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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 200 236
Rank change year-on-year -103 +36 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 405 433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.36% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.49% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 265 302
10th Percentile £363 £319 £313
25th Percentile £430 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £557 £575
90th Percentile £699 £654 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +12.35% -8.60% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 9
10th Percentile £18.47 £21.75 £22.72
25th Percentile £32.28 £31.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.25 £35.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% -16.93% +50.92%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - £73.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £32.23 £20.16
% change year-on-year +92.40% +59.85% -22.46%

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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 20 June 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 -97 347 £500 +9.89% 126
London -95 178 £523 +4.50% 48
UK excluding London -91 163 £478 +12.35% 109
Work from Home -45 133 £488 +8.33% 51
North of England -62 54 £438 +0.69% 28
South East -56 37 £516 -8.22% 34
Midlands -44 35 £488 +18.18% 21
North West -27 32 £430 -0.86% 25
West Midlands -45 25 £500 +17.65% 9
South West -28 21 £475 +16.14% 9
Yorkshire -61 19 £500 +25.00% 1
East Midlands -17 10 £488 +18.54% 12
East of England -39 10 £463 +28.23% 8
Scotland -14 9 £463 -7.50% 2
North East -36 3 £400 -17.95% 2

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 13 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (17.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 223 (58.84%) Power Platform
2 85 (22.43%) Azure
3 73 (19.26%) AWS
4 25 (6.60%) GCP
5 22 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.49%) Serverless
7 15 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.17%) dbt
10 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.90%) GitHub
11 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.32%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (58.84%) Power BI
2 108 (28.50%) Tableau
3 70 (18.47%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 33 (8.71%) Power Query
6 25 (6.60%) SQL Server
7 24 (6.33%) Looker
7 24 (6.33%) Metadata
8 21 (5.54%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.22%) Big Data
9 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.17%) Hadoop
12 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
14 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (4.22%) JIRA
2 13 (3.43%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Flyway
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (36.15%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (34.83%) Social Skills
3 109 (28.76%) Finance
4 47 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.44%) Banking
6 19 (5.01%) Marketing
7 15 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Retail
9 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.11%) Law
10 8 (2.11%) Publishing
11 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.32%) Automotive
13 5 (1.32%) Front Office
13 5 (1.32%) Military
14 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.06%) Legal
15 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (32.19%) Analyst
2 76 (20.05%) Data Analyst
3 60 (15.83%) Developer
4 50 (13.19%) Senior
5 45 (11.87%) Data Engineer
6 29 (7.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 25 (6.60%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 21 (5.54%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (5.28%) Architect
10 20 (5.28%) Business Analyst
10 20 (5.28%) Consultant
11 12 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (2.90%) Lead
12 11 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.64%) Performance Analyst
14 8 (2.11%) Data Consultant
14 8 (2.11%) Data Manager
14 8 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.80%) React
1 22 (5.80%) REST
2 13 (3.43%) CSS
2 13 (3.43%) Pandas
3 10 (2.64%) HTML
3 10 (2.64%) Kafka
4 9 (2.37%) .NET
4 9 (2.37%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.85%) Spring
5 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.58%) PySpark
6 6 (1.58%) RESTful
6 6 (1.58%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.58%) Vue
7 5 (1.32%) Electron
7 5 (1.32%) Matplotlib
7 5 (1.32%) OpenFin
7 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.32%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.32%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.39%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.85%) Life Science
8 7 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.58%) Clustering
9 6 (1.58%) PKI
10 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.06%) Derivative
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
10 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.58%) Windows
1 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 242 (63.85%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (46.44%) Analytics
4 145 (38.26%) Data Modelling
5 118 (31.13%) Decision-Making
6 115 (30.34%) Agile
7 103 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (21.11%) Actionable Insight
9 79 (20.84%) AI
10 76 (20.05%) Dashboard Development
11 74 (19.53%) ETL
12 69 (18.21%) Data Science
13 65 (17.15%) Data Analysis
14 64 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (16.62%) Data Governance
15 63 (16.62%) Data Pipeline
16 57 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 54 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (14.25%) Validation
18 50 (13.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 209 (55.15%) SQL
2 124 (32.72%) Python
3 39 (10.29%) R
4 37 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (7.39%) Java
6 26 (6.86%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.22%) C#
9 13 (3.43%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.64%) Scala
11 8 (2.11%) VBA
12 6 (1.58%) Rust
13 5 (1.32%) Perl
13 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.06%) C++
14 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.53%) C
15 2 (0.53%) Korn
15 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.61%) Degree
4 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) APMG
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.12%) QA
3 17 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 14 (3.69%) GDPR
6 8 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.69%) Terraform
2 8 (2.11%) Kibana
3 6 (1.58%) SCCM
4 5 (1.32%) Grafana
4 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 58 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.86%) Google
3 25 (6.60%) Databricks
3 25 (6.60%) Oracle
4 19 (5.01%) SAP
5 16 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.37%) Adobe
7 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
7 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.58%) Apple
8 6 (1.58%) BMC
8 6 (1.58%) Informatica
8 6 (1.58%) Remedy
9 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.32%) Palantir
9 5 (1.32%) Solace
10 4 (1.06%) Cognos
10 4 (1.06%) Foundry
11 3 (0.79%) Brio
11 3 (0.79%) MicroStrategy