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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 201 247
Rank change year-on-year -105 +46 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 383 386 415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.34% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.47% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 248 300
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -7.85% -
75th Percentile £584 £550 £585
90th Percentile £694 £629 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 9
10th Percentile £19.98 £20.45 £22.72
25th Percentile £26.23 £31.51 £26.24
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.11% -22.45% +31.58%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £75.20 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 £32.23 £20.16
% change year-on-year +108.98% +59.85% -16.83%

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 41,377 26,173 36,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 91.02% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,864 16,755 23,656
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,474 1,096 2,500
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.65 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £74.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 29 May 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 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 16 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 29 May 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 -101 346 £500 +8.11% 163
London -84 181 £510 +2.00% 78
UK excluding London -76 163 £475 +5.56% 105
Work from Home -29 130 £500 +11.11% 70
North of England -65 46 £480 +6.08% 33
Midlands -41 38 £469 +11.94% 16
South East -38 35 £520 +4.00% 32
North West -20 28 £420 -9.68% 17
West Midlands -47 26 £500 +17.65% 11
South West -33 20 £475 +16.14% 12
Yorkshire -56 15 £500 +16.28% 9
East Midlands -22 12 £385 -1.22% 5
East of England -32 12 £463 +15.63% 7
Scotland -4 11 £450 -10.00% 5
North East -30 3 £400 -23.81% 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 £463 +32.14% 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 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.09%) Apache
4 7 (1.83%) Confluence
5 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.57%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (17.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.78%) iTrent
5 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 222 (57.96%) Power Platform
2 85 (22.19%) Azure
3 73 (19.06%) AWS
4 27 (7.05%) GCP
5 23 (6.01%) Snowflake
6 19 (4.96%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.18%) Serverless
9 13 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 12 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.13%) dbt
11 10 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.35%) GitHub
12 9 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.31%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) 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
1 222 (57.96%) Power BI
2 116 (30.29%) Tableau
3 73 (19.06%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 30 (7.83%) Power Query
6 25 (6.53%) Looker
6 25 (6.53%) Metadata
6 25 (6.53%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.22%) Data Lake
8 18 (4.70%) Big Data
9 16 (4.18%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.66%) Hadoop
11 13 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.35%) Mixpanel
14 9 (2.35%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (5.48%) Git
2 14 (3.66%) JIRA
3 4 (1.04%) ERwin
4 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.52%) GitLab
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
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
1 135 (35.25%) Analytical Skills
1 135 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 116 (30.29%) Finance
3 40 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.88%) Banking
5 19 (4.96%) Marketing
6 14 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.66%) Retail
7 9 (2.35%) Law
7 9 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.35%) Publishing
8 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.57%) Front Office
9 6 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.31%) Automotive
11 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (31.59%) Analyst
2 76 (19.84%) Data Analyst
3 58 (15.14%) Developer
4 54 (14.10%) Senior
5 45 (11.75%) Data Engineer
6 31 (8.09%) Data Scientist
7 24 (6.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 22 (5.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 21 (5.48%) Business Analyst
10 20 (5.22%) Architect
11 18 (4.70%) Consultant
12 17 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
13 13 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (2.87%) Lead
16 10 (2.61%) Performance Analyst
16 10 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
17 8 (2.09%) Data Manager
17 8 (2.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.48%) React
2 20 (5.22%) REST
3 17 (4.44%) Pandas
4 12 (3.13%) CSS
4 12 (3.13%) Kafka
5 9 (2.35%) .NET
5 9 (2.35%) AngularJS
5 9 (2.35%) HTML
6 7 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (1.83%) PySpark
6 7 (1.83%) Spring
6 7 (1.83%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.83%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.57%) Matplotlib
7 6 (1.57%) RESTful
7 6 (1.57%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.57%) Seaborn
7 6 (1.57%) Vue
8 5 (1.31%) Electron
8 5 (1.31%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.31%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.18%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.09%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (2.09%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.83%) Life Science
10 6 (1.57%) Clustering
10 6 (1.57%) PKI
11 4 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.04%) Derivative
11 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.57%) Windows
1 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.78%) Linux
3 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 240 (62.66%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (43.86%) Analytics
4 151 (39.43%) Data Modelling
5 121 (31.59%) Agile
6 120 (31.33%) Decision-Making
7 105 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (21.67%) Actionable Insight
9 74 (19.32%) Dashboard Development
9 74 (19.32%) ETL
10 73 (19.06%) AI
10 73 (19.06%) Data Science
11 67 (17.49%) Data Governance
12 66 (17.23%) Data Pipeline
13 64 (16.71%) Data Analysis
14 57 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (13.05%) Machine Learning
16 50 (13.05%) Validation
17 49 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 220 (57.44%) SQL
2 134 (34.99%) Python
3 46 (12.01%) R
4 34 (8.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (6.53%) Java
5 25 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.18%) C#
6 16 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.13%) Scala
9 8 (2.09%) VBA
10 6 (1.57%) Perl
10 6 (1.57%) Rust
11 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.04%) C++
12 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Korn
15 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.75%) Degree
4 14 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.26%) ACCA
10 1 (0.26%) APMP
10 1 (0.26%) CIMA
10 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (23.50%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.57%) QA
3 19 (4.96%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.18%) PMO
5 13 (3.39%) GDPR
6 9 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.78%) SLA
8 3 (0.78%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
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%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.57%) Docker
3 2 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) Terraform
2 11 (2.87%) Kibana
3 8 (2.09%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.57%) logstash
4 6 (1.57%) SCCM
5 5 (1.31%) Grafana
6 3 (0.78%) Ansible
6 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 57 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.09%) Databricks
3 27 (7.05%) Google
4 19 (4.96%) Oracle
5 18 (4.70%) SAP
6 16 (4.18%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.61%) Amplitude
8 8 (2.09%) Adobe
8 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.57%) Apple
9 6 (1.57%) BMC
9 6 (1.57%) Remedy
10 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.31%) Cognos
10 5 (1.31%) Informatica
10 5 (1.31%) Solace
11 3 (0.78%) IBM
11 3 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.78%) Murex
11 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud