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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 184 257
Rank change year-on-year -86 +73 +74
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 410 444 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.51% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.67% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 304 291
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £552 £575
90th Percentile £676 £643 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 13
10th Percentile £19.71 £25.70 £17.69
25th Percentile £27.25 £30.10 £25.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.88 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +23.14% -32.13%
75th Percentile £82.25 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.90 £82.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £35.25 £20.22
% change year-on-year +70.21% +74.38% -0.52%

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 36,854 26,627 38,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.37% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,339 16,995 25,088
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 898 2,338
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -15.82% +3.17% -10.00%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -82 356 £481 +6.94% 206
London -63 210 £500 +5.26% 102
UK excluding London -84 155 £463 +8.82% 163
Work from Home -48 132 £500 +11.11% 107
North of England -67 47 £463 -6.78% 40
Midlands -51 34 £475 +15.15% 25
South East -42 31 £505 +10.68% 72
North West -37 28 £441 -11.06% 26
West Midlands -52 25 £500 +21.21% 15
Yorkshire -50 16 £500 +21.95% 9
East of England -29 14 £463 +15.77% 5
Scotland +3 13 £402 -19.60% 6
East Midlands -28 9 £395 +7.63% 10
South West -38 9 £410 -13.68% 12
Northern Ireland -2 5 £463 -11.90% 2
Wales -6 3 - - 2
North East -18 3 £400 -23.81% 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 25 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.68%) Apache
4 10 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (15.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.22%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Blender
6 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.24%) InDesign
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.49%) iTrent
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 221 (53.90%) Power Platform
2 91 (22.20%) Azure
3 78 (19.02%) AWS
4 29 (7.07%) GCP
5 27 (6.59%) Snowflake
6 22 (5.37%) Serverless
7 20 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (4.63%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.39%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.90%) dbt
10 16 (3.90%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.95%) GitHub
14 8 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) 2G
1 2 (0.49%) 5G
1 2 (0.49%) LTE
1 2 (0.49%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.49%) VoIP
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (53.90%) Power BI
2 118 (28.78%) Tableau
3 66 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (7.80%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.12%) Big Data
5 21 (5.12%) Looker
6 19 (4.63%) Power Query
7 18 (4.39%) Metadata
8 16 (3.90%) Data Lake
9 15 (3.66%) Hadoop
10 14 (3.41%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (2.68%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.95%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.95%) MySQL
13 8 (1.95%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.71%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 34 (8.29%) Git
2 15 (3.66%) JIRA
3 8 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) ERwin
5 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.73%) MLflow
5 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) Vite
6 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 167 (40.73%) Social Skills
2 137 (33.41%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (30.98%) Finance
4 57 (13.90%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.76%) Banking
6 21 (5.12%) Marketing
7 19 (4.63%) Retail
8 15 (3.66%) Front Office
9 11 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.95%) Publishing
12 6 (1.46%) Law
12 6 (1.46%) Legal
12 6 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.22%) Military
14 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 136 (33.17%) Analyst
2 84 (20.49%) Data Analyst
3 79 (19.27%) Developer
4 58 (14.15%) Senior
5 34 (8.29%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.05%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 25 (6.10%) Architect
8 25 (6.10%) Business Analyst
9 23 (5.61%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 15 (3.66%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (2.93%) Lead
13 12 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.68%) Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) Designer
15 10 (2.44%) Insight Analyst
15 10 (2.44%) SQL Analyst
16 9 (2.20%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.32%) React
2 29 (7.07%) Pandas
3 19 (4.63%) AngularJS
3 19 (4.63%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.15%) NumPy
4 17 (4.15%) Vue
5 16 (3.90%) Kafka
6 14 (3.41%) Plotly
6 14 (3.41%) REST
7 10 (2.44%) Matplotlib
7 10 (2.44%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.20%) Seaborn
9 8 (1.95%) D3.js
9 8 (1.95%) PySpark
10 7 (1.71%) .NET
10 7 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.71%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.71%) RESTful
10 7 (1.71%) WebSockets
11 6 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.32%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.71%) Life Science
7 7 (1.71%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.22%) Derivative
9 5 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.22%) Equities
10 4 (0.98%) CMDB
10 4 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.95%) Unix
3 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.49%) Android
4 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 246 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (42.44%) Analytics
4 135 (32.93%) Data Modelling
5 119 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (28.54%) Decision-Making
7 114 (27.80%) Agile
8 100 (24.39%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (20.98%) Data Analysis
9 86 (20.98%) Data Science
10 74 (18.05%) ETL
11 72 (17.56%) Machine Learning
12 68 (16.59%) AI
13 64 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
14 62 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (14.88%) Dashboard Development
16 54 (13.17%) Data Governance
17 48 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 43 (10.49%) Data Engineering
19 42 (10.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (55.61%) SQL
2 160 (39.02%) Python
3 36 (8.78%) R
4 29 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (3.90%) Java
7 13 (3.17%) C#
7 13 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.68%) Scala
9 8 (1.95%) VBA
10 6 (1.46%) Perl
10 6 (1.46%) PHP
10 6 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.98%) Bash
11 4 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.73%) Rust
13 2 (0.49%) C++
13 2 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 50 (12.20%) Degree
4 16 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.98%) CFA
8 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.49%) APMP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.98%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.32%) QA
3 25 (6.10%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.17%) PMO
5 12 (2.93%) GDPR
6 11 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.22%) WCAG
8 3 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.49%) EMIR
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) P3O
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (4.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.63%) Terraform
2 17 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.68%) Kibana
4 9 (2.20%) Grafana
5 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) logstash
6 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 68 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) Databricks
3 29 (7.07%) Google
4 17 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.93%) Oracle
6 9 (2.20%) Adobe
7 8 (1.95%) Amplitude
7 8 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.71%) Cognos
8 7 (1.71%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.22%) SAP
10 4 (0.98%) Apple
10 4 (0.98%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.98%) Murex
10 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.73%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.73%) IBM
11 3 (0.73%) Sage
11 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud