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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 182 263
Rank change year-on-year -95 +81 +92
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 416 437 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.49% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.65% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 288 275
10th Percentile £349 £325 £317
25th Percentile £410 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £550 £575
90th Percentile £655 £638 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 11
10th Percentile £19.71 £27.09 £24.43
25th Percentile £27.25 £31.64 £25.81
Median hourly rate £54.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.60% -22.09% -15.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.90 £77.55 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 £32.81 £24.43
% change year-on-year +105.26% +34.30% -13.25%

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 38,628 26,479 37,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.41% 90.55% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,477 17,189 24,572
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,295 988 2,354
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.73 £70.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year +18.50% -6.59% -13.90%

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 6 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 6 April 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 6 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 -97 368 £488 +8.33% 176
London -67 211 £500 +5.26% 70
UK excluding London -89 158 £475 +8.57% 137
Work from Home -49 134 £500 +11.73% 93
North of England -69 47 £475 +4.40% 32
Midlands -46 39 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -45 32 £520 +4.00% 47
North West -34 29 £441 -5.11% 23
West Midlands -45 24 £475 +11.76% 14
East Midlands -22 15 £385 +4.90% 18
Yorkshire -50 15 £500 +17.65% 7
East of England -35 14 £463 +15.77% 6
Scotland -3 11 £425 -15.00% 6
South West -40 11 £450 -5.26% 12
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 - 3
North East -19 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -14 1 - - 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 21 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.64%) Apache
3 11 (2.64%) Confluence
4 10 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.44%) Apache Superset
6 5 (1.20%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (16.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Eloqua
2 3 (0.72%) iTrent
3 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 224 (53.85%) Power Platform
2 97 (23.32%) Azure
3 82 (19.71%) AWS
4 31 (7.45%) GCP
5 26 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 23 (5.53%) Serverless
7 22 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.05%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.33%) dbt
10 17 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.09%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) 2G
1 2 (0.48%) 5G
1 2 (0.48%) LTE
1 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.48%) VoIP
1 2 (0.48%) Wireless
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) Intranet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (53.85%) Power BI
2 119 (28.61%) Tableau
3 69 (16.59%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (7.45%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.53%) Metadata
6 21 (5.05%) Big Data
7 20 (4.81%) Looker
7 20 (4.81%) Power Query
8 18 (4.33%) Data Lake
9 17 (4.09%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (3.37%) Hadoop
12 13 (3.13%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.40%) NoSQL
14 10 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.16%) MySQL
16 8 (1.92%) Data Vault
17 7 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 28 (6.73%) Git
2 18 (4.33%) JIRA
3 8 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.96%) ERwin
5 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 171 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 146 (35.10%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (30.29%) Finance
4 60 (14.42%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.89%) Banking
6 22 (5.29%) Marketing
7 20 (4.81%) Retail
8 14 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.13%) Front Office
10 11 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.16%) Law
13 8 (1.92%) Publishing
14 7 (1.68%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.20%) Legal
15 5 (1.20%) Military
15 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.96%) Automotive
16 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (31.01%) Analyst
2 74 (17.79%) Data Analyst
3 73 (17.55%) Developer
4 66 (15.87%) Senior
5 42 (10.10%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.93%) Data Scientist
7 27 (6.49%) Architect
8 24 (5.77%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 19 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 14 (3.37%) Lead
11 14 (3.37%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.13%) Consultant
12 13 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (2.88%) Designer
14 11 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.40%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.16%) Insight Analyst
16 9 (2.16%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.49%) React
2 26 (6.25%) Pandas
3 20 (4.81%) AngularJS
3 20 (4.81%) REST
4 18 (4.33%) Kafka
5 16 (3.85%) Plotly
6 15 (3.61%) NumPy
6 15 (3.61%) Vue
7 13 (3.13%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.40%) PySpark
9 9 (2.16%) .NET
9 9 (2.16%) Matplotlib
9 9 (2.16%) Seaborn
10 8 (1.92%) Web Services
11 7 (1.68%) CSS
11 7 (1.68%) D3.js
11 7 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.68%) RESTful
11 7 (1.68%) WebSockets
12 6 (1.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.01%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.81%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.68%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Derivative
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.96%) Animation
10 4 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.96%) Life Science
10 4 (0.96%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.16%) Linux
2 8 (1.92%) Unix
3 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 253 (60.82%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (42.31%) Analytics
4 140 (33.65%) Data Modelling
5 120 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (28.13%) Decision-Making
7 116 (27.88%) Agile
8 98 (23.56%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (20.19%) Data Science
10 81 (19.47%) Data Analysis
11 74 (17.79%) ETL
12 71 (17.07%) AI
13 67 (16.11%) Data Governance
14 65 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
16 63 (15.14%) Machine Learning
17 60 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 49 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 45 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 45 (10.82%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (55.29%) SQL
2 149 (35.82%) Python
3 40 (9.62%) R
4 28 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (4.57%) Java
7 16 (3.85%) C#
8 13 (3.13%) Scala
9 11 (2.64%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.40%) VBA
11 9 (2.16%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.44%) Perl
12 6 (1.44%) PHP
12 6 (1.44%) Rust
13 4 (0.96%) Bash
13 4 (0.96%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) C++
14 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 81 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.10%) Degree
4 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.96%) CFA
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) APMP
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (20.91%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.93%) QA
3 24 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.09%) PMO
5 16 (3.85%) GDPR
6 11 (2.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.96%) WCAG
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.48%) EMIR
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.61%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.09%) Terraform
3 11 (2.64%) Kibana
4 10 (2.40%) Grafana
5 6 (1.44%) Ansible
5 6 (1.44%) logstash
6 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.96%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) collectd
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 71 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.69%) Databricks
3 27 (6.49%) Google
4 18 (4.33%) Oracle
5 17 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.40%) Adobe
8 9 (2.16%) SAP
9 8 (1.92%) Amplitude
10 7 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.44%) Cognos
12 5 (1.20%) Apple
13 4 (0.96%) Brio
13 4 (0.96%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.96%) Murex
13 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.96%) Sage
13 4 (0.96%) Solace
14 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
14 3 (0.72%) IBM