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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 184 253
Rank change year-on-year -99 +69 +115
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 400 432 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.47% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.62% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 275 280
10th Percentile £339 £331 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £575
90th Percentile £678 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £19.84 £31.49 £24.43
25th Percentile £28.31 £31.64 £25.81
Median hourly rate £54.75 £34.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.18% -19.58% -15.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.90 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.42 £32.81 £24.43
% change year-on-year +105.49% +34.30% -13.25%

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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -105 353 £480 +5.49% 183
London -88 194 £489 +1.82% 78
UK excluding London -75 160 £475 +5.56% 134
Work from Home -45 131 £488 +8.33% 96
North of England -65 45 £469 +2.18% 37
Midlands -50 41 £450 +5.88% 28
South East -43 32 £513 +2.50% 35
North West -25 28 £420 -13.50% 29
West Midlands -46 25 £488 +14.71% 11
East Midlands -22 16 £385 +4.90% 17
East of England -33 14 £475 +18.90% 10
Yorkshire -52 14 £500 +16.28% 4
South West -45 13 £450 -5.26% 18
Scotland -5 11 £425 -17.07% 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 - 5
North East -23 3 £400 -23.81% 5
Wales -11 1 - - 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 22 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.75%) Apache
4 10 (2.50%) Confluence
5 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Apache Superset
7 5 (1.25%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (16.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.25%) Blender
8 1 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.75%) Eloqua
3 3 (0.75%) iTrent
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Actimize
5 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 217 (54.25%) Power Platform
2 93 (23.25%) Azure
3 80 (20.00%) AWS
4 32 (8.00%) GCP
5 23 (5.75%) Serverless
6 21 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (5.25%) Power Automate
6 21 (5.25%) Snowflake
7 20 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.25%) PowerApps
9 16 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.00%) dbt
10 13 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.75%) Wireless
2 1 (0.25%) 2G
2 1 (0.25%) 5G
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) Intranet
2 1 (0.25%) LTE
2 1 (0.25%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) SNMP
2 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (54.25%) Power BI
2 119 (29.75%) Tableau
3 65 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (8.25%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.50%) Metadata
6 21 (5.25%) Big Data
6 21 (5.25%) Power Query
7 20 (5.00%) Looker
8 18 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 17 (4.25%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.50%) Hadoop
11 13 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 13 (3.25%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.50%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.25%) MySQL
14 7 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.75%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 30 (7.50%) Git
2 17 (4.25%) JIRA
3 7 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.00%) ERwin
5 3 (0.75%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) GitLab
7 1 (0.25%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) Vite
7 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 154 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 137 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (31.50%) Finance
4 55 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.25%) Banking
6 22 (5.50%) Marketing
7 16 (4.00%) Retail
8 15 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.00%) Front Office
11 9 (2.25%) Law
12 8 (2.00%) Publishing
13 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.25%) Legal
15 5 (1.25%) Military
16 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.00%) Automotive
17 3 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (31.25%) Analyst
2 74 (18.50%) Data Analyst
3 69 (17.25%) Developer
4 65 (16.25%) Senior
5 42 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.25%) Data Scientist
7 23 (5.75%) Business Analyst
8 22 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 22 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (4.75%) Architect
10 18 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 14 (3.50%) Consultant
11 14 (3.50%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (3.25%) Lead
13 10 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.25%) Performance Analyst
15 8 (2.00%) Insight Analyst
15 8 (2.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.75%) React
2 24 (6.00%) Pandas
3 20 (5.00%) REST
4 18 (4.50%) Kafka
5 16 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.75%) Plotly
7 13 (3.25%) NumPy
7 13 (3.25%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.00%) Vue
9 10 (2.50%) PySpark
10 9 (2.25%) .NET
11 8 (2.00%) Web Services
12 7 (1.75%) CSS
12 7 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.75%) Matplotlib
12 7 (1.75%) RESTful
12 7 (1.75%) Seaborn
13 6 (1.50%) Spring
13 6 (1.50%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.00%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.25%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.25%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.50%) Life Science
10 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.25%) Derivative
11 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.75%) Energy Derivatives
12 3 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.00%) Linux
2 7 (1.75%) Unix
3 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.50%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (99.75%) Visualisation
2 245 (61.25%) Business Intelligence
3 169 (42.25%) Analytics
4 138 (34.50%) Data Modelling
5 116 (29.00%) Agile
6 115 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (28.50%) Decision-Making
8 91 (22.75%) Actionable Insight
9 83 (20.75%) Data Science
10 75 (18.75%) Data Analysis
11 70 (17.50%) AI
12 67 (16.75%) ETL
13 66 (16.50%) Data Governance
14 64 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
15 63 (15.75%) Dashboard Development
16 57 (14.25%) Machine Learning
17 51 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (11.75%) DevOps
19 45 (11.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 225 (56.25%) SQL
2 149 (37.25%) Python
3 42 (10.50%) R
4 29 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.25%) Java
7 16 (4.00%) C#
8 15 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.50%) Scala
10 10 (2.50%) VBA
11 9 (2.25%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.50%) Perl
12 6 (1.50%) PHP
12 6 (1.50%) Rust
13 4 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.75%) Bash
15 2 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.25%) Degree
4 14 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.75%) CFA
10 2 (0.50%) APMP
10 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) ACCA
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CIMA
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.50%) QA
3 20 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.25%) PMO
5 15 (3.75%) GDPR
6 10 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.75%) SLA
8 3 (0.75%) WCAG
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.25%) P3O
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.25%) Terraform
3 11 (2.75%) Kibana
4 10 (2.50%) Grafana
5 6 (1.50%) logstash
6 5 (1.25%) Ansible
6 5 (1.25%) SCCM
7 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) collectd
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 72 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.25%) Databricks
2 29 (7.25%) Google
3 18 (4.50%) Oracle
4 17 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.50%) SAP
7 9 (2.25%) Adobe
8 8 (2.00%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.50%) Apple
9 6 (1.50%) Cognos
10 5 (1.25%) Solace
11 4 (1.00%) Brio
11 4 (1.00%) Dataiku
11 4 (1.00%) IBM
11 4 (1.00%) Sage
12 3 (0.75%) Informatica
12 3 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.75%) Murex
12 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud