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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 209 230
Rank change year-on-year -117 +21 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 405 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.25% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.38% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 257 309
10th Percentile £350 £317 £313
25th Percentile £428 £394 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £603
90th Percentile £691 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +6.74% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 10
10th Percentile £18.04 £21.10 £23.58
25th Percentile £29.75 £31.56 £32.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +40.59%
75th Percentile £71.88 £46.36 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.75 £49.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year +65.93% +29.51% -4.20%

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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -96 342 £500 +9.89% 152
UK excluding London -86 172 £475 +6.74% 110
London -98 166 £523 +4.50% 65
Work from Home -56 130 £488 +8.70% 65
North of England -64 58 £438 -0.45% 28
Midlands -40 41 £420 +1.82% 24
South East -57 39 £523 -7.11% 39
North West -31 35 £438 +16.80% 17
West Midlands -41 26 £450 +5.88% 15
South West -26 22 £475 +16.14% 10
Yorkshire -54 20 £500 +16.28% 7
East Midlands -6 15 £375 -8.81% 9
Scotland -20 11 £463 -7.50% 4
East of England -27 6 £463 +13.50% 6
North East -37 4 £375 -16.67% 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 14 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.26%) iTrent
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 226 (59.63%) Power Platform
2 79 (20.84%) Azure
3 71 (18.73%) AWS
4 25 (6.60%) GCP
5 20 (5.28%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.49%) Serverless
7 16 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.64%) dbt
12 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.37%) GitHub
12 9 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.58%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) HTTP
2 3 (0.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (59.63%) Power BI
2 101 (26.65%) Tableau
3 67 (17.68%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.03%) Relational Database
5 35 (9.23%) Power Query
6 25 (6.60%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.54%) Data Lake
7 21 (5.54%) Looker
8 18 (4.75%) Big Data
9 17 (4.49%) Metadata
10 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.96%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.17%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (2.11%) NoSQL
15 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
15 8 (2.11%) QlikView
15 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.96%) JIRA
2 11 (2.90%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.53%) ERwin
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Flyway
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) Storybook
6 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 136 (35.88%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (34.83%) Social Skills
3 110 (29.02%) Finance
4 55 (14.51%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.71%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Marketing
7 12 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.11%) Military
9 8 (2.11%) Retail
10 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.58%) Law
11 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.06%) Front Office
12 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Billing
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 121 (31.93%) Analyst
2 76 (20.05%) Data Analyst
3 58 (15.30%) Developer
4 49 (12.93%) Senior
5 46 (12.14%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (6.86%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 23 (6.07%) Consultant
9 22 (5.80%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (5.28%) Architect
11 19 (5.01%) Business Analyst
12 17 (4.49%) Lead
13 12 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.90%) Data Business Analyst
14 11 (2.90%) Performance Analyst
15 10 (2.64%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (2.37%) Data Architect
16 9 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.86%) REST
2 19 (5.01%) React
3 14 (3.69%) Pandas
4 12 (3.17%) CSS
5 11 (2.90%) .NET
6 9 (2.37%) HTML
6 9 (2.37%) Kafka
6 9 (2.37%) Spring
6 9 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.85%) Middleware
7 7 (1.85%) OpenFin
7 7 (1.85%) PySpark
7 7 (1.85%) SOAP
7 7 (1.85%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.85%) Web Services
8 6 (1.58%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.58%) Electron
8 6 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.58%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 19 (5.01%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.11%) Clustering
7 8 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (2.11%) PKI
8 7 (1.85%) Life Science
9 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.06%) LIMS
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
11 3 (0.79%) CMDB
11 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.17%) Windows
1 12 (3.17%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 242 (63.85%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (46.17%) Analytics
4 145 (38.26%) Data Modelling
5 116 (30.61%) Agile
5 116 (30.61%) Decision-Making
6 101 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (20.84%) Dashboard Development
8 77 (20.32%) ETL
9 76 (20.05%) Actionable Insight
10 75 (19.79%) AI
11 72 (19.00%) Data Analysis
12 65 (17.15%) Data Governance
12 65 (17.15%) Data Science
13 62 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
13 62 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 60 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 54 (14.25%) Validation
17 49 (12.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 207 (54.62%) SQL
2 122 (32.19%) Python
3 41 (10.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 41 (10.82%) R
4 26 (6.86%) Java
5 24 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.22%) C#
8 10 (2.64%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.11%) Scala
9 8 (2.11%) VBA
10 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.06%) C++
11 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.06%) Rust
12 2 (0.53%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.35%) Degree
4 14 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) ACCA
8 1 (0.26%) APMG
8 1 (0.26%) CIMA
8 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.12%) QA
3 21 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 13 (3.43%) GDPR
6 6 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (1.06%) GMP
7 4 (1.06%) GxP
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.64%) Terraform
2 7 (1.85%) Kibana
3 6 (1.58%) SCCM
4 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 64 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.18%) Oracle
3 25 (6.60%) Databricks
4 22 (5.80%) Google
5 19 (5.01%) SAP
5 19 (5.01%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.64%) Adobe
7 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
7 8 (2.11%) BMC
7 8 (2.11%) Remedy
8 6 (1.58%) Informatica
8 6 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.58%) Solace
9 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.32%) Palantir
10 4 (1.06%) Apple
10 4 (1.06%) Cognos
10 4 (1.06%) Foundry
11 3 (0.79%) Brio
11 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud