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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 221 202
Rank change year-on-year -141 -19 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 363 395 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.19% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.31% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 263 301
10th Percentile £316 £313 £333
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 £555 £638
90th Percentile £708 £671 £768
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 £47.50 £38.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -10.05% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.06 £51.25
90th Percentile - £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 46,144 30,062 32,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.58% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,776 18,666 19,743
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 £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,300 1,877 1,341
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.06 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.77% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -126 319 £475 +5.56% 1,038
UK excluding London -89 178 £438 +3.06% 705
London -120 148 £515 +5.10% 530
Work from Home -65 122 £463 +3.12% 626
North of England -72 51 £425 +13.33% 139
Midlands -23 40 £470 -7.30% 107
South East -60 35 £525 -12.50% 152
West Midlands -27 29 £470 -8.56% 75
North West -37 27 £438 +17.58% 56
South West -16 25 £475 +18.75% 65
Scotland -31 16 £410 -13.68% 101
Yorkshire -61 14 £440 +17.33% 55
East of England -19 13 £465 -11.43% 64
East Midlands -7 11 £252 -38.79% 32
North East -29 11 £350 -12.50% 29
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 39
Wales -16 2 £356 +95.21% 48

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 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.38%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.28%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.28%) iTrent
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Primavera
3 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 229 (63.09%) Power Platform
2 65 (17.91%) Azure
3 47 (12.95%) AWS
4 22 (6.06%) GCP
5 21 (5.79%) Snowflake
6 16 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.58%) GitHub
7 13 (3.58%) Google Analytics
8 12 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 11 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.93%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (1.93%) Figma
12 7 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.93%) Serverless
13 6 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.65%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (1.38%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) HTTP
2 4 (1.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (62.81%) Power BI
2 82 (22.59%) Tableau
3 50 (13.77%) Power Query
4 48 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.71%) Relational Database
6 20 (5.51%) Data Lake
6 20 (5.51%) Metadata
7 19 (5.23%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.58%) Looker
9 12 (3.31%) BigQuery
10 11 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (2.75%) Star Schema
12 9 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (2.48%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.20%) Big Data
13 8 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (2.20%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.20%) QlikView
14 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.58%) Git
1 13 (3.58%) JIRA
2 5 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.28%) Flyway
5 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) JUnit
5 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.28%) Storybook
5 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 137 (37.74%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (36.09%) Social Skills
3 85 (23.42%) Finance
4 46 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.09%) Banking
6 12 (3.31%) Military
7 10 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Retail
9 7 (1.93%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.93%) Local Government
9 7 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.65%) Marketing
10 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Front Office
12 3 (0.83%) Police
12 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (26.72%) Analyst
2 63 (17.36%) Developer
3 56 (15.43%) Data Analyst
4 44 (12.12%) Senior
5 39 (10.74%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.16%) Consultant
7 26 (7.16%) Power BI Developer
8 20 (5.51%) Architect
9 19 (5.23%) Data Scientist
9 19 (5.23%) Lead
10 15 (4.13%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.13%) Performance Analyst
11 14 (3.86%) Designer
12 13 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Analytics Consultant
13 10 (2.75%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 9 (2.48%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.48%) Report Analyst
14 9 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.61%) REST
2 18 (4.96%) React
3 16 (4.41%) CSS
4 14 (3.86%) HTML
5 11 (3.03%) Pandas
6 9 (2.48%) .NET
6 9 (2.48%) scikit-learn
6 9 (2.48%) TensorFlow
7 8 (2.20%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.20%) Redux
8 7 (1.93%) Terraform
9 6 (1.65%) NumPy
9 6 (1.65%) SOAP
9 6 (1.65%) XML
10 5 (1.38%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.38%) Middleware
10 5 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.38%) Playwright
10 5 (1.38%) Web Services
11 4 (1.10%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.89%) Data Structures
1 25 (6.89%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.31%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.93%) Clustering
6 7 (1.93%) PKI
6 7 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.65%) Life Science
8 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.38%) CMDB
8 5 (1.38%) LIMS
9 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.86%) Windows
2 12 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.10%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 231 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
3 188 (51.79%) Analytics
4 127 (34.99%) Data Modelling
5 119 (32.78%) Decision-Making
6 98 (27.00%) Agile
7 96 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (23.14%) AI
9 72 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (19.28%) Data Analysis
11 69 (19.01%) Actionable Insight
12 68 (18.73%) Dashboard Development
13 61 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (16.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (15.15%) ETL
14 55 (15.15%) Validation
15 52 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
16 51 (14.05%) Data Governance
16 51 (14.05%) Data Science
17 48 (13.22%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 184 (50.69%) SQL
2 113 (31.13%) Python
3 56 (15.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (7.44%) R
5 24 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.23%) Java
7 17 (4.68%) C#
8 15 (4.13%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.75%) Scala
11 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.10%) VBA
12 3 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.55%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.40%) Degree
4 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.65%) PhD
7 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) APMG
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (26.45%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.79%) QA
3 13 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.03%) GDPR
5 7 (1.93%) GMP
5 7 (1.93%) PMO
6 5 (1.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.38%) GxP
6 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.10%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) WCAG
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.28%) COBIT
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.65%) Kibana
2 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.28%) QRadar
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.61%) Oracle
3 23 (6.34%) Google
3 23 (6.34%) SAP
4 18 (4.96%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.68%) Databricks
6 10 (2.75%) Splunk
7 8 (2.20%) Adobe
8 7 (1.93%) BMC
8 7 (1.93%) Informatica
8 7 (1.93%) Remedy
9 6 (1.65%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.38%) Palantir
11 4 (1.10%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.10%) Ariba
11 4 (1.10%) Foundry
11 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.83%) Workday
13 2 (0.55%) MicroStrategy