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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 222 223
Rank change year-on-year -136 +1 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 359 402 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.23% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.35% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 261 293
10th Percentile £352 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £550 £613
90th Percentile £723 £671 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 9
10th Percentile £23.62 £20.24 £35.25
25th Percentile £28.25 £31.64 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.45 £61.25 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +117.29% -2.65% +18.92%

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 45,595 29,691 33,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.49% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,509 21,072
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,871 1,749 1,744
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -44.58% +10.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -112 329 £500 +5.26% 204
UK excluding London -96 169 £470 +4.44% 138
London -120 155 £525 +5.00% 103
Work from Home -46 117 £474 +5.28% 83
North of England -63 54 £438 +11.45% 31
Midlands -30 40 £400 -3.03% 16
South East -74 32 £550 -8.33% 53
North West -35 31 £438 +13.03% 18
West Midlands -34 25 £455 -10.26% 10
South West -29 24 £475 +5.56% 18
Yorkshire -48 20 £480 +23.87% 11
East Midlands -11 15 £375 -9.09% 6
East of England -21 14 £463 -11.90% 10
Scotland -24 10 £430 -14.00% 6
North East -42 4 £375 -16.67% 2

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 (2.51%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.95%) Confluence
3 6 (1.67%) Apache Superset
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.84%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (16.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.28%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.28%) iTrent
4 1 (0.28%) Primavera
4 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 210 (58.50%) Power Platform
2 70 (19.50%) Azure
3 53 (14.76%) AWS
4 27 (7.52%) GCP
5 19 (5.29%) Snowflake
6 16 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (3.90%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.06%) Serverless
9 10 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.79%) GitHub
9 10 (2.79%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.95%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.67%) dbt
12 6 (1.67%) OCI
13 5 (1.39%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
2 2 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) Wireless
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (58.22%) Power BI
2 88 (24.51%) Tableau
3 61 (16.99%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (10.03%) Power Query
5 32 (8.91%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.41%) Metadata
7 22 (6.13%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.57%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.18%) Looker
9 15 (4.18%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.34%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.79%) Big Data
13 9 (2.51%) Qlik Sense
13 9 (2.51%) QlikView
13 9 (2.51%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.23%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.23%) PowerPivot
14 8 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (4.74%) JIRA
2 11 (3.06%) Git
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Flyway
6 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JUnit
6 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.28%) Storybook
6 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 132 (36.77%) Analytical Skills
2 124 (34.54%) Social Skills
3 94 (26.18%) Finance
4 38 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.64%) Banking
6 11 (3.06%) Marketing
7 10 (2.79%) Military
8 8 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.95%) Law
10 6 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Retail
11 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.11%) Front Office
12 4 (1.11%) Local Government
13 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (24.51%) Analyst
2 57 (15.88%) Developer
3 52 (14.48%) Senior
4 50 (13.93%) Data Analyst
5 49 (13.65%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.80%) Consultant
7 24 (6.69%) Architect
7 24 (6.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 22 (6.13%) Power BI Developer
9 21 (5.85%) Data Scientist
10 20 (5.57%) Lead
11 15 (4.18%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.18%) Designer
12 14 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (3.62%) Analytics Consultant
14 11 (3.06%) Data Visualisation Specialist
15 10 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 10 (2.79%) Data Consultant
15 10 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (2.51%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.64%) REST
2 18 (5.01%) React
3 16 (4.46%) CSS
4 14 (3.90%) HTML
5 12 (3.34%) Pandas
6 11 (3.06%) .NET
6 11 (3.06%) Terraform
7 10 (2.79%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.51%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.23%) Redux
9 8 (2.23%) SOAP
10 7 (1.95%) Kafka
10 7 (1.95%) Middleware
10 7 (1.95%) Web Services
11 6 (1.67%) PySpark
11 6 (1.67%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.67%) Spring
11 6 (1.67%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.39%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.52%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.34%) Reference Data
4 12 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.51%) Clustering
7 9 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.51%) PKI
8 8 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.67%) Life Science
10 6 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.39%) CMDB
11 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.11%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.18%) Windows
2 13 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.84%) Unix
4 2 (0.56%) Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 214 (59.61%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (49.03%) Analytics
4 126 (35.10%) Data Modelling
5 105 (29.25%) Decision-Making
6 100 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (26.74%) Agile
8 78 (21.73%) AI
9 63 (17.55%) Dashboard Development
10 62 (17.27%) ETL
11 61 (16.99%) Actionable Insight
11 61 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 60 (16.71%) Data Analysis
13 57 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
14 55 (15.32%) Data Science
15 54 (15.04%) Data Governance
16 50 (13.93%) Data Engineering
17 47 (13.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.97%) SQL
2 112 (31.20%) Python
3 43 (11.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (8.91%) R
5 27 (7.52%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.69%) Java
7 18 (5.01%) C#
7 18 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.34%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.06%) Scala
10 8 (2.23%) VBA
11 5 (1.39%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.11%) Rust
13 3 (0.84%) Bash
13 3 (0.84%) C++
14 2 (0.56%) Go
14 2 (0.56%) Korn
14 2 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 47 (13.09%) Degree
4 15 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.84%) PhD
9 1 (0.28%) APMG
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (22.01%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.57%) QA
3 18 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.62%) GDPR
5 9 (2.51%) PMO
6 4 (1.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.11%) GMP
6 4 (1.11%) GRC
6 4 (1.11%) GxP
6 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 4 (1.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) Basel III
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.11%) Grafana
2 4 (1.11%) Kibana
3 3 (0.84%) SCCM
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) QRadar
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 69 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.08%) Oracle
3 23 (6.41%) SAP
3 23 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.13%) Databricks
4 22 (6.13%) Google
5 9 (2.51%) BMC
5 9 (2.51%) Remedy
6 7 (1.95%) Adobe
7 6 (1.67%) Informatica
8 5 (1.39%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.39%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.39%) Palantir
9 4 (1.11%) Foundry
9 4 (1.11%) Solace
9 4 (1.11%) Splunk
10 3 (0.84%) Apple
10 3 (0.84%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.56%) MicroStrategy