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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 204 235
Rank change year-on-year -111 +31 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 382 417 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.29% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.43% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 270 314
10th Percentile £352 £315 £318
25th Percentile £430 £386 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £709 £658 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 11
10th Percentile £18.04 £21.10 £24.43
25th Percentile £29.75 £31.56 £33.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +40.59%
75th Percentile £71.88 £46.36 £45.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.75 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year +65.93% +29.51% -4.20%

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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 July 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 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 15 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 9 July 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 -111 347 £500 +9.89% 215
UK excluding London -92 172 £475 +10.47% 132
London -106 171 £525 +5.00% 122
Work from Home -49 128 £488 +10.23% 89
North of England -64 58 £438 +0.69% 29
Midlands -40 41 £440 +6.67% 27
South East -50 39 £520 -7.56% 45
North West -21 35 £437 +16.40% 19
West Midlands -49 26 £475 +11.76% 16
South West -32 22 £475 +16.14% 13
Yorkshire -54 20 £500 +21.21% 6
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -8.81% 11
Scotland -16 10 £463 -7.50% 5
East of England -32 6 £463 +15.63% 8
North East -32 4 £375 -23.08% 4

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 14 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.83%) Confluence
4 6 (1.57%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.05%) Apache
5 4 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.05%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.52%) iTrent
5 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 230 (60.21%) Power Platform
2 83 (21.73%) Azure
3 73 (19.11%) AWS
4 26 (6.81%) GCP
5 21 (5.50%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.45%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.45%) Serverless
7 16 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.40%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.88%) dbt
11 10 (2.62%) GitHub
12 9 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.09%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.57%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (60.21%) Power BI
2 105 (27.49%) Tableau
3 70 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (9.69%) Relational Database
5 35 (9.16%) Power Query
6 27 (7.07%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.02%) Looker
8 21 (5.50%) Data Lake
9 19 (4.97%) Metadata
10 18 (4.71%) Big Data
11 17 (4.45%) BigQuery
12 15 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (3.14%) Hadoop
15 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
17 8 (2.09%) NoSQL
17 8 (2.09%) PowerPivot
17 8 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 7 (1.83%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (4.19%) JIRA
2 11 (2.88%) Git
3 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.79%) ERwin
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.26%) Flyway
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Postman
5 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.26%) Storybook
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 138 (36.13%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (34.82%) Social Skills
3 113 (29.58%) Finance
4 54 (14.14%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.90%) Banking
6 18 (4.71%) Marketing
7 12 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.88%) Retail
9 9 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.57%) Law
11 6 (1.57%) Military
11 6 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.31%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.05%) Legal
14 3 (0.79%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (32.20%) Analyst
2 77 (20.16%) Data Analyst
3 58 (15.18%) Developer
4 51 (13.35%) Senior
5 47 (12.30%) Data Engineer
6 30 (7.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (7.07%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 23 (6.02%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (5.76%) Consultant
10 21 (5.50%) Architect
11 19 (4.97%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.19%) Lead
13 13 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
14 11 (2.88%) Performance Analyst
14 11 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.36%) Analytics Consultant
15 9 (2.36%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.28%) REST
2 20 (5.24%) React
3 14 (3.66%) Pandas
4 12 (3.14%) CSS
5 10 (2.62%) .NET
6 9 (2.36%) HTML
6 9 (2.36%) Kafka
6 9 (2.36%) Spring
6 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.83%) OpenFin
7 7 (1.83%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.57%) Electron
8 6 (1.57%) Middleware
8 6 (1.57%) PySpark
8 6 (1.57%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.57%) SOAP
8 6 (1.57%) Web Services
9 5 (1.31%) Seaborn
9 5 (1.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.59%) Data Structures
2 19 (4.97%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.09%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.83%) Clustering
9 7 (1.83%) Life Science
9 7 (1.83%) PKI
10 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.05%) NHS
12 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.79%) Blog
12 3 (0.79%) CMDB
12 3 (0.79%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.62%) Windows
1 10 (2.62%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 248 (64.92%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (46.34%) Analytics
4 147 (38.48%) Data Modelling
5 117 (30.63%) Decision-Making
6 115 (30.10%) Agile
7 101 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.20%) AI
9 79 (20.68%) Actionable Insight
9 79 (20.68%) ETL
10 78 (20.42%) Dashboard Development
11 70 (18.32%) Data Analysis
12 69 (18.06%) Data Science
13 66 (17.28%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (17.02%) Data Governance
15 64 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (14.14%) Validation
19 51 (13.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 210 (54.97%) SQL
2 125 (32.72%) Python
3 42 (10.99%) R
4 41 (10.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (7.07%) Java
6 23 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.45%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.93%) C#
9 9 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.36%) VBA
10 7 (1.83%) Scala
11 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.05%) C++
12 4 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) Rust
13 2 (0.52%) C
13 2 (0.52%) Korn
13 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 87 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.52%) Degree
4 13 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) ACCA
8 1 (0.26%) APMG
8 1 (0.26%) CIMA
8 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.30%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.81%) QA
3 21 (5.50%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.19%) PMO
5 13 (3.40%) GDPR
6 6 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.79%) GMP
7 3 (0.79%) GxP
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) Basel III
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.88%) Terraform
2 6 (1.57%) Kibana
2 6 (1.57%) SCCM
3 5 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.79%) Ansible
4 3 (0.79%) Grafana
4 3 (0.79%) logstash
5 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 65 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.85%) Oracle
3 25 (6.54%) Databricks
4 23 (6.02%) Google
5 19 (4.97%) SAP
6 18 (4.71%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.36%) Adobe
8 8 (2.09%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.83%) BMC
9 7 (1.83%) Remedy
10 6 (1.57%) Informatica
10 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.57%) Solace
11 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.31%) Palantir
12 4 (1.05%) Apple
12 4 (1.05%) Cognos
12 4 (1.05%) Foundry
13 3 (0.79%) Brio
13 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud