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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 204 238
Rank change year-on-year -113 +34 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 407 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.32% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.46% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 266 308
10th Percentile £350 £316 £313
25th Percentile £420 £388 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £718 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £465
% change year-on-year +9.20% -6.45% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 10
10th Percentile £18.04 £21.10 £23.58
25th Percentile £29.75 £31.56 £37.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +55.51%
75th Percentile £71.88 £46.36 £46.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.75 £49.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £20.16
% change year-on-year +65.93% +56.94% -20.94%

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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -96 347 £494 +8.52% 262
London -99 173 £523 +4.50% 145
UK excluding London -81 170 £475 +9.20% 157
Work from Home -50 127 £488 +8.70% 122
North of England -58 57 £438 +0.69% 40
Midlands -39 40 £425 +3.03% 33
South East -57 38 £520 -7.56% 47
North West -18 35 £437 +16.40% 31
West Midlands -38 25 £500 +17.65% 17
South West -29 22 £475 +16.14% 12
Yorkshire -53 19 £500 +21.21% 6
East Midlands -7 15 £375 -8.81% 16
Scotland -14 10 £463 -7.50% 3
East of England -30 6 £463 +15.63% 9
North East -33 3 £375 -23.08% 3

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 13 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (16.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 229 (60.42%) Power Platform
2 87 (22.96%) Azure
3 74 (19.53%) AWS
4 25 (6.60%) GCP
5 21 (5.54%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.49%) Serverless
8 16 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.90%) dbt
12 10 (2.64%) GitHub
13 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (60.42%) Power BI
2 105 (27.70%) Tableau
3 71 (18.73%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (9.50%) Power Query
5 35 (9.23%) Relational Database
6 27 (7.12%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.80%) Looker
8 21 (5.54%) Data Lake
9 19 (5.01%) Metadata
10 17 (4.49%) Big Data
11 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
12 15 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.17%) Hadoop
14 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
16 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
17 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
17 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 7 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (4.49%) JIRA
2 12 (3.17%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Flyway
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) Storybook
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 138 (36.41%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 112 (29.55%) Finance
4 52 (13.72%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.71%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Marketing
7 13 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.90%) Retail
9 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.58%) Law
11 6 (1.58%) Military
11 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.32%) Front Office
13 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.06%) Legal
14 3 (0.79%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (32.19%) Analyst
2 77 (20.32%) Data Analyst
3 57 (15.04%) Developer
4 49 (12.93%) Senior
5 46 (12.14%) Data Engineer
6 31 (8.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (7.12%) Data Scientist
8 24 (6.33%) Power BI Developer
9 23 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 22 (5.80%) Architect
11 21 (5.54%) Consultant
12 20 (5.28%) Business Analyst
13 14 (3.69%) Lead
14 12 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (2.64%) Performance Analyst
17 9 (2.37%) Data Architect
18 8 (2.11%) Analytics Consultant
18 8 (2.11%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.80%) REST
2 21 (5.54%) React
3 13 (3.43%) Pandas
4 12 (3.17%) CSS
5 9 (2.37%) .NET
5 9 (2.37%) HTML
5 9 (2.37%) Kafka
6 8 (2.11%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.85%) Spring
7 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.85%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.58%) OpenFin
8 6 (1.58%) PySpark
8 6 (1.58%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.32%) Electron
9 5 (1.32%) Matplotlib
9 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.32%) RESTful
9 5 (1.32%) Seaborn
9 5 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.39%) Data Structures
2 18 (4.75%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.85%) Life Science
8 6 (1.58%) Clustering
8 6 (1.58%) PKI
9 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
11 3 (0.79%) Blog
11 3 (0.79%) CMDB
11 3 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.79%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.85%) Windows
1 7 (1.85%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 245 (64.64%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (45.91%) Analytics
4 145 (38.26%) Data Modelling
5 117 (30.87%) Decision-Making
6 114 (30.08%) Agile
7 101 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.37%) AI
9 79 (20.84%) Actionable Insight
10 78 (20.58%) ETL
11 76 (20.05%) Dashboard Development
12 69 (18.21%) Data Science
13 67 (17.68%) Data Analysis
14 65 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (17.15%) Data Governance
14 65 (17.15%) Data Pipeline
15 63 (16.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 56 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 53 (13.98%) Validation
18 51 (13.46%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 205 (54.09%) SQL
2 124 (32.72%) Python
3 42 (11.08%) R
4 41 (10.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (6.86%) Java
6 23 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.17%) C#
9 8 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.11%) Scala
9 8 (2.11%) VBA
10 5 (1.32%) Rust
10 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.06%) C++
11 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.53%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Korn
12 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 82 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.87%) Degree
4 12 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) ACCA
8 1 (0.26%) APMG
8 1 (0.26%) CIMA
8 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.60%) QA
3 18 (4.75%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 14 (3.69%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) GMP
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.17%) Terraform
2 6 (1.58%) Kibana
2 6 (1.58%) SCCM
3 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.06%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.12%) Oracle
3 25 (6.60%) Databricks
4 24 (6.33%) Google
5 19 (5.01%) SAP
6 17 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.37%) Adobe
8 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.58%) BMC
10 6 (1.58%) Informatica
10 6 (1.58%) Remedy
11 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.32%) Apple
11 5 (1.32%) Palantir
11 5 (1.32%) Solace
12 4 (1.06%) Cognos
12 4 (1.06%) Foundry
13 3 (0.79%) Brio
13 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud