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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 217 221
Rank change year-on-year -121 +4 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 375 405 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.23% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.36% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 257 275
10th Percentile £344 £313 £315
25th Percentile £404 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £550 £633
90th Percentile £708 £635 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 11
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.90 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.19 £31.64 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.75 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% -20.00% +31.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £73.38 £64.15 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £31.64 £26.17
% change year-on-year +95.95% +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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 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 10 September 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 10 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 -112 336 £488 +7.14% 307
UK excluding London -97 177 £470 +6.82% 166
London -109 159 £519 +3.75% 188
Work from Home -49 125 £474 +11.47% 145
North of England -76 50 £438 +13.03% 30
Midlands -29 44 £420 +1.82% 27
South East -63 37 £550 -8.33% 62
North West -43 30 £438 +17.58% 14
West Midlands -26 27 £470 -7.39% 15
South West -29 25 £475 +5.56% 23
East Midlands -9 17 £375 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire -63 16 £480 +23.87% 12
East of England -31 12 - - 9
Scotland -49 12 £415 -17.00% 8
North East -43 5 £350 -17.65% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 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 9 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Superset
3 5 (1.33%) Confluence
3 5 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.80%) Apache
5 3 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (18.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (60.80%) Power Platform
2 70 (18.67%) Azure
3 53 (14.13%) AWS
4 27 (7.20%) GCP
5 20 (5.33%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.53%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.47%) GitHub
9 13 (3.47%) Serverless
10 11 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.13%) Google Analytics
13 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.60%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.60%) dbt
14 6 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) HTTP
2 4 (1.07%) Broadband
3 2 (0.53%) 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
1 227 (60.53%) Power BI
2 92 (24.53%) Tableau
3 57 (15.20%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (11.73%) Power Query
5 33 (8.80%) Relational Database
6 24 (6.40%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.13%) Metadata
8 19 (5.07%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (3.73%) Looker
11 13 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.20%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.67%) Big Data
13 10 (2.67%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.13%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
15 7 (1.87%) Parquet
15 7 (1.87%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.87%) QlikView
15 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.73%) JIRA
2 12 (3.20%) Git
3 5 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.07%) GitLab
5 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.53%) 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
1 143 (38.13%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (35.47%) Social Skills
3 91 (24.27%) Finance
4 41 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.53%) Banking
6 11 (2.93%) Marketing
6 11 (2.93%) Military
7 10 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.87%) Retail
11 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.60%) Law
12 4 (1.07%) Local Government
12 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.80%) Front Office
13 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (24.80%) Analyst
2 60 (16.00%) Developer
3 57 (15.20%) Data Analyst
4 51 (13.60%) Senior
5 47 (12.53%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.47%) Consultant
7 24 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.13%) Architect
8 23 (6.13%) Power BI Developer
9 21 (5.60%) Lead
10 20 (5.33%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.00%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.00%) Designer
12 12 (3.20%) Analytics Consultant
12 12 (3.20%) Data Visualisation Specialist
12 12 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (2.67%) Data Consultant
13 10 (2.67%) Performance Analyst
13 10 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.53%) REST
2 17 (4.53%) React
3 16 (4.27%) CSS
4 14 (3.73%) HTML
5 13 (3.47%) .NET
6 12 (3.20%) Pandas
7 10 (2.67%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.40%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.40%) SOAP
8 9 (2.40%) Terraform
9 8 (2.13%) Middleware
9 8 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.13%) Redux
9 8 (2.13%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.13%) Web Services
10 6 (1.60%) Kafka
10 6 (1.60%) PySpark
10 6 (1.60%) Spring
10 6 (1.60%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.20%) Reference Data
5 11 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.40%) Clustering
7 9 (2.40%) PKI
8 8 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.60%) Life Science
11 5 (1.33%) CMDB
11 5 (1.33%) LIMS
12 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.27%) Windows
2 14 (3.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 233 (62.13%) Business Intelligence
3 189 (50.40%) Analytics
4 135 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 115 (30.67%) Decision-Making
6 103 (27.47%) Agile
7 98 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (22.13%) AI
9 70 (18.67%) Dashboard Development
10 69 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 67 (17.87%) Data Analysis
12 66 (17.60%) Actionable Insight
12 66 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (15.73%) ETL
14 59 (15.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (15.20%) Data Science
16 56 (14.93%) Data Governance
17 54 (14.40%) Data Engineering
18 52 (13.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 193 (51.47%) SQL
2 119 (31.73%) Python
3 48 (12.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (9.07%) R
5 27 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.67%) Java
7 21 (5.60%) C#
8 16 (4.27%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.93%) Scala
11 7 (1.87%) VBA
12 6 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.07%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.80%) Bash
15 3 (0.80%) C++
15 3 (0.80%) Rust
16 2 (0.53%) Go
16 2 (0.53%) Korn
16 2 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.27%) Degree
4 15 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.80%) PhD
8 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
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 90 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.87%) QA
3 16 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.73%) GDPR
5 8 (2.13%) PMO
6 7 (1.87%) GMP
7 5 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.33%) GxP
7 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.07%) GRC
8 4 (1.07%) WCAG
9 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.53%) Basel III
11 1 (0.27%) COBIT
11 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.07%) Kibana
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Grafana
3 3 (0.80%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 86 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.73%) Oracle
3 26 (6.93%) SAP
4 23 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.60%) Databricks
5 21 (5.60%) Google
6 9 (2.40%) BMC
6 9 (2.40%) Remedy
7 7 (1.87%) Adobe
7 7 (1.87%) Splunk
8 5 (1.33%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.33%) Informatica
8 5 (1.33%) Palantir
9 4 (1.07%) Amplitude
9 4 (1.07%) Ariba
9 4 (1.07%) Foundry
9 4 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.07%) Solace
10 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.80%) Brio