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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 190 218
Rank change year-on-year -46 +28 +100
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 422 469 501
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.31% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.50% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 309 342
10th Percentile £315 £325 £300
25th Percentile £385 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -3.60% -3.61%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £612
90th Percentile £672 £713 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 21
10th Percentile £22.37 £24.50 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.63 £28.25 £25.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +0.71% -38.87%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £53.75 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £32.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% -8.75%

All Process and 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 32,257 31,288 39,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.04% 87.36% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,268 18,944 26,694
10th Percentile £300 £309 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,091 1,103 1,539
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £45.61 £63.42 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.39 £43.95
% change year-on-year -29.45% -26.30% +40.82%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -33 361 £463 -4.64% 265
London -38 207 £475 -5.00% 110
UK excluding London -19 173 £450 - 242
Work from Home -41 119 £481 +1.32% 156
North of England -48 58 £388 -13.89% 45
South East +9 38 £600 +20.60% 101
Yorkshire -16 31 £325 -27.78% 10
Midlands -20 25 £475 +13.43% 38
North West -39 25 £389 -13.42% 30
Scotland +7 23 £463 -13.95% 9
West Midlands -23 15 £507 +22.91% 19
East of England -14 12 £525 +23.53% 17
South West -3 10 £400 -30.43% 27
East Midlands -14 10 £411 -17.75% 18
Wales 0 5 - - 6
Northern Ireland -15 3 £600 +20.00% 2
North East -9 2 £400 -28.89% 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 17 (4.03%) Apache Spark
1 17 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.79%) Confluence
3 12 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.90%) Apache
4 8 (1.90%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 64 (15.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.66%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Maple
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Endur
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 229 (54.27%) Power Platform
2 112 (26.54%) Azure
3 71 (16.82%) AWS
4 40 (9.48%) GCP
5 29 (6.87%) Snowflake
6 25 (5.92%) Power Automate
7 23 (5.45%) PowerApps
8 21 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.03%) Serverless
11 16 (3.79%) GitHub
12 15 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.32%) dbt
14 12 (2.84%) Figma
15 11 (2.61%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.66%) Google Analytics
17 7 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
18 6 (1.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.71%) MQTT
1 3 (0.71%) SNMP
2 2 (0.47%) 2G
2 2 (0.47%) 5G
2 2 (0.47%) LTE
2 2 (0.47%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.47%) SSH
2 2 (0.47%) SSL
2 2 (0.47%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (54.03%) Power BI
2 123 (29.15%) Tableau
3 60 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (9.95%) Relational Database
5 34 (8.06%) Power Query
6 20 (4.74%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.03%) Looker
8 16 (3.79%) BigQuery
8 16 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.55%) Big Data
10 13 (3.08%) Data Mining
10 13 (3.08%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.84%) Metadata
12 11 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.90%) Apache Hive
15 7 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.42%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.42%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 40 (9.48%) Git
2 18 (4.27%) JIRA
3 7 (1.66%) Gradle
3 7 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.66%) Storybook
3 7 (1.66%) Xcode
4 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.95%) MLflow
5 3 (0.71%) Selenium
5 3 (0.71%) webpack
6 1 (0.24%) Ant
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) JMeter
6 1 (0.24%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 191 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 133 (31.52%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (30.09%) Finance
4 44 (10.43%) Banking
5 43 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.03%) Marketing
8 16 (3.79%) Retail
9 15 (3.55%) Front Office
10 13 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.13%) Legal
13 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.18%) Back Office
15 5 (1.18%) Billing
15 5 (1.18%) Military
16 4 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 141 (33.41%) Analyst
2 92 (21.80%) Developer
3 89 (21.09%) Data Analyst
4 45 (10.66%) Senior
5 38 (9.00%) Data Engineer
6 32 (7.58%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (4.74%) Architect
10 19 (4.50%) Power BI Developer
11 17 (4.03%) Lead
12 14 (3.32%) Consultant
13 12 (2.84%) Power BI Analyst
13 12 (2.84%) Senior Data Analyst
14 11 (2.61%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (2.61%) SQL Data Analyst
15 10 (2.37%) Designer
15 10 (2.37%) React Developer
15 10 (2.37%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.40%) React
2 25 (5.92%) Pandas
3 20 (4.74%) D3.js
3 20 (4.74%) scikit-learn
4 19 (4.50%) NumPy
5 15 (3.55%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.55%) Plotly
6 13 (3.08%) PySpark
6 13 (3.08%) Vue
7 12 (2.84%) REST
8 9 (2.13%) Kafka
8 9 (2.13%) OAuth
9 8 (1.90%) Matplotlib
9 8 (1.90%) React Native
9 8 (1.90%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.66%) SVG
10 7 (1.66%) Web Services
11 6 (1.42%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.42%) Node.js
11 6 (1.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.43%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.37%) CMDB
6 9 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.42%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.42%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.18%) Genomics
10 5 (1.18%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.90%) Android
1 8 (1.90%) Unix
2 7 (1.66%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 244 (57.82%) Business Intelligence
3 188 (44.55%) Analytics
4 122 (28.91%) Data Modelling
5 116 (27.49%) Data Analysis
6 114 (27.01%) Decision-Making
7 107 (25.36%) Agile
8 104 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (21.33%) Actionable Insight
10 83 (19.67%) Machine Learning
11 82 (19.43%) Data Science
12 60 (14.22%) ETL
13 59 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (13.74%) AI
15 56 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
16 53 (12.56%) Dashboard Development
17 48 (11.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 48 (11.37%) DevOps
18 46 (10.90%) Data Management
19 45 (10.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 235 (55.69%) SQL
2 184 (43.60%) Python
3 35 (8.29%) R
4 31 (7.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.98%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.27%) Java
7 16 (3.79%) Scala
8 6 (1.42%) C#
8 6 (1.42%) PHP
8 6 (1.42%) VBA
9 5 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.95%) Bash
10 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.71%) C++
11 3 (0.71%) LookML
11 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.47%) Go
12 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 53 (12.56%) Degree
2 50 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.03%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.42%) CFA
8 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.95%) CBAP
9 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.47%) ACCA
11 2 (0.47%) APMP
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) CEH
11 2 (0.47%) CIMA
11 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.03%) QA
4 15 (3.55%) GDPR
5 6 (1.42%) WCAG
6 5 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.71%) EMIR
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) MiFID
7 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
8 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.47%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (4.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.55%) Terraform
2 14 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.13%) Grafana
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 3 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) collectd
5 1 (0.24%) logstash
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) QRadar
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 98 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.40%) Databricks
2 27 (6.40%) Google
3 18 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.08%) Oracle
6 12 (2.84%) SAP
6 12 (2.84%) Splunk
7 7 (1.66%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.18%) Adobe
8 5 (1.18%) Dataiku
9 4 (0.95%) Cognos
9 4 (0.95%) Informatica
9 4 (0.95%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.71%) Avaloq
10 3 (0.71%) Citrix
10 3 (0.71%) Foundry
10 3 (0.71%) Hyperion
10 3 (0.71%) IBM