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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 256 346
Rank change year-on-year +72 +90 -44
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 431 410 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 0.94% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.09% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 275 279
10th Percentile £334 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -0.40% -4.38%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £26.94 £23.58 £18.75
25th Percentile £31.64 £26.62 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.18 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% +31.58% -7.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.56 £64.38
90th Percentile £75.20 £52.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £24.43 £28.16
% change year-on-year +31.91% -13.25% -19.54%

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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +70 376 £456 -8.75% 806
London +45 246 £500 - 452
Work from Home +29 154 £450 -10.00% 384
UK excluding London +70 142 £450 -3.23% 381
North of England +20 41 £459 -8.25% 123
South West +63 28 £475 -10.80% 37
North West +8 20 £486 +2.22% 74
East of England +43 19 £400 -11.22% 54
Midlands +30 19 £425 - 63
South East +44 18 £500 +2.56% 78
Scotland -2 16 £513 +6.77% 18
Yorkshire +5 14 £435 -18.31% 38
West Midlands +22 13 £425 -8.11% 42
North East +5 7 £525 +24.11% 13
East Midlands +11 6 £367 -8.25% 19
Wales - 3 £238 - 8
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 8

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 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.94%) SAS
4 13 (3.02%) Confluence
5 10 (2.32%) Apache
5 10 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 77 (17.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.78%) Oracle Smart View
4 7 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.39%) Adobe XD
5 6 (1.39%) Sketch
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.46%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.23%) FastStats
2 1 (0.23%) FastStats PeopleStage
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 221 (51.28%) Power Platform
2 93 (21.58%) AWS
2 93 (21.58%) Azure
3 43 (9.98%) GCP
4 36 (8.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (6.03%) Amazon S3
6 22 (5.10%) Azure Machine Learning
6 22 (5.10%) Serverless
7 20 (4.64%) Snowflake
8 17 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.94%) OCI
9 15 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 15 (3.48%) dbt
10 13 (3.02%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (2.78%) GitHub
12 10 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.09%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (2.09%) AWS CodeCommit
13 9 (2.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.93%) DNS
2 3 (0.70%) DHCP
2 3 (0.70%) DOCSIS
2 3 (0.70%) Network Security
2 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.70%) Wireless
3 2 (0.46%) VLAN
4 1 (0.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (51.04%) Power BI
2 151 (35.03%) Tableau
3 80 (18.56%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (7.42%) Relational Database
5 29 (6.73%) Data Lake
6 28 (6.50%) Big Data
7 27 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (6.03%) BigQuery
9 23 (5.34%) Metadata
10 22 (5.10%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (4.87%) Data Mining
11 21 (4.87%) Looker
12 19 (4.41%) Hadoop
12 19 (4.41%) Neo4j
12 19 (4.41%) SQL Server
13 16 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (3.48%) NoSQL
15 14 (3.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 12 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
16 12 (2.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (4.64%) JIRA
2 15 (3.48%) Git
3 6 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.93%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.70%) ERwin
6 3 (0.70%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.46%) Babel
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) webpack
8 1 (0.23%) Ant
8 1 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Flyway
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) RStudio
8 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 187 (43.39%) Social Skills
2 148 (34.34%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (25.29%) Finance
4 46 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 44 (10.21%) Banking
6 28 (6.50%) Marketing
7 21 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.25%) Retail
11 11 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.86%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.86%) Military
13 8 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.62%) Local Government
15 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.93%) Police
15 4 (0.93%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 121 (28.07%) Analyst
2 72 (16.71%) Data Analyst
3 68 (15.78%) Developer
4 45 (10.44%) Data Engineer
4 45 (10.44%) Data Scientist
5 38 (8.82%) Senior
6 31 (7.19%) Architect
7 24 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 21 (4.87%) Lead
9 20 (4.64%) Business Analyst
9 20 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 20 (4.64%) Consultant
10 19 (4.41%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.48%) Data Manager
12 12 (2.78%) Report Analyst
13 11 (2.55%) Report Writer
14 10 (2.32%) Insight Manager
14 10 (2.32%) Power Platform Developer
15 9 (2.09%) Data Business Analyst
15 9 (2.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.74%) React
2 30 (6.96%) Plotly
3 21 (4.87%) Pandas
4 17 (3.94%) NumPy
4 17 (3.94%) scikit-learn
4 17 (3.94%) TensorFlow
5 15 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (3.02%) PyTorch
7 10 (2.32%) PySpark
7 10 (2.32%) REST
8 9 (2.09%) CSS
8 9 (2.09%) D3.js
8 9 (2.09%) HTML
8 9 (2.09%) OpenCV
8 9 (2.09%) pydantic
8 9 (2.09%) SciPy
9 7 (1.62%) Akka
9 7 (1.62%) Kafka
10 5 (1.16%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.16%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.94%) Algorithms
2 14 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (3.25%) Data Structures
2 14 (3.25%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.86%) Reference Data
5 8 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (1.62%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.16%) NHS
8 5 (1.16%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.93%) IoT
9 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.93%) Social Media
10 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.62%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 231 (53.60%) Business Intelligence
3 162 (37.59%) Problem-Solving
4 153 (35.50%) Analytics
5 126 (29.23%) Data Analysis
6 120 (27.84%) Data Modelling
7 112 (25.99%) Decision-Making
8 101 (23.43%) Data Science
9 88 (20.42%) Actionable Insight
10 79 (18.33%) ETL
11 77 (17.87%) Agile
12 73 (16.94%) Machine Learning
13 71 (16.47%) Data Governance
14 63 (14.62%) Data Integration
15 54 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
16 51 (11.83%) Data Engineering
17 47 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
18 44 (10.21%) Migration
19 43 (9.98%) Data Management
20 40 (9.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 237 (54.99%) SQL
2 140 (32.48%) Python
3 40 (9.28%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.35%) R
5 24 (5.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (3.94%) Java
7 14 (3.25%) Scala
8 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.62%) VBA
11 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.93%) Go
14 3 (0.70%) C
14 3 (0.70%) C#
14 3 (0.70%) C++
15 2 (0.46%) Bash
15 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 92 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.26%) SC Cleared
3 63 (14.62%) Degree
4 20 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.93%) PMP
9 3 (0.70%) PhD
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.46%) ISACA
10 2 (0.46%) MBA
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CBAP
11 1 (0.23%) CSPO
11 1 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.87%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.87%) GDPR
3 14 (3.25%) QA
4 13 (3.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.46%) EMIR
6 2 (0.46%) MiFID
7 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.48%) Terraform
2 8 (1.86%) Kibana
3 5 (1.16%) Grafana
4 3 (0.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 54 (12.53%) Databricks
3 49 (11.37%) Oracle
4 31 (7.19%) Google
5 24 (5.57%) Adobe
6 21 (4.87%) SAP
7 9 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.86%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.62%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.62%) Teradata
10 6 (1.39%) Ariba
10 6 (1.39%) Informatica
10 6 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.16%) Talend
12 4 (0.93%) IBM
12 4 (0.93%) Splunk
13 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
14 2 (0.46%) YouTube