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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 232 196
Rank change year-on-year -119 -36 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 361 389 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.18% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.30% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 258 302
10th Percentile £316 £313 £333
25th Percentile £400 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £568 £638
90th Percentile £708 £671 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 10
10th Percentile £22.67 £16.50 £24.03
25th Percentile £28.19 £28.21 £30.69
Median hourly rate £48.75 £38.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.52% -4.43% +23.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.06 £47.50
90th Percentile - £64.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £30.00 £26.17
% change year-on-year +81.33% +14.66% -0.32%

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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -122 317 £475 +4.97% 917
UK excluding London -90 176 £438 +3.06% 526
London -121 148 £515 +5.10% 520
Work from Home -65 121 £463 +3.12% 434
North of England -77 50 £425 +13.33% 103
Midlands -22 40 £470 -7.30% 87
South East -59 34 £525 -12.50% 133
West Midlands -30 29 £470 -8.56% 60
North West -38 27 £438 +17.58% 44
South West -21 25 £475 +18.75% 44
Scotland -21 16 £410 -13.68% 59
East of England -22 13 £465 -11.43% 46
Yorkshire -56 13 £440 +17.33% 41
East Midlands -8 11 £252 -38.79% 27
North East -28 11 £350 -12.50% 18
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 41
Wales -16 2 £356 +95.21% 22

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 8 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.11%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (18.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.28%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Primavera
3 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 227 (62.88%) Power Platform
2 64 (17.73%) Azure
3 46 (12.74%) AWS
4 22 (6.09%) Snowflake
5 20 (5.54%) GCP
6 16 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.60%) GitHub
7 13 (3.60%) Google Analytics
8 12 (3.32%) PowerApps
9 11 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.05%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.77%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.94%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (1.94%) Figma
12 7 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.94%) Serverless
13 6 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (1.39%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) HTTP
2 4 (1.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (62.60%) Power BI
2 81 (22.44%) Tableau
3 50 (13.85%) Power Query
4 47 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.76%) Relational Database
6 20 (5.54%) Data Lake
6 20 (5.54%) Metadata
7 19 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.60%) Looker
9 11 (3.05%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.77%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (2.77%) Star Schema
11 9 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.49%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.22%) Big Data
12 8 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (2.22%) Data Mining
12 8 (2.22%) QlikView
13 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.60%) Git
2 12 (3.32%) JIRA
3 5 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
5 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
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
1 135 (37.40%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (35.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (23.55%) Finance
4 46 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.86%) Banking
6 12 (3.32%) Military
7 9 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.22%) Retail
9 7 (1.94%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.94%) Local Government
9 7 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.66%) Marketing
11 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.83%) Front Office
13 3 (0.83%) Police
13 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (26.59%) Analyst
2 63 (17.45%) Developer
3 55 (15.24%) Data Analyst
4 44 (12.19%) Senior
5 38 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.20%) Consultant
7 26 (7.20%) Power BI Developer
8 20 (5.54%) Architect
9 19 (5.26%) Data Scientist
9 19 (5.26%) Lead
10 15 (4.16%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.16%) Performance Analyst
11 14 (3.88%) Designer
12 13 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.77%) Analytics Consultant
13 10 (2.77%) Data Visualisation Specialist
14 9 (2.49%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.49%) Report Analyst
14 9 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.65%) REST
2 18 (4.99%) React
3 15 (4.16%) CSS
4 14 (3.88%) HTML
5 10 (2.77%) Pandas
6 9 (2.49%) .NET
6 9 (2.49%) scikit-learn
6 9 (2.49%) TensorFlow
7 8 (2.22%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.22%) Redux
8 7 (1.94%) Terraform
9 6 (1.66%) NumPy
9 6 (1.66%) SOAP
9 6 (1.66%) XML
10 5 (1.39%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.39%) Middleware
10 5 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.39%) Playwright
10 5 (1.39%) Web Services
11 4 (1.11%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.65%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.32%) Reference Data
5 11 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.94%) Clustering
8 7 (1.94%) PKI
8 7 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.66%) Life Science
10 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.39%) CMDB
10 5 (1.39%) LIMS
11 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.88%) Windows
2 12 (3.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.11%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 229 (63.43%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (51.52%) Analytics
4 125 (34.63%) Data Modelling
5 118 (32.69%) Decision-Making
6 97 (26.87%) Agile
7 95 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (22.99%) AI
9 71 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (19.11%) Data Analysis
11 68 (18.84%) Actionable Insight
12 67 (18.56%) Dashboard Development
13 61 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 60 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (14.96%) ETL
15 54 (14.96%) Validation
16 52 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (14.13%) Data Governance
18 50 (13.85%) Data Science
19 47 (13.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.69%) SQL
2 111 (30.75%) Python
3 56 (15.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (7.48%) R
5 23 (6.37%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.26%) Java
7 17 (4.71%) C#
8 15 (4.16%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.49%) Scala
11 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.11%) VBA
12 3 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.55%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.47%) Degree
4 12 (3.32%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.66%) PhD
7 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) APMG
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (26.04%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.82%) QA
3 13 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.05%) GDPR
5 7 (1.94%) GMP
5 7 (1.94%) PMO
6 5 (1.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.39%) GxP
6 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.11%) GRC
7 4 (1.11%) WCAG
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.28%) COBIT
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.66%) Kibana
2 3 (0.83%) Ansible
2 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Grafana
3 2 (0.55%) SCCM
4 1 (0.28%) QRadar
4 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.37%) Oracle
3 22 (6.09%) Google
3 22 (6.09%) SAP
4 18 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.71%) Databricks
6 10 (2.77%) Splunk
7 8 (2.22%) Adobe
8 7 (1.94%) BMC
8 7 (1.94%) Informatica
8 7 (1.94%) Remedy
9 6 (1.66%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.39%) Palantir
11 4 (1.11%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.11%) Ariba
11 4 (1.11%) Foundry
11 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.55%) Solace