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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 223 222
Rank change year-on-year -120 -1 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 364 391 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.19% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.31% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 251 286
10th Percentile £355 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £612
90th Percentile £704 £638 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +5.62% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 8
10th Percentile £22.98 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £37.94 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.77% -21.05% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £57.25 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +23.81%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -93 333 £488 +8.33% 302
UK excluding London -98 165 £470 +5.62% 165
London -90 164 £514 +4.85% 166
Work from Home -42 127 £475 +8.94% 123
North of England -61 53 £438 +11.45% 42
Midlands -32 39 £400 -3.03% 33
South East -56 36 £550 -2.22% 47
North West -34 31 £438 +26.50% 25
West Midlands -39 24 £440 +3.53% 23
South West -39 20 £475 +5.56% 23
Yorkshire -56 19 £500 +26.98% 14
East Midlands -3 15 £375 -9.09% 10
East of England -21 12 £463 -0.80% 12
Scotland -13 10 £450 -10.00% 6
North East -39 4 £375 -16.67% 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 11 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.65%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.65%) Confluence
3 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (17.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.55%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.10%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.82%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 214 (58.79%) Power Platform
2 74 (20.33%) Azure
3 59 (16.21%) AWS
4 26 (7.14%) GCP
5 18 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.95%) Serverless
5 18 (4.95%) Snowflake
6 15 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 14 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.75%) GitHub
9 10 (2.75%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.65%) dbt
13 6 (1.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (58.79%) Power BI
2 96 (26.37%) Tableau
3 61 (16.76%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 36 (9.89%) Power Query
6 23 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 22 (6.04%) Metadata
8 20 (5.49%) Looker
9 18 (4.95%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (3.85%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.57%) Big Data
13 11 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.47%) QlikView
14 9 (2.47%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.20%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.20%) PowerPivot
15 8 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.85%) JIRA
2 11 (3.02%) Git
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Flyway
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) Storybook
6 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 132 (36.26%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (35.16%) Social Skills
3 100 (27.47%) Finance
4 49 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.69%) Banking
6 17 (4.67%) Marketing
7 9 (2.47%) Military
7 9 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.20%) Retail
9 6 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.65%) Law
10 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (27.47%) Analyst
2 62 (17.03%) Data Analyst
3 59 (16.21%) Developer
4 47 (12.91%) Senior
5 46 (12.64%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 25 (6.87%) Consultant
7 25 (6.87%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.32%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (6.04%) Architect
10 18 (4.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.95%) Lead
11 15 (4.12%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.85%) Designer
13 12 (3.30%) Data Architect
13 12 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.02%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.75%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.47%) Data Visualisation Specialist
17 8 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.69%) REST
2 15 (4.12%) React
3 13 (3.57%) CSS
4 12 (3.30%) .NET
4 12 (3.30%) Pandas
5 11 (3.02%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.75%) HTML
6 10 (2.75%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.20%) SOAP
8 7 (1.92%) Middleware
8 7 (1.92%) Web Services
9 6 (1.65%) PySpark
9 6 (1.65%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.65%) Spring
9 6 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.37%) Kafka
10 5 (1.37%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.37%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 20 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.47%) Clustering
8 9 (2.47%) PKI
9 8 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.20%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.20%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.10%) CMDB
12 4 (1.10%) Life Science
12 4 (1.10%) LIMS
12 4 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.85%) Windows
2 13 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.55%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 230 (63.19%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (49.18%) Analytics
4 139 (38.19%) Data Modelling
5 109 (29.95%) Agile
6 108 (29.67%) Decision-Making
7 98 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (19.78%) Dashboard Development
9 69 (18.96%) AI
10 66 (18.13%) ETL
11 64 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
12 61 (16.76%) Data Analysis
12 61 (16.76%) Data Science
13 58 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
16 55 (15.11%) Data Governance
16 55 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (14.01%) Validation
18 47 (12.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 194 (53.30%) SQL
2 112 (30.77%) Python
3 42 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 37 (10.16%) R
5 26 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.04%) Java
7 18 (4.95%) C#
8 14 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.47%) Scala
11 7 (1.92%) VBA
12 5 (1.37%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.10%) Rust
14 3 (0.82%) C++
15 2 (0.55%) Bash
15 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 1 (0.27%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.09%) Degree
4 15 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.25%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.04%) QA
3 16 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.85%) PMO
5 10 (2.75%) GDPR
6 4 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.10%) GMP
6 4 (1.10%) GxP
6 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.82%) WCAG
8 2 (0.55%) Basel III
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.47%) Terraform
2 5 (1.37%) Kibana
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) SCCM
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.52%) Oracle
3 23 (6.32%) Databricks
4 21 (5.77%) SAP
4 21 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.95%) Google
6 9 (2.47%) Adobe
6 9 (2.47%) BMC
6 9 (2.47%) Remedy
7 7 (1.92%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.65%) Informatica
8 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.37%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.37%) Palantir
10 4 (1.10%) Apple
10 4 (1.10%) Brio
10 4 (1.10%) Foundry
10 4 (1.10%) Solace
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.55%) Splunk