Data Visualisation Contracts

Data Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 234 300
Rank change year-on-year +26 +66 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 411 446 466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.03% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.20% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 311 292
10th Percentile £315 £331 £325
25th Percentile £386 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £666 £675 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £458 £475
% change year-on-year -4.92% -3.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 16
10th Percentile £21.10 £23.58 £16.21
25th Percentile £31.56 £37.50 £20.70
Median hourly rate £33.11 £42.50 £27.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +55.51% -21.91%
75th Percentile £46.36 £46.56 £33.04
90th Percentile £56.75 £49.38 £47.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £20.16 £25.50
% change year-on-year +56.94% -20.94% -27.14%

All Process and 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 28,676 37,017 50,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.74% 85.22% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,067 23,615 34,636
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 2,525 1,716
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.06 £16.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 17 Contract 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 4 July 2025. 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 +36 357 £455 -9.00% 2,135
London +5 213 £500 - 1,410
UK excluding London +36 155 £435 -4.92% 807
Work from Home +5 128 £447 -6.29% 875
North of England -6 43 £435 -3.33% 227
South East +47 33 £563 +12.50% 231
Yorkshire 0 24 £413 -8.33% 75
Midlands +10 21 £413 -2.94% 124
South West +37 20 £409 -28.87% 78
Scotland -10 19 £500 +5.26% 60
East of England +34 15 £400 -2.44% 58
North West -9 15 £375 -16.06% 126
West Midlands +10 11 £425 -5.56% 81
East Midlands +8 10 £411 -3.24% 43
North East - 4 £488 - 27
Wales - 3 £304 - 20
Northern Ireland -12 1 £350 -12.50% 18

Data Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.65%) SAS
4 11 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.70%) Apache
5 7 (1.70%) Confluence
6 2 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 63 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.41%) Oracle Smart View
4 10 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.49%) Maple
7 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 224 (54.50%) Power Platform
2 94 (22.87%) Azure
3 72 (17.52%) AWS
4 41 (9.98%) GCP
5 30 (7.30%) Snowflake
6 27 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (5.84%) OCI
8 21 (5.11%) dbt
9 18 (4.38%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (3.89%) Serverless
12 14 (3.41%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.41%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.43%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (2.43%) GitHub
16 8 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) MQTT
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) TETRA
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (54.01%) Power BI
2 138 (33.58%) Tableau
3 77 (18.73%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (7.30%) BigQuery
4 30 (7.30%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.81%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (6.57%) Big Data
7 24 (5.84%) Looker
8 21 (5.11%) SQL Server
9 20 (4.87%) Power Query
10 19 (4.62%) Data Lake
11 18 (4.38%) Hadoop
12 16 (3.89%) Metadata
12 16 (3.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 15 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (3.65%) NoSQL
14 14 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (3.16%) GIS
16 12 (2.92%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (2.68%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (4.87%) Git
2 14 (3.41%) JIRA
3 6 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (1.22%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.97%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.73%) GitLab
7 2 (0.49%) ERwin
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.24%) Ant
8 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Mockito
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 175 (42.58%) Social Skills
2 142 (34.55%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (29.20%) Finance
4 42 (10.22%) Banking
5 35 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.14%) Marketing
8 16 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.89%) Retail
8 16 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.19%) Local Government
12 8 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.46%) Police
14 5 (1.22%) Military
15 4 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (32.60%) Analyst
2 87 (21.17%) Data Analyst
3 62 (15.09%) Developer
4 54 (13.14%) Data Engineer
5 42 (10.22%) Senior
6 31 (7.54%) Architect
7 27 (6.57%) Data Scientist
8 23 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 22 (5.35%) Data Architect
9 22 (5.35%) Lead
10 20 (4.87%) Power BI Developer
11 18 (4.38%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.41%) Consultant
12 14 (3.41%) Data Manager
13 13 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 12 (2.92%) Report Writer
15 11 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (2.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
17 8 (1.95%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.33%) React
2 17 (4.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (3.89%) Plotly
4 15 (3.65%) Pandas
5 14 (3.41%) PySpark
6 10 (2.43%) scikit-learn
6 10 (2.43%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.19%) Kafka
7 9 (2.19%) NumPy
8 8 (1.95%) REST
9 6 (1.46%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.46%) D3.js
9 6 (1.46%) PostGIS
10 5 (1.22%) GeoPandas
10 5 (1.22%) HTML
10 5 (1.22%) Matplotlib
11 4 (0.97%) CSS
11 4 (0.97%) Django
11 4 (0.97%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.33%) Algorithms
2 14 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.97%) IoT
9 4 (0.97%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.97%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.73%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 237 (57.66%) Business Intelligence
3 165 (40.15%) Analytics
4 134 (32.60%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (29.44%) Data Modelling
6 114 (27.74%) Decision-Making
7 108 (26.28%) Data Analysis
8 90 (21.90%) Actionable Insight
9 85 (20.68%) Agile
10 80 (19.46%) Data Science
11 78 (18.98%) ETL
12 72 (17.52%) Machine Learning
13 67 (16.30%) Data Governance
14 63 (15.33%) Data Integration
15 57 (13.87%) Data Pipeline
16 55 (13.38%) Data Engineering
16 55 (13.38%) Migration
17 49 (11.92%) Data Management
18 48 (11.68%) Dashboard Development
19 47 (11.44%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 243 (59.12%) SQL
2 149 (36.25%) Python
3 39 (9.49%) R
4 27 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.89%) Java
7 13 (3.16%) Scala
8 7 (1.70%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.97%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.73%) C#
11 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.73%) VBA
12 2 (0.49%) LookML
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.49%) VB
13 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.24%) Bash
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 61 (14.84%) Degree
3 56 (13.63%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.22%) PMP
7 4 (0.97%) PhD
8 3 (0.73%) ACCA
8 3 (0.73%) CIMA
8 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.49%) ISACA
9 2 (0.49%) RIBA
10 1 (0.24%) CSPO
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (17.03%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.89%) GDPR
3 14 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (2.43%) QA
6 3 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.73%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.49%) MiFID
7 2 (0.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) WCAG
8 1 (0.24%) Basel III
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.24%) EMIR
8 1 (0.24%) GxP
8 1 (0.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.87%) Terraform
2 6 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.97%) Kibana
4 3 (0.73%) Grafana
5 2 (0.49%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.24%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 46 (11.19%) Databricks
3 39 (9.49%) Oracle
4 31 (7.54%) Google
5 23 (5.60%) SAP
6 14 (3.41%) Adobe
7 8 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.95%) Teradata
8 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.46%) Ariba
9 6 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.46%) Talend
10 4 (0.97%) Foundry
10 4 (0.97%) Informatica
10 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.97%) Palantir
11 3 (0.73%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media