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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 226 210
Rank change year-on-year -130 -16 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 366 399 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.21% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.34% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 261 295
10th Percentile £330 £313 £349
25th Percentile £403 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £620 £550 £638
90th Percentile £709 £638 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 11
10th Percentile £22.03 £15.30 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £22.84 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.75 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -8.33% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.63 £64.55 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £20.92 £26.17
% change year-on-year +162.91% -20.05% -1.26%

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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +1.18%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -99 326 £488 +7.14% 694
UK excluding London -94 178 £450 +3.45% 316
London -115 151 £523 +5.56% 443
Work from Home -57 121 £463 +8.82% 288
North of England -68 51 £425 +9.68% 61
Midlands -23 43 £440 -4.30% 51
South East -61 36 £550 -8.33% 91
North West -39 29 £438 +16.80% 23
West Midlands -28 27 £470 -7.98% 35
South West -21 25 £475 +5.56% 34
East Midlands -8 16 £375 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -57 15 £460 +16.83% 26
Scotland -30 14 £410 -18.00% 24
East of England -29 12 - - 27
North East -39 8 £375 -6.25% 12
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 20

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 9 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Superset
3 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) Apache
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (18.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (61.75%) Power Platform
2 70 (19.13%) Azure
3 53 (14.48%) AWS
4 27 (7.38%) GCP
5 20 (5.46%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.37%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.10%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.83%) GitHub
10 12 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.01%) Serverless
12 10 (2.73%) Google Analytics
13 9 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
16 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
16 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
17 5 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.09%) Broadband
3 2 (0.55%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (61.48%) Power BI
2 87 (23.77%) Tableau
3 54 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (12.57%) Power Query
5 32 (8.74%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.28%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.74%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.46%) Metadata
9 15 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (3.83%) Looker
11 13 (3.55%) BigQuery
12 12 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (3.01%) Star Schema
14 9 (2.46%) Qlik Sense
15 8 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.19%) QlikView
16 7 (1.91%) Big Data
16 7 (1.91%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.83%) JIRA
2 13 (3.55%) Git
3 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) Flyway
7 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) Storybook
7 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 136 (37.16%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (36.07%) Social Skills
3 91 (24.86%) Finance
4 42 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.74%) Banking
6 12 (3.28%) Military
7 10 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.46%) Marketing
8 9 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Retail
10 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.37%) Law
12 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.09%) Local Government
13 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (25.96%) Analyst
2 59 (16.12%) Developer
3 57 (15.57%) Data Analyst
4 49 (13.39%) Senior
5 45 (12.30%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.38%) Consultant
7 25 (6.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.28%) Architect
9 22 (6.01%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (5.46%) Lead
11 16 (4.37%) Data Scientist
12 15 (4.10%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.83%) Designer
14 12 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (3.01%) Analytics Consultant
15 11 (3.01%) Data Visualisation Specialist
15 11 (3.01%) Performance Analyst
15 11 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (2.73%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.73%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.20%) REST
2 17 (4.64%) React
3 16 (4.37%) CSS
4 14 (3.83%) HTML
5 11 (3.01%) .NET
5 11 (3.01%) Pandas
6 9 (2.46%) TensorFlow
6 9 (2.46%) Terraform
7 8 (2.19%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.19%) Redux
7 8 (2.19%) scikit-learn
7 8 (2.19%) SOAP
8 7 (1.91%) Middleware
8 7 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.91%) Web Services
9 6 (1.64%) XML
10 5 (1.37%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.37%) PySpark
10 5 (1.37%) Spring
10 5 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.92%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.46%) Clustering
5 9 (2.46%) PKI
5 9 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.64%) Life Science
9 5 (1.37%) CMDB
9 5 (1.37%) LIMS
10 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.37%) Windows
2 14 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 229 (62.57%) Business Intelligence
3 184 (50.27%) Analytics
4 127 (34.70%) Data Modelling
5 112 (30.60%) Decision-Making
6 100 (27.32%) Agile
7 99 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (22.13%) AI
9 69 (18.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 67 (18.31%) Actionable Insight
10 67 (18.31%) Dashboard Development
10 67 (18.31%) Data Analysis
11 63 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 56 (15.30%) Data Governance
13 56 (15.30%) Data Pipeline
13 56 (15.30%) ETL
13 56 (15.30%) Validation
14 50 (13.66%) Data Science
15 49 (13.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.82%) SQL
2 112 (30.60%) Python
3 48 (13.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 29 (7.92%) R
5 28 (7.65%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.56%) Java
7 20 (5.46%) C#
8 16 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.28%) Scala
11 7 (1.91%) VBA
12 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Bash
14 3 (0.82%) C++
14 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.55%) Go
15 2 (0.55%) Rust
15 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 55 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) Degree
4 14 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.09%) PhD
8 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (24.04%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.01%) QA
3 16 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.91%) GMP
5 7 (1.91%) PMO
6 5 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.37%) GxP
6 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.09%) GRC
7 4 (1.09%) WCAG
8 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.64%) Kibana
2 5 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
3 3 (0.82%) Grafana
3 3 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.65%) Oracle
3 26 (7.10%) SAP
4 23 (6.28%) Google
4 23 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.46%) Databricks
6 9 (2.46%) BMC
6 9 (2.46%) Remedy
7 8 (2.19%) Adobe
7 8 (2.19%) Splunk
8 7 (1.91%) Informatica
9 6 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.37%) Palantir
11 4 (1.09%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.09%) Ariba
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.82%) Brio
12 3 (0.82%) Solace