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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 179 240
Rank change year-on-year -76 +61 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 425 448 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.63% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 295 303
10th Percentile £348 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £560 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 15
10th Percentile £18.16 £24.50 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.72 £25.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £42.87 £32.81 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% -7.91% -39.09%
75th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.13 £82.25 £49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.03 £27.47
% change year-on-year +24.89% +23.90% +35.16%

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 34,650 27,474 38,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.87% 89.55% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 16,847 25,520
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 836 2,133
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +7.69%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -65 369 £500 +11.11% 205
London -44 219 £500 +5.26% 97
UK excluding London -69 162 £469 +10.29% 172
Work from Home -45 133 £500 +11.11% 86
North of England -60 52 £416 -10.48% 24
Midlands -37 35 £500 +21.21% 29
North West -32 32 £413 -11.29% 16
South East -18 30 £513 +12.33% 89
West Midlands -34 26 £500 +21.21% 20
Scotland +10 18 £420 -6.67% 7
Yorkshire -51 17 £500 +19.76% 7
East of England -27 13 £525 +31.33% 8
East Midlands -19 9 £395 +7.63% 9
South West -40 7 £394 -3.61% 16
Northern Ireland -8 5 £463 -7.50% 2
Wales -1 3 - - 1
North East -15 3 £400 -25.58% 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 16 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.06%) Confluence
4 12 (2.82%) Apache
4 12 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.65%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) iTrent
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 224 (52.71%) Power Platform
2 99 (23.29%) Azure
3 76 (17.88%) AWS
4 36 (8.47%) GCP
5 27 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 19 (4.47%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.24%) Serverless
8 17 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.00%) dbt
8 17 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.29%) GitHub
12 12 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.88%) Figma
15 7 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) 2G
1 2 (0.47%) 5G
1 2 (0.47%) LTE
1 2 (0.47%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.47%) SNMP
1 2 (0.47%) VoIP
2 1 (0.24%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (52.71%) Power BI
2 119 (28.00%) Tableau
3 58 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.76%) Relational Database
5 24 (5.65%) Looker
6 19 (4.47%) Big Data
6 19 (4.47%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.24%) Hadoop
8 17 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.00%) Power Query
9 15 (3.53%) Metadata
9 15 (3.53%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.35%) Data Mining
12 9 (2.12%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.12%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.88%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.88%) MySQL
14 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.24%) Git
2 17 (4.00%) JIRA
3 8 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.94%) ERwin
4 4 (0.94%) Gradle
4 4 (0.94%) Storybook
4 4 (0.94%) Xcode
5 3 (0.71%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.71%) MLflow
5 3 (0.71%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.24%) Ant
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Vite
6 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 173 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 132 (31.06%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (31.06%) Finance
3 49 (11.53%) Banking
4 47 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.94%) Retail
6 16 (3.76%) Front Office
7 15 (3.53%) Marketing
8 14 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.29%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.35%) Legal
9 10 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.12%) Publishing
11 8 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.41%) Back Office
14 5 (1.18%) Law
14 5 (1.18%) Military
14 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (30.59%) Analyst
2 83 (19.53%) Data Analyst
2 83 (19.53%) Developer
3 54 (12.71%) Senior
4 37 (8.71%) Data Scientist
5 35 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 30 (7.06%) Architect
7 27 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 26 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 21 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 15 (3.53%) Power BI Developer
12 12 (2.82%) Lead
12 12 (2.82%) SQL Analyst
13 11 (2.59%) Designer
14 10 (2.35%) Consultant
14 10 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
14 10 (2.35%) SQL Data Analyst
15 9 (2.12%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.29%) React
2 27 (6.35%) Pandas
3 19 (4.47%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.24%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.76%) NumPy
5 16 (3.76%) Vue
6 15 (3.53%) Kafka
7 14 (3.29%) Plotly
7 14 (3.29%) REST
8 12 (2.82%) D3.js
9 9 (2.12%) PySpark
9 9 (2.12%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.88%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.65%) Matplotlib
12 6 (1.41%) .NET
12 6 (1.41%) CSS
12 6 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (1.41%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.41%) RESTful
12 6 (1.41%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.24%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.29%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.12%) CMDB
6 8 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.88%) Reference Data
6 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.65%) Life Science
8 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.18%) Genomics
9 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.94%) Equities
10 4 (0.94%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.12%) Linux
2 8 (1.88%) Unix
3 5 (1.18%) Android
4 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 246 (57.88%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (41.18%) Analytics
4 127 (29.88%) Data Modelling
5 116 (27.29%) Agile
6 115 (27.06%) Decision-Making
7 113 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (22.59%) Actionable Insight
9 91 (21.41%) Data Analysis
10 87 (20.47%) Data Science
11 79 (18.59%) Machine Learning
12 75 (17.65%) AI
13 64 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (14.82%) ETL
15 60 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
16 57 (13.41%) Dashboard Development
17 49 (11.53%) Data Governance
18 48 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 43 (10.12%) Data Management
20 42 (9.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 234 (55.06%) SQL
2 169 (39.76%) Python
3 33 (7.76%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.53%) R
5 25 (5.88%) Java
6 20 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (4.24%) Scala
7 18 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.06%) C#
9 7 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.65%) VBA
10 6 (1.41%) Perl
10 6 (1.41%) PHP
11 4 (0.94%) Bash
12 3 (0.71%) C++
12 3 (0.71%) LookML
12 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) Rust
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.88%) Degree
4 12 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.65%) CFA
7 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.94%) CBAP
9 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.47%) APMP
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.24%) ACCA
12 1 (0.24%) CIMA
12 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (16.94%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.12%) QA
4 14 (3.29%) GDPR
5 11 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (2.12%) PMO
7 5 (1.18%) WCAG
8 3 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.71%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.47%) EMIR
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) P3O
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.47%) Terraform
2 16 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.35%) Kibana
4 8 (1.88%) Grafana
5 6 (1.41%) Ansible
5 6 (1.41%) logstash
6 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 74 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.06%) Google
3 28 (6.59%) Databricks
4 19 (4.47%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.88%) Oracle
7 8 (1.88%) Splunk
8 7 (1.65%) Cognos
8 7 (1.65%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.41%) Amplitude
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
13 2 (0.47%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.47%) Talend