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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 181 243
Rank change year-on-year -70 +62 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 433 453 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.47% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.64% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 295 299
10th Percentile £345 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £399 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £556 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 14
10th Percentile £18.57 £24.50 £18.53
25th Percentile £26.74 £25.50 £25.60
Median hourly rate £49.75 £32.81 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +51.63% -7.09% -39.63%
75th Percentile £73.60 £56.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.83 £82.25 £48.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £34.03 £24.43
% change year-on-year +54.28% +39.30% +20.23%

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 35,472 27,688 38,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.86% 89.76% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,461 17,051 25,269
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 862 2,156
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% -

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 20 February 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 February 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 February 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 -83 376 £475 +5.56% 276
London -52 221 £492 +3.58% 163
UK excluding London -68 166 £463 +8.82% 185
Work from Home -47 139 £500 +11.73% 104
North of England -62 54 £420 -9.68% 36
South East -13 36 £510 +23.64% 89
North West -28 33 £416 -10.48% 28
Midlands -41 32 £488 +18.18% 31
West Midlands -37 23 £500 +21.21% 20
Scotland +4 18 £420 -6.67% 5
Yorkshire -56 18 £500 +19.76% 7
East of England -31 12 £488 +21.95% 11
East Midlands -24 9 £395 +7.63% 11
South West -33 7 £394 -3.61% 14
Northern Ireland -6 5 £463 -7.50% 1
Wales 0 3 - - 2
North East -18 3 £400 -25.58% 1

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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.54%) Apache
5 9 (2.08%) Confluence
6 5 (1.15%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Blender
7 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.69%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.46%) iTrent
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 227 (52.42%) Power Platform
2 102 (23.56%) Azure
3 80 (18.48%) AWS
4 37 (8.55%) GCP
5 27 (6.24%) Snowflake
6 21 (4.85%) Serverless
7 20 (4.62%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.16%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.93%) dbt
9 17 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 13 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.00%) GitHub
11 9 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.85%) Figma
13 7 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) 2G
1 2 (0.46%) 5G
1 2 (0.46%) LTE
1 2 (0.46%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.46%) VoIP
2 1 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (52.42%) Power BI
2 122 (28.18%) Tableau
3 61 (14.09%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (8.55%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.77%) Looker
6 21 (4.85%) Big Data
7 19 (4.39%) BigQuery
8 18 (4.16%) Hadoop
9 17 (3.93%) Data Lake
9 17 (3.93%) Power Query
10 15 (3.46%) Metadata
10 15 (3.46%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.08%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.85%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.85%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.85%) MySQL
14 7 (1.62%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 34 (7.85%) Git
2 13 (3.00%) JIRA
3 8 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.92%) ERwin
4 4 (0.92%) Gradle
4 4 (0.92%) Storybook
4 4 (0.92%) Xcode
5 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.69%) MLflow
5 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.23%) Ant
6 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.23%) git-flow
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 176 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 132 (30.48%) Finance
3 131 (30.25%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.01%) Public Sector
5 46 (10.62%) Banking
6 21 (4.85%) Marketing
6 21 (4.85%) Retail
7 14 (3.23%) Front Office
7 14 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.31%) Legal
9 10 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.08%) Publishing
11 8 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.15%) Law
12 5 (1.15%) Military
12 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 141 (32.56%) Analyst
2 91 (21.02%) Data Analyst
3 84 (19.40%) Developer
4 52 (12.01%) Senior
5 37 (8.55%) Data Scientist
6 34 (7.85%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.93%) Architect
8 29 (6.70%) Business Analyst
9 26 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 15 (3.46%) Power BI Developer
14 14 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (2.77%) Lead
15 12 (2.77%) SQL Analyst
16 11 (2.54%) Designer
17 10 (2.31%) Consultant
17 10 (2.31%) SQL Data Analyst
18 9 (2.08%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.16%) React
2 27 (6.24%) Pandas
3 19 (4.39%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.16%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.70%) NumPy
5 16 (3.70%) Vue
6 15 (3.46%) Kafka
7 14 (3.23%) Plotly
7 14 (3.23%) REST
8 12 (2.77%) D3.js
9 10 (2.31%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.08%) PySpark
11 8 (1.85%) Matplotlib
11 8 (1.85%) WebSockets
12 7 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.62%) Seaborn
13 6 (1.39%) .NET
13 6 (1.39%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.39%) LangGraph
13 6 (1.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.62%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.08%) CMDB
7 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.62%) Life Science
10 6 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.15%) Genomics
11 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.92%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.08%) Linux
2 8 (1.85%) Unix
3 5 (1.15%) Android
4 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 255 (58.89%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (41.57%) Analytics
4 133 (30.72%) Data Modelling
5 123 (28.41%) Agile
6 117 (27.02%) Decision-Making
7 111 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (22.63%) Actionable Insight
9 93 (21.48%) Data Analysis
10 89 (20.55%) Data Science
11 80 (18.48%) Machine Learning
12 75 (17.32%) AI
13 65 (15.01%) ETL
14 63 (14.55%) Dashboard Development
14 63 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
16 53 (12.24%) Data Governance
17 49 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 47 (10.85%) Data Management
19 43 (9.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 238 (54.97%) SQL
2 171 (39.49%) Python
3 35 (8.08%) R
4 34 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.08%) Java
6 20 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (4.16%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.46%) Scala
9 14 (3.23%) C#
10 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.62%) VBA
11 6 (1.39%) Perl
11 6 (1.39%) PHP
12 4 (0.92%) Bash
13 3 (0.69%) C++
13 3 (0.69%) LookML
13 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Rust
14 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.16%) Degree
4 13 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.92%) CBAP
9 4 (0.92%) CFA
9 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) APMP
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) ACCA
12 1 (0.23%) CIMA
12 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.47%) QA
4 14 (3.23%) GDPR
5 12 (2.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (2.31%) PMO
7 5 (1.15%) WCAG
8 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.46%) EMIR
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.39%) Terraform
2 16 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.54%) Kibana
4 9 (2.08%) Grafana
5 6 (1.39%) Ansible
5 6 (1.39%) logstash
6 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) collectd
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 71 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.93%) Google
3 28 (6.47%) Databricks
4 22 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.77%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.54%) Oracle
7 9 (2.08%) Adobe
8 7 (1.62%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.62%) Cognos
8 7 (1.62%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.15%) Dataiku
9 5 (1.15%) SAP
9 5 (1.15%) Splunk
10 4 (0.92%) Murex
11 3 (0.69%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.69%) Brio
11 3 (0.69%) IBM
11 3 (0.69%) Sage