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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 185 257
Rank change year-on-year -98 +72 +96
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 419 435 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.49% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.64% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 285 275
10th Percentile £341 £327 £317
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £19.84 £27.09 £24.43
25th Percentile £28.31 £31.64 £25.81
Median hourly rate £54.75 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.36% -22.09% -15.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.88 £77.55 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.42 £32.81 £24.43
% change year-on-year +105.49% +34.30% -13.25%

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 39,074 26,483 37,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.36% 90.62% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,751 17,195 24,633
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 997 2,379
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +22.37% -9.09% -8.08%

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 9 April 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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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 -104 372 £488 +8.33% 176
London -66 211 £490 +3.16% 70
UK excluding London -78 162 £475 +5.56% 137
Work from Home -49 136 £500 +11.11% 93
North of England -67 47 £475 +4.40% 32
Midlands -40 40 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -42 33 £520 +4.00% 47
North West -24 29 £441 -7.11% 23
West Midlands -47 25 £488 +14.71% 14
East Midlands -22 15 £385 +4.90% 18
East of England -39 15 £463 +15.77% 6
Yorkshire -53 15 £500 +16.28% 7
South West -41 12 £450 -5.26% 12
Scotland +3 11 £425 -15.00% 6
Northern Ireland +1 3 £463 - 3
North East -21 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -14 1 - - 1

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 22 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.63%) Apache
4 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.39%) Confluence
5 6 (1.43%) Apache Superset
6 5 (1.19%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Eloqua
2 3 (0.72%) iTrent
3 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 226 (53.94%) Power Platform
2 96 (22.91%) Azure
3 83 (19.81%) AWS
4 32 (7.64%) GCP
5 27 (6.44%) Snowflake
6 24 (5.73%) Serverless
7 22 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.01%) Power Automate
9 19 (4.53%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.30%) dbt
11 17 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.06%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Wireless
2 2 (0.48%) 2G
2 2 (0.48%) 5G
2 2 (0.48%) LTE
2 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (53.94%) Power BI
2 121 (28.88%) Tableau
3 72 (17.18%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.88%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.49%) Metadata
6 21 (5.01%) Big Data
6 21 (5.01%) Looker
6 21 (5.01%) Power Query
7 19 (4.53%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.58%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (3.34%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.34%) Hadoop
11 11 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.15%) MySQL
14 8 (1.91%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (6.68%) Git
2 17 (4.06%) JIRA
3 8 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.95%) ERwin
5 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 171 (40.81%) Social Skills
2 146 (34.84%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (30.55%) Finance
4 60 (14.32%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.59%) Banking
6 22 (5.25%) Marketing
7 19 (4.53%) Retail
8 14 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.86%) Front Office
10 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.15%) Law
13 8 (1.91%) Publishing
14 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.19%) Legal
15 5 (1.19%) Military
15 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.95%) Automotive
16 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (30.55%) Analyst
2 75 (17.90%) Data Analyst
3 74 (17.66%) Developer
4 66 (15.75%) Senior
5 43 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.88%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.21%) Architect
8 24 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.49%) Business Analyst
9 23 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 18 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 14 (3.34%) Consultant
11 14 (3.34%) Lead
11 14 (3.34%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.10%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (2.86%) Designer
14 11 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.39%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.15%) Insight Analyst
16 9 (2.15%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.21%) Pandas
1 26 (6.21%) React
2 20 (4.77%) REST
3 19 (4.53%) AngularJS
4 18 (4.30%) Kafka
5 16 (3.82%) Plotly
6 15 (3.58%) NumPy
7 14 (3.34%) Vue
8 13 (3.10%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.39%) PySpark
10 9 (2.15%) .NET
10 9 (2.15%) Matplotlib
10 9 (2.15%) Seaborn
11 8 (1.91%) Web Services
12 7 (1.67%) CSS
12 7 (1.67%) D3.js
12 7 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.67%) RESTful
12 7 (1.67%) WebSockets
13 6 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.97%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.77%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.19%) Derivative
8 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.95%) Animation
9 4 (0.95%) IoT
9 4 (0.95%) Life Science
9 4 (0.95%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.15%) Linux
2 8 (1.91%) Unix
3 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.48%) Android
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 256 (61.10%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (42.48%) Analytics
4 143 (34.13%) Data Modelling
5 123 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (28.64%) Decision-Making
7 118 (28.16%) Agile
8 99 (23.63%) Actionable Insight
9 85 (20.29%) Data Science
10 81 (19.33%) Data Analysis
11 75 (17.90%) ETL
12 72 (17.18%) AI
13 69 (16.47%) Data Governance
14 67 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (15.27%) Dashboard Development
16 63 (15.04%) Machine Learning
17 58 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 50 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 46 (10.98%) Data Engineering
19 46 (10.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 233 (55.61%) SQL
2 151 (36.04%) Python
3 42 (10.02%) R
4 28 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (4.77%) Java
7 16 (3.82%) C#
8 14 (3.34%) Scala
9 11 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.39%) VBA
11 9 (2.15%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.43%) Perl
12 6 (1.43%) PHP
12 6 (1.43%) Rust
13 4 (0.95%) Bash
13 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.79%) Degree
4 15 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.72%) CFA
10 2 (0.48%) APMP
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) ACCA
11 1 (0.24%) CIMA
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.11%) QA
3 24 (5.73%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.06%) PMO
5 16 (3.82%) GDPR
6 11 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.95%) WCAG
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.24%) EMIR
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.30%) Terraform
3 11 (2.63%) Kibana
4 10 (2.39%) Grafana
5 6 (1.43%) Ansible
5 6 (1.43%) logstash
6 5 (1.19%) SCCM
7 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 71 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.40%) Databricks
3 27 (6.44%) Google
4 19 (4.53%) Oracle
5 17 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.34%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.39%) Adobe
8 9 (2.15%) SAP
9 8 (1.91%) Amplitude
10 7 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.43%) Apple
11 6 (1.43%) Cognos
12 4 (0.95%) Brio
12 4 (0.95%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.95%) Sage
12 4 (0.95%) Solace
13 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.72%) Informatica
13 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud