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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 220 213
Rank change year-on-year -133 -7 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 371 395 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.22% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.34% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 251 289
10th Percentile £331 £313 £330
25th Percentile £403 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £616 £550 £638
90th Percentile £713 £650 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £430 £458
% change year-on-year +4.65% -6.01% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 11
10th Percentile £21.71 £16.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £29.44 £30.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% -15.88% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.69 £51.25
90th Percentile £73.00 £64.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.50 £31.64 £26.17
% change year-on-year +84.89% +20.92% -7.08%

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 45,945 29,375 32,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.50% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,954 18,237 20,159
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,063 1,777 1,475
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.08 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.13% -47.67% +6.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -115 329 £488 +7.14% 933
UK excluding London -94 176 £450 +4.65% 400
London -110 155 £519 +3.75% 625
Work from Home -53 124 £463 +8.82% 410
North of England -76 48 £437 +12.65% 89
Midlands -19 44 £420 +1.82% 62
South East -62 36 £550 -8.33% 97
North West -35 29 £438 +16.80% 41
West Midlands -34 27 £470 -7.39% 43
South West -35 25 £475 +18.75% 46
East Midlands -3 17 £375 -9.09% 19
Yorkshire -51 15 £460 +18.71% 34
Scotland -25 14 £410 -18.00% 36
East of England -32 12 - - 34
North East -34 5 £350 -12.50% 14
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 26

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 8 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.35%) Apache Superset
2 5 (1.35%) Confluence
2 5 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 227 (61.19%) Power Platform
2 69 (18.60%) Azure
3 51 (13.75%) AWS
4 26 (7.01%) GCP
5 20 (5.39%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.04%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.77%) GitHub
10 12 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.23%) Serverless
11 11 (2.96%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.43%) Google Analytics
12 9 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.62%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (1.62%) Copilot Studio
16 5 (1.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.08%) Broadband
3 2 (0.54%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (60.92%) Power BI
2 88 (23.72%) Tableau
3 55 (14.82%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (11.86%) Power Query
5 32 (8.63%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.20%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.39%) Data Lake
7 20 (5.39%) Metadata
8 15 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (3.77%) Looker
10 13 (3.50%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (2.96%) Star Schema
12 9 (2.43%) Big Data
13 8 (2.16%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
14 7 (1.89%) Parquet
14 7 (1.89%) PowerPivot
14 7 (1.89%) QlikView
14 7 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.77%) JIRA
2 12 (3.23%) Git
3 5 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.08%) GitLab
5 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) Flyway
7 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) Storybook
7 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 139 (37.47%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (35.58%) Social Skills
3 92 (24.80%) Finance
4 41 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.89%) Banking
6 12 (3.23%) Military
7 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.43%) Marketing
8 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.16%) Retail
10 7 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.62%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.35%) Law
13 4 (1.08%) Local Government
13 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 94 (25.34%) Analyst
2 61 (16.44%) Developer
3 56 (15.09%) Data Analyst
4 51 (13.75%) Senior
5 44 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.55%) Consultant
7 26 (7.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.20%) Architect
8 23 (6.20%) Power BI Developer
9 20 (5.39%) Lead
10 19 (5.12%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.04%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.77%) Designer
13 12 (3.23%) Data Visualisation Specialist
13 12 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.96%) Analytics Consultant
14 11 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (2.70%) Data Consultant
15 10 (2.70%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.36%) REST
2 18 (4.85%) React
3 16 (4.31%) CSS
4 14 (3.77%) HTML
5 12 (3.23%) .NET
6 11 (2.96%) Pandas
7 9 (2.43%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.43%) Terraform
8 8 (2.16%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.16%) Redux
8 8 (2.16%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.16%) SOAP
9 7 (1.89%) Middleware
9 7 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.89%) Web Services
10 6 (1.62%) Kafka
10 6 (1.62%) PySpark
10 6 (1.62%) Spring
10 6 (1.62%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.82%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 11 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.43%) Clustering
7 9 (2.43%) PKI
7 9 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.62%) Life Science
11 5 (1.35%) CMDB
11 5 (1.35%) LIMS
12 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.31%) Windows
2 14 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.81%) Unix
4 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 232 (62.53%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (49.87%) Analytics
4 129 (34.77%) Data Modelling
5 114 (30.73%) Decision-Making
6 100 (26.95%) Agile
7 98 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.83%) AI
9 69 (18.60%) Dashboard Development
10 68 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 67 (18.06%) Actionable Insight
11 67 (18.06%) Data Analysis
12 65 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
15 55 (14.82%) ETL
16 54 (14.56%) Data Governance
17 53 (14.29%) Data Science
17 53 (14.29%) Validation
18 49 (13.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (50.40%) SQL
2 115 (31.00%) Python
3 48 (12.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (8.63%) R
5 28 (7.55%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.74%) Java
7 21 (5.66%) C#
8 17 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.04%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.23%) Scala
11 7 (1.89%) VBA
12 6 (1.62%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.81%) Bash
14 3 (0.81%) C++
14 3 (0.81%) Rust
15 2 (0.54%) Go
15 2 (0.54%) Ruby
15 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 88 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.59%) Degree
4 15 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.81%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (22.91%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.93%) QA
3 17 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.50%) GDPR
5 8 (2.16%) PMO
6 7 (1.89%) GMP
7 5 (1.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.35%) GxP
7 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.08%) GRC
8 4 (1.08%) WCAG
9 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.54%) Basel III
11 1 (0.27%) COBIT
11 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.35%) Kibana
1 5 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.81%) Ansible
2 3 (0.81%) Grafana
2 3 (0.81%) SCCM
3 1 (0.27%) QRadar
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 86 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.55%) Oracle
3 26 (7.01%) SAP
4 23 (6.20%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.66%) Google
6 20 (5.39%) Databricks
7 9 (2.43%) BMC
7 9 (2.43%) Remedy
8 7 (1.89%) Adobe
8 7 (1.89%) Splunk
9 5 (1.35%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.35%) Informatica
9 5 (1.35%) Palantir
10 4 (1.08%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.08%) Ariba
10 4 (1.08%) Foundry
10 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.08%) Solace
11 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.81%) Brio