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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 201 253
Rank change year-on-year -115 +52 +69
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 362 394 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.37% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.50% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 254 293
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £410 £399 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% -7.85% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £693 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 9
10th Percentile £20.20 £21.10 £22.72
25th Percentile £33.06 £31.56 £26.24
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 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.45 £72.85 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £32.23 £20.16
% change year-on-year +129.64% +59.85% -16.83%

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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -112 330 £500 +8.52% 211
London -88 175 £510 -0.73% 96
UK excluding London -91 152 £475 +9.20% 133
Work from Home -46 124 £500 +11.11% 166
North of England -70 44 £471 +6.50% 41
South East -49 35 £520 -0.95% 37
Midlands -51 32 £469 +13.64% 18
North West -18 26 £420 -3.17% 25
West Midlands -50 22 £500 +17.65% 12
South West -35 20 £475 +16.14% 17
Yorkshire -66 15 £500 +25.00% 10
Scotland -8 11 £450 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -24 10 £385 -6.67% 6
East of England -38 10 £463 +15.63% 10
North East -30 3 £400 -23.81% 7
Northern Ireland +6 1 £463 +32.14% 8

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 19 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.93%) Apache
3 7 (1.93%) Confluence
4 6 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.66%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 64 (17.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.10%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.83%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.83%) iTrent
5 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 206 (56.91%) Power Platform
2 79 (21.82%) Azure
3 70 (19.34%) AWS
4 27 (7.46%) GCP
5 23 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 16 (4.42%) Amazon S3
6 16 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (4.42%) Serverless
7 13 (3.59%) Power Automate
8 12 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.31%) dbt
9 11 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.49%) GitHub
11 9 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.38%) Matillion
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
1 206 (56.91%) Power BI
2 107 (29.56%) Tableau
3 69 (19.06%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (8.84%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.91%) Metadata
5 25 (6.91%) Power Query
6 24 (6.63%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.35%) Looker
8 20 (5.52%) Data Lake
9 18 (4.97%) Big Data
10 16 (4.42%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.87%) Hadoop
12 13 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.49%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.49%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (1.93%) Mixpanel
17 7 (1.93%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (4.14%) Git
2 14 (3.87%) JIRA
3 4 (1.10%) ERwin
4 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.83%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Flyway
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JUnit
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
6 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (36.19%) Analytical Skills
2 124 (34.25%) Social Skills
3 110 (30.39%) Finance
4 40 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.84%) Banking
6 19 (5.25%) Marketing
7 14 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.31%) Retail
9 9 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.49%) Publishing
10 8 (2.21%) Law
11 7 (1.93%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.66%) Front Office
12 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.38%) Automotive
14 4 (1.10%) Legal
15 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 118 (32.60%) Analyst
2 74 (20.44%) Data Analyst
3 52 (14.36%) Developer
4 50 (13.81%) Senior
5 44 (12.15%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.18%) Data Scientist
7 22 (6.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 21 (5.80%) Business Analyst
9 20 (5.52%) Architect
9 20 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 18 (4.97%) Consultant
11 13 (3.59%) Data Business Analyst
11 13 (3.59%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (3.04%) Lead
12 11 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.49%) Performance Analyst
15 8 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 8 (2.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.08%) React
2 20 (5.52%) REST
3 16 (4.42%) Pandas
4 12 (3.31%) CSS
5 11 (3.04%) Kafka
6 9 (2.49%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.49%) HTML
7 8 (2.21%) .NET
8 7 (1.93%) Spring
8 7 (1.93%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.93%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.66%) PySpark
9 6 (1.66%) RESTful
9 6 (1.66%) Vue
10 5 (1.38%) Electron
10 5 (1.38%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.38%) OpenFin
10 5 (1.38%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.38%) Seaborn
11 4 (1.10%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.73%) Data Structures
2 16 (4.42%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (2.21%) Reference Data
8 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.93%) Life Science
9 6 (1.66%) Clustering
9 6 (1.66%) PKI
10 4 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.10%) Derivative
10 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) Windows
1 6 (1.66%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 224 (61.88%) Business Intelligence
3 157 (43.37%) Analytics
4 140 (38.67%) Data Modelling
5 115 (31.77%) Agile
6 112 (30.94%) Decision-Making
7 100 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (21.55%) Actionable Insight
9 72 (19.89%) AI
9 72 (19.89%) Dashboard Development
10 71 (19.61%) ETL
11 68 (18.78%) Data Science
12 64 (17.68%) Data Governance
13 63 (17.40%) Data Pipeline
14 62 (17.13%) Data Analysis
15 56 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 55 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (13.26%) Validation
18 47 (12.98%) Machine Learning
19 46 (12.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 205 (56.63%) SQL
2 121 (33.43%) Python
3 38 (10.50%) R
4 28 (7.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (6.91%) Java
5 25 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.87%) C#
8 13 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.04%) Scala
10 7 (1.93%) VBA
11 6 (1.66%) Perl
11 6 (1.66%) Rust
12 4 (1.10%) C++
12 4 (1.10%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 55 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.60%) Degree
4 11 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.28%) ACCA
8 1 (0.28%) CFA
8 1 (0.28%) CIMA
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.01%) QA
3 18 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.14%) PMO
5 13 (3.59%) GDPR
6 9 (2.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.83%) SLA
8 3 (0.83%) WCAG
9 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.28%) Basel III
10 1 (0.28%) COBIT
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (3.59%) Terraform
2 8 (2.21%) Kibana
3 6 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.66%) SCCM
4 5 (1.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.83%) logstash
5 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.01%) Databricks
3 26 (7.18%) Google
4 19 (5.25%) Oracle
5 18 (4.97%) SAP
6 16 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.21%) Adobe
7 8 (2.21%) Amplitude
7 8 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.66%) Apple
8 6 (1.66%) BMC
8 6 (1.66%) Remedy
9 5 (1.38%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.38%) Informatica
9 5 (1.38%) Solace
10 4 (1.10%) Cognos
11 3 (0.83%) Brio
11 3 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.83%) Murex
11 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud