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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 198 230
Rank change year-on-year -50 +32 +92
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 415 460 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.36% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.53% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 299 313
10th Percentile £321 £330 £300
25th Percentile £389 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £613
90th Percentile £654 £714 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 18
10th Percentile £22.88 £24.65 £24.07
25th Percentile £28.63 £29.38 £28.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £36.38 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% +3.00% -45.25%
75th Percentile £76.48 £53.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.40 £60.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £35.25 £32.32
% change year-on-year +41.84% +9.07% +65.74%

All Process and 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 32,644 29,969 38,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.25% 88.28% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,536 18,292 25,469
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £741 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,079 968 1,499
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £50.38 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +42.45%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -52 355 £475 -1.04% 387
London -52 201 £480 -4.00% 170
UK excluding London -29 171 £450 - 276
Work from Home -44 118 £500 +5.65% 133
North of England -44 59 £390 -14.29% 49
South East -2 30 £525 +9.38% 97
Yorkshire -21 29 £375 -16.67% 21
North West -34 28 £389 -16.40% 24
Midlands -35 27 £488 +18.18% 38
Scotland +9 22 £425 -11.92% 18
East of England -14 16 £525 +23.53% 34
West Midlands -22 16 £504 +22.06% 19
East Midlands -11 11 £404 -5.00% 18
South West -13 8 £450 -28.00% 34
Wales +3 5 - - 8
Northern Ireland -12 5 £463 -7.50% 4
North East -12 2 £400 -27.27% 4

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 (5.54%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.86%) Confluence
3 13 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.89%) Apache
5 10 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.93%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.20%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.72%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 63 (15.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.69%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.48%) 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 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 221 (53.25%) Power Platform
2 102 (24.58%) Azure
3 66 (15.90%) AWS
4 40 (9.64%) GCP
5 29 (6.99%) Snowflake
6 24 (5.78%) Power Automate
7 21 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (5.06%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.86%) GitHub
9 16 (3.86%) Serverless
10 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.13%) dbt
11 12 (2.89%) Figma
12 10 (2.41%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.69%) Google Analytics
15 6 (1.45%) Entra ID
16 5 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) MQTT
1 3 (0.72%) SNMP
2 2 (0.48%) 2G
2 2 (0.48%) 5G
2 2 (0.48%) LTE
2 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.48%) SSH
2 2 (0.48%) SSL
2 2 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (53.25%) Power BI
2 118 (28.43%) Tableau
3 62 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (9.88%) Relational Database
5 30 (7.23%) Power Query
6 20 (4.82%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.10%) Big Data
8 15 (3.61%) Hadoop
8 15 (3.61%) Metadata
9 14 (3.37%) Looker
10 13 (3.13%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.65%) Data Mining
13 10 (2.41%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.45%) Data Vault
16 5 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (1.20%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 41 (9.88%) Git
2 18 (4.34%) JIRA
3 9 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.69%) Gradle
4 7 (1.69%) Storybook
4 7 (1.69%) Xcode
5 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.96%) MLflow
6 2 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.48%) 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%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 184 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 127 (30.60%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (29.64%) Finance
4 43 (10.36%) Banking
5 42 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.34%) Marketing
7 16 (3.86%) Front Office
7 16 (3.86%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.86%) Retail
8 11 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.17%) Legal
11 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.93%) Publishing
12 5 (1.20%) Back Office
12 5 (1.20%) Billing
12 5 (1.20%) Military
13 4 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 127 (30.60%) Analyst
2 91 (21.93%) Developer
3 82 (19.76%) Data Analyst
4 51 (12.29%) Senior
5 37 (8.92%) Data Engineer
6 36 (8.67%) Data Scientist
7 24 (5.78%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 24 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
8 22 (5.30%) Architect
9 17 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
10 16 (3.86%) Lead
11 14 (3.37%) Senior Data Analyst
12 13 (3.13%) Consultant
13 12 (2.89%) Designer
13 12 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.65%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (2.65%) SQL Data Analyst
15 10 (2.41%) Power BI Analyst
15 10 (2.41%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.51%) Pandas
2 26 (6.27%) React
3 21 (5.06%) scikit-learn
4 19 (4.58%) D3.js
5 18 (4.34%) NumPy
6 15 (3.61%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.61%) Plotly
7 14 (3.37%) REST
8 12 (2.89%) PySpark
8 12 (2.89%) Vue
9 11 (2.65%) Kafka
10 9 (2.17%) OAuth
10 9 (2.17%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.93%) React Native
12 7 (1.69%) Matplotlib
12 7 (1.69%) SVG
13 6 (1.45%) CSS
13 6 (1.45%) Node.js
13 6 (1.45%) Web Services
13 6 (1.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.40%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.89%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.65%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.93%) CMDB
6 8 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.69%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.69%) Reinsurance
7 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.20%) Genomics
8 5 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.20%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.17%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Android
2 8 (1.93%) Unix
3 7 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 238 (57.35%) Business Intelligence
3 173 (41.69%) Analytics
4 121 (29.16%) Data Modelling
5 108 (26.02%) Data Analysis
5 108 (26.02%) Decision-Making
6 106 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (25.06%) Agile
8 87 (20.96%) Actionable Insight
9 82 (19.76%) Data Science
10 77 (18.55%) Machine Learning
11 62 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
12 60 (14.46%) ETL
13 59 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (12.77%) AI
15 49 (11.81%) Dashboard Development
16 48 (11.57%) DevOps
17 45 (10.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 44 (10.60%) Data Engineering
18 44 (10.60%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 234 (56.39%) SQL
2 182 (43.86%) Python
3 34 (8.19%) R
4 31 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (5.30%) Java
7 21 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.34%) Scala
9 12 (2.89%) C#
10 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.45%) PHP
11 6 (1.45%) VBA
12 5 (1.20%) Perl
12 5 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.96%) Bash
13 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.72%) LookML
15 2 (0.48%) C++
15 2 (0.48%) Go
15 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 54 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.81%) Degree
3 39 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.34%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.69%) CFA
8 6 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.96%) CBAP
11 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.48%) APMP
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.48%) CEH
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.58%) QA
4 15 (3.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.45%) WCAG
6 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) PMO
7 3 (0.72%) EMIR
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) MiFID
8 2 (0.48%) Basel III
8 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.48%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (5.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.37%) Terraform
3 9 (2.17%) Grafana
4 6 (1.45%) Kibana
5 4 (0.96%) Ansible
5 4 (0.96%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) collectd
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) QRadar
6 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 86 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.75%) Databricks
3 26 (6.27%) Google
4 18 (4.34%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.89%) Splunk
8 9 (2.17%) Oracle
9 8 (1.93%) SAP
10 7 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.20%) Adobe
11 5 (1.20%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.96%) Cognos
12 4 (0.96%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.72%) Foundry
13 3 (0.72%) IBM
13 3 (0.72%) Informatica
13 3 (0.72%) Palantir
14 2 (0.48%) Talend