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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 227 217
Rank change year-on-year -123 -10 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 373 401 434
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.22% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.34% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 257 287
10th Percentile £331 £313 £337
25th Percentile £403 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £701 £643 £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 34 16 11
10th Percentile £22.03 £16.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £29.44 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.75 £35.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.88% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.69 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.63 £64.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £31.64 £26.17
% change year-on-year +73.83% +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 46,183 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,080 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,092 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.25 £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 £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.31% -47.37% +5.81%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -117 333 £484 +6.32% 963
UK excluding London -94 180 £450 +4.65% 422
London -124 155 £519 +3.75% 632
Work from Home -47 124 £463 +8.82% 407
North of England -83 51 £425 +9.68% 94
Midlands -24 44 £420 -8.65% 64
South East -68 37 £550 -8.33% 106
North West -31 29 £438 +16.80% 43
West Midlands -36 27 £470 -7.98% 44
South West -29 25 £475 +18.75% 47
East Midlands +1 17 £375 -9.09% 20
Yorkshire -66 15 £460 +16.83% 37
Scotland -31 14 £410 -18.00% 38
East of England -32 12 - - 35
North East -34 8 £375 -6.25% 14
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 27

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 9 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.34%) Apache Superset
2 5 (1.34%) Confluence
2 5 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (18.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.34%) 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 (2.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.07%) 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
1 231 (61.93%) Power Platform
2 70 (18.77%) Azure
3 55 (14.75%) AWS
4 27 (7.24%) GCP
5 20 (5.36%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.56%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.02%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.75%) GitHub
10 13 (3.49%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (3.22%) Serverless
12 10 (2.68%) Google Analytics
13 9 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.88%) Adobe Analytics
15 7 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
17 5 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.34%) HTTP
2 4 (1.07%) 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
1 230 (61.66%) Power BI
2 89 (23.86%) Tableau
3 55 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (12.33%) Power Query
5 33 (8.85%) Relational Database
6 24 (6.43%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.63%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.36%) Metadata
9 15 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (3.75%) Looker
11 13 (3.49%) BigQuery
11 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.95%) Star Schema
13 9 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (2.14%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.14%) QlikView
15 7 (1.88%) Big Data
15 7 (1.88%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.75%) JIRA
2 13 (3.49%) Git
3 5 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.07%) GitLab
5 3 (0.80%) 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
1 138 (37.00%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (35.66%) Social Skills
3 93 (24.93%) Finance
4 43 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.85%) Banking
6 12 (3.22%) Military
7 10 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.41%) Marketing
8 9 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.14%) Retail
10 7 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.34%) Law
12 5 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.07%) Local Government
13 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (26.01%) Analyst
2 61 (16.35%) Developer
3 58 (15.55%) Data Analyst
4 50 (13.40%) Senior
5 46 (12.33%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.51%) Consultant
7 26 (6.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.17%) Architect
8 23 (6.17%) Power BI Developer
9 20 (5.36%) Lead
10 17 (4.56%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.02%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.75%) Designer
13 12 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.95%) Analytics Consultant
14 11 (2.95%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 11 (2.95%) Performance Analyst
14 11 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (2.68%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.68%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.31%) REST
2 17 (4.56%) React
3 16 (4.29%) CSS
4 14 (3.75%) HTML
5 12 (3.22%) .NET
6 11 (2.95%) Pandas
7 9 (2.41%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.41%) Terraform
8 8 (2.14%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.14%) Redux
8 8 (2.14%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.14%) SOAP
9 7 (1.88%) Middleware
9 7 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.88%) Web Services
10 6 (1.61%) PySpark
10 6 (1.61%) XML
11 5 (1.34%) Kafka
11 5 (1.34%) NumPy
11 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.77%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.70%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.22%) Reference Data
5 11 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.41%) Clustering
6 9 (2.41%) PKI
6 9 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.61%) Life Science
10 5 (1.34%) CMDB
10 5 (1.34%) LIMS
11 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.29%) Windows
2 14 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.07%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 234 (62.73%) Business Intelligence
3 187 (50.13%) Analytics
4 130 (34.85%) Data Modelling
5 115 (30.83%) Decision-Making
6 102 (27.35%) Agile
7 100 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.72%) AI
9 70 (18.77%) Dashboard Development
10 69 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 67 (17.96%) Actionable Insight
11 67 (17.96%) Data Analysis
12 65 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (15.55%) ETL
13 58 (15.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 57 (15.28%) Data Governance
14 57 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
15 56 (15.01%) Validation
16 51 (13.67%) Data Science
17 50 (13.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 190 (50.94%) SQL
2 114 (30.56%) Python
3 49 (13.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (8.04%) R
5 28 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.43%) Java
7 21 (5.63%) C#
8 16 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.22%) Scala
11 7 (1.88%) VBA
12 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.07%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.80%) Bash
14 3 (0.80%) C++
14 3 (0.80%) Rust
15 2 (0.54%) Go
15 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.80%) Degree
4 15 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.07%) PhD
8 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
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 88 (23.59%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.90%) QA
3 16 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.75%) GDPR
5 8 (2.14%) PMO
6 7 (1.88%) GMP
7 5 (1.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.34%) GxP
7 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.07%) GRC
8 4 (1.07%) WCAG
9 3 (0.80%) 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 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.61%) Kibana
2 5 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Grafana
3 3 (0.80%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 87 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.51%) Oracle
3 26 (6.97%) SAP
4 23 (6.17%) Google
4 23 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.36%) Databricks
6 9 (2.41%) BMC
6 9 (2.41%) Remedy
7 8 (2.14%) Adobe
7 8 (2.14%) Splunk
8 7 (1.88%) Informatica
9 6 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.34%) Palantir
11 4 (1.07%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.07%) Ariba
11 4 (1.07%) Foundry
11 4 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.80%) Brio
12 3 (0.80%) Solace