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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 226 237
Rank change year-on-year -112 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 366 401 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.22% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.35% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 256 281
10th Percentile £356 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £387 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £613 £550 £620
90th Percentile £703 £638 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 11
10th Percentile £21.08 £16.90 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.06 £31.64 £33.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.41% -20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.60 £64.15 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £31.64 £26.17
% change year-on-year +113.34% +20.92% -7.08%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 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 1 September 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 1 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 -114 333 £488 +7.14% 606
UK excluding London -78 173 £470 +6.82% 284
London -108 158 £523 +4.50% 399
Work from Home -36 124 £481 +13.24% 258
North of England -72 51 £438 +14.89% 67
Midlands -33 41 £440 +5.07% 42
South East -60 36 £550 -8.33% 62
North West -43 31 £438 +17.58% 41
West Midlands -34 26 £470 -7.34% 27
South West -25 25 £475 +5.56% 46
Yorkshire -53 17 £460 +20.66% 20
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -9.09% 15
East of England -24 13 £475 -9.52% 23
Scotland -26 12 £415 -17.00% 22
North East -43 4 £375 -11.76% 6

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 6 (1.64%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.64%) Confluence
3 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (16.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.27%) iTrent
5 1 (0.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 217 (59.29%) Power Platform
2 69 (18.85%) Azure
3 53 (14.48%) AWS
4 27 (7.38%) GCP
5 18 (4.92%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.37%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.55%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.55%) Serverless
10 11 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.01%) GitHub
11 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.64%) dbt
12 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.64%) OCI
13 5 (1.37%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (1.37%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) 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
1 216 (59.02%) Power BI
2 90 (24.59%) Tableau
3 59 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.38%) Power Query
5 33 (9.02%) Relational Database
6 24 (6.56%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.28%) Metadata
8 20 (5.46%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.37%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (3.55%) Looker
10 13 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.28%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.73%) Big Data
12 10 (2.73%) Star Schema
13 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.19%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.19%) QlikView
14 7 (1.91%) Parquet
14 7 (1.91%) PowerPivot
14 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.10%) JIRA
2 12 (3.28%) 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%) 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
2 126 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 91 (24.86%) Finance
4 42 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.02%) Banking
6 12 (3.28%) Military
7 10 (2.73%) Marketing
8 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.91%) Law
9 7 (1.91%) Retail
10 6 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Local Government
13 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Front Office
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (24.59%) Analyst
2 59 (16.12%) Developer
3 54 (14.75%) Data Analyst
4 49 (13.39%) Senior
5 47 (12.84%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.65%) Consultant
7 24 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.28%) Architect
8 23 (6.28%) Power BI Developer
9 21 (5.74%) Lead
10 20 (5.46%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.10%) Designer
12 12 (3.28%) Analytics Consultant
12 12 (3.28%) Data Visualisation Specialist
12 12 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.73%) Data Consultant
14 10 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.46%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.74%) REST
2 17 (4.64%) React
3 16 (4.37%) CSS
4 14 (3.83%) HTML
5 13 (3.55%) .NET
6 12 (3.28%) Pandas
7 10 (2.73%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.46%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.46%) SOAP
8 9 (2.46%) Terraform
9 8 (2.19%) Middleware
9 8 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.19%) Redux
9 8 (2.19%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.19%) Web Services
10 6 (1.64%) Kafka
10 6 (1.64%) PySpark
10 6 (1.64%) Spring
10 6 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.20%) Data Structures
2 23 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.28%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.46%) Clustering
6 9 (2.46%) PKI
7 8 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.64%) Life Science
10 5 (1.37%) CMDB
10 5 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.37%) Windows
2 14 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 222 (60.66%) Business Intelligence
3 183 (50.00%) Analytics
4 133 (36.34%) Data Modelling
5 106 (28.96%) Decision-Making
6 99 (27.05%) Agile
7 95 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (21.58%) AI
9 67 (18.31%) Dashboard Development
10 64 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 62 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (16.94%) Data Analysis
12 61 (16.67%) ETL
13 60 (16.39%) Actionable Insight
14 59 (16.12%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 55 (15.03%) Data Governance
16 55 (15.03%) Data Science
17 53 (14.48%) Data Engineering
18 48 (13.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (50.55%) SQL
2 113 (30.87%) Python
3 44 (12.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 33 (9.02%) R
5 27 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.83%) Java
7 21 (5.74%) C#
8 16 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.55%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.01%) Scala
11 7 (1.91%) VBA
12 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.09%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.82%) Bash
15 3 (0.82%) C++
15 3 (0.82%) Rust
16 2 (0.55%) Go
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 87 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) Degree
4 15 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.82%) PhD
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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 87 (23.77%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.28%) QA
3 16 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.83%) GDPR
5 9 (2.46%) PMO
6 7 (1.91%) GMP
7 5 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.37%) GxP
7 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.09%) GRC
8 4 (1.09%) WCAG
9 2 (0.55%) 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
Systems Management
1 5 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.09%) Kibana
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
4 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 77 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.20%) Oracle
3 23 (6.28%) SAP
4 22 (6.01%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.74%) Databricks
6 18 (4.92%) Google
7 9 (2.46%) BMC
7 9 (2.46%) Remedy
8 6 (1.64%) Adobe
9 5 (1.37%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.37%) Informatica
9 5 (1.37%) Palantir
9 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.09%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
10 4 (1.09%) Solace
10 4 (1.09%) Splunk
11 3 (0.82%) Ariba
11 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.82%) Brio