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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 209 227
Rank change year-on-year -109 +18 +74
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 381 411 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.29% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.43% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 309
10th Percentile £358 £315 £313
25th Percentile £428 £386 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £699 £666 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 11
10th Percentile £18.04 £21.10 £24.43
25th Percentile £29.75 £31.56 £33.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +40.59%
75th Percentile £71.88 £46.36 £45.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.75 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year +65.93% +29.51% -4.20%

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 43,975 28,802 36,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.72% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,325 18,167 23,595
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,639 1,417 2,517
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -99 347 £500 +9.89% 234
London -105 174 £524 +4.75% 126
UK excluding London -102 169 £475 +9.20% 137
Work from Home -44 128 £494 +10.46% 100
North of England -60 56 £438 +0.69% 36
Midlands -39 40 £425 +3.03% 33
South East -51 38 £520 -7.56% 44
North West -22 35 £437 +16.40% 28
West Midlands -48 25 £500 +17.65% 17
South West -21 22 £475 +16.14% 11
Yorkshire -59 19 £500 +21.21% 5
East Midlands -10 15 £375 -8.81% 16
Scotland -22 10 £463 -7.50% 3
East of England -39 6 £463 +15.63% 8
North East -38 2 £375 -23.08% 3

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 14 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.84%) Confluence
4 6 (1.57%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.05%) Apache
5 4 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (16.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.05%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
5 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 230 (60.37%) Power Platform
2 86 (22.57%) Azure
3 73 (19.16%) AWS
4 25 (6.56%) GCP
5 21 (5.51%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.46%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.46%) Serverless
8 16 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.41%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.89%) dbt
12 10 (2.62%) GitHub
13 9 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.10%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.31%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (60.37%) Power BI
2 105 (27.56%) Tableau
3 71 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (9.71%) Relational Database
5 36 (9.45%) Power Query
6 27 (7.09%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.77%) Data Lake
7 22 (5.77%) Looker
8 19 (4.99%) Metadata
9 18 (4.72%) Big Data
10 16 (4.20%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.15%) Hadoop
12 12 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (2.36%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.10%) PowerPivot
16 8 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (1.84%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (4.20%) JIRA
2 11 (2.89%) Git
3 4 (1.05%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.52%) GitLab
5 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Flyway
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) Storybook
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 139 (36.48%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 113 (29.66%) Finance
4 53 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.92%) Banking
6 18 (4.72%) Marketing
7 12 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.89%) Retail
9 9 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.57%) Law
11 6 (1.57%) Military
11 6 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.31%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.05%) Legal
14 3 (0.79%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (32.28%) Analyst
2 78 (20.47%) Data Analyst
3 59 (15.49%) Developer
4 49 (12.86%) Senior
5 47 (12.34%) Data Engineer
6 31 (8.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (7.09%) Data Scientist
8 24 (6.30%) Power BI Developer
9 23 (6.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 22 (5.77%) Architect
11 21 (5.51%) Consultant
12 20 (5.25%) Business Analyst
13 16 (4.20%) Lead
14 13 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (3.15%) Data Business Analyst
16 11 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
17 10 (2.62%) Performance Analyst
18 9 (2.36%) Data Architect
19 8 (2.10%) Analytics Consultant
19 8 (2.10%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.04%) REST
2 20 (5.25%) React
3 14 (3.67%) Pandas
4 12 (3.15%) CSS
5 11 (2.89%) .NET
6 9 (2.36%) HTML
7 8 (2.10%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.10%) Kafka
7 8 (2.10%) Spring
7 8 (2.10%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.84%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.57%) Middleware
9 6 (1.57%) OpenFin
9 6 (1.57%) PySpark
9 6 (1.57%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.57%) SOAP
9 6 (1.57%) Web Services
9 6 (1.57%) XML
10 5 (1.31%) Electron
10 5 (1.31%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.35%) Data Structures
2 18 (4.72%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.84%) Life Science
8 6 (1.57%) Clustering
8 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.57%) PKI
9 4 (1.05%) NHS
10 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.79%) Blog
10 3 (0.79%) CMDB
10 3 (0.79%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.36%) Windows
1 9 (2.36%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 247 (64.83%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (45.93%) Analytics
4 147 (38.58%) Data Modelling
5 116 (30.45%) Decision-Making
6 114 (29.92%) Agile
7 102 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.26%) AI
9 79 (20.73%) ETL
10 78 (20.47%) Actionable Insight
11 76 (19.95%) Dashboard Development
12 70 (18.37%) Data Science
13 69 (18.11%) Data Analysis
14 66 (17.32%) Data Governance
14 66 (17.32%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (16.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (14.44%) Validation
19 52 (13.65%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 210 (55.12%) SQL
2 125 (32.81%) Python
3 42 (11.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 42 (11.02%) R
4 26 (6.82%) Java
5 22 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.94%) C#
8 9 (2.36%) VBA
9 8 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.84%) Scala
11 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.05%) C++
12 4 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) Rust
13 2 (0.52%) C
13 2 (0.52%) Korn
13 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.01%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.55%) Degree
4 12 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) APMG
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.82%) QA
3 19 (4.99%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.20%) PMO
5 14 (3.67%) GDPR
6 7 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.79%) GMP
8 3 (0.79%) GxP
8 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.89%) Terraform
2 6 (1.57%) SCCM
3 5 (1.31%) Kibana
3 5 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.79%) Ansible
4 3 (0.79%) Grafana
4 3 (0.79%) logstash
5 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 65 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.61%) Oracle
3 25 (6.56%) Databricks
4 22 (5.77%) Google
5 19 (4.99%) SAP
6 17 (4.46%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.36%) Adobe
8 8 (2.10%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.57%) BMC
9 6 (1.57%) Informatica
9 6 (1.57%) Remedy
9 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.31%) Palantir
10 5 (1.31%) Solace
11 4 (1.05%) Apple
11 4 (1.05%) Cognos
11 4 (1.05%) Foundry
12 3 (0.79%) Brio
12 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud