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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 180 250
Rank change year-on-year -75 +70 +91
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 429 450 415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.48% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.64% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 297 291
10th Percentile £328 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £575
90th Percentile £670 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 13
10th Percentile £18.36 £24.48 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.23 £27.13 £25.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.03 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.24% -2.77% -40.17%
75th Percentile £76.48 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.85 £82.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £34.03 £20.22
% change year-on-year +54.28% +68.34% -0.52%

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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -78 372 £475 +5.56% 190
London -52 222 £496 +4.42% 95
UK excluding London -72 161 £463 +8.82% 157
Work from Home -37 139 £500 +12.36% 85
North of England -60 52 £425 -10.53% 32
Midlands -44 33 £475 +15.15% 27
North West -41 31 £420 -9.68% 22
South East -25 30 £500 +9.59% 77
West Midlands -43 24 £500 +21.21% 19
Scotland +10 18 £420 -6.67% 2
Yorkshire -51 18 £500 +21.95% 7
East of England -27 13 £488 +21.95% 9
East Midlands -25 9 £395 +7.63% 8
South West -42 8 £370 -9.54% 13
Northern Ireland -7 5 £463 -11.90%
Wales -1 3 - - 2
North East -18 3 £400 -25.58% 3

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 24 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.33%) Apache
4 10 (2.33%) Confluence
5 5 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Pig
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.17%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Blender
6 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.23%) InDesign
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.47%) iTrent
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 228 (53.15%) Power Platform
2 94 (21.91%) Azure
3 81 (18.88%) AWS
4 35 (8.16%) GCP
5 27 (6.29%) Snowflake
6 21 (4.90%) Serverless
7 20 (4.66%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.20%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 17 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.96%) dbt
10 10 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.33%) GitHub
11 9 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
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%) VoIP
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Modbus
2 1 (0.23%) SNMP
2 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (53.15%) Power BI
2 123 (28.67%) Tableau
3 61 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.06%) Looker
6 20 (4.66%) Big Data
7 19 (4.43%) BigQuery
7 19 (4.43%) Power Query
8 18 (4.20%) Data Lake
9 16 (3.73%) Hadoop
10 15 (3.50%) Metadata
11 14 (3.26%) SQL Server
12 11 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.86%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.86%) MySQL
14 8 (1.86%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.63%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.63%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 34 (7.93%) Git
2 14 (3.26%) JIRA
3 8 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.93%) ERwin
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%) Gradle
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Snyk
6 1 (0.23%) Storybook
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
6 1 (0.23%) Xcode
General
1 175 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 137 (31.93%) Finance
3 136 (31.70%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 46 (10.72%) Banking
6 21 (4.90%) Marketing
6 21 (4.90%) Retail
7 15 (3.50%) Front Office
8 14 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.10%) Publishing
12 6 (1.40%) Legal
13 5 (1.17%) Law
13 5 (1.17%) Military
13 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 146 (34.03%) Analyst
2 92 (21.45%) Data Analyst
3 81 (18.88%) Developer
4 55 (12.82%) Senior
5 36 (8.39%) Data Scientist
6 31 (7.23%) Data Engineer
7 29 (6.76%) Business Analyst
8 26 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 25 (5.83%) Architect
10 24 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 14 (3.26%) Data Business Analyst
12 14 (3.26%) Power BI Developer
13 13 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.80%) Lead
14 12 (2.80%) SQL Analyst
15 11 (2.56%) Consultant
15 11 (2.56%) Designer
16 10 (2.33%) SQL Data Analyst
17 9 (2.10%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.23%) React
2 28 (6.53%) Pandas
3 19 (4.43%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.20%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.96%) NumPy
6 16 (3.73%) Kafka
6 16 (3.73%) Vue
7 14 (3.26%) Plotly
7 14 (3.26%) REST
8 10 (2.33%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.10%) D3.js
9 9 (2.10%) Matplotlib
9 9 (2.10%) PySpark
10 8 (1.86%) Seaborn
10 8 (1.86%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.63%) RESTful
12 6 (1.40%) .NET
12 6 (1.40%) CSS
12 6 (1.40%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.23%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.10%) CMDB
7 9 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.86%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.63%) Life Science
10 6 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.17%) Derivative
11 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.17%) Equities
11 5 (1.17%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.10%) Linux
2 8 (1.86%) Unix
3 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.47%) Android
4 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 252 (58.74%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (42.42%) Analytics
4 135 (31.47%) Data Modelling
5 123 (28.67%) Agile
6 117 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 117 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (23.54%) Actionable Insight
8 92 (21.45%) Data Analysis
9 89 (20.75%) Data Science
10 77 (17.95%) Machine Learning
11 70 (16.32%) AI
12 67 (15.62%) ETL
13 63 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (13.99%) Data Pipeline
15 57 (13.29%) Dashboard Development
16 54 (12.59%) Data Governance
17 49 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 47 (10.96%) Data Management
19 41 (9.56%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 237 (55.24%) SQL
2 172 (40.09%) Python
3 35 (8.16%) R
4 33 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (4.66%) Java
7 15 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.26%) C#
9 13 (3.03%) Scala
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%) Rust
14 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 69 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.42%) Degree
4 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CBAP
8 4 (0.93%) CFA
8 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.47%) APMP
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CIMA
11 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (18.41%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.76%) QA
3 27 (6.29%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.03%) GDPR
5 12 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (2.56%) PMO
7 5 (1.17%) WCAG
8 3 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.47%) EMIR
9 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.43%) Terraform
2 16 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.56%) Kibana
4 10 (2.33%) Grafana
5 6 (1.40%) Ansible
5 6 (1.40%) logstash
6 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.70%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) collectd
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 72 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.46%) Google
3 30 (6.99%) Databricks
4 16 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.56%) Oracle
7 10 (2.33%) Adobe
8 8 (1.86%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.63%) Cognos
9 7 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.17%) Dataiku
10 5 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.17%) SAP
11 4 (0.93%) Apple
11 4 (0.93%) Murex
12 3 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.70%) Brio
12 3 (0.70%) IBM
12 3 (0.70%) Sage
12 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud