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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 193 221
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +99
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 424 474 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.33% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.52% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 313 343
10th Percentile £319 £330 £300
25th Percentile £388 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -3.60% -3.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £613
90th Percentile £671 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +1.65% -4.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 22
10th Percentile £22.37 £24.50 £21.38
25th Percentile £26.23 £28.25 £25.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.25 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +4.72% -41.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.75 £48.44
90th Percentile £72.90 £53.75 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -40 361 £475 -2.06% 439
London -37 207 £475 -5.00% 110
UK excluding London -25 175 £463 +1.65% 398
Work from Home -50 120 £500 +5.26% 264
North of England -43 58 £392 -13.00% 94
South East -8 34 £600 +20.60% 89
Yorkshire -27 29 £375 -16.67% 33
Midlands -25 27 £500 +19.40% 66
North West -27 27 £390 -13.72% 54
Scotland +10 24 £463 -13.95% 28
West Midlands -21 17 £507 +22.91% 30
East of England -9 14 £525 +23.53% 47
East Midlands -15 10 £413 -17.50% 33
South West -17 10 £400 -30.43% 56
Wales +5 5 - - 8
Northern Ireland -16 4 £531 +6.25% 16
North East -7 2 £400 -27.27% 7

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 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.54%) Confluence
4 12 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.36%) Apache
6 8 (1.89%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.18%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.94%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 61 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.65%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
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
1 230 (54.25%) Power Platform
2 111 (26.18%) Azure
3 69 (16.27%) AWS
4 39 (9.20%) GCP
5 29 (6.84%) Snowflake
6 26 (6.13%) Power Automate
7 23 (5.42%) PowerApps
8 21 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.01%) Serverless
11 16 (3.77%) GitHub
12 14 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.07%) dbt
14 12 (2.83%) Figma
15 10 (2.36%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.65%) Google Analytics
17 7 (1.65%) 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
1 229 (54.01%) Power BI
2 124 (29.25%) Tableau
3 61 (14.39%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (10.14%) Relational Database
5 34 (8.02%) Power Query
6 20 (4.72%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.01%) Looker
7 17 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.77%) Big Data
9 14 (3.30%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.30%) Hadoop
10 12 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.83%) Data Mining
11 11 (2.59%) Metadata
12 10 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.12%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
15 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.42%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 41 (9.67%) Git
2 17 (4.01%) JIRA
3 8 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.65%) Gradle
4 7 (1.65%) Storybook
4 7 (1.65%) Xcode
5 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.94%) MLflow
6 3 (0.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.71%) webpack
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Snyk
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 189 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 132 (31.13%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (29.72%) Finance
4 43 (10.14%) Banking
5 42 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.01%) Investment Banking
6 17 (4.01%) Marketing
6 17 (4.01%) Retail
7 15 (3.54%) Front Office
8 12 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.12%) Legal
10 8 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.18%) Back Office
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
11 5 (1.18%) Military
11 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 139 (32.78%) Analyst
2 92 (21.70%) Developer
3 90 (21.23%) Data Analyst
4 50 (11.79%) Senior
5 39 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 35 (8.25%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 24 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
9 22 (5.19%) Business Analyst
10 20 (4.72%) Architect
11 19 (4.48%) Power BI Developer
12 17 (4.01%) Lead
13 14 (3.30%) Consultant
14 13 (3.07%) Senior Data Analyst
15 12 (2.83%) Power BI Analyst
16 11 (2.59%) SQL Analyst
16 11 (2.59%) SQL Data Analyst
17 10 (2.36%) Designer
17 10 (2.36%) React Developer
17 10 (2.36%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.37%) React
2 26 (6.13%) Pandas
3 21 (4.95%) scikit-learn
4 20 (4.72%) D3.js
5 19 (4.48%) NumPy
6 15 (3.54%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.54%) Plotly
7 13 (3.07%) PySpark
7 13 (3.07%) REST
7 13 (3.07%) Vue
8 10 (2.36%) Kafka
9 9 (2.12%) OAuth
9 9 (2.12%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.89%) Matplotlib
10 8 (1.89%) React Native
11 7 (1.65%) SVG
11 7 (1.65%) Web Services
12 6 (1.42%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.42%) Node.js
12 6 (1.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.91%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.83%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.36%) CMDB
6 9 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.65%) Management Information System
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 (0.94%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.89%) Android
1 8 (1.89%) Linux
1 8 (1.89%) Unix
2 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 245 (57.78%) Business Intelligence
3 188 (44.34%) Analytics
4 127 (29.95%) Data Modelling
5 115 (27.12%) Data Analysis
6 111 (26.18%) Decision-Making
7 106 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (24.76%) Agile
9 92 (21.70%) Actionable Insight
10 83 (19.58%) Data Science
10 83 (19.58%) Machine Learning
11 61 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
12 60 (14.15%) ETL
13 56 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (12.97%) AI
15 53 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
16 46 (10.85%) DevOps
17 45 (10.61%) Data Governance
17 45 (10.61%) Data Management
17 45 (10.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 238 (56.13%) SQL
2 186 (43.87%) Python
3 37 (8.73%) R
4 32 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (7.31%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.25%) Java
8 17 (4.01%) Scala
9 7 (1.65%) C#
10 6 (1.42%) PHP
10 6 (1.42%) VBA
11 5 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.94%) Bash
13 3 (0.71%) C++
13 3 (0.71%) LookML
13 3 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.47%) Go
14 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (12.50%) Degree
2 50 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.25%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.42%) CFA
8 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.94%) CBAP
9 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.47%) APMP
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) CEH
11 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (15.33%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.01%) QA
4 16 (3.77%) GDPR
5 6 (1.42%) WCAG
6 5 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.71%) EMIR
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.71%) MiFID
8 3 (0.71%) PMO
9 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.47%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.47%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (4.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.54%) Terraform
3 9 (2.12%) Grafana
4 6 (1.42%) Kibana
5 4 (0.94%) Ansible
5 4 (0.94%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) collectd
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) QRadar
6 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 96 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.08%) Databricks
3 26 (6.13%) Google
4 18 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.07%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.83%) Splunk
8 10 (2.36%) SAP
9 9 (2.12%) Oracle
10 7 (1.65%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.18%) Adobe
11 5 (1.18%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.94%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.94%) Cognos
12 4 (0.94%) Informatica
12 4 (0.94%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.71%) Citrix
13 3 (0.71%) Foundry
13 3 (0.71%) IBM
13 3 (0.71%) Palantir