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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 185 256
Rank change year-on-year -94 +71 +116
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 396 429 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.46% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.61% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 274 280
10th Percentile £346 £331 £313
25th Percentile £405 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -9.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £575
90th Percentile £681 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 10
10th Percentile £19.84 £26.29 £23.58
25th Percentile £28.31 £31.64 £26.62
Median hourly rate £54.75 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.36% -22.09% -15.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.55 £52.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.42 £32.23 £24.43
% change year-on-year +109.22% +31.91% -13.25%

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 39,257 26,715 37,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 90.74% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,800 17,298 24,377
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,040 2,418
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -2.78%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -112 349 £488 +7.38% 187
London -78 192 £490 +1.03% 86
UK excluding London -81 159 £475 +5.56% 131
Work from Home -49 130 £488 +8.33% 91
North of England -57 45 £469 +3.02% 36
Midlands -47 40 £450 +5.88% 27
South East -39 32 £513 +2.50% 36
North West -36 28 £420 -13.50% 29
West Midlands -51 25 £488 +14.71% 10
East Midlands -21 15 £375 +2.18% 17
East of England -38 14 £475 +18.82% 8
Yorkshire -56 14 £500 +16.28% 4
South West -43 13 £450 -5.26% 16
Scotland -7 11 £425 -19.05% 5
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 - 5
North East -21 3 £400 -23.81% 4
Wales -10 1 - - 2

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 22 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.78%) Apache
4 10 (2.53%) Confluence
5 8 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.52%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (16.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.01%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.25%) Blender
8 1 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.01%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.76%) Eloqua
3 3 (0.76%) iTrent
4 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Actimize
5 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (54.04%) Power Platform
2 92 (23.23%) Azure
3 76 (19.19%) AWS
4 32 (8.08%) GCP
5 22 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (5.56%) Serverless
6 21 (5.30%) Power Automate
6 21 (5.30%) Snowflake
7 20 (5.05%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.29%) PowerApps
9 16 (4.04%) dbt
10 15 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.02%) GitHub
15 6 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.76%) Wireless
2 1 (0.25%) 2G
2 1 (0.25%) 5G
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) Intranet
2 1 (0.25%) LTE
2 1 (0.25%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) SNMP
2 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (54.04%) Power BI
2 118 (29.80%) Tableau
3 65 (16.41%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (7.58%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.56%) Metadata
6 21 (5.30%) Big Data
6 21 (5.30%) Power Query
7 20 (5.05%) Looker
8 19 (4.80%) Data Lake
9 17 (4.29%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.54%) Hadoop
11 13 (3.28%) BigQuery
11 13 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.27%) MySQL
14 7 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.77%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 27 (6.82%) Git
2 17 (4.29%) JIRA
3 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.01%) ERwin
5 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) GitLab
7 1 (0.25%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) Vite
7 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 151 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 134 (33.84%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (31.82%) Finance
4 54 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.83%) Banking
6 23 (5.81%) Marketing
7 15 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.79%) Retail
8 13 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.03%) Front Office
10 9 (2.27%) Law
11 7 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.77%) Publishing
12 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.26%) Legal
13 5 (1.26%) Military
14 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.01%) Automotive
15 3 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (31.57%) Analyst
2 74 (18.69%) Data Analyst
3 66 (16.67%) Developer
4 64 (16.16%) Senior
5 42 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.33%) Data Scientist
7 23 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 22 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 22 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (4.55%) Architect
9 18 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 14 (3.54%) Consultant
10 14 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.28%) Data Business Analyst
11 13 (3.28%) Lead
12 9 (2.27%) Performance Analyst
12 9 (2.27%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.02%) Insight Analyst
13 8 (2.02%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.82%) React
2 21 (5.30%) Pandas
3 18 (4.55%) Kafka
4 17 (4.29%) REST
5 15 (3.79%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.03%) Plotly
6 12 (3.03%) Vue
7 11 (2.78%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.53%) NumPy
8 10 (2.53%) PySpark
9 9 (2.27%) .NET
10 7 (1.77%) CSS
10 7 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.77%) Matplotlib
10 7 (1.77%) RESTful
10 7 (1.77%) Seaborn
11 6 (1.52%) Spring
11 6 (1.52%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.52%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.77%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.52%) Life Science
10 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.26%) Derivative
11 4 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.76%) CMDB
12 3 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.02%) Linux
2 7 (1.77%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (99.75%) Visualisation
2 242 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
3 165 (41.67%) Analytics
4 138 (34.85%) Data Modelling
5 114 (28.79%) Agile
6 111 (28.03%) Decision-Making
6 111 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (23.23%) Actionable Insight
8 81 (20.45%) Data Science
9 72 (18.18%) Data Analysis
10 68 (17.17%) AI
11 67 (16.92%) ETL
12 66 (16.67%) Data Governance
13 64 (16.16%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (15.91%) Dashboard Development
15 56 (14.14%) Machine Learning
16 51 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 49 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 48 (12.12%) DevOps
19 45 (11.36%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 222 (56.06%) SQL
2 143 (36.11%) Python
3 42 (10.61%) R
4 29 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.30%) Java
7 16 (4.04%) C#
8 15 (3.79%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.54%) Scala
10 10 (2.53%) VBA
11 9 (2.27%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.52%) Perl
12 6 (1.52%) Rust
13 5 (1.26%) PHP
14 4 (1.01%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Bash
15 2 (0.51%) C++
15 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.35%) Degree
4 14 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.76%) CFA
10 2 (0.51%) APMP
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) ACCA
11 1 (0.25%) CIMA
11 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (20.96%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.59%) QA
3 20 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.29%) PMO
5 15 (3.79%) GDPR
6 10 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.76%) SLA
8 3 (0.76%) WCAG
9 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.25%) P3O
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.79%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.04%) Terraform
3 11 (2.78%) Kibana
4 10 (2.53%) Grafana
5 6 (1.52%) logstash
6 5 (1.26%) SCCM
7 4 (1.01%) Ansible
7 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) collectd
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 73 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.32%) Google
3 28 (7.07%) Databricks
4 18 (4.55%) Oracle
5 17 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.53%) SAP
8 9 (2.27%) Adobe
9 8 (2.02%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.52%) Apple
10 6 (1.52%) Cognos
11 5 (1.26%) Solace
12 4 (1.01%) Brio
12 4 (1.01%) IBM
12 4 (1.01%) Sage
13 3 (0.76%) Informatica
13 3 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.76%) Murex
13 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud