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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 176 252
Rank change year-on-year -114 +76 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 385 435 400
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.47% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.62% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 280 270
10th Percentile £335 £331 £313
25th Percentile £410 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £575
90th Percentile £682 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £26.94 £23.58
25th Percentile £29.38 £31.64 £26.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.91% -19.58% +31.58%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £75.20 £52.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 £32.23 £24.43
% change year-on-year +108.98% +31.91% -13.25%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -108 340 £488 +7.14% 150
London -106 178 £500 +3.09% 52
UK excluding London -74 160 £475 +5.56% 132
Work from Home -41 129 £500 +11.11% 114
North of England -65 45 £475 +4.40% 36
Midlands -37 40 £450 +5.88% 25
South East -49 33 £516 +3.25% 40
North West -29 29 £420 -13.50% 27
West Midlands -46 24 £488 +14.71% 10
East Midlands -23 16 £375 +2.18% 15
South West -54 15 £450 -5.26% 17
East of England -45 14 £475 +18.82% 6
Yorkshire -60 14 £500 +16.28% 3
Scotland -1 10 £495 -5.71% 2
Northern Ireland +5 3 £463 - 7
North East -23 2 - - 6

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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.86%) Apache
4 8 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.08%) Confluence
5 6 (1.56%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 70 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.26%) Blender
6 1 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.26%) InDesign
6 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.78%) Eloqua
3 3 (0.78%) iTrent
3 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 213 (55.32%) Power Platform
2 88 (22.86%) Azure
3 69 (17.92%) AWS
4 30 (7.79%) GCP
5 21 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (5.45%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.94%) Serverless
7 18 (4.68%) Snowflake
8 17 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.16%) PowerApps
10 13 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.38%) dbt
11 12 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.08%) GitHub
15 6 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) 2G
2 1 (0.26%) 5G
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) LTE
2 1 (0.26%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
2 1 (0.26%) SNMP
2 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (55.32%) Power BI
2 114 (29.61%) Tableau
3 65 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (7.01%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.71%) Metadata
5 22 (5.71%) Power Query
6 21 (5.45%) Looker
7 19 (4.94%) Big Data
7 19 (4.94%) Data Lake
8 18 (4.68%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.64%) Hadoop
10 13 (3.38%) BigQuery
11 12 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.08%) MySQL
14 7 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.82%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (6.75%) Git
2 14 (3.64%) JIRA
3 5 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.04%) ERwin
5 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) GitLab
7 1 (0.26%) Postman
7 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.26%) Vite
7 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 142 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 136 (35.32%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (30.91%) Finance
4 53 (13.77%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.75%) Banking
6 22 (5.71%) Marketing
7 16 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.90%) Retail
9 13 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.34%) Front Office
10 9 (2.34%) Law
11 7 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.82%) Publishing
12 6 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.56%) Military
13 5 (1.30%) Legal
14 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.04%) Automotive
15 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (31.43%) Analyst
2 72 (18.70%) Data Analyst
3 59 (15.32%) Developer
4 58 (15.06%) Senior
5 42 (10.91%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.57%) Data Scientist
7 21 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 19 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 17 (4.42%) Architect
11 17 (4.42%) Consultant
12 13 (3.38%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (3.38%) Lead
13 12 (3.12%) Power BI Developer
14 10 (2.60%) Performance Analyst
15 9 (2.34%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
16 8 (2.08%) Insight Analyst
16 8 (2.08%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.23%) React
2 19 (4.94%) Pandas
3 16 (4.16%) Kafka
3 16 (4.16%) REST
4 13 (3.38%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 9 (2.34%) .NET
6 9 (2.34%) PySpark
6 9 (2.34%) Vue
7 8 (2.08%) CSS
7 8 (2.08%) NumPy
7 8 (2.08%) Plotly
8 7 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.82%) Matplotlib
8 7 (1.82%) Seaborn
9 6 (1.56%) HTML
9 6 (1.56%) RESTful
9 6 (1.56%) Spring
9 6 (1.56%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 21 (5.45%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.16%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.90%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.82%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.56%) Life Science
11 5 (1.30%) Derivative
12 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.04%) Clustering
13 3 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.08%) Linux
2 7 (1.82%) Unix
3 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.78%) Windows
4 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 241 (62.60%) Business Intelligence
3 161 (41.82%) Analytics
4 141 (36.62%) Data Modelling
5 115 (29.87%) Decision-Making
6 114 (29.61%) Agile
7 109 (28.31%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (24.16%) Actionable Insight
9 76 (19.74%) Data Science
10 71 (18.44%) Data Governance
11 69 (17.92%) AI
11 69 (17.92%) Dashboard Development
11 69 (17.92%) Data Analysis
12 66 (17.14%) ETL
13 63 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
14 54 (14.03%) Machine Learning
15 50 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 48 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (11.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 214 (55.58%) SQL
2 142 (36.88%) Python
3 43 (11.17%) R
4 29 (7.53%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.45%) Java
7 16 (4.16%) C#
7 16 (4.16%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.12%) Scala
9 10 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.60%) VBA
10 6 (1.56%) Perl
10 6 (1.56%) Rust
11 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.04%) PHP
11 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.52%) Bash
12 2 (0.52%) C++
12 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.65%) Degree
4 14 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) APMP
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) PMP
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 (21.30%) Data Quality
2 33 (8.57%) QA
3 20 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.42%) PMO
5 14 (3.64%) GDPR
6 10 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.78%) SLA
8 3 (0.78%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) P3O
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (3.64%) Docker
2 7 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (4.16%) Kubernetes
1 16 (4.16%) Terraform
2 10 (2.60%) Grafana
2 10 (2.60%) Kibana
3 6 (1.56%) logstash
4 5 (1.30%) SCCM
5 4 (1.04%) Ansible
5 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) collectd
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 69 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.53%) Google
3 28 (7.27%) Databricks
4 18 (4.68%) Oracle
5 16 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.90%) SAP
7 13 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.34%) Adobe
9 8 (2.08%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.56%) Apple
10 6 (1.56%) Cognos
11 5 (1.30%) Solace
12 4 (1.04%) Brio
12 4 (1.04%) IBM
12 4 (1.04%) Sage
13 3 (0.78%) BMC
13 3 (0.78%) Informatica
13 3 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.78%) Murex
13 3 (0.78%) Remedy