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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 179 250
Rank change year-on-year -97 +71 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 412 432 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.49% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.64% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 288 288
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £555 £575
90th Percentile £690 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £470
% change year-on-year +11.76% -9.57% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £19.58 £27.09 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.74 £31.64 £24.91
Median hourly rate £43.75 £33.11 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +8.56% -39.01%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £45.63
90th Percentile £83.93 £77.55 £47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £20.22
% change year-on-year +60.01% +62.31% -28.21%

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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -99 359 £488 +8.33% 176
London -57 211 £500 +5.26% 70
UK excluding London -87 155 £475 +11.76% 137
Work from Home -54 136 £500 +12.36% 93
North of England -63 43 £463 +2.21% 32
Midlands -44 37 £450 +7.46% 32
South East -40 32 £513 +12.33% 47
North West -33 27 £420 -7.69% 23
West Midlands -53 24 £475 +11.76% 14
East of England -34 14 £463 +15.77% 6
East Midlands -24 13 £395 +7.63% 18
Yorkshire -52 13 £500 +21.95% 7
Scotland +4 12 £450 -10.00% 6
South West -43 9 £450 -5.26% 12
Northern Ireland -2 5 £463 -11.90% 3
Wales -11 3 - - 1
North East -17 3 £400 -23.81% 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 23 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.91%) Apache
4 10 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.43%) Confluence
5 5 (1.21%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.97%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (16.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.49%) iTrent
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 216 (52.43%) Power Platform
2 94 (22.82%) Azure
3 80 (19.42%) AWS
4 33 (8.01%) GCP
5 26 (6.31%) Snowflake
6 21 (5.10%) Serverless
7 20 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.85%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.37%) dbt
9 17 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.13%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.94%) GitHub
13 7 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) 2G
1 2 (0.49%) 5G
1 2 (0.49%) LTE
1 2 (0.49%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.49%) VoIP
1 2 (0.49%) Wireless
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) Intranet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (52.43%) Power BI
2 117 (28.40%) Tableau
3 65 (15.78%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (8.01%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.58%) Big Data
6 20 (4.85%) Looker
6 20 (4.85%) Metadata
6 20 (4.85%) Power Query
7 17 (4.13%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.88%) Hadoop
9 15 (3.64%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (2.91%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.43%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.18%) MySQL
13 9 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.94%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.52%) Git
2 17 (4.13%) JIRA
3 8 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.97%) ERwin
5 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.49%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 172 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 142 (34.47%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (30.83%) Finance
4 58 (14.08%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.98%) Banking
6 21 (5.10%) Marketing
7 20 (4.85%) Retail
8 14 (3.40%) Front Office
9 11 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.94%) Publishing
13 7 (1.70%) Law
13 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.21%) Legal
15 5 (1.21%) Military
16 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (32.04%) Analyst
2 77 (18.69%) Data Analyst
3 75 (18.20%) Developer
4 62 (15.05%) Senior
5 38 (9.22%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.25%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.31%) Architect
8 24 (5.83%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.58%) Business Analyst
9 23 (5.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 19 (4.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 14 (3.40%) Lead
11 14 (3.40%) Power BI Developer
12 12 (2.91%) Consultant
12 12 (2.91%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (2.91%) Designer
13 11 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.43%) Performance Analyst
15 9 (2.18%) Insight Analyst
15 9 (2.18%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.80%) Pandas
1 28 (6.80%) React
2 20 (4.85%) AngularJS
3 18 (4.37%) REST
4 17 (4.13%) Kafka
4 17 (4.13%) NumPy
5 16 (3.88%) Vue
6 15 (3.64%) Plotly
6 15 (3.64%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.18%) Matplotlib
7 9 (2.18%) PySpark
7 9 (2.18%) Seaborn
8 8 (1.94%) .NET
9 7 (1.70%) CSS
9 7 (1.70%) D3.js
9 7 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (1.70%) RESTful
9 7 (1.70%) Web Services
9 7 (1.70%) WebSockets
10 6 (1.46%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.80%) Algorithms
2 18 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.70%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.46%) Life Science
9 5 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.21%) Derivative
9 5 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.21%) Equities
10 4 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.18%) Linux
2 8 (1.94%) Unix
3 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.49%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 245 (59.47%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (42.23%) Analytics
4 135 (32.77%) Data Modelling
5 120 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (28.40%) Agile
7 116 (28.16%) Decision-Making
8 99 (24.03%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (20.87%) Data Science
10 82 (19.90%) Data Analysis
11 71 (17.23%) ETL
12 70 (16.99%) AI
13 69 (16.75%) Machine Learning
14 64 (15.53%) Dashboard Development
15 63 (15.29%) Data Pipeline
16 60 (14.56%) Data Governance
16 60 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (10.92%) Data Engineering
19 44 (10.68%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (55.34%) SQL
2 156 (37.86%) Python
3 41 (9.95%) R
4 27 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (4.61%) Java
7 14 (3.40%) C#
8 13 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.91%) Scala
10 9 (2.18%) VBA
11 8 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.46%) Perl
12 6 (1.46%) PHP
13 5 (1.21%) Rust
14 4 (0.97%) Bash
15 3 (0.73%) C++
15 3 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 75 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.65%) Degree
4 15 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.97%) CFA
8 4 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.49%) APMP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (20.15%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.52%) QA
3 23 (5.58%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.13%) PMO
5 15 (3.64%) GDPR
6 11 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.97%) WCAG
9 3 (0.73%) SLA
10 2 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.49%) EMIR
10 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.13%) Terraform
3 11 (2.67%) Kibana
4 10 (2.43%) Grafana
5 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) logstash
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.97%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) collectd
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 66 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.28%) Databricks
2 30 (7.28%) Google
3 17 (4.13%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.64%) Oracle
5 13 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.43%) Adobe
7 8 (1.94%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.70%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.46%) Cognos
10 5 (1.21%) Apple
10 5 (1.21%) SAP
11 4 (0.97%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.97%) Murex
11 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.97%) Sage
12 3 (0.73%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.73%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.73%) Solace