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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 192 246
Rank change year-on-year -113 +54 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 363 422 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.45% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.59% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 273 287
10th Percentile £343 £331 £313
25th Percentile £410 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -8.20% -3.15%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £575
90th Percentile £684 £635 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +6.11% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 10
10th Percentile £19.84 £26.29 £23.58
25th Percentile £28.31 £31.64 £26.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.11% -22.09% +31.58%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £46.56
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.55 £52.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.42 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year +113.09% +29.51% +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 40,059 26,552 37,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,139 17,089 23,891
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +2.93% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,402 1,086 2,440
10th Percentile £14.97 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -123 326 £488 +7.14% 174
London -99 166 £488 +1.56% 86
UK excluding London -87 156 £478 +6.11% 114
Work from Home -69 122 £488 +8.33% 89
North of England -65 41 £480 +6.67% 28
Midlands -35 39 £475 +11.76% 18
South East -40 35 £516 -6.14% 38
North West -29 25 £463 +1.65% 17
West Midlands -53 24 £500 +17.65% 10
South West -39 18 £475 +16.14% 15
East Midlands -24 15 £385 +4.90% 8
Yorkshire -56 13 £500 +16.28% 4
East of England -35 12 £463 +15.63% 5
Scotland -7 9 £450 -12.20% 7
North East -22 3 £400 -23.81% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 -

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 22 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.48%) Apache
4 7 (1.93%) Confluence
5 6 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.65%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (16.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.28%) InDesign
7 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.10%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.83%) Eloqua
3 3 (0.83%) iTrent
4 1 (0.28%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 204 (56.20%) Power Platform
2 82 (22.59%) Azure
3 69 (19.01%) AWS
4 29 (7.99%) GCP
5 20 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (5.51%) Power Automate
6 18 (4.96%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.41%) Amazon S3
7 16 (4.41%) Serverless
8 14 (3.86%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.03%) dbt
11 10 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.93%) GitHub
15 5 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.83%) Wireless
2 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) Intranet
2 1 (0.28%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (56.20%) Power BI
2 113 (31.13%) Tableau
3 64 (17.63%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (8.54%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.34%) Metadata
5 23 (6.34%) Power Query
6 22 (6.06%) Looker
6 22 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 19 (5.23%) Big Data
8 18 (4.96%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.13%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.86%) Hadoop
11 11 (3.03%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (6.89%) Git
2 13 (3.58%) JIRA
3 4 (1.10%) ERwin
3 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.28%) Flyway
5 1 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) JUnit
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 126 (34.71%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (30.58%) Finance
4 45 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.71%) Banking
6 18 (4.96%) Marketing
7 15 (4.13%) Retail
8 14 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.48%) Law
11 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.93%) Publishing
12 6 (1.65%) Front Office
12 6 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.38%) Automotive
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.10%) Legal
15 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (30.03%) Analyst
2 66 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 55 (15.15%) Developer
3 55 (15.15%) Senior
4 44 (12.12%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.82%) Data Scientist
6 21 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 19 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 18 (4.96%) Architect
8 18 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (4.41%) Consultant
10 14 (3.86%) Power BI Developer
10 14 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.58%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Lead
13 10 (2.75%) Performance Analyst
13 10 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (1.93%) Analytics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.79%) React
2 16 (4.41%) Pandas
2 16 (4.41%) REST
3 14 (3.86%) Kafka
4 9 (2.48%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.20%) .NET
5 8 (2.20%) CSS
5 8 (2.20%) PySpark
6 7 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (1.93%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.93%) Spring
6 7 (1.93%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.93%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.65%) Matplotlib
7 6 (1.65%) Plotly
7 6 (1.65%) Seaborn
7 6 (1.65%) Vue
8 5 (1.38%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.38%) RESTful
8 5 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.61%) Data Structures
2 18 (4.96%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.20%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.93%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.65%) Clustering
8 6 (1.65%) Life Science
9 5 (1.38%) PKI
10 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.10%) Derivative
11 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.38%) Windows
1 5 (1.38%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.10%) Linux
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 225 (61.98%) Business Intelligence
3 154 (42.42%) Analytics
4 145 (39.94%) Data Modelling
5 113 (31.13%) Decision-Making
6 111 (30.58%) Agile
7 99 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (23.97%) Actionable Insight
9 70 (19.28%) Data Governance
10 69 (19.01%) AI
11 68 (18.73%) Data Science
12 67 (18.46%) ETL
13 66 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
13 66 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (16.53%) Data Analysis
15 49 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (13.50%) Machine Learning
15 49 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (13.22%) Data Engineering
17 47 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (55.65%) SQL
2 130 (35.81%) Python
3 44 (12.12%) R
4 27 (7.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.61%) Java
7 17 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.86%) C#
8 14 (3.86%) Scala
9 12 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.75%) VBA
11 6 (1.65%) Perl
11 6 (1.65%) Rust
12 5 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.10%) C++
13 4 (1.10%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.55%) C
15 2 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 72 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.47%) Degree
4 14 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.28%) ACCA
10 1 (0.28%) APMP
10 1 (0.28%) CIMA
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.59%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.26%) QA
3 19 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.41%) PMO
5 14 (3.86%) GDPR
6 10 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.83%) SLA
9 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) Basel III
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.28%) P3O
10 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.48%) Docker
2 8 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (3.86%) Terraform
2 11 (3.03%) Kibana
2 11 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.65%) Grafana
3 6 (1.65%) logstash
4 5 (1.38%) SCCM
5 3 (0.83%) Ansible
5 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 57 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.71%) Databricks
2 28 (7.71%) Google
3 18 (4.96%) Oracle
4 17 (4.68%) SAP
5 15 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.48%) Adobe
7 8 (2.20%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.65%) Apple
8 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.38%) BMC
9 5 (1.38%) Cognos
9 5 (1.38%) Informatica
9 5 (1.38%) Remedy
9 5 (1.38%) Solace
10 3 (0.83%) Brio
10 3 (0.83%) IBM
10 3 (0.83%) Murex
10 3 (0.83%) Sage
10 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud