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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 101 118
Rank change year-on-year -101 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 652 727 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 2.61% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.87% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 456 414
10th Percentile £312 £320 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.08%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £638
90th Percentile £694 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 45 51
10th Percentile £21.08 £19.91 £30.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.40 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -93 311 £488 -2.50% 950
North of England -55 103 £439 +3.29% 207
Midlands -40 83 £539 +6.21% 161
South East -63 67 £452 -14.00% 236
West Midlands -39 61 £558 +7.21% 103
North West -43 48 £513 +25.00% 94
South West -32 46 £463 -38.33% 110
Yorkshire -46 44 £451 +12.75% 79
East of England -48 30 £565 +7.62% 115
East Midlands -5 22 £375 -6.25% 58
North East -37 12 £375 -11.76% 35
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 21 (3.22%) Confluence
2 16 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.77%) CMS
5 5 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) R Markdown
Applications
1 106 (16.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.92%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.46%) InDesign
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.31%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.31%) Notion
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 338 (51.84%) Power Platform
2 121 (18.56%) Azure
3 93 (14.26%) AWS
4 43 (6.60%) Snowflake
5 40 (6.13%) GCP
6 33 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (3.83%) GitHub
7 25 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 23 (3.53%) Amazon S3
8 23 (3.53%) PowerApps
9 21 (3.22%) Serverless
10 20 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (2.91%) dbt
12 14 (2.15%) Google Analytics
13 11 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
14 10 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.38%) Figma
15 9 (1.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.92%) Wireless
3 5 (0.77%) SNMP
4 4 (0.61%) Broadband
4 4 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) VPN
6 2 (0.31%) 2G
6 2 (0.31%) 3G
6 2 (0.31%) 4G
6 2 (0.31%) 5G
6 2 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.31%) DNS
6 2 (0.31%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (50.77%) Power BI
2 136 (20.86%) Tableau
3 68 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (8.13%) Power Query
5 38 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 38 (5.83%) Relational Database
6 29 (4.45%) Metadata
7 23 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.91%) Looker
9 18 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (2.61%) Big Data
11 15 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
12 14 (2.15%) GIS
12 14 (2.15%) QlikView
13 12 (1.84%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (1.53%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 43 (6.60%) JIRA
2 36 (5.52%) Git
3 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.77%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.15%) Flyway
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 232 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 221 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
3 143 (21.93%) Finance
4 77 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.82%) Banking
6 24 (3.68%) Military
7 21 (3.22%) Retail
8 20 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.91%) Marketing
10 17 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.99%) Local Government
12 13 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.23%) Law
14 8 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.92%) Front Office
16 6 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 175 (26.84%) Analyst
2 101 (15.49%) Data Analyst
3 96 (14.72%) Developer
4 78 (11.96%) Senior
5 76 (11.66%) Data Engineer
6 35 (5.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 35 (5.37%) Lead
7 33 (5.06%) Data Scientist
8 28 (4.29%) Architect
9 27 (4.14%) Consultant
9 27 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
10 26 (3.99%) Designer
11 25 (3.83%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.76%) Data Architect
13 18 (2.76%) Data Manager
13 18 (2.76%) Performance Analyst
14 15 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.15%) Python Developer
15 14 (2.15%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.52%) Terraform
2 32 (4.91%) REST
3 25 (3.83%) Pandas
3 25 (3.83%) React
4 23 (3.53%) CSS
5 22 (3.37%) HTML
5 22 (3.37%) PySpark
6 15 (2.30%) NumPy
7 14 (2.15%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.84%) Web Services
9 11 (1.69%) Kafka
10 10 (1.53%) Flask
10 10 (1.53%) Node.js
11 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.38%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.07%) .NET
12 7 (1.07%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.07%) JSON
12 7 (1.07%) Redux
12 7 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.21%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.84%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.38%) PKI
14 8 (1.23%) Clustering
15 7 (1.07%) Derivative
15 7 (1.07%) Life Science
15 7 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.29%) Windows
2 18 (2.76%) Linux
3 9 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (52.76%) Business Intelligence
2 324 (49.69%) Data Visualisation
3 316 (48.47%) Analytics
4 180 (27.61%) Data Modelling
5 177 (27.15%) Decision-Making
6 176 (26.99%) Agile
7 152 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (22.85%) AI
9 139 (21.32%) Data Analysis
10 129 (19.79%) Actionable Insight
11 123 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (17.02%) Validation
14 106 (16.26%) Data Science
15 104 (15.95%) Data Governance
16 101 (15.49%) Data Engineering
17 99 (15.18%) ETL
18 98 (15.03%) Dashboard Development
18 98 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
19 89 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 316 (48.47%) SQL
2 228 (34.97%) Python
3 63 (9.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (7.36%) R
5 47 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.83%) Java
7 32 (4.91%) C#
8 21 (3.22%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.15%) C++
9 14 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.38%) Scala
13 7 (1.07%) Bash
13 7 (1.07%) VBA
14 6 (0.92%) Cypher
15 5 (0.77%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.46%) Korn
17 3 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 123 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.04%) Degree
4 21 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.61%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.31%) APMG
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
14 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) PMP
14 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (26.69%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.37%) QA
3 26 (3.99%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.99%) GDPR
4 12 (1.84%) PMO
5 11 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.77%) GRC
6 5 (0.77%) WCAG
7 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.46%) GMP
8 2 (0.31%) Basel III
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) GxP
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (3.37%) Docker
2 14 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.23%) SCCM
3 7 (1.07%) Grafana
3 7 (1.07%) Kibana
4 6 (0.92%) Ansible
5 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Podman
7 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
7 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 136 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.74%) Databricks
3 39 (5.98%) SAP
4 31 (4.75%) Google
5 27 (4.14%) Oracle
5 27 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.45%) Adobe
8 14 (2.15%) Splunk
9 12 (1.84%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.38%) Informatica
11 9 (1.38%) Remedy
12 8 (1.23%) BMC
12 8 (1.23%) Palantir
13 6 (0.92%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.77%) Foundry
15 4 (0.61%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.61%) Ariba
15 4 (0.61%) UiPath