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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 99 139
Rank change year-on-year -43 +40 +9
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 723 660 616
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.71% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.98% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 434 431
10th Percentile £325 £340 £313
25th Percentile £411 £401 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £584
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 28 33
10th Percentile £18.78 £22.65 £25.55
25th Percentile £36.50 £26.19 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -34.08% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.11 £76.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £46.18
% change year-on-year +89.62% -28.63% -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 33,405 22,176 32,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 90.94% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,387 14,594 21,148
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,074 880 2,191
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -38 400 £490 -2.00% 169
North of England -65 96 £463 - 103
Midlands -29 72 £500 +21.21% 77
North West -21 59 £420 -11.58% 61
West Midlands -38 52 £500 +19.40% 42
South East -34 50 £500 - 91
South West -30 40 £488 +2.63% 38
East of England -32 36 £545 +17.33% 35
Yorkshire -55 34 £480 +12.94% 24
East Midlands -19 20 £450 +22.62% 35
North East -25 6 £438 -2.78% 19
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 35 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.77%) Confluence
3 19 (2.63%) Apache
4 15 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.52%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.83%) SAS
8 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 107 (14.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.80%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.28%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.28%) InDesign
9 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.14%) Maya
9 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) iTrent
4 3 (0.41%) Primavera
5 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 329 (45.50%) Power Platform
2 153 (21.16%) Azure
3 141 (19.50%) AWS
4 53 (7.33%) GCP
5 48 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (5.39%) Serverless
7 35 (4.84%) Snowflake
8 30 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 25 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (3.32%) dbt
12 21 (2.90%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.94%) GitHub
15 12 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.52%) Google Workspace
17 10 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.07%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.83%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) LTE
5 2 (0.28%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) SMS
5 2 (0.28%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (45.37%) Power BI
2 159 (21.99%) Tableau
3 101 (13.97%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.67%) Metadata
5 40 (5.53%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.70%) Power Query
7 29 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.73%) Big Data
8 27 (3.73%) Looker
9 25 (3.46%) Data Lake
10 24 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.77%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.63%) NoSQL
12 19 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (2.35%) Hadoop
14 16 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (2.07%) MySQL
16 13 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 41 (5.67%) Git
2 40 (5.53%) JIRA
3 18 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.07%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.94%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.83%) MLflow
7 4 (0.55%) ERwin
7 4 (0.55%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 259 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 228 (31.54%) Analytical Skills
3 202 (27.94%) Finance
4 74 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.19%) Banking
6 36 (4.98%) Retail
7 32 (4.43%) Marketing
8 19 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.63%) Publishing
9 18 (2.49%) Military
10 17 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.94%) Law
13 13 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.66%) Front Office
14 12 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.24%) Legal
16 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (25.17%) Analyst
2 114 (15.77%) Developer
3 100 (13.83%) Senior
4 98 (13.55%) Data Analyst
5 93 (12.86%) Data Engineer
6 51 (7.05%) Lead
7 45 (6.22%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.95%) Consultant
9 41 (5.67%) Business Analyst
10 38 (5.26%) Architect
11 37 (5.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 25 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.32%) Power BI Developer
14 22 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 16 (2.21%) Data Business Analyst
18 14 (1.94%) Python Developer
18 14 (1.94%) Senior Developer
19 13 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.19%) Pandas
2 39 (5.39%) React
3 33 (4.56%) NumPy
4 32 (4.43%) Kafka
5 31 (4.29%) scikit-learn
6 26 (3.60%) Node.js
7 22 (3.04%) Web Services
8 21 (2.90%) PySpark
8 21 (2.90%) REST
9 20 (2.77%) Plotly
10 19 (2.63%) AngularJS
11 18 (2.49%) Matplotlib
12 17 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (2.21%) Seaborn
14 15 (2.07%) JSON
15 14 (1.94%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.94%) Vue
16 12 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.66%) PyTorch
17 11 (1.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.56%) Cloud Native
1 33 (4.56%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.01%) Algorithms
3 25 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.11%) PMI
9 7 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.83%) Derivative
11 5 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.15%) Linux
2 25 (3.46%) Windows
3 11 (1.52%) Unix
4 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (50.76%) Business Intelligence
2 362 (50.07%) Data Visualisation
3 293 (40.53%) Analytics
4 220 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 193 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (26.14%) Decision-Making
7 173 (23.93%) Agile
8 155 (21.44%) Actionable Insight
9 140 (19.36%) Data Analysis
10 125 (17.29%) AI
10 125 (17.29%) Data Science
11 123 (17.01%) Validation
12 118 (16.32%) Data Pipeline
13 115 (15.91%) ETL
14 109 (15.08%) Dashboard Development
15 106 (14.66%) Data Governance
16 102 (14.11%) Data Engineering
17 94 (13.00%) CI/CD
18 87 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 83 (11.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 346 (47.86%) SQL
2 245 (33.89%) Python
3 60 (8.30%) R
4 48 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (5.39%) C#
7 28 (3.87%) Java
8 25 (3.46%) C++
8 25 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.63%) Scala
10 15 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.66%) VBA
12 7 (0.97%) Perl
12 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.83%) PHP
13 6 (0.83%) Rust
13 6 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.69%) Groovy
15 4 (0.55%) Bash
15 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 142 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 67 (9.27%) Degree
4 22 (3.04%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CISM
11 5 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) MBA
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.55%) PhD
12 4 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.41%) CBAP
13 3 (0.41%) CFA
14 2 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.78%) QA
3 28 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.46%) GDPR
5 23 (3.18%) PMO
6 12 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.83%) WCAG
8 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.69%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) NIST
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (4.15%) Docker
2 8 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.26%) Terraform
3 21 (2.90%) Kibana
4 18 (2.49%) Ansible
5 17 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.21%) Grafana
7 14 (1.94%) logstash
8 7 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.69%) SCCM
10 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.28%) Cilium
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Cacti
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.14%) Istio
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.13%) Databricks
3 43 (5.95%) Google
4 37 (5.12%) Oracle
5 33 (4.56%) SAP
6 21 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.49%) Splunk
9 17 (2.35%) Sage
10 11 (1.52%) Adobe
11 10 (1.38%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.11%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.11%) Informatica
13 7 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
13 7 (0.97%) Cisco
13 7 (0.97%) Cognos
13 7 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.83%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.83%) Apple
14 6 (0.83%) OpenAI