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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 180 248
Rank change year-on-year -70 +68 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 428 446 434
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.63% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 293 301
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £425 £505
% change year-on-year +10.29% -15.84% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 15
10th Percentile £18.16 £24.50 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.72 £25.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £42.87 £32.81 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% -7.91% -39.09%
75th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.13 £82.25 £49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.03 £27.47
% change year-on-year +24.89% +23.90% +35.16%

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 34,951 27,281 38,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.91% 89.56% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,148 16,723 25,428
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.59% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,114 833 2,148
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +7.63%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -64 372 £492 +9.33% 206
London -36 222 £500 +5.26% 111
UK excluding London -75 162 £469 +10.29% 167
Work from Home -53 135 £500 +11.11% 84
North of England -60 52 £416 -10.48% 24
Midlands -41 35 £500 +21.21% 29
North West -31 32 £413 -11.29% 16
South East -13 30 £513 +12.33% 88
West Midlands -36 26 £500 +21.21% 18
Scotland +4 18 £420 -6.67% 5
Yorkshire -45 17 £500 +19.76% 7
East of England -29 13 £525 +31.33% 7
East Midlands -21 9 £395 +7.63% 11
South West -39 7 £394 -3.61% 16
Northern Ireland -8 5 £463 -7.50% 2
Wales -3 3 - - 1
North East -15 3 £400 -25.58% 1

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 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.04%) Confluence
4 12 (2.80%) Apache
4 12 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.64%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (14.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.17%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Blender
7 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) iTrent
2 1 (0.23%) Actimize
2 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 227 (53.04%) Power Platform
2 99 (23.13%) Azure
3 77 (17.99%) AWS
4 36 (8.41%) GCP
5 27 (6.31%) Snowflake
6 19 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.44%) Serverless
7 17 (3.97%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (3.97%) dbt
7 17 (3.97%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.27%) GitHub
10 12 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.87%) Figma
13 7 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) 2G
1 2 (0.47%) 5G
1 2 (0.47%) LTE
1 2 (0.47%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.47%) SNMP
1 2 (0.47%) VoIP
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (53.04%) Power BI
2 121 (28.27%) Tableau
3 58 (13.55%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.71%) Relational Database
5 24 (5.61%) Looker
6 19 (4.44%) Big Data
6 19 (4.44%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.21%) Hadoop
8 17 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.97%) Power Query
9 15 (3.50%) Metadata
9 15 (3.50%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.57%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.34%) Data Mining
12 9 (2.10%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.10%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.87%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.87%) MySQL
14 7 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.18%) Git
2 17 (3.97%) JIRA
3 8 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.93%) ERwin
4 4 (0.93%) Gradle
4 4 (0.93%) Storybook
4 4 (0.93%) Xcode
5 3 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.70%) MLflow
5 3 (0.70%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.23%) Ant
6 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.23%) git-flow
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 176 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 134 (31.31%) Analytical Skills
2 134 (31.31%) Finance
3 49 (11.45%) Banking
3 49 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.91%) Retail
5 17 (3.97%) Front Office
6 15 (3.50%) Marketing
7 14 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.27%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.34%) Legal
8 10 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.10%) Publishing
10 8 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.40%) Back Office
13 5 (1.17%) Law
13 5 (1.17%) Military
13 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (31.07%) Analyst
2 85 (19.86%) Data Analyst
3 83 (19.39%) Developer
4 55 (12.85%) Senior
5 37 (8.64%) Data Scientist
6 35 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 30 (7.01%) Architect
8 28 (6.54%) Business Analyst
9 26 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 15 (3.50%) Power BI Developer
14 12 (2.80%) Lead
14 12 (2.80%) SQL Analyst
15 11 (2.57%) Data Business Analyst
15 11 (2.57%) Designer
16 10 (2.34%) Consultant
16 10 (2.34%) SQL Data Analyst
17 9 (2.10%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.24%) React
2 27 (6.31%) Pandas
3 19 (4.44%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.74%) NumPy
5 16 (3.74%) Vue
6 15 (3.50%) Kafka
7 14 (3.27%) Plotly
7 14 (3.27%) REST
8 12 (2.80%) D3.js
9 9 (2.10%) PySpark
9 9 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.87%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.64%) Matplotlib
12 6 (1.40%) .NET
12 6 (1.40%) CSS
12 6 (1.40%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.40%) RESTful
12 6 (1.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.18%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.27%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.27%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.10%) CMDB
5 9 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.87%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.64%) Life Science
8 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.17%) Genomics
9 5 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.93%) Equities
10 4 (0.93%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.10%) Linux
2 8 (1.87%) Unix
3 5 (1.17%) Android
4 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 249 (58.18%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (41.12%) Analytics
4 128 (29.91%) Data Modelling
5 117 (27.34%) Agile
6 116 (27.10%) Decision-Making
7 114 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (22.66%) Actionable Insight
9 92 (21.50%) Data Analysis
10 87 (20.33%) Data Science
11 79 (18.46%) Machine Learning
12 75 (17.52%) AI
13 64 (14.95%) ETL
13 64 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (14.02%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (13.55%) Dashboard Development
16 50 (11.68%) Data Governance
17 49 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 44 (10.28%) Data Management
19 42 (9.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 237 (55.37%) SQL
2 169 (39.49%) Python
3 33 (7.71%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.48%) R
5 25 (5.84%) Java
6 20 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (4.21%) Scala
7 18 (4.21%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.04%) C#
9 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.64%) VBA
10 6 (1.40%) Perl
10 6 (1.40%) PHP
11 4 (0.93%) Bash
12 3 (0.70%) C++
12 3 (0.70%) LookML
12 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) Rust
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.05%) Degree
4 12 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.64%) CFA
8 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.93%) CBAP
10 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.47%) APMP
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.23%) ACCA
13 1 (0.23%) CIMA
13 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (17.29%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.01%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.31%) QA
4 14 (3.27%) GDPR
5 12 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (2.34%) PMO
7 5 (1.17%) WCAG
8 3 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.47%) EMIR
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.44%) Terraform
2 16 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.57%) Kibana
4 9 (2.10%) Grafana
5 6 (1.40%) Ansible
5 6 (1.40%) logstash
6 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) collectd
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 74 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.01%) Google
3 28 (6.54%) Databricks
4 19 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.80%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.87%) Oracle
7 8 (1.87%) Splunk
8 7 (1.64%) Cognos
8 7 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.40%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.17%) Adobe
10 5 (1.17%) Dataiku
10 5 (1.17%) SAP
11 4 (0.93%) Murex
12 3 (0.70%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.70%) IBM
12 3 (0.70%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.70%) Sage