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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 175 249
Rank change year-on-year -76 +74 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 436 449 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.63% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 295 298
10th Percentile £348 £325 £313
25th Percentile £402 £399 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 14
10th Percentile £18.16 £24.50 £18.53
25th Percentile £25.72 £25.50 £25.60
Median hourly rate £42.87 £32.81 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% -7.09% -39.63%
75th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.13 £82.25 £48.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.03 £24.43
% change year-on-year +24.89% +39.30% +20.23%

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 35,252 27,502 38,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.92% 89.66% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,364 16,881 25,241
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 838 2,150
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £72.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +6.22%

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 18 February 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 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 17 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 18 February 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 -69 380 £483 +7.22% 205
London -46 225 £500 +5.26% 108
UK excluding London -64 166 £463 +8.82% 168
Work from Home -42 137 £500 +11.73% 90
North of England -55 53 £420 -9.68% 30
Midlands -41 35 £500 +21.21% 28
South East -14 33 £505 +22.42% 87
North West -30 33 £416 -10.48% 21
West Midlands -36 26 £500 +21.21% 16
Scotland +8 18 £420 -6.67% 5
Yorkshire -46 17 £500 +19.76% 8
East of England -31 13 £525 +31.33% 7
East Midlands -21 9 £395 +7.63% 12
South West -38 7 £394 -3.61% 13
Northern Ireland -8 5 £463 -7.50% 2
Wales -2 3 - - 1
North East -15 3 £400 -25.58% 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 23 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.98%) Confluence
4 12 (2.75%) Apache
4 12 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.61%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (13.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Blender
7 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.69%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) iTrent
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 229 (52.52%) Power Platform
2 99 (22.71%) Azure
3 77 (17.66%) AWS
4 36 (8.26%) GCP
5 27 (6.19%) Snowflake
6 19 (4.36%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.36%) Serverless
7 17 (3.90%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (3.90%) dbt
7 17 (3.90%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.21%) GitHub
10 12 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.83%) Figma
13 7 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) 2G
1 2 (0.46%) 5G
1 2 (0.46%) LTE
1 2 (0.46%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.46%) SNMP
1 2 (0.46%) VoIP
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (52.52%) Power BI
2 122 (27.98%) Tableau
3 59 (13.53%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (8.49%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.73%) Looker
6 19 (4.36%) Big Data
6 19 (4.36%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.13%) Hadoop
8 17 (3.90%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.90%) Power Query
9 15 (3.44%) Metadata
9 15 (3.44%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.75%) Data Mining
11 11 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.06%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.06%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.83%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.83%) MySQL
14 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.03%) Git
2 17 (3.90%) JIRA
3 8 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.92%) ERwin
4 4 (0.92%) Gradle
4 4 (0.92%) Storybook
4 4 (0.92%) Xcode
5 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.69%) MLflow
5 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.23%) Ant
6 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.23%) git-flow
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 176 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 135 (30.96%) Analytical Skills
2 135 (30.96%) Finance
3 49 (11.24%) Banking
3 49 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.82%) Marketing
4 21 (4.82%) Retail
5 17 (3.90%) Front Office
6 14 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (3.21%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.29%) Legal
7 10 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.06%) Publishing
9 8 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.38%) Back Office
12 5 (1.15%) Law
12 5 (1.15%) Military
12 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (31.88%) Analyst
2 89 (20.41%) Data Analyst
3 83 (19.04%) Developer
4 55 (12.61%) Senior
5 37 (8.49%) Data Scientist
6 36 (8.26%) Data Engineer
7 32 (7.34%) Business Analyst
8 30 (6.88%) Architect
9 26 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 15 (3.44%) Power BI Developer
14 14 (3.21%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (2.75%) Lead
15 12 (2.75%) SQL Analyst
16 11 (2.52%) Designer
17 10 (2.29%) Consultant
17 10 (2.29%) SQL Data Analyst
18 9 (2.06%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.11%) React
2 27 (6.19%) Pandas
3 19 (4.36%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.13%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.67%) NumPy
5 16 (3.67%) Vue
6 15 (3.44%) Kafka
7 14 (3.21%) Plotly
7 14 (3.21%) REST
8 12 (2.75%) D3.js
9 9 (2.06%) PySpark
9 9 (2.06%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.83%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.61%) Matplotlib
12 6 (1.38%) .NET
12 6 (1.38%) CSS
12 6 (1.38%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.38%) RESTful
12 6 (1.38%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.03%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.06%) CMDB
7 9 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.83%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.61%) Life Science
10 6 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.15%) Genomics
11 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.06%) Linux
2 8 (1.83%) Unix
3 5 (1.15%) Android
4 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 255 (58.49%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (41.28%) Analytics
4 135 (30.96%) Data Modelling
5 122 (27.98%) Agile
6 116 (26.61%) Decision-Making
7 114 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (22.25%) Actionable Insight
9 95 (21.79%) Data Analysis
10 89 (20.41%) Data Science
11 80 (18.35%) Machine Learning
12 75 (17.20%) AI
13 67 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 65 (14.91%) ETL
15 60 (13.76%) Dashboard Development
15 60 (13.76%) Data Pipeline
16 51 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 50 (11.47%) Data Governance
18 48 (11.01%) Data Management
19 43 (9.86%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 239 (54.82%) SQL
2 171 (39.22%) Python
3 33 (7.57%) JavaScript
3 33 (7.57%) R
4 25 (5.73%) Java
5 20 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (4.13%) Scala
6 18 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.98%) C#
8 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.61%) VBA
9 6 (1.38%) Perl
9 6 (1.38%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) Bash
11 3 (0.69%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) LookML
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.46%) Rust
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.09%) Degree
4 12 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.61%) CFA
7 6 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.92%) CBAP
9 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) APMP
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) ACCA
12 1 (0.23%) CIMA
12 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (17.89%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 29 (6.65%) QA
4 14 (3.21%) GDPR
5 12 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (2.29%) PMO
7 5 (1.15%) WCAG
8 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.46%) EMIR
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) HDFS
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.36%) Terraform
2 16 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.52%) Kibana
4 9 (2.06%) Grafana
5 6 (1.38%) Ansible
5 6 (1.38%) logstash
6 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) collectd
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 74 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.88%) Google
3 28 (6.42%) Databricks
4 22 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.52%) Oracle
8 9 (2.06%) Adobe
9 8 (1.83%) Splunk
10 7 (1.61%) Amplitude
10 7 (1.61%) Cognos
10 7 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.15%) Dataiku
11 5 (1.15%) SAP
12 4 (0.92%) Murex
13 3 (0.69%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.69%) IBM
13 3 (0.69%) Refinitiv
13 3 (0.69%) Sage