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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 219 220
Rank change year-on-year -125 +1 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 364 394 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.20% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.33% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 254 290
10th Percentile £355 £313 £331
25th Percentile £405 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £618
90th Percentile £696 £665 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +4.79% -0.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 11
10th Percentile £23.62 £16.90 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £31.64 £33.75
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 £51.25
90th Percentile £75.45 £64.15 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £31.64 £26.17
% change year-on-year +117.29% +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 45,399 29,629 33,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.46% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,782 18,436 20,950
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% -3.67%
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 2,881 1,773 1,687
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +6.25%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -101 333 £488 +6.56% 164
UK excluding London -87 169 £470 +4.79% 96
London -101 160 £519 +3.75% 86
Work from Home -49 119 £473 +5.00% 70
North of England -71 52 £438 +11.45% 27
Midlands -35 39 £420 +1.82% 10
South East -58 33 £550 -8.33% 22
North West -33 31 £438 +13.03% 13
South West -29 25 £475 +5.56% 26
West Midlands -37 24 £470 -7.30% 6
Yorkshire -63 18 £480 +23.87% 12
East Midlands -9 15 £375 -9.09% 4
East of England -22 14 £463 -11.90% 5
Scotland -21 11 £410 -18.00% 3
North East -40 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 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.65%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.82%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.27%) iTrent
5 1 (0.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 214 (58.79%) Power Platform
2 71 (19.51%) Azure
3 54 (14.84%) AWS
4 27 (7.42%) GCP
5 18 (4.95%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.12%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.30%) Serverless
11 11 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.02%) GitHub
11 11 (3.02%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.65%) dbt
13 6 (1.65%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.65%) OCI
14 5 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTP
2 2 (0.55%) Broadband
2 2 (0.55%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (58.52%) Power BI
2 90 (24.73%) Tableau
3 62 (17.03%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (9.89%) Power Query
5 32 (8.79%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.32%) Metadata
6 23 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.77%) Data Lake
8 15 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (3.85%) Looker
10 13 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.30%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.02%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.75%) Big Data
14 9 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
14 9 (2.47%) QlikView
15 8 (2.20%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.92%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.12%) JIRA
2 11 (3.02%) Git
3 4 (1.10%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Flyway
6 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
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
1 134 (36.81%) Analytical Skills
2 123 (33.79%) Social Skills
3 91 (25.00%) Finance
4 42 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.07%) Banking
6 12 (3.30%) Military
7 11 (3.02%) Marketing
8 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.92%) Law
9 7 (1.92%) Retail
10 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.10%) Local Government
13 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Front Office
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (24.73%) Analyst
2 58 (15.93%) Developer
3 53 (14.56%) Data Analyst
4 50 (13.74%) Senior
5 49 (13.46%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.69%) Consultant
7 24 (6.59%) Architect
7 24 (6.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.32%) Power BI Developer
9 20 (5.49%) Data Scientist
9 20 (5.49%) Lead
10 15 (4.12%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.12%) Designer
11 13 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.30%) Analytics Consultant
12 12 (3.30%) Data Visualisation Specialist
13 11 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.75%) Data Consultant
14 10 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.47%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.24%) REST
2 18 (4.95%) React
3 16 (4.40%) CSS
4 14 (3.85%) HTML
5 12 (3.30%) .NET
6 11 (3.02%) Pandas
7 10 (2.75%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.75%) Terraform
8 9 (2.47%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.20%) Redux
9 8 (2.20%) SOAP
10 7 (1.92%) Middleware
10 7 (1.92%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.92%) Web Services
11 6 (1.65%) Kafka
11 6 (1.65%) PySpark
11 6 (1.65%) Spring
11 6 (1.65%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.97%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.04%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.30%) Reference Data
4 12 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.47%) Clustering
7 9 (2.47%) PKI
8 8 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.65%) Life Science
11 5 (1.37%) CMDB
11 5 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.10%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.12%) Windows
2 13 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.55%) Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 220 (60.44%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (49.45%) Analytics
4 129 (35.44%) Data Modelling
5 106 (29.12%) Decision-Making
6 98 (26.92%) Agile
7 96 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (21.43%) AI
9 66 (18.13%) Dashboard Development
10 64 (17.58%) ETL
11 62 (17.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 61 (16.76%) Actionable Insight
12 61 (16.76%) Data Analysis
13 60 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 58 (15.93%) Data Pipeline
15 55 (15.11%) Data Governance
15 55 (15.11%) Data Science
16 53 (14.56%) Data Engineering
17 47 (12.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 186 (51.10%) SQL
2 113 (31.04%) Python
3 44 (12.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (9.34%) R
5 28 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.87%) Java
7 20 (5.49%) C#
8 17 (4.67%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.02%) Scala
11 7 (1.92%) VBA
12 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.10%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.82%) Bash
15 3 (0.82%) C++
15 3 (0.82%) Rust
16 2 (0.55%) Go
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 83 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.81%) Degree
4 15 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.82%) PhD
8 1 (0.27%) APMG
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.77%) QA
3 18 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.85%) GDPR
5 9 (2.47%) PMO
6 5 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (1.10%) GMP
7 4 (1.10%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) GxP
7 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.10%) WCAG
8 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.55%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.10%) Kibana
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
3 3 (0.82%) Grafana
3 3 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 72 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.24%) Oracle
3 22 (6.04%) Databricks
3 22 (6.04%) SAP
3 22 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.49%) Google
5 9 (2.47%) BMC
5 9 (2.47%) Remedy
6 6 (1.65%) Adobe
7 5 (1.37%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.37%) Informatica
7 5 (1.37%) Palantir
8 4 (1.10%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.10%) Foundry
8 4 (1.10%) Solace
8 4 (1.10%) Splunk
9 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.82%) Brio
9 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.55%) ESRI