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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 204 223
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 438 445 510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.22% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.41% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 293 346
10th Percentile £313 £326 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £671 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 22
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.03 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.13 £25.54
Median hourly rate £40.73 £33.88 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -3.56% -10.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.50 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.80 £53.75 £67.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +11.54% +22.64% -24.29%

All Process and 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 32,161 31,515 40,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.65% 86.38% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,137 18,969 27,555
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,122 1,120 1,583
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.48 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -31.42% -25.42% +42.74%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -21 376 £450 -7.22% 458
London -24 220 £475 -6.59% 273
UK excluding London -13 179 £445 -1.11% 241
Work from Home -26 129 £469 -1.32% 218
North of England -42 60 £375 -16.67% 39
South East +11 41 £525 +6.06% 90
Yorkshire -23 33 £325 -27.78% 10
Scotland +5 25 £450 -16.28% 16
North West -28 25 £388 -13.70% 27
Midlands -25 22 £475 +15.15% 43
West Midlands -19 14 £511 +27.69% 27
East of England -9 12 £525 +23.53% 20
South West -5 10 £400 -30.43% 23
East Midlands -13 8 £413 -17.50% 15
Wales - 6 £183 - 8
Northern Ireland -16 4 £475 -5.00% 7
North East -11 2 £400 -28.89% 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 17 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.42%) Confluence
3 14 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.83%) Apache
5 8 (1.83%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.14%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 70 (15.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.60%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.46%) Maple
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.46%) 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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 233 (53.20%) Power Platform
2 110 (25.11%) Azure
3 70 (15.98%) AWS
4 43 (9.82%) GCP
5 31 (7.08%) Snowflake
6 23 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (4.79%) Power Automate
9 20 (4.57%) Serverless
10 17 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (3.88%) PowerApps
11 16 (3.65%) GitHub
12 15 (3.42%) dbt
13 14 (3.20%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.74%) Figma
15 11 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (1.37%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) MQTT
1 3 (0.68%) SNMP
2 2 (0.46%) 2G
2 2 (0.46%) 5G
2 2 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) LTE
2 2 (0.46%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.46%) SSH
2 2 (0.46%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) VoIP
3 1 (0.23%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (52.74%) Power BI
2 126 (28.77%) Tableau
3 66 (15.07%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (9.82%) Relational Database
5 31 (7.08%) Power Query
6 21 (4.79%) BigQuery
6 21 (4.79%) Data Lake
6 21 (4.79%) Looker
7 19 (4.34%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.88%) Big Data
9 14 (3.20%) Hadoop
10 13 (2.97%) Data Mining
10 13 (2.97%) Metadata
11 11 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.05%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.83%) Apache Hive
15 7 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (1.37%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 36 (8.22%) Git
2 18 (4.11%) JIRA
3 9 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.60%) Gradle
4 7 (1.60%) Storybook
4 7 (1.60%) Xcode
5 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.91%) MLflow
7 3 (0.68%) Selenium
7 3 (0.68%) webpack
8 1 (0.23%) Ant
8 1 (0.23%) git-flow
8 1 (0.23%) JMeter
8 1 (0.23%) Postman
8 1 (0.23%) Snyk
8 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 192 (43.84%) Social Skills
2 140 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (29.45%) Finance
4 50 (11.42%) Banking
5 42 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.57%) Investment Banking
6 20 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (4.11%) Retail
8 17 (3.88%) Marketing
9 16 (3.65%) Front Office
10 12 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.05%) Legal
13 9 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.14%) Back Office
15 5 (1.14%) Billing
16 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (33.79%) Analyst
2 96 (21.92%) Developer
3 95 (21.69%) Data Analyst
4 46 (10.50%) Senior
5 43 (9.82%) Data Engineer
6 26 (5.94%) Architect
6 26 (5.94%) Data Scientist
7 25 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 24 (5.48%) Business Analyst
9 22 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
10 20 (4.57%) Lead
11 17 (3.88%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (2.97%) Consultant
13 12 (2.74%) Power BI Analyst
13 12 (2.74%) Senior Data Analyst
14 11 (2.51%) Data Architect
14 11 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.51%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (2.51%) SQL Data Analyst
15 10 (2.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.39%) React
2 23 (5.25%) Pandas
3 22 (5.02%) D3.js
4 18 (4.11%) scikit-learn
5 17 (3.88%) NumPy
6 16 (3.65%) AngularJS
7 15 (3.42%) Plotly
8 14 (3.20%) PySpark
9 13 (2.97%) REST
9 13 (2.97%) Vue
10 12 (2.74%) Kafka
11 9 (2.05%) OAuth
12 8 (1.83%) React Native
12 8 (1.83%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.83%) Web Services
13 7 (1.60%) CSS
13 7 (1.60%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.60%) HTML
13 7 (1.60%) Node.js
13 7 (1.60%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.27%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.20%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.28%) CMDB
7 9 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.37%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.37%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.14%) Genomics
11 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.28%) Linux
2 8 (1.83%) Android
2 8 (1.83%) Unix
3 7 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 247 (56.39%) Business Intelligence
3 189 (43.15%) Analytics
4 124 (28.31%) Data Modelling
5 116 (26.48%) Data Analysis
6 113 (25.80%) Decision-Making
7 112 (25.57%) Agile
7 112 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (19.63%) Actionable Insight
9 83 (18.95%) Data Science
9 83 (18.95%) Machine Learning
10 72 (16.44%) ETL
11 59 (13.47%) Data Pipeline
12 58 (13.24%) AI
13 57 (13.01%) DevOps
14 56 (12.79%) Dashboard Development
15 55 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (11.87%) Data Engineering
17 50 (11.42%) Data Management
18 49 (11.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 245 (55.94%) SQL
2 186 (42.47%) Python
3 34 (7.76%) JavaScript
4 28 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (6.39%) R
5 22 (5.02%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.79%) Java
7 18 (4.11%) Scala
8 6 (1.37%) PHP
9 5 (1.14%) Bash
9 5 (1.14%) C#
9 5 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.14%) VBA
10 4 (0.91%) LookML
11 3 (0.68%) C++
11 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Go
12 2 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 60 (13.70%) Degree
2 50 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.34%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.37%) CFA
9 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.91%) CBAP
10 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.68%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.46%) ACCA
12 2 (0.46%) CEH
12 2 (0.46%) CIMA
12 2 (0.46%) CISSP
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.46%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.11%) QA
4 15 (3.42%) GDPR
5 6 (1.37%) WCAG
6 4 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.68%) EMIR
7 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.68%) MiFID
7 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.46%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (5.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.11%) Terraform
2 17 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.05%) Grafana
4 3 (0.68%) Ansible
4 3 (0.68%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) collectd
5 1 (0.23%) logstash
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) QRadar
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 95 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.39%) Google
3 26 (5.94%) Databricks
4 19 (4.34%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.42%) Oracle
6 14 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.97%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.74%) Splunk
9 11 (2.51%) SAP
10 7 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.14%) Adobe
11 5 (1.14%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.91%) Cognos
12 4 (0.91%) Informatica
12 4 (0.91%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.68%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.68%) Foundry
13 3 (0.68%) Hyperion
13 3 (0.68%) Palantir
13 3 (0.68%) Workday