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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 180 253
Rank change year-on-year -82 +73 +88
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 410 435 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.49% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.65% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 289 291
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £555 £575
90th Percentile £690 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.60% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 12
10th Percentile £19.71 £27.09 £16.84
25th Percentile £27.25 £31.64 £25.14
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.11 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -9.29% -27.01%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.90 £77.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £32.81 £20.22
% change year-on-year +82.87% +62.31% -28.21%

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 37,633 26,370 38,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.88% 90.52% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,862 17,096 24,871
10th Percentile £313 £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 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 936 2,338
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.61 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -6.77% +1.63% -13.19%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -106 353 £488 +8.33% 181
London -69 206 £500 +5.26% 76
UK excluding London -78 157 £475 +11.76% 147
Work from Home -53 136 £500 +11.73% 94
North of England -67 45 £463 +2.78% 30
Midlands -50 35 £463 +12.12% 30
South East -38 32 £513 +12.33% 56
North West -29 29 £420 -7.69% 22
West Midlands -52 23 £488 +16.42% 15
Scotland +3 15 £402 -19.55% 7
East of England -33 14 £463 +15.77% 5
Yorkshire -59 13 £500 +21.95% 7
East Midlands -24 12 £423 +15.12% 15
South West -47 8 £450 -5.26% 14
Northern Ireland -2 5 £463 -11.90% 5
Wales -7 3 - - 2
North East -22 3 £400 -23.81% 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 25 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.93%) Apache
4 10 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 65 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.22%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.49%) iTrent
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (52.20%) Power Platform
2 90 (21.95%) Azure
3 80 (19.51%) AWS
4 29 (7.07%) GCP
5 27 (6.59%) Snowflake
6 25 (6.10%) Serverless
7 21 (5.12%) Amazon S3
7 21 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (4.63%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.15%) dbt
11 16 (3.90%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.95%) GitHub
17 7 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) 2G
1 2 (0.49%) 5G
1 2 (0.49%) LTE
1 2 (0.49%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.49%) VoIP
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) Intranet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (52.20%) Power BI
2 115 (28.05%) Tableau
3 64 (15.61%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (7.56%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.61%) Big Data
6 20 (4.88%) Looker
7 19 (4.63%) Metadata
7 19 (4.63%) Power Query
8 16 (3.90%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.90%) Hadoop
9 13 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.68%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.20%) MySQL
11 9 (2.20%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.95%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.05%) Git
2 15 (3.66%) JIRA
3 8 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) ERwin
5 3 (0.73%) MLflow
5 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 166 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 141 (34.39%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (30.98%) Finance
4 58 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.00%) Banking
6 19 (4.63%) Marketing
6 19 (4.63%) Retail
7 14 (3.41%) Front Office
8 11 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.95%) Publishing
11 7 (1.71%) Law
11 7 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.22%) Legal
12 5 (1.22%) Military
13 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (32.44%) Analyst
2 78 (19.02%) Data Analyst
3 76 (18.54%) Developer
4 63 (15.37%) Senior
5 36 (8.78%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.29%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.10%) Architect
7 25 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 19 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 14 (3.41%) Lead
10 14 (3.41%) Power BI Developer
11 12 (2.93%) Consultant
11 12 (2.93%) Data Business Analyst
12 11 (2.68%) Designer
12 11 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.44%) Performance Analyst
14 9 (2.20%) Insight Analyst
14 9 (2.20%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.07%) React
2 28 (6.83%) Pandas
3 20 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 18 (4.39%) scikit-learn
5 17 (4.15%) Kafka
5 17 (4.15%) NumPy
5 17 (4.15%) REST
6 16 (3.90%) Vue
7 14 (3.41%) Plotly
8 9 (2.20%) Matplotlib
8 9 (2.20%) PySpark
8 9 (2.20%) Seaborn
8 9 (2.20%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.95%) .NET
10 7 (1.71%) D3.js
10 7 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.71%) RESTful
10 7 (1.71%) Web Services
10 7 (1.71%) WebSockets
11 6 (1.46%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.56%) Algorithms
2 18 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.71%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.46%) Life Science
7 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.22%) Derivative
8 5 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.22%) Equities
9 4 (0.98%) Animation
9 4 (0.98%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.95%) Unix
3 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.49%) Android
4 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 243 (59.27%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (42.44%) Analytics
4 136 (33.17%) Data Modelling
5 120 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (28.78%) Decision-Making
7 115 (28.05%) Agile
8 100 (24.39%) Actionable Insight
9 87 (21.22%) Data Science
10 82 (20.00%) Data Analysis
11 72 (17.56%) ETL
11 72 (17.56%) Machine Learning
12 69 (16.83%) AI
13 64 (15.61%) Dashboard Development
13 64 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (14.39%) Data Governance
16 47 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 45 (10.98%) Data Engineering
18 42 (10.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (54.63%) SQL
2 158 (38.54%) Python
3 40 (9.76%) R
4 25 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (4.39%) Java
7 13 (3.17%) C#
7 13 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.68%) Scala
9 9 (2.20%) VBA
10 8 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.46%) Perl
11 6 (1.46%) PHP
12 4 (0.98%) Bash
12 4 (0.98%) Rust
13 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.49%) C++
14 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.22%) Degree
4 15 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.98%) CFA
8 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.49%) APMP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.07%) QA
3 23 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.15%) PMO
5 12 (2.93%) GDPR
6 11 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.98%) WCAG
8 3 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.49%) EMIR
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) P3O
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (4.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.63%) Terraform
2 17 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.68%) Kibana
4 9 (2.20%) Grafana
5 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) logstash
6 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 65 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) Databricks
3 28 (6.83%) Google
4 17 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.66%) Oracle
6 12 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.95%) Adobe
7 8 (1.95%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.71%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.46%) Cognos
10 4 (0.98%) Apple
10 4 (0.98%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.98%) Murex
10 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.98%) SAP
11 3 (0.73%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.73%) Refinitiv
11 3 (0.73%) Sage
11 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.73%) Solace