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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 228 230
Rank change year-on-year -123 +2 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 359 397 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.21% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.34% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 255 291
10th Percentile £352 £313 £325
25th Percentile £411 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £616
90th Percentile £698 £663 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 10
10th Percentile £23.62 £20.24 £30.58
25th Percentile £28.25 £31.64 £37.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.45 £61.25 £53.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +117.29% -2.65% +15.41%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -108 329 £488 +5.41% 439
UK excluding London -79 167 £470 +4.44% 209
London -106 157 £523 +4.50% 274
Work from Home -56 117 £473 +5.00% 185
North of England -73 52 £438 +11.45% 63
Midlands -33 40 £420 +1.82% 26
South East -75 32 £550 -8.33% 34
North West -36 31 £438 +13.03% 32
West Midlands -45 25 £470 -7.30% 16
South West -32 24 £475 +5.56% 40
Yorkshire -52 18 £480 +23.87% 23
East Midlands -9 15 £375 -9.09% 10
East of England -24 14 £463 -11.90% 13
Scotland -25 10 £430 -14.00% 17
North East -40 4 £375 -16.67% 8

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 9 (2.51%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.67%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.84%) Apache
4 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (16.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.28%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.28%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.28%) iTrent
5 1 (0.28%) Primavera
5 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 212 (59.05%) Power Platform
2 69 (19.22%) Azure
3 52 (14.48%) AWS
4 27 (7.52%) GCP
5 19 (5.29%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (4.18%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (3.34%) Serverless
10 11 (3.06%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.79%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.79%) GitHub
12 9 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.67%) dbt
13 6 (1.67%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.67%) OCI
14 5 (1.39%) Adobe Analytics
14 5 (1.39%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
2 2 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) Wireless
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (58.77%) Power BI
2 90 (25.07%) Tableau
3 61 (16.99%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (9.47%) Power Query
5 31 (8.64%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.41%) Metadata
7 22 (6.13%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.57%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.18%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (3.90%) Looker
11 13 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.34%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.79%) Big Data
14 9 (2.51%) Qlik Sense
14 9 (2.51%) QlikView
14 9 (2.51%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.23%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (1.95%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (4.46%) JIRA
2 11 (3.06%) Git
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Flyway
6 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JUnit
6 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.28%) Storybook
6 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 132 (36.77%) Analytical Skills
2 123 (34.26%) Social Skills
3 90 (25.07%) Finance
4 40 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.91%) Banking
6 11 (3.06%) Marketing
6 11 (3.06%) Military
7 8 (2.23%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.95%) Law
9 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Retail
10 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.11%) Local Government
12 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.84%) Front Office
12 3 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (24.51%) Analyst
2 57 (15.88%) Developer
3 52 (14.48%) Data Analyst
4 50 (13.93%) Senior
5 49 (13.65%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.80%) Consultant
7 24 (6.69%) Architect
8 23 (6.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 22 (6.13%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (5.57%) Data Scientist
10 20 (5.57%) Lead
11 15 (4.18%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.18%) Designer
12 14 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 12 (3.34%) Analytics Consultant
13 12 (3.34%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 10 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.79%) Data Consultant
15 9 (2.51%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.51%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.36%) REST
2 17 (4.74%) React
3 16 (4.46%) CSS
4 14 (3.90%) HTML
5 11 (3.06%) .NET
5 11 (3.06%) Pandas
6 10 (2.79%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.79%) Terraform
7 9 (2.51%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.23%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (2.23%) Redux
8 8 (2.23%) SOAP
9 7 (1.95%) Middleware
9 7 (1.95%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.95%) Web Services
10 6 (1.67%) Kafka
10 6 (1.67%) PySpark
10 6 (1.67%) Spring
10 6 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.39%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.34%) Reference Data
4 12 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.51%) Clustering
7 9 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.51%) PKI
8 8 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.67%) Life Science
11 5 (1.39%) CMDB
11 5 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.11%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.18%) Windows
2 13 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.84%) Unix
4 2 (0.56%) Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 215 (59.89%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (49.03%) Analytics
4 125 (34.82%) Data Modelling
5 104 (28.97%) Decision-Making
6 97 (27.02%) Agile
7 95 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (21.45%) AI
9 65 (18.11%) Dashboard Development
10 62 (17.27%) ETL
11 61 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 60 (16.71%) Actionable Insight
12 60 (16.71%) Data Analysis
13 58 (16.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 57 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (15.88%) Data Pipeline
15 54 (15.04%) Data Science
16 53 (14.76%) Data Governance
17 51 (14.21%) Data Engineering
18 48 (13.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.97%) SQL
2 111 (30.92%) Python
3 42 (11.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (9.47%) R
5 27 (7.52%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.69%) Java
7 19 (5.29%) C#
8 17 (4.74%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.34%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.06%) Scala
11 7 (1.95%) VBA
12 6 (1.67%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.11%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.84%) Bash
15 3 (0.84%) C++
15 3 (0.84%) Rust
16 2 (0.56%) Go
16 2 (0.56%) Ruby
16 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.98%) Degree
4 15 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.84%) PhD
8 1 (0.28%) APMG
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.56%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.85%) QA
3 18 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.62%) GDPR
5 9 (2.51%) PMO
6 4 (1.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.11%) GMP
6 4 (1.11%) GRC
6 4 (1.11%) GxP
6 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 4 (1.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) Basel III
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.11%) Kibana
3 3 (0.84%) Grafana
3 3 (0.84%) SCCM
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) QRadar
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 71 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.08%) Oracle
3 23 (6.41%) SAP
3 23 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.13%) Databricks
5 20 (5.57%) Google
6 9 (2.51%) BMC
6 9 (2.51%) Remedy
7 6 (1.67%) Adobe
7 6 (1.67%) Informatica
8 5 (1.39%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.39%) Palantir
9 4 (1.11%) Amplitude
9 4 (1.11%) Foundry
9 4 (1.11%) Solace
9 4 (1.11%) Splunk
10 3 (0.84%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.84%) Brio
10 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.56%) Tradeweb