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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 226 212
Rank change year-on-year -129 -14 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 366 396 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.20% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.32% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 262 299
10th Percentile £316 £313 £331
25th Percentile £400 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £706 £669 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 11
10th Percentile £22.98 £16.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £28.21 £30.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% -10.05% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.06 £51.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £64.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £30.00 £26.17
% change year-on-year +81.33% +14.66% -0.32%

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 46,382 30,011 32,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.62% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 18,637 19,780
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,269 1,869 1,352
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%

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 2 October 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 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 17 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 2 October 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 -121 323 £475 +5.56% 958
UK excluding London -87 182 £438 +3.06% 502
London -122 147 £506 +3.32% 562
Work from Home -63 121 £456 +1.39% 379
North of England -79 53 £425 +11.48% 97
Midlands -31 42 £455 -10.26% 83
South East -63 36 £563 -6.25% 137
West Midlands -22 29 £470 -8.56% 64
North West -45 28 £438 +16.80% 39
South West -19 25 £475 +18.75% 52
Scotland -36 15 £408 -14.21% 44
Yorkshire -54 15 £460 +20.66% 41
East Midlands -10 13 £300 -27.27% 19
East of England -24 13 £465 -11.43% 50
North East -32 11 £350 -12.50% 17
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 31
Wales -15 2 £356 +95.21% 15

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 8 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (18.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 232 (63.39%) Power Platform
2 69 (18.85%) Azure
3 46 (12.57%) AWS
4 22 (6.01%) GCP
5 21 (5.74%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.55%) GitHub
8 13 (3.55%) Google Analytics
8 13 (3.55%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.73%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (2.19%) Serverless
12 7 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.09%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (63.11%) Power BI
2 82 (22.40%) Tableau
3 51 (13.93%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (13.39%) Power Query
5 29 (7.92%) Relational Database
6 20 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 20 (5.46%) SQL Server
7 19 (5.19%) Metadata
8 13 (3.55%) Looker
9 12 (3.28%) BigQuery
10 11 (3.01%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (3.01%) Star Schema
11 10 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (2.46%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.19%) Big Data
13 8 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.19%) QlikView
14 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.55%) Git
1 13 (3.55%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.27%) Flyway
4 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JUnit
4 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.27%) Storybook
4 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 136 (37.16%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (36.34%) Social Skills
3 84 (22.95%) Finance
4 47 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.74%) Banking
6 12 (3.28%) Military
7 10 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.19%) Retail
9 7 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.91%) Local Government
9 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.64%) Marketing
10 6 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.82%) Front Office
12 3 (0.82%) Law
12 3 (0.82%) Police
12 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (27.05%) Analyst
2 64 (17.49%) Developer
3 58 (15.85%) Data Analyst
4 45 (12.30%) Senior
5 41 (11.20%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.10%) Consultant
7 26 (7.10%) Power BI Developer
8 20 (5.46%) Architect
9 19 (5.19%) Data Scientist
9 19 (5.19%) Lead
10 15 (4.10%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.10%) Performance Analyst
11 14 (3.83%) Designer
11 14 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.01%) Data Visualisation Specialist
13 10 (2.73%) Analytics Consultant
14 9 (2.46%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.46%) Report Analyst
14 9 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.83%) REST
2 17 (4.64%) React
3 15 (4.10%) CSS
4 13 (3.55%) HTML
5 11 (3.01%) Pandas
6 10 (2.73%) .NET
7 9 (2.46%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.46%) TensorFlow
8 8 (2.19%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.19%) Redux
9 7 (1.91%) Terraform
10 6 (1.64%) NumPy
10 6 (1.64%) SOAP
10 6 (1.64%) XML
11 5 (1.37%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.37%) Middleware
11 5 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (1.37%) Playwright
11 5 (1.37%) Web Services
12 4 (1.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.83%) Data Structures
1 25 (6.83%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.91%) Clustering
7 7 (1.91%) PKI
7 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.64%) Life Science
9 5 (1.37%) CMDB
9 5 (1.37%) LIMS
10 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.83%) Windows
2 12 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 236 (64.48%) Business Intelligence
3 191 (52.19%) Analytics
4 130 (35.52%) Data Modelling
5 120 (32.79%) Decision-Making
6 99 (27.05%) Agile
7 97 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (22.68%) AI
9 72 (19.67%) Actionable Insight
10 71 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 69 (18.85%) Data Analysis
12 68 (18.58%) Dashboard Development
13 62 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (15.57%) ETL
16 56 (15.30%) Validation
17 53 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
18 51 (13.93%) Data Governance
19 50 (13.66%) Data Science
20 48 (13.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.82%) SQL
2 109 (29.78%) Python
3 57 (15.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (7.38%) R
5 24 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.19%) C#
6 19 (5.19%) Java
7 15 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.73%) Scala
10 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.09%) VBA
12 3 (0.82%) Bash
13 2 (0.55%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) Degree
4 12 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.37%) PhD
8 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (26.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.74%) QA
3 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.01%) GDPR
5 7 (1.91%) GMP
5 7 (1.91%) PMO
6 5 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.37%) GxP
6 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.09%) GRC
7 4 (1.09%) WCAG
8 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.64%) Kibana
2 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.27%) QRadar
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.56%) Oracle
2 24 (6.56%) SAP
3 23 (6.28%) Google
4 18 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.64%) Databricks
6 10 (2.73%) Splunk
7 8 (2.19%) Adobe
8 7 (1.91%) BMC
8 7 (1.91%) Informatica
8 7 (1.91%) Remedy
9 6 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.37%) Palantir
11 4 (1.09%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.09%) Ariba
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.82%) Brio
12 3 (0.82%) Workday