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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 183 256
Rank change year-on-year -99 +73 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 392 430 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.46% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.61% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 275 272
10th Percentile £343 £331 £313
25th Percentile £408 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -9.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £552 £551 £575
90th Percentile £684 £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 27 13 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £26.29 £23.58
25th Percentile £29.38 £31.64 £26.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.11% -22.09% +3.27%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £77.55 £52.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 £32.23 £24.43
% change year-on-year +108.98% +31.91% -19.19%

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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 16 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 21 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 -98 346 £488 +7.26% 183
London -92 188 £496 +3.33% 82
UK excluding London -84 159 £475 +5.56% 133
Work from Home -51 129 £488 +8.33% 92
North of England -55 46 £469 +3.02% 37
Midlands -45 40 £450 +5.88% 27
South East -41 32 £513 +2.50% 35
North West -37 29 £420 -13.50% 30
West Midlands -50 24 £488 +14.71% 10
East Midlands -24 16 £375 +2.18% 17
East of England -37 14 £475 +18.82% 8
Yorkshire -63 14 £500 +16.28% 3
South West -44 13 £450 -5.26% 15
Scotland -6 11 £425 -19.05% 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 - 9
North East -18 3 £400 -23.81% 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 22 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.81%) Apache
4 10 (2.55%) Confluence
5 8 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.53%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 67 (17.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.02%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.26%) Blender
8 1 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.26%) InDesign
8 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.02%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.77%) Eloqua
3 3 (0.77%) iTrent
4 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Actimize
5 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (54.59%) Power Platform
2 91 (23.21%) Azure
3 73 (18.62%) AWS
4 32 (8.16%) GCP
5 22 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (5.36%) Power Automate
7 20 (5.10%) Serverless
8 19 (4.85%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.59%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.34%) PowerApps
11 14 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.57%) dbt
12 13 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.04%) GitHub
16 6 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.77%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) 2G
2 1 (0.26%) 5G
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) LTE
2 1 (0.26%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
2 1 (0.26%) SNMP
2 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (54.59%) Power BI
2 117 (29.85%) Tableau
3 62 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (7.40%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.61%) Metadata
6 21 (5.36%) Big Data
6 21 (5.36%) Power Query
7 20 (5.10%) Looker
8 19 (4.85%) Data Lake
9 17 (4.34%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.57%) Hadoop
11 13 (3.32%) BigQuery
11 13 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.55%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.30%) MySQL
14 7 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.79%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (6.63%) Git
2 16 (4.08%) JIRA
3 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.02%) ERwin
5 3 (0.77%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) GitLab
7 1 (0.26%) Postman
7 1 (0.26%) Vite
7 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 149 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 135 (34.44%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (32.14%) Finance
4 54 (13.78%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.91%) Banking
6 23 (5.87%) Marketing
7 16 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.83%) Retail
9 13 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.06%) Front Office
11 9 (2.30%) Law
12 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.79%) Publishing
13 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.28%) Legal
14 5 (1.28%) Military
15 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.02%) Automotive
16 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (31.63%) Analyst
2 73 (18.62%) Data Analyst
3 64 (16.33%) Developer
4 62 (15.82%) Senior
5 42 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.42%) Data Scientist
7 23 (5.87%) Business Analyst
8 21 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 21 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (4.59%) Architect
9 18 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 13 (3.32%) Consultant
10 13 (3.32%) Data Business Analyst
10 13 (3.32%) Lead
10 13 (3.32%) Power BI Developer
11 9 (2.30%) Performance Analyst
11 9 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.04%) Insight Analyst
12 8 (2.04%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.89%) React
2 20 (5.10%) Pandas
3 18 (4.59%) Kafka
4 16 (4.08%) REST
5 15 (3.83%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.06%) Vue
7 11 (2.81%) Plotly
8 10 (2.55%) PySpark
8 10 (2.55%) scikit-learn
9 9 (2.30%) .NET
9 9 (2.30%) NumPy
10 7 (1.79%) CSS
10 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.79%) Matplotlib
10 7 (1.79%) RESTful
10 7 (1.79%) Seaborn
11 6 (1.53%) Spring
11 6 (1.53%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.53%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.61%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.34%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.79%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Life Science
11 5 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.28%) Derivative
12 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.77%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.04%) Linux
2 7 (1.79%) Unix
3 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (99.74%) Visualisation
2 240 (61.22%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (41.58%) Analytics
4 139 (35.46%) Data Modelling
5 114 (29.08%) Agile
6 111 (28.32%) Decision-Making
6 111 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (23.72%) Actionable Insight
8 80 (20.41%) Data Science
9 72 (18.37%) Data Analysis
10 69 (17.60%) AI
11 67 (17.09%) Data Governance
11 67 (17.09%) ETL
12 63 (16.07%) Dashboard Development
12 63 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
13 56 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 50 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 49 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (11.99%) DevOps
17 45 (11.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 218 (55.61%) SQL
2 142 (36.22%) Python
3 42 (10.71%) R
4 29 (7.40%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.36%) Java
7 16 (4.08%) C#
8 15 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.57%) Scala
10 10 (2.55%) VBA
11 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.53%) Perl
12 6 (1.53%) Rust
13 4 (1.02%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.02%) PHP
13 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.51%) Bash
14 2 (0.51%) C++
14 2 (0.51%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 80 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.46%) Degree
4 14 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.77%) CFA
10 2 (0.51%) APMP
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.26%) ACCA
11 1 (0.26%) CIMA
11 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMP
11 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (21.17%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.67%) QA
3 20 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.34%) PMO
5 15 (3.83%) GDPR
6 10 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.77%) SLA
8 3 (0.77%) WCAG
9 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) P3O
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.08%) Terraform
3 11 (2.81%) Kibana
4 10 (2.55%) Grafana
5 6 (1.53%) logstash
6 5 (1.28%) SCCM
7 4 (1.02%) Ansible
7 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) collectd
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 71 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.40%) Google
3 28 (7.14%) Databricks
4 18 (4.59%) Oracle
5 17 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.81%) SAP
8 9 (2.30%) Adobe
9 8 (2.04%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.53%) Apple
10 6 (1.53%) Cognos
11 5 (1.28%) Solace
12 4 (1.02%) Brio
12 4 (1.02%) IBM
12 4 (1.02%) Sage
13 3 (0.77%) Informatica
13 3 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.77%) Murex
13 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud