Visualisation Contracts in the North West

Visualization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 94 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 42 41 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 1.54% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.80% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 39
10th Percentile £355 £351 £325
25th Percentile £438 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £588
90th Percentile £644 £600 £651
England median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - £30.54
Median hourly rate £25.43 £46.18 £35.52
Median % change year-on-year -44.93% +30.01% +54.43%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £43.35
90th Percentile £29.50 - £54.69
England median hourly rate £34.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -42.50% -7.69% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,762 2,284 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.96% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,452 1,952
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 252 138
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £24.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% -32.93% +52.90%
75th Percentile £63.10 £45.96 £49.49
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visualisation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Visualisation in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visualisation in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Manchester +31 30 £463 +2.78% 75
Cheshire -9 6 £625 +31.58% 15
Cumbria - 5 - - 1
Visualisation
England

Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) GitHub
3 11 (26.19%) Power Platform
4 9 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.52%) Azure
6 4 (9.52%) dbt
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) GCP
8 1 (2.38%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) Tableau
2 11 (26.19%) Power BI
3 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (14.29%) Metadata
5 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
6 4 (9.52%) Airbyte
6 4 (9.52%) ObjectStore
7 3 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (7.14%) GIS
7 3 (7.14%) MySQL
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) Big Data
8 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.38%) HBase
9 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.38%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) ERwin
3 1 (2.38%) Flyway
3 1 (2.38%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.38%) Mocha
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Marketing
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
1 8 (19.05%) Developer
1 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Data Scientist
3 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (4.76%) GIS Developer
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Power BI Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
1 5 (11.90%) React
1 5 (11.90%) RESTful
2 4 (9.52%) Kafka
2 4 (9.52%) OAuth
2 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
2 4 (9.52%) OpenID
2 4 (9.52%) REST
2 4 (9.52%) SAML
3 3 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) GeoJSON
4 2 (4.76%) Google Maps API
4 2 (4.76%) Leaflet
4 2 (4.76%) MapLibre
4 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.38%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) PySpark
5 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) IoT
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Analytics
1 20 (47.62%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (40.48%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (38.10%) Data Visualisation
4 16 (38.10%) Digital Twin
5 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 12 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 11 (26.19%) Data Science
7 11 (26.19%) ETL
8 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
9 9 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (21.43%) RBAC
10 8 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (14.29%) Data Management
12 6 (14.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) R
4 4 (9.52%) SPARQL
5 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) C#
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Istio
3 3 (7.14%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (4.76%) Mapbox
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Brio
3 1 (2.38%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.38%) Hotjar
3 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
3 1 (2.38%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow