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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 223 241
Rank change year-on-year -106 +18 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 393 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.20% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.33% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 247 295
10th Percentile £355 £317 £313
25th Percentile £426 £394 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £607
90th Percentile £693 £664 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 8
10th Percentile £28.70 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £43.75 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.77% -21.05% +40.59%
75th Percentile £71.88 £50.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £57.25 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +27.45%

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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -103 343 £500 +9.89% 190
UK excluding London -87 174 £475 +10.47% 124
London -103 165 £525 +5.00% 90
Work from Home -39 129 £488 +9.06% 72
North of England -45 57 £438 +6.18% 33
Midlands -31 42 £420 +1.82% 26
South East -61 38 £538 -4.44% 34
North West -23 34 £438 +23.38% 21
West Midlands -44 27 £450 +5.88% 17
South West -40 21 £475 +16.14% 19
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 +17.65% 7
East Midlands -7 15 £375 -9.09% 9
Scotland -17 11 £463 -7.50% 4
East of England -21 10 £463 +13.50% 6
North East -33 4 £375 -16.67% 5

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 14 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (16.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.53%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.26%) iTrent
5 1 (0.26%) Primavera
5 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 218 (57.52%) Power Platform
2 76 (20.05%) Azure
3 67 (17.68%) AWS
4 24 (6.33%) GCP
5 19 (5.01%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.49%) Serverless
7 16 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.64%) dbt
12 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.37%) GitHub
12 9 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.58%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) HTTP
2 3 (0.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (57.52%) Power BI
2 100 (26.39%) Tableau
3 63 (16.62%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.03%) Relational Database
5 34 (8.97%) Power Query
6 24 (6.33%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.54%) Looker
8 20 (5.28%) Data Lake
9 19 (5.01%) Metadata
10 17 (4.49%) Big Data
11 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
12 14 (3.69%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (2.64%) Hadoop
16 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
16 8 (2.11%) QlikView
16 8 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (2.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (3.96%) JIRA
2 11 (2.90%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
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%) Storybook
6 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 139 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 107 (28.23%) Finance
4 54 (14.25%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.71%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Marketing
7 10 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.11%) Military
10 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.58%) Law
11 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.06%) Front Office
12 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Billing
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (30.08%) Analyst
2 73 (19.26%) Data Analyst
3 56 (14.78%) Developer
4 51 (13.46%) Senior
5 50 (13.19%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 27 (7.12%) Data Scientist
7 23 (6.07%) Architect
7 23 (6.07%) Consultant
8 22 (5.80%) Power BI Developer
9 19 (5.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.75%) Business Analyst
11 17 (4.49%) Lead
12 13 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (2.90%) Data Architect
13 11 (2.90%) Performance Analyst
14 10 (2.64%) Analytics Consultant
14 10 (2.64%) Data Business Analyst
14 10 (2.64%) Designer
15 9 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.12%) REST
2 18 (4.75%) React
3 14 (3.69%) Pandas
4 12 (3.17%) CSS
5 11 (2.90%) .NET
6 9 (2.37%) HTML
6 9 (2.37%) TensorFlow
7 8 (2.11%) Kafka
7 8 (2.11%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.11%) Spring
7 8 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.85%) Middleware
8 7 (1.85%) OpenFin
8 7 (1.85%) PySpark
8 7 (1.85%) SOAP
8 7 (1.85%) Web Services
9 6 (1.58%) Electron
9 6 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.32%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.32%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.37%) Clustering
8 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.37%) PKI
9 8 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.85%) Life Science
10 7 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.85%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.06%) LIMS
12 4 (1.06%) NHS
13 3 (0.79%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.43%) Windows
1 13 (3.43%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 236 (62.27%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (47.23%) Analytics
4 144 (37.99%) Data Modelling
5 115 (30.34%) Agile
6 109 (28.76%) Decision-Making
7 100 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (20.84%) Dashboard Development
9 74 (19.53%) ETL
10 73 (19.26%) Actionable Insight
10 73 (19.26%) AI
11 70 (18.47%) Data Analysis
12 65 (17.15%) Data Science
13 63 (16.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
15 61 (16.09%) Data Governance
16 59 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (14.78%) Validation
18 52 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
19 50 (13.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 209 (55.15%) SQL
2 124 (32.72%) Python
3 40 (10.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 40 (10.55%) R
4 25 (6.60%) Java
5 24 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.22%) C#
8 11 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.11%) Scala
9 8 (2.11%) VBA
10 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.06%) C++
11 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.06%) Rust
12 2 (0.53%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 94 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 66 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.61%) Degree
4 15 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) APMG
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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 82 (21.64%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.86%) QA
3 21 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 12 (3.17%) GDPR
6 6 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (1.06%) GMP
8 4 (1.06%) GxP
8 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 3 (0.79%) SLA
9 3 (0.79%) WCAG
10 2 (0.53%) Basel III
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 13 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.37%) Terraform
2 7 (1.85%) Kibana
3 6 (1.58%) SCCM
4 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.79%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
6 2 (0.53%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.65%) Oracle
3 24 (6.33%) Databricks
4 20 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.01%) Google
6 18 (4.75%) SAP
7 10 (2.64%) Adobe
8 9 (2.37%) BMC
8 9 (2.37%) Remedy
9 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.58%) Informatica
10 6 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.58%) Solace
11 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.32%) Palantir
12 4 (1.06%) Apple
12 4 (1.06%) Foundry
13 3 (0.79%) Brio
13 3 (0.79%) Cognos
13 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud