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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 190 242
Rank change year-on-year -50 +52 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 409 440 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.36% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.54% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 286 306
10th Percentile £322 £330 £304
25th Percentile £393 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £608
90th Percentile £667 £706 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 16
10th Percentile £22.86 £24.03 £23.19
25th Percentile £27.94 £27.13 £27.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.88 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% +25.36% -45.74%
75th Percentile £79.37 £53.75 £47.81
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.88 £32.32
% change year-on-year -13.61% +79.07% +65.74%

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 32,393 28,662 37,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.03% 88.45% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,476 17,418 25,154
10th Percentile £304 £307 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 929 1,539
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.76% -31.57% +39.45%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -50 354 £475 -1.04% 355
London -30 206 £478 -4.50% 146
UK excluding London -40 159 £450 - 263
Work from Home -39 123 £500 +5.26% 93
North of England -44 55 £392 -21.09% 40
South East -10 28 £525 +17.65% 89
Midlands -34 27 £488 +18.18% 42
North West -28 26 £390 -17.89% 18
Yorkshire -30 25 £375 -16.67% 17
Scotland +4 18 £420 -12.95% 15
East of England -12 16 £525 +23.53% 37
West Midlands -39 16 £504 +22.06% 22
East Midlands -18 11 £404 -5.00% 18
South West -17 7 £400 -36.00% 33
Northern Ireland -17 5 £463 -7.50% 4
Wales -1 4 - - 8
North East -14 4 £400 -27.27% 5

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 23 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.91%) Confluence
3 13 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.93%) Apache
5 10 (2.44%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.96%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.22%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.73%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 210 (51.34%) Power Platform
2 102 (24.94%) Azure
3 65 (15.89%) AWS
4 38 (9.29%) GCP
5 26 (6.36%) Snowflake
6 21 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 19 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.65%) PowerApps
8 17 (4.16%) GitHub
9 16 (3.91%) Serverless
10 13 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (2.93%) Figma
12 11 (2.69%) dbt
13 10 (2.44%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.71%) Google Analytics
16 6 (1.47%) Entra ID
17 5 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) SNMP
2 2 (0.49%) 2G
2 2 (0.49%) 5G
2 2 (0.49%) LTE
2 2 (0.49%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.49%) SSH
2 2 (0.49%) SSL
2 2 (0.49%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (51.34%) Power BI
2 112 (27.38%) Tableau
3 60 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (9.29%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.11%) Power Query
6 18 (4.40%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.16%) Big Data
8 16 (3.91%) Looker
9 15 (3.67%) Hadoop
9 15 (3.67%) Metadata
10 13 (3.18%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.18%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.69%) Data Mining
13 10 (2.44%) Apache Hive
14 9 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.71%) Data Vault
16 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (1.22%) Tableau Desktop
16 5 (1.22%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 43 (10.51%) Git
2 20 (4.89%) JIRA
3 9 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.71%) Gradle
4 7 (1.71%) Storybook
4 7 (1.71%) Xcode
5 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.98%) MLflow
6 2 (0.49%) Selenium
6 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.49%) webpack
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Snyk
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 180 (44.01%) Social Skills
2 125 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (29.83%) Finance
4 41 (10.02%) Banking
4 41 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.65%) Marketing
6 17 (4.16%) Retail
7 15 (3.67%) Front Office
7 15 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.20%) Legal
9 9 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.20%) Publishing
10 8 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.22%) Back Office
11 5 (1.22%) Billing
11 5 (1.22%) Law
11 5 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (29.58%) Analyst
2 93 (22.74%) Developer
3 77 (18.83%) Data Analyst
4 47 (11.49%) Senior
5 36 (8.80%) Data Scientist
6 33 (8.07%) Data Engineer
7 24 (5.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (5.62%) Architect
8 23 (5.62%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (3.91%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.18%) Lead
11 13 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.93%) Consultant
12 12 (2.93%) Designer
13 11 (2.69%) SQL Analyst
13 11 (2.69%) SQL Data Analyst
14 10 (2.44%) React Developer
14 10 (2.44%) Senior Data Analyst
15 9 (2.20%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.85%) React
2 27 (6.60%) Pandas
3 21 (5.13%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.40%) D3.js
4 18 (4.40%) NumPy
5 15 (3.67%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.67%) Plotly
5 15 (3.67%) REST
6 13 (3.18%) Kafka
6 13 (3.18%) Vue
7 12 (2.93%) PySpark
8 9 (2.20%) OAuth
8 9 (2.20%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.96%) WebSockets
10 7 (1.71%) CSS
10 7 (1.71%) HTML
10 7 (1.71%) Matplotlib
10 7 (1.71%) React Native
10 7 (1.71%) SVG
11 6 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.05%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.93%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.93%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.96%) CMDB
5 8 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.71%) Reinsurance
6 7 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.22%) Genomics
7 5 (1.22%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Android
2 8 (1.96%) Unix
3 7 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 229 (55.99%) Business Intelligence
3 170 (41.56%) Analytics
4 114 (27.87%) Data Modelling
5 107 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (25.92%) Agile
6 106 (25.92%) Decision-Making
7 103 (25.18%) Data Analysis
8 84 (20.54%) Actionable Insight
9 81 (19.80%) Data Science
10 76 (18.58%) Machine Learning
11 61 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
12 56 (13.69%) ETL
12 56 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (13.20%) AI
14 49 (11.98%) DevOps
15 45 (11.00%) Dashboard Development
16 43 (10.51%) CI/CD
16 43 (10.51%) Data Engineering
17 42 (10.27%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 224 (54.77%) SQL
2 173 (42.30%) Python
3 34 (8.31%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.07%) R
5 24 (5.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (5.62%) Java
7 22 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 21 (5.13%) Scala
9 13 (3.18%) C#
10 8 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.47%) Perl
11 6 (1.47%) PHP
11 6 (1.47%) VBA
12 5 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.98%) Bash
13 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.73%) LookML
15 2 (0.49%) Go
15 2 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.49%) Degree
3 39 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.71%) CFA
7 6 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.98%) CBAP
8 4 (0.98%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.49%) APMP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) CEH
10 2 (0.49%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.16%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.09%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.13%) QA
4 13 (3.18%) GDPR
5 8 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.47%) WCAG
7 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.98%) PMO
8 3 (0.73%) EMIR
8 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.49%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.49%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (5.38%) Docker
2 5 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (4.16%) Kubernetes
1 17 (4.16%) Terraform
2 8 (1.96%) Grafana
2 8 (1.96%) Kibana
3 4 (0.98%) Ansible
4 3 (0.73%) logstash
4 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) collectd
5 1 (0.24%) QRadar
5 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 83 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.85%) Google
3 27 (6.60%) Databricks
4 20 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.93%) Splunk
7 9 (2.20%) Oracle
8 7 (1.71%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.47%) SAP
10 5 (1.22%) Adobe
10 5 (1.22%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.98%) Cognos
12 3 (0.73%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.73%) IBM
12 3 (0.73%) Informatica
12 3 (0.73%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.49%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.49%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.49%) Talend