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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 183 245
Rank change year-on-year -62 +62 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 425 457 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.47% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.64% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 304 302
10th Percentile £340 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% -0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 18
10th Percentile £17.95 £24.50 £19.50
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.50 £25.60
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.81 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +37.15% -2.53% -47.81%
75th Percentile £70.71 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £49.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.03 £30.50
% change year-on-year +24.89% +11.57% +50.10%

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 34,128 27,815 38,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.17% 89.32% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,612 16,932 25,487
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.52% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 868 2,102
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -20.52% -10.64% +18.61%

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 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 5 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 5 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 -62 368 £483 +1.58% 233
London -46 212 £500 - 119
UK excluding London -53 166 £469 +4.17% 175
Work from Home -39 129 £500 +10.50% 109
North of England -59 56 £405 -18.37% 36
Midlands -38 35 £500 +21.21% 33
North West -27 34 £413 -11.29% 23
South East -15 30 £511 +2.25% 77
West Midlands -27 26 £500 +21.21% 19
Yorkshire -49 19 £375 -14.29% 12
Scotland +14 18 £420 -6.67% 8
East of England -26 13 £525 +27.27% 4
East Midlands -19 9 £395 +57.68% 14
South West -32 7 £394 -3.61% 16
Northern Ireland -9 5 £463 -7.50% 4
Wales +4 3 - - 1
North East -18 3 £400 -27.27% 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 23 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.00%) Confluence
3 14 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.82%) Apache
6 8 (1.88%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.18%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 62 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) iTrent
1 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (52.24%) Power Platform
2 105 (24.71%) Azure
3 73 (17.18%) AWS
4 38 (8.94%) GCP
5 27 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 20 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (4.71%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.24%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.76%) dbt
8 16 (3.76%) GitHub
9 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.29%) Serverless
10 12 (2.82%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.35%) Figma
13 9 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (1.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.71%) SNMP
2 2 (0.47%) 2G
2 2 (0.47%) 5G
2 2 (0.47%) LTE
2 2 (0.47%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.47%) SSH
2 2 (0.47%) SSL
2 2 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (52.24%) Power BI
2 117 (27.53%) Tableau
3 64 (15.06%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.76%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.18%) Power Query
6 19 (4.47%) Looker
7 18 (4.24%) Big Data
7 18 (4.24%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.24%) Hadoop
8 17 (4.00%) Metadata
9 16 (3.76%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.53%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.59%) Data Mining
11 11 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.35%) Apache Hive
12 10 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.12%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.88%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.88%) MySQL
15 7 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (8.71%) Git
2 22 (5.18%) JIRA
3 9 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.18%) Gradle
4 5 (1.18%) Storybook
4 5 (1.18%) Xcode
5 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.94%) ERwin
5 4 (0.94%) MLflow
6 3 (0.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Snyk
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 178 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 131 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (28.94%) Finance
4 47 (11.06%) Banking
5 41 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.71%) Retail
7 16 (3.76%) Front Office
7 16 (3.76%) Marketing
8 14 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.29%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.35%) Legal
10 9 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.12%) Publishing
11 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.41%) Back Office
13 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.18%) Law
14 5 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 127 (29.88%) Analyst
2 88 (20.71%) Developer
3 81 (19.06%) Data Analyst
4 50 (11.76%) Senior
5 36 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.00%) Data Scientist
7 29 (6.82%) Architect
8 27 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 27 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 21 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.76%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.06%) SQL Analyst
13 12 (2.82%) Designer
13 12 (2.82%) Lead
14 11 (2.59%) SQL Data Analyst
15 10 (2.35%) Consultant
15 10 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
16 9 (2.12%) Report Analyst
16 9 (2.12%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.06%) React
2 27 (6.35%) Pandas
3 19 (4.47%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.76%) NumPy
6 15 (3.53%) Vue
7 14 (3.29%) Kafka
7 14 (3.29%) Plotly
7 14 (3.29%) REST
8 13 (3.06%) D3.js
9 10 (2.35%) PySpark
10 9 (2.12%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.88%) WebSockets
12 7 (1.65%) CSS
12 7 (1.65%) HTML
12 7 (1.65%) Matplotlib
12 7 (1.65%) OAuth
12 7 (1.65%) RESTful
13 6 (1.41%) .NET
13 6 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.12%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.88%) CMDB
7 8 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.65%) Life Science
9 6 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.18%) Genomics
10 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.18%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.12%) Linux
2 8 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.41%) Android
4 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 239 (56.24%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (40.94%) Analytics
4 126 (29.65%) Data Modelling
5 116 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (26.82%) Agile
6 114 (26.82%) Decision-Making
7 93 (21.88%) Data Analysis
8 92 (21.65%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (20.24%) Data Science
10 77 (18.12%) Machine Learning
11 71 (16.71%) AI
12 67 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 65 (15.29%) ETL
14 63 (14.82%) Data Pipeline
15 53 (12.47%) Data Governance
16 52 (12.24%) Dashboard Development
17 47 (11.06%) DevOps
18 45 (10.59%) Data Management
18 45 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 231 (54.35%) SQL
2 170 (40.00%) Python
3 34 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 31 (7.29%) R
5 24 (5.65%) Java
6 23 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (4.71%) Scala
8 19 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.06%) C#
10 9 (2.12%) VBA
11 8 (1.88%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.41%) Perl
12 6 (1.41%) PHP
13 4 (0.94%) Bash
13 4 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.71%) C++
14 3 (0.71%) LookML
14 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.35%) Degree
2 44 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.65%) CFA
8 6 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.94%) CBAP
10 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.47%) APMP
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.47%) CEH
12 2 (0.47%) CISSP
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (16.47%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.59%) QA
4 16 (3.76%) GDPR
5 9 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.41%) WCAG
7 5 (1.18%) PMO
8 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.47%) EMIR
10 2 (0.47%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.47%) Kubernetes
1 19 (4.47%) Terraform
2 10 (2.35%) Kibana
3 8 (1.88%) Grafana
4 6 (1.41%) Ansible
4 6 (1.41%) logstash
5 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.47%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) collectd
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 83 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.29%) Google
3 27 (6.35%) Databricks
4 20 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.06%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.59%) Splunk
8 9 (2.12%) Oracle
9 7 (1.65%) Cognos
9 7 (1.65%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.18%) Adobe
10 5 (1.18%) Dataiku
10 5 (1.18%) SAP
11 4 (0.94%) Murex
12 3 (0.71%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.71%) IBM
12 3 (0.71%) Sage
12 3 (0.71%) Talend
13 2 (0.47%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.47%) Workday