Data Visualisation Contracts

Data Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 245 315
Rank change year-on-year +45 +70 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 400 415 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.12% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 293 271
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £619
90th Percentile £652 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 12
10th Percentile £21.10 £22.72 £15.41
25th Percentile £31.56 £41.25 £18.60
Median hourly rate £33.11 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +31.58% -7.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.50 £36.63
90th Percentile £72.85 £50.00 £52.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £20.16 £24.24
% change year-on-year +59.85% -16.83% -30.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,635 37,061 50,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 85.39% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,897 23,729 34,705
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,158 2,551 1,672
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +1.67% +39.80%
75th Percentile £56.00 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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
England +65 356 £458 -8.35% 1,084
London +28 215 £514 +2.75% 630
UK excluding London +44 144 £425 -5.56% 594
Work from Home +21 130 £450 -5.26% 651
North of England +7 41 £443 -4.32% 121
South East +52 27 £500 +11.11% 288
South West +49 23 £409 -28.87% 50
Midlands +15 23 £413 - 74
Yorkshire +7 21 £400 -15.79% 54
East of England +33 16 £400 -2.44% 25
North West +4 15 £434 -8.68% 57
West Midlands +20 13 £425 -8.11% 37
Scotland -5 11 £500 +6.38% 16
East Midlands +16 10 £411 +2.81% 35
North East +2 5 £525 +21.81% 10
Wales - 2 £304 - 10
Northern Ireland -10 1 £350 -12.50% 12

Data Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.75%) SAS
2 15 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.00%) Apache
5 7 (1.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 64 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.50%) Oracle Smart View
3 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.50%) Maple
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.25%) Sketch
8 1 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (48.50%) Power Platform
2 82 (20.50%) Azure
3 77 (19.25%) AWS
4 41 (10.25%) GCP
5 29 (7.25%) Amazon S3
6 25 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 24 (6.00%) OCI
8 23 (5.75%) Serverless
9 20 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (4.75%) dbt
11 17 (4.25%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.75%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (2.50%) GitHub
15 10 (2.50%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (2.25%) Power Automate
17 8 (2.00%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) Internet
1 1 (0.25%) TETRA
1 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (48.25%) Power BI
2 128 (32.00%) Tableau
3 78 (19.50%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (7.50%) BigQuery
4 30 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.75%) Big Data
6 21 (5.25%) Looker
7 20 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 20 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (4.75%) Data Lake
9 18 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.50%) Metadata
10 17 (4.25%) SQL Server
11 16 (4.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 15 (3.75%) NoSQL
13 14 (3.50%) Power Query
14 13 (3.25%) Data Mining
15 12 (3.00%) GIS
15 12 (3.00%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 19 (4.75%) Git
2 14 (3.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (1.25%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.00%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.75%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) Babel
7 2 (0.50%) ERwin
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) Flyway
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) RStudio
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 173 (43.25%) Social Skills
2 137 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (27.25%) Finance
4 40 (10.00%) Banking
5 35 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.75%) Marketing
8 18 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.75%) Retail
10 15 (3.75%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Local Government
12 7 (1.75%) Military
13 6 (1.50%) Police
14 4 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 119 (29.75%) Analyst
2 73 (18.25%) Data Analyst
3 62 (15.50%) Developer
4 48 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 37 (9.25%) Senior
6 35 (8.75%) Architect
6 35 (8.75%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.50%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (4.50%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.50%) Power BI Developer
10 17 (4.25%) Lead
11 14 (3.50%) Data Manager
12 13 (3.25%) Consultant
13 12 (3.00%) Report Analyst
13 12 (3.00%) Report Writer
14 11 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 7 (1.75%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.75%) React
2 22 (5.50%) Pandas
3 18 (4.50%) Plotly
4 17 (4.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (4.25%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.25%) TensorFlow
5 16 (4.00%) NumPy
6 13 (3.25%) PySpark
7 11 (2.75%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.25%) Kafka
9 8 (2.00%) OpenCV
9 8 (2.00%) pydantic
9 8 (2.00%) SciPy
10 7 (1.75%) REST
11 6 (1.50%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.25%) Akka
12 5 (1.25%) HTML
12 5 (1.25%) Node.js
13 4 (1.00%) CSS
13 4 (1.00%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.25%) Algorithms
2 15 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
8 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.00%) IoT
9 4 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.75%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.75%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
2 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 213 (53.25%) Business Intelligence
3 145 (36.25%) Analytics
4 142 (35.50%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (26.75%) Decision-Making
6 106 (26.50%) Data Modelling
7 105 (26.25%) Data Analysis
8 89 (22.25%) Data Science
9 80 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
10 79 (19.75%) Agile
11 75 (18.75%) ETL
12 66 (16.50%) Machine Learning
13 64 (16.00%) Data Governance
14 63 (15.75%) Data Integration
15 54 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (13.00%) Data Engineering
17 46 (11.50%) Migration
18 45 (11.25%) CI/CD
18 45 (11.25%) Data Management
18 45 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 234 (58.50%) SQL
2 141 (35.25%) Python
3 36 (9.00%) R
4 25 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (4.00%) Java
7 15 (3.75%) Scala
8 6 (1.50%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.00%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.75%) C#
11 3 (0.75%) VBA
12 2 (0.50%) LookML
12 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 59 (14.75%) Degree
4 22 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.00%) PhD
8 4 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.00%) PMP
9 3 (0.75%) ACCA
9 3 (0.75%) CIMA
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.50%) ISACA
10 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.50%) RIBA
11 1 (0.25%) CSPO
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (2.75%) GDPR
5 10 (2.50%) QA
6 3 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) GxP
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.75%) Terraform
2 6 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.25%) Kibana
4 2 (0.50%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.25%) Oracle
3 41 (10.25%) Databricks
4 31 (7.75%) Google
5 21 (5.25%) SAP
6 15 (3.75%) Adobe
7 8 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.00%) Teradata
8 7 (1.75%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.50%) Ariba
9 6 (1.50%) Talend
10 5 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.75%) Informatica
11 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.50%) Cognos
12 2 (0.50%) Dell
12 2 (0.50%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.50%) Virgin Media