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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 223 213
Rank change year-on-year -125 -10 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 365 403 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.22% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.35% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 264 291
10th Percentile £330 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £614 £550 £640
90th Percentile £711 £637 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 14 11
10th Percentile £22.03 £15.70 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £25.13 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.75 £39.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -6.25% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.56 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.63 £64.45 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £20.92 £26.17
% change year-on-year +162.91% -20.05% -1.26%

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 46,068 29,787 33,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 90.53% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 18,499 20,227
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,164 1,816 1,455
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.48 £44.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 20 September 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 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 16 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 20 September 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 -121 323 £480 +6.67% 742
UK excluding London -97 177 £450 +4.65% 329
London -119 150 £519 +5.87% 481
Work from Home -62 120 £463 +8.82% 302
North of England -72 51 £425 +9.68% 64
Midlands -29 42 £420 -8.65% 55
South East -59 37 £550 -8.33% 87
North West -37 29 £438 +16.80% 22
West Midlands -32 27 £470 -7.98% 39
South West -24 23 £475 +5.56% 38
East Midlands -12 15 £375 -9.09% 16
Scotland -29 15 £410 -18.00% 24
Yorkshire -67 15 £460 +18.71% 29
East of England -27 12 - - 29
North East -35 8 £375 -6.25% 13
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 23

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 5 (1.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Superset
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (19.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (61.92%) Power Platform
2 69 (18.90%) Azure
3 52 (14.25%) AWS
4 26 (7.12%) GCP
5 21 (5.75%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.11%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.84%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.56%) GitHub
10 12 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.74%) Google Analytics
12 10 (2.74%) Serverless
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
16 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
16 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
17 5 (1.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.10%) Broadband
3 2 (0.55%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (61.64%) Power BI
2 87 (23.84%) Tableau
3 54 (14.79%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (12.88%) Power Query
5 32 (8.77%) Relational Database
6 23 (6.30%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.75%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.48%) Metadata
9 15 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (3.56%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.56%) Looker
11 11 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.01%) Star Schema
12 9 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.19%) QlikView
14 7 (1.92%) Big Data
14 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.64%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 14 (3.84%) JIRA
2 13 (3.56%) Git
3 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.82%) GitLab
5 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
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
1 136 (37.26%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 91 (24.93%) Finance
4 42 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.04%) Banking
6 12 (3.29%) Military
7 11 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.47%) Marketing
9 8 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Retail
10 7 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.37%) Law
12 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.10%) Local Government
13 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 96 (26.30%) Analyst
2 59 (16.16%) Data Analyst
2 59 (16.16%) Developer
3 48 (13.15%) Senior
4 44 (12.05%) Data Engineer
5 26 (7.12%) Consultant
6 25 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 23 (6.30%) Architect
8 22 (6.03%) Power BI Developer
9 19 (5.21%) Lead
10 16 (4.38%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.11%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.84%) Designer
13 12 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Analytics Consultant
14 11 (3.01%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 11 (3.01%) Performance Analyst
15 10 (2.74%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (2.47%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.22%) REST
2 17 (4.66%) React
3 16 (4.38%) CSS
4 14 (3.84%) HTML
5 11 (3.01%) .NET
5 11 (3.01%) Pandas
6 9 (2.47%) TensorFlow
6 9 (2.47%) Terraform
7 8 (2.19%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.19%) Redux
7 8 (2.19%) scikit-learn
7 8 (2.19%) SOAP
8 7 (1.92%) Middleware
8 7 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.92%) Web Services
9 6 (1.64%) XML
10 5 (1.37%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.37%) Playwright
10 5 (1.37%) Spring
10 5 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.95%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.29%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.29%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.47%) Clustering
5 9 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.47%) PKI
5 9 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.64%) Life Science
9 5 (1.37%) CMDB
9 5 (1.37%) LIMS
10 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.38%) Windows
2 14 (3.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.10%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 229 (62.74%) Business Intelligence
3 183 (50.14%) Analytics
4 129 (35.34%) Data Modelling
5 112 (30.68%) Decision-Making
6 102 (27.95%) Agile
7 99 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (21.92%) AI
9 69 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (18.63%) Data Analysis
11 67 (18.36%) Actionable Insight
12 66 (18.08%) Dashboard Development
13 62 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (15.34%) ETL
15 56 (15.34%) Validation
16 55 (15.07%) Data Governance
16 55 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
17 49 (13.42%) Data Engineering
18 48 (13.15%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (51.23%) SQL
2 111 (30.41%) Python
3 50 (13.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (7.67%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.67%) R
5 23 (6.30%) Java
6 20 (5.48%) C#
7 16 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.84%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.29%) Scala
10 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.64%) VBA
11 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) Bash
12 3 (0.82%) C++
12 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 55 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.05%) Degree
4 14 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.10%) PhD
8 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (24.38%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.03%) QA
3 16 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.84%) GDPR
5 7 (1.92%) GMP
6 6 (1.64%) PMO
7 5 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.37%) GxP
7 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (1.10%) GRC
8 4 (1.10%) WCAG
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) Basel III
11 1 (0.27%) COBIT
11 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.64%) Kibana
2 5 (1.37%) Kubernetes
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
Vendors
1 87 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.67%) Oracle
3 26 (7.12%) SAP
4 23 (6.30%) Google
5 22 (6.03%) ServiceNow
6 20 (5.48%) Databricks
7 9 (2.47%) BMC
7 9 (2.47%) Remedy
8 8 (2.19%) Adobe
8 8 (2.19%) Splunk
9 7 (1.92%) Informatica
10 6 (1.64%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.37%) Palantir
12 4 (1.10%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.10%) Ariba
12 4 (1.10%) Foundry
12 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.82%) Brio
13 3 (0.82%) Solace