%) Azure
3 96 (14.63%) AWS
4 43 (6.55%) GCP
5 39 (5.95%) Snowflake
6 36 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (4.27%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.96%) GitHub
10 25 (3.81%) Serverless
11 24 (3.66%) PowerApps
12 22 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.90%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.90%) dbt
14 12 (1.83%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.37%) SaaS
17 8 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Wireless
2 4 (0.61%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.61%) SNMP
2 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.46%) VPN
3 3 (0.46%) WAN
4 2 (0.30%) 2G
4 2 (0.30%) 3G
4 2 (0.30%) 4G
4 2 (0.30%) 5G
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) DHCP
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.30%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (50.15%) Power BI
2 137 (20.88%) Tableau
3 79 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (7.32%) Power Query
5 40 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 38 (5.79%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.88%) Metadata
8 25 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.51%) Looker
10 21 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (3.05%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.59%) Big Data
13 14 (2.13%) GIS
13 14 (2.13%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
14 13 (1.98%) QlikView
15 12 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.83%) Parquet
16 11 (1.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (5.95%) JIRA
2 35 (5.34%) Git
3 6 (0.91%) GitLab
4 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.61%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.46%) JMeter
7 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.15%) Flyway
8 1 (0.15%) Gatling
8 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 224 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
2 211 (32.16%) Social Skills
3 142 (21.65%) Finance
4 72 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.23%) Banking
6 26 (3.96%) Marketing
7 22 (3.35%) Retail
8 21 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.59%) Military
10 13 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.52%) Law
11 10 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.37%) Local Government
12 9 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.37%) Publishing
12 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 174 (26.52%) Analyst
2 101 (15.40%) Data Analyst
3 94 (14.33%) Developer
4 84 (12.80%) Data Engineer
5 83 (12.65%) Senior
6 38 (5.79%) Lead
7 33 (5.03%) Data Scientist
8 32 (4.88%) Architect
9 31 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 30 (4.57%) Consultant
11 25 (3.81%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.81%) Power BI Developer
12 24 (3.66%) Designer
13 23 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (3.05%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.90%) Data Architect
15 19 (2.90%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 15 (2.29%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.79%) Terraform
2 33 (5.03%) REST
3 32 (4.88%) Pandas
4 27 (4.12%) React
5 24 (3.66%) CSS
6 23 (3.51%) HTML
7 21 (3.20%) PySpark
8 19 (2.90%) NumPy
9 17 (2.59%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.98%) Flask
10 13 (1.98%) Kafka
11 11 (1.68%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.68%) TensorFlow
12 10 (1.52%) .NET
13 9 (1.37%) JSON
13 9 (1.37%) Vue
14 8 (1.22%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.22%) FastAPI
15 7 (1.07%) Plotly
15 7 (1.07%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.62%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.90%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.83%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.52%) PKI
14 9 (1.37%) Clustering
14 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.22%) NHS
16 7 (1.07%) Derivative
16 7 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.35%) Windows
2 12 (1.83%) Linux
3 9 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (52.13%) Business Intelligence
2 332 (50.61%) Data Visualisation
3 315 (48.02%) Analytics
4 181 (27.59%) Data Modelling
5 172 (26.22%) Decision-Making
6 167 (25.46%) Agile
7 159 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (21.80%) AI
9 128 (19.51%) Data Analysis
10 127 (19.36%) Actionable Insight
11 117 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 108 (16.46%) Data Science
14 103 (15.70%) ETL
15 102 (15.55%) Data Engineering
16 101 (15.40%) Data Pipeline
16 101 (15.40%) Validation
17 100 (15.24%) Data Governance
18 95 (14.48%) Dashboard Development
19 86 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 317 (48.32%) SQL
2 238 (36.28%) Python
3 61 (9.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (7.77%) R
5 42 (6.40%) Java
6 41 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.12%) C#
8 22 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.68%) Scala
10 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.37%) C++
11 9 (1.37%) VBA
12 7 (1.07%) Bash
13 5 (0.76%) Cypher
14 4 (0.61%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.61%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.46%) Rust
15 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 129 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.89%) Degree
4 18 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.61%) PhD
9 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.30%) APMG
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) SANS
12 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (24.09%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.95%) QA
3 29 (4.42%) GDPR
4 25 (3.81%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.29%) PMO
6 8 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Basel III
8 2 (0.30%) GMP
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.66%) Docker
2 15 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.22%) Grafana
2 8 (1.22%) SCCM
3 6 (0.91%) Ansible
3 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.76%) Kibana
5 3 (0.46%) Podman
6 2 (0.30%) Istio
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 121 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.69%) Databricks
3 36 (5.49%) SAP
4 32 (4.88%) Oracle
5 31 (4.73%) Google
6 28 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.98%) Adobe
9 11 (1.68%) Alteryx
9 11 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.68%) Splunk
10 10 (1.52%) Remedy
11 9 (1.37%) BMC
12 8 (1.22%) Palantir
13 6 (0.91%) Informatica
13 6 (0.91%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.76%) Foundry
15 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.61%) Solace
15 4 (0.61%) UiPath