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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 226 221
Rank change year-on-year -109 -5 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 368 394 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.20% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.32% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 254 290
10th Percentile £343 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £613
90th Percentile £698 £634 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +5.62% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 8
10th Percentile £22.67 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.97% -21.05% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £60.75 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +22.64%

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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

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 8 August 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 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 15 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 8 August 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 -107 338 £488 +7.73% 304
UK excluding London -84 169 £470 +5.62% 162
London -104 165 £514 +4.85% 172
Work from Home -54 124 £475 +8.94% 112
North of England -70 54 £439 +11.70% 37
Midlands -30 40 £400 -3.03% 27
South East -61 36 £550 -2.22% 50
North West -27 31 £438 +26.50% 21
West Midlands -37 25 £445 +4.71% 20
South West -37 21 £475 +5.56% 23
Yorkshire -48 20 £500 +26.98% 13
East Midlands -6 15 £375 -9.09% 7
East of England -17 13 £463 -0.80% 16
Scotland -20 10 £450 -10.00% 6
North East -42 4 £375 -16.67% 3

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 11 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.90%) Confluence
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Superset
4 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.82%) Apache
6 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.82%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 218 (59.24%) Power Platform
2 74 (20.11%) Azure
3 59 (16.03%) AWS
4 25 (6.79%) GCP
5 19 (5.16%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.89%) Serverless
7 16 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.72%) GitHub
11 9 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.63%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (59.24%) Power BI
2 97 (26.36%) Tableau
3 61 (16.58%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (10.60%) Relational Database
5 36 (9.78%) Power Query
6 23 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.98%) Metadata
8 20 (5.43%) Looker
9 18 (4.89%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.53%) Big Data
12 13 (3.53%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.45%) QlikView
14 9 (2.45%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.17%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.17%) PowerPivot
15 8 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.08%) JIRA
2 10 (2.72%) Git
3 4 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Flyway
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) Storybook
6 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 135 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 102 (27.72%) Finance
4 49 (13.32%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.61%) Banking
6 17 (4.62%) Marketing
7 9 (2.45%) Military
7 9 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.90%) Law
9 7 (1.90%) Retail
10 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Front Office
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
14 2 (0.54%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (27.72%) Analyst
2 62 (16.85%) Data Analyst
3 60 (16.30%) Developer
4 49 (13.32%) Senior
5 46 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 26 (7.07%) Consultant
7 25 (6.79%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (5.98%) Architect
10 17 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 17 (4.62%) Lead
11 15 (4.08%) Business Analyst
11 15 (4.08%) Designer
12 12 (3.26%) Analytics Consultant
12 12 (3.26%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (2.99%) Performance Analyst
14 9 (2.45%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 9 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.61%) REST
2 15 (4.08%) React
3 14 (3.80%) CSS
4 12 (3.26%) .NET
4 12 (3.26%) HTML
4 12 (3.26%) Pandas
5 11 (2.99%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.72%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.17%) SOAP
8 7 (1.90%) Middleware
8 7 (1.90%) Web Services
9 6 (1.63%) PySpark
9 6 (1.63%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.63%) Spring
9 6 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.36%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.36%) Kafka
10 5 (1.36%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.36%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.34%) Data Structures
2 22 (5.98%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.45%) Clustering
8 9 (2.45%) PKI
9 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.17%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.36%) NHS
13 4 (1.09%) CMDB
13 4 (1.09%) Life Science
13 4 (1.09%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.80%) Windows
2 13 (3.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 231 (62.77%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (48.91%) Analytics
4 138 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 110 (29.89%) Decision-Making
6 109 (29.62%) Agile
7 101 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (19.57%) Dashboard Development
9 69 (18.75%) AI
10 67 (18.21%) ETL
11 65 (17.66%) Actionable Insight
12 62 (16.85%) Data Analysis
13 61 (16.58%) Data Science
14 59 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 59 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 58 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 56 (15.22%) Data Governance
16 56 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
17 52 (14.13%) Validation
18 48 (13.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 197 (53.53%) SQL
2 113 (30.71%) Python
3 43 (11.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 37 (10.05%) R
5 27 (7.34%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.98%) Java
7 18 (4.89%) C#
8 14 (3.80%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.45%) Scala
11 7 (1.90%) VBA
12 5 (1.36%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.09%) Rust
14 3 (0.82%) C++
15 2 (0.54%) Bash
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
15 2 (0.54%) Ruby
15 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 87 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.23%) Degree
4 15 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.28%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.25%) QA
3 16 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.80%) PMO
5 11 (2.99%) GDPR
6 4 (1.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.09%) GMP
6 4 (1.09%) GxP
6 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.82%) WCAG
8 2 (0.54%) Basel III
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (1.36%) Kibana
3 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.09%) SCCM
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 65 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.70%) Oracle
3 23 (6.25%) Databricks
4 21 (5.71%) SAP
4 21 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.16%) Google
6 10 (2.72%) Adobe
7 9 (2.45%) BMC
7 9 (2.45%) Remedy
8 8 (2.17%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.63%) Informatica
9 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.36%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.36%) Palantir
11 4 (1.09%) Apple
11 4 (1.09%) Brio
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Solace
12 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.82%) Splunk