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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 178 247
Rank change year-on-year -82 +69 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 430 451 433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.63% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 297 299
10th Percentile £349 £325 £319
25th Percentile £401 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -15.00% +3.09%
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 34,804 27,718 38,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.51% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,033 16,994 25,434
10th Percentile £308 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.25% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 850 2,118
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +9.38%

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 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 13 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 13 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 -67 373 £500 +11.11% 199
London -32 222 £500 +5.26% 99
UK excluding London -61 163 £469 +10.29% 168
Work from Home -38 136 £500 +11.11% 87
North of England -58 53 £416 -14.28% 24
Midlands -40 35 £500 +21.21% 31
North West -36 32 £413 -11.29% 16
South East -26 30 £513 +24.24% 85
West Midlands -36 26 £500 +21.21% 21
Scotland +10 18 £420 -6.67% 7
Yorkshire -57 18 £500 +14.29% 7
East of England -28 13 £525 +31.25% 5
East Midlands -27 9 £395 +11.35% 10
South West -31 7 £394 -3.61% 17
Northern Ireland -9 5 £463 -7.50% 2
Wales -3 3 - - 1
North East -16 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 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.02%) Confluence
4 12 (2.79%) Apache
4 12 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.86%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (14.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.16%) 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
2 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (52.33%) Power Platform
2 99 (23.02%) Azure
3 76 (17.67%) AWS
4 36 (8.37%) GCP
5 27 (6.28%) Snowflake
6 19 (4.42%) Power Automate
7 18 (4.19%) Serverless
8 17 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (3.95%) dbt
8 17 (3.95%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.26%) GitHub
12 12 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.86%) Figma
15 7 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
16 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
1 225 (52.33%) Power BI
2 120 (27.91%) Tableau
3 58 (13.49%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.67%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.81%) Looker
6 19 (4.42%) Big Data
6 19 (4.42%) BigQuery
6 19 (4.42%) Hadoop
7 17 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.95%) Power Query
8 15 (3.49%) Metadata
8 15 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.56%) Data Mining
9 11 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (2.33%) Apache Hive
11 9 (2.09%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (1.86%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.86%) MySQL
13 7 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.14%) Git
2 17 (3.95%) JIRA
3 8 (1.86%) 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%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 174 (40.47%) Social Skills
2 135 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (30.93%) Finance
4 49 (11.40%) Banking
5 47 (10.93%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.88%) Retail
7 16 (3.72%) Front Office
8 15 (3.49%) Marketing
9 14 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.26%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.33%) Legal
10 10 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (2.09%) Publishing
12 8 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.40%) Back Office
15 5 (1.16%) Law
15 5 (1.16%) Military
15 5 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (30.70%) Analyst
2 84 (19.53%) Data Analyst
3 83 (19.30%) Developer
4 54 (12.56%) Senior
5 38 (8.84%) Data Scientist
6 36 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.98%) Architect
8 27 (6.28%) Business Analyst
9 26 (6.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 21 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
13 12 (2.79%) Consultant
13 12 (2.79%) Lead
13 12 (2.79%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (2.56%) Designer
15 10 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
15 10 (2.33%) SQL Data Analyst
16 9 (2.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.21%) React
2 27 (6.28%) Pandas
3 19 (4.42%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.19%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.72%) NumPy
5 16 (3.72%) Vue
6 15 (3.49%) Kafka
7 14 (3.26%) Plotly
7 14 (3.26%) REST
8 12 (2.79%) D3.js
9 9 (2.09%) PySpark
9 9 (2.09%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.86%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.63%) Matplotlib
12 6 (1.40%) .NET
12 6 (1.40%) CSS
12 6 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (1.40%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.40%) RESTful
12 6 (1.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.37%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.26%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.09%) CMDB
6 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.86%) Reference Data
6 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.63%) Life Science
8 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.16%) Genomics
9 5 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.93%) Equities
10 4 (0.93%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.09%) Linux
2 8 (1.86%) Unix
3 5 (1.16%) Android
4 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 246 (57.21%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (41.16%) Analytics
4 128 (29.77%) Data Modelling
5 117 (27.21%) Decision-Making
6 116 (26.98%) Agile
7 114 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (22.56%) Actionable Insight
9 92 (21.40%) Data Analysis
10 88 (20.47%) Data Science
11 81 (18.84%) Machine Learning
12 76 (17.67%) AI
13 65 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (14.65%) ETL
15 60 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
16 57 (13.26%) Dashboard Development
17 50 (11.63%) Data Governance
18 48 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 43 (10.00%) Data Management
19 43 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 236 (54.88%) SQL
2 172 (40.00%) Python
3 34 (7.91%) R
4 33 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.05%) Java
6 20 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (4.42%) Scala
8 18 (4.19%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.02%) C#
10 8 (1.86%) VBA
11 7 (1.63%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.40%) Perl
12 6 (1.40%) PHP
13 4 (0.93%) Bash
14 3 (0.70%) C++
14 3 (0.70%) LookML
14 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Go
15 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.77%) Degree
4 12 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.63%) CFA
7 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.93%) CBAP
9 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.47%) APMP
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) ACCA
12 1 (0.23%) CIMA
12 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (16.74%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.05%) QA
4 14 (3.26%) GDPR
5 11 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (2.09%) PMO
7 5 (1.16%) 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 (4.88%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.42%) Terraform
2 16 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.33%) Kibana
4 8 (1.86%) 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 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.98%) Google
3 28 (6.51%) Databricks
4 19 (4.42%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.79%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.09%) Splunk
8 8 (1.86%) Oracle
9 7 (1.63%) Cognos
9 7 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.40%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.16%) Adobe
11 5 (1.16%) Dataiku
11 5 (1.16%) SAP
12 4 (0.93%) Murex
13 3 (0.70%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.70%) IBM
13 3 (0.70%) Sage
14 2 (0.47%) Alteryx
14 2 (0.47%) Talend