Data Visualisation Contract Job Trends

Data Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 227 231
Rank change year-on-year -110 +4 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 376 389 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.19% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.31% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 246 288
10th Percentile £360 £313 £313
25th Percentile £422 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £601
90th Percentile £728 £653 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 8
10th Percentile £25.75 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.77% -21.05% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £57.25 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +25.00%

All Process & 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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Visualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 15 Contract Job 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 31 July 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
England -111 343 £500 +9.89% 190
London -86 172 £525 +7.14% 95
UK excluding London -68 167 £475 +9.20% 121
Work from Home -31 130 £488 +14.71% 77
North of England -60 55 £437 +11.07% 26
South East -59 39 £538 -6.52% 38
Midlands -35 37 £400 -3.03% 25
North West -36 32 £430 +17.81% 17
West Midlands -48 22 £445 +4.71% 17
South West -37 20 £475 +10.59% 19
Yorkshire -59 20 £500 +25.00% 7
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -9.09% 8
East of England -20 11 £463 +13.50% 10
Scotland -18 10 £450 -10.00% 3
North East -41 4 £375 -16.67% 2

Data Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.60%) Apache Superset
3 6 (1.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.80%) Apache
5 3 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (16.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.53%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.80%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 215 (57.18%) Power Platform
2 76 (20.21%) Azure
3 62 (16.49%) AWS
4 26 (6.91%) GCP
5 20 (5.32%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.79%) Serverless
7 15 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (3.72%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.72%) Power Automate
9 11 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.66%) GitHub
11 9 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (2.39%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.60%) dbt
14 5 (1.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) HTTP
2 3 (0.80%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (57.18%) Power BI
2 98 (26.06%) Tableau
3 63 (16.76%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (10.37%) Relational Database
5 36 (9.57%) Power Query
6 23 (6.12%) Looker
6 23 (6.12%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.32%) Metadata
8 19 (5.05%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.26%) BigQuery
10 15 (3.99%) Big Data
10 15 (3.99%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.39%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.39%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.13%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.13%) QlikView
14 8 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.72%) JIRA
2 11 (2.93%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Flyway
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) Storybook
6 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 138 (36.70%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (35.37%) Social Skills
3 105 (27.93%) Finance
4 52 (13.83%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.78%) Banking
6 18 (4.79%) Marketing
7 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.39%) Military
7 9 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.13%) Retail
9 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.60%) Law
9 6 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Billing
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (27.93%) Analyst
2 66 (17.55%) Data Analyst
3 60 (15.96%) Developer
4 51 (13.56%) Senior
5 48 (12.77%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 27 (7.18%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.65%) Consultant
8 23 (6.12%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (5.85%) Architect
10 19 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 18 (4.79%) Lead
12 15 (3.99%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.46%) Designer
14 12 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (2.93%) Analytics Consultant
15 11 (2.93%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.66%) Performance Analyst
17 9 (2.39%) Data Consultant
17 9 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.18%) REST
2 18 (4.79%) React
3 13 (3.46%) CSS
4 12 (3.19%) .NET
4 12 (3.19%) Pandas
5 11 (2.93%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.66%) HTML
6 10 (2.66%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.13%) Kafka
7 8 (2.13%) Spring
7 8 (2.13%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.86%) Middleware
8 7 (1.86%) OpenFin
8 7 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.86%) PySpark
8 7 (1.86%) SOAP
8 7 (1.86%) Web Services
9 6 (1.60%) Electron
9 6 (1.60%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.71%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 16 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.39%) Clustering
7 9 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.39%) PKI
8 8 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Life Science
9 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.86%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.06%) LIMS
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.72%) Windows
2 13 (3.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 234 (62.23%) Business Intelligence
3 181 (48.14%) Analytics
4 142 (37.77%) Data Modelling
5 112 (29.79%) Agile
5 112 (29.79%) Decision-Making
6 97 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (19.68%) Dashboard Development
8 73 (19.41%) AI
9 72 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
10 66 (17.55%) Data Analysis
10 66 (17.55%) Data Science
10 66 (17.55%) ETL
11 61 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 59 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (15.16%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (14.89%) Data Governance
15 54 (14.36%) Validation
16 53 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (13.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 201 (53.46%) SQL
2 121 (32.18%) Python
3 42 (11.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 40 (10.64%) R
5 26 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.38%) Java
7 18 (4.79%) C#
8 17 (4.52%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.19%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.39%) Scala
11 7 (1.86%) VBA
12 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.33%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.06%) C++
13 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.06%) Rust
14 2 (0.53%) Bash
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 2 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 89 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.97%) Degree
4 15 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) PhD
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.12%) QA
3 21 (5.59%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.99%) PMO
5 10 (2.66%) GDPR
6 5 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.06%) GMP
7 4 (1.06%) GxP
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.80%) SLA
8 3 (0.80%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.39%) Terraform
2 6 (1.60%) SCCM
3 5 (1.33%) Kibana
4 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.80%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Ansible
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.98%) Oracle
3 25 (6.65%) Databricks
4 20 (5.32%) SAP
4 20 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.79%) Google
6 9 (2.39%) Adobe
6 9 (2.39%) BMC
6 9 (2.39%) Remedy
7 8 (2.13%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.60%) Informatica
8 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.60%) Solace
9 5 (1.33%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.33%) Palantir
10 4 (1.06%) Apple
10 4 (1.06%) Brio
10 4 (1.06%) Foundry
11 3 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) Splunk