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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 98 135
Rank change year-on-year -20 +37 +1
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 782 693 653
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 2.70% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.99% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 463 443
10th Percentile £326 £332 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £583
90th Percentile £738 £738 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.56 £26.54
25th Percentile £25.72 £25.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -27.12% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.63 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.49% -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 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -30 431 £500 -3.85% 169
North of England -47 111 £475 +2.70% 84
Midlands -21 68 £500 +25.31% 78
North West -31 56 £420 -9.19% 40
West Midlands -16 55 £500 +21.21% 40
South West -7 53 £680 +51.00% 43
South East -15 52 £500 +19.40% 140
Yorkshire -35 52 £514 +20.94% 30
East of England -32 37 £525 +15.64% 41
East Midlands -23 13 £450 +26.40% 37
North East -22 6 £438 -16.67% 14
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 38 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.09%) Confluence
3 20 (2.56%) Apache
3 20 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.77%) SAS
7 5 (0.64%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.64%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Pig
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.53%) Chatbot
4 11 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.26%) InDesign
7 2 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) Primavera
5 2 (0.26%) iTrent
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 348 (44.50%) Power Platform
2 155 (19.82%) Azure
3 141 (18.03%) AWS
4 59 (7.54%) GCP
5 44 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 35 (4.48%) Serverless
8 27 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.32%) dbt
10 23 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (2.69%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.17%) GitHub
12 17 (2.17%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.41%) Google Workspace
15 10 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.05%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) 2G
4 4 (0.51%) 5G
5 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.26%) DNS
6 2 (0.26%) LTE
6 2 (0.26%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
6 2 (0.26%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) DSL
7 1 (0.13%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (44.37%) Power BI
2 156 (19.95%) Tableau
3 86 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.35%) Metadata
6 33 (4.22%) Big Data
7 32 (4.09%) Looker
8 29 (3.71%) Data Lake
8 29 (3.71%) Power Query
9 28 (3.58%) Hadoop
10 24 (3.07%) BigQuery
10 24 (3.07%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.92%) Data Mining
13 15 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
13 15 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (6.01%) JIRA
2 42 (5.37%) Git
3 17 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 16 (2.05%) Eclipse
4 16 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) MLflow
6 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.13%) git-flow
9 1 (0.13%) Snyk
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Storybook
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
9 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 293 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 217 (27.75%) Analytical Skills
3 210 (26.85%) Finance
4 70 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.80%) Banking
6 36 (4.60%) Retail
7 29 (3.71%) Marketing
8 24 (3.07%) Publishing
9 22 (2.81%) Military
10 20 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.79%) Front Office
13 13 (1.66%) Legal
14 12 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 191 (24.42%) Analyst
2 116 (14.83%) Developer
3 105 (13.43%) Data Analyst
4 87 (11.13%) Data Engineer
4 87 (11.13%) Senior
5 68 (8.70%) Architect
6 63 (8.06%) Lead
7 55 (7.03%) Data Scientist
8 44 (5.63%) Consultant
9 42 (5.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 41 (5.24%) Business Analyst
11 29 (3.71%) Power BI Developer
12 28 (3.58%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.45%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 18 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 18 (2.30%) Integration Architect
17 17 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (2.05%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.63%) Pandas
2 36 (4.60%) React
3 32 (4.09%) scikit-learn
4 30 (3.84%) Kafka
4 30 (3.84%) NumPy
5 29 (3.71%) Node.js
6 28 (3.58%) PySpark
7 21 (2.69%) Web Services
8 17 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (2.17%) Plotly
9 16 (2.05%) REST
10 15 (1.92%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.92%) Matplotlib
11 14 (1.79%) JSON
11 14 (1.79%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.66%) Seaborn
12 13 (1.66%) Vue
13 12 (1.53%) HTML
14 11 (1.41%) OAuth
15 10 (1.28%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.22%) Algorithms
1 33 (4.22%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 28 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.41%) PMI
6 11 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.02%) Life Science
9 7 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.77%) IoT
10 6 (0.77%) NHS
10 6 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.35%) Linux
2 27 (3.45%) Windows
3 12 (1.53%) Unix
4 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (46.80%) Data Visualisation
3 287 (36.70%) Analytics
4 211 (26.98%) Data Modelling
5 200 (25.58%) Decision-Making
6 193 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
7 184 (23.53%) Agile
8 157 (20.08%) Data Analysis
9 149 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
10 137 (17.52%) Data Science
11 124 (15.86%) AI
12 121 (15.47%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (14.83%) ETL
14 114 (14.58%) Validation
15 103 (13.17%) Data Governance
16 102 (13.04%) Machine Learning
17 100 (12.79%) Data Engineering
18 99 (12.66%) Dashboard Development
18 99 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 344 (43.99%) SQL
2 257 (32.86%) Python
3 57 (7.29%) JavaScript
4 55 (7.03%) R
5 40 (5.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.60%) C#
7 30 (3.84%) C++
8 29 (3.71%) Java
9 25 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 19 (2.43%) Scala
11 13 (1.66%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.28%) VBA
13 7 (0.90%) Groovy
13 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.77%) Bash
14 6 (0.77%) Perl
14 6 (0.77%) PHP
15 4 (0.51%) C
15 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 157 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.61%) Degree
4 34 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.05%) CISM
7 16 (2.05%) CISSP
8 13 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.66%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.41%) PhD
10 10 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.90%) CBAP
13 5 (0.64%) MBA
14 4 (0.51%) CFA
14 4 (0.51%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 43 (5.50%) QA
4 27 (3.45%) GDPR
5 19 (2.43%) PMO
6 13 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.77%) WCAG
8 5 (0.64%) SLA
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.26%) EMIR
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 31 (3.96%) Docker
2 7 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) HDFS
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (5.12%) Terraform
2 39 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.81%) Kibana
4 19 (2.43%) Ansible
5 17 (2.17%) Grafana
6 16 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.79%) logstash
8 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.38%) SCCM
11 2 (0.26%) Cilium
11 2 (0.26%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
12 1 (0.13%) Cacti
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.70%) Databricks
3 47 (6.01%) Google
4 33 (4.22%) Oracle
5 25 (3.20%) SAP
6 22 (2.81%) Splunk
7 20 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.30%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.79%) Sage
11 13 (1.66%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.53%) Adobe
12 12 (1.53%) Centrify
13 10 (1.28%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.15%) Foundry
15 8 (1.02%) Amplitude
15 8 (1.02%) Cisco
16 7 (0.90%) Informatica
16 7 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
16 7 (0.90%) OpenAI