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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 225 221
Rank change year-on-year -119 -4 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 367 406 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.25% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.38% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 260 279
10th Percentile £349 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £609 £550 £620
90th Percentile £701 £628 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +5.62% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 10
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.90 £24.03
25th Percentile £28.19 £31.64 £32.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% -20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £73.38 £64.15 £53.88
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 45,377 29,398 32,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,769 18,279 20,543
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
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 2,906 1,760 1,592
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.30 £18.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.03 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.58 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.14% -47.37% +14.67%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -124 332 £488 +7.14% 655
UK excluding London -86 174 £470 +5.62% 294
London -107 158 £519 +3.75% 449
Work from Home -37 123 £475 +6.26% 282
North of England -63 51 £438 +13.03% 67
Midlands -28 41 £440 +5.07% 40
South East -64 36 £550 -8.33% 69
North West -33 31 £438 +17.58% 40
West Midlands -34 26 £470 -7.34% 26
South West -26 25 £475 +5.56% 43
Yorkshire -58 17 £460 +18.71% 19
East Midlands -13 15 £375 -9.09% 14
East of England -24 12 - - 24
Scotland -31 12 £415 -17.00% 22
North East -40 4 £375 -11.76% 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 24

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 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Superset
3 5 (1.36%) Confluence
3 5 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (17.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.18%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.54%) 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 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.27%) iTrent
5 1 (0.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 221 (60.22%) Power Platform
2 71 (19.35%) Azure
3 53 (14.44%) AWS
4 27 (7.36%) GCP
5 20 (5.45%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.90%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.09%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.54%) GitHub
10 13 (3.54%) Serverless
11 11 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.63%) dbt
14 6 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.63%) OCI
15 5 (1.36%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) Broadband
3 2 (0.54%) 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
1 220 (59.95%) Power BI
2 90 (24.52%) Tableau
3 58 (15.80%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (11.17%) Power Query
5 33 (8.99%) Relational Database
6 24 (6.54%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.27%) Metadata
8 20 (5.45%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.36%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (3.54%) Looker
10 13 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.27%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.72%) Big Data
12 10 (2.72%) Star Schema
13 8 (2.18%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.18%) Qlik Sense
14 7 (1.91%) Parquet
14 7 (1.91%) PowerPivot
14 7 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.81%) JIRA
2 12 (3.27%) Git
3 5 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.54%) 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
1 136 (37.06%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 90 (24.52%) Finance
4 40 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.72%) Banking
6 11 (3.00%) Military
7 10 (2.72%) Marketing
8 9 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.18%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.91%) Law
10 7 (1.91%) Retail
11 5 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.09%) Local Government
12 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Front Office
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (24.52%) Analyst
2 60 (16.35%) Developer
3 55 (14.99%) Data Analyst
4 49 (13.35%) Senior
5 47 (12.81%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.63%) Consultant
7 24 (6.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.27%) Architect
8 23 (6.27%) Power BI Developer
9 21 (5.72%) Lead
10 20 (5.45%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.09%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.09%) Designer
12 12 (3.27%) Analytics Consultant
12 12 (3.27%) Data Visualisation Specialist
12 12 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.72%) Data Consultant
14 10 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.45%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.72%) REST
2 17 (4.63%) React
3 16 (4.36%) CSS
4 14 (3.81%) HTML
5 13 (3.54%) .NET
6 12 (3.27%) Pandas
7 10 (2.72%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.45%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.45%) SOAP
8 9 (2.45%) Terraform
9 8 (2.18%) Middleware
9 8 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.18%) Redux
9 8 (2.18%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.18%) Web Services
10 6 (1.63%) Kafka
10 6 (1.63%) PySpark
10 6 (1.63%) Spring
10 6 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.17%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.27%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.27%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.27%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.27%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.45%) Clustering
6 9 (2.45%) PKI
7 8 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.63%) Life Science
10 5 (1.36%) CMDB
10 5 (1.36%) LIMS
11 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.36%) Windows
2 14 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 226 (61.58%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (50.41%) Analytics
4 135 (36.78%) Data Modelling
5 109 (29.70%) Decision-Making
6 99 (26.98%) Agile
7 94 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (22.07%) AI
9 68 (18.53%) Dashboard Development
10 64 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 62 (16.89%) Actionable Insight
11 62 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (16.89%) Data Analysis
12 60 (16.35%) ETL
13 59 (16.08%) Data Pipeline
14 58 (15.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 55 (14.99%) Data Science
16 54 (14.71%) Data Governance
17 53 (14.44%) Data Engineering
18 49 (13.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 188 (51.23%) SQL
2 115 (31.34%) Python
3 47 (12.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 33 (8.99%) R
5 27 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.81%) Java
7 21 (5.72%) C#
8 16 (4.36%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.09%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.00%) Scala
11 7 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.91%) VBA
12 5 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.09%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.82%) Bash
14 3 (0.82%) C++
14 3 (0.82%) Rust
15 2 (0.54%) Go
15 2 (0.54%) Ruby
15 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 86 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.53%) Degree
4 15 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.99%) QA
3 16 (4.36%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.81%) GDPR
5 8 (2.18%) PMO
6 7 (1.91%) GMP
7 5 (1.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.36%) GxP
7 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.09%) GRC
8 4 (1.09%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.54%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.09%) Kibana
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
3 3 (0.82%) Grafana
3 3 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 81 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.90%) Oracle
3 23 (6.27%) SAP
3 23 (6.27%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.72%) Databricks
5 18 (4.90%) Google
6 9 (2.45%) BMC
6 9 (2.45%) Remedy
7 6 (1.63%) Adobe
8 5 (1.36%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.36%) Informatica
8 5 (1.36%) Palantir
8 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.09%) Amplitude
9 4 (1.09%) Foundry
9 4 (1.09%) Solace
9 4 (1.09%) Splunk
10 3 (0.82%) Ariba
10 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.82%) Brio