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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 213 231
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 433 426 510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.16% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.35% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 277 351
10th Percentile £313 £347 £300
25th Percentile £381 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £609
90th Percentile £671 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 23
10th Percentile £18.67 £24.50 £21.50
25th Percentile £30.94 £28.25 £25.69
Median hourly rate £39.48 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +0.71% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £46.25 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.63 £53.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.73 £32.50 £29.40
% change year-on-year +9.94% +10.54% -16.00%

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 31,497 31,611 41,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.10% 86.07% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,721 19,029 27,959
10th Percentile £294 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,046 1,115 1,587
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 -17 374 £450 -10.00% 835
London -7 222 £475 -9.52% 456
UK excluding London -16 172 £425 -10.53% 610
Work from Home -15 124 £450 -6.05% 403
North of England -35 56 £375 -16.67% 72
South East +13 40 £600 +22.82% 364
Yorkshire -12 32 £325 -27.78% 26
Scotland +19 23 £449 -9.39% 31
North West -42 22 £388 -14.84% 41
Midlands -20 21 £450 +9.09% 48
East of England -4 13 £525 +5.00% 19
West Midlands -29 13 £514 +28.50% 23
South West -1 10 £400 -30.43% 39
East Midlands -18 8 £413 -17.50% 22
Wales - 6 £183 - 13
Northern Ireland -15 4 £475 -5.00% 14
North East -11 2 £400 -30.43% 6

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 17 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.46%) Confluence
3 13 (3.00%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.85%) Apache Pig
6 6 (1.39%) Apache
7 5 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 5 (1.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 67 (15.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.39%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.46%) Maple
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Blender
7 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.23%) Endur
4 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (51.50%) Power Platform
2 107 (24.71%) Azure
3 73 (16.86%) AWS
4 44 (10.16%) GCP
5 31 (7.16%) Snowflake
6 22 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.85%) Power Automate
7 21 (4.85%) Serverless
8 19 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.16%) GitHub
10 17 (3.93%) dbt
11 16 (3.70%) PowerApps
12 15 (3.46%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (2.77%) Figma
14 10 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.69%) MQTT
1 3 (0.69%) SNMP
2 2 (0.46%) 2G
2 2 (0.46%) 5G
2 2 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) LTE
2 2 (0.46%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.46%) SSH
2 2 (0.46%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) VoIP
3 1 (0.23%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (51.04%) Power BI
2 128 (29.56%) Tableau
3 65 (15.01%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (9.47%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.93%) Power Query
6 22 (5.08%) Looker
7 21 (4.85%) BigQuery
8 19 (4.39%) SQL Server
9 18 (4.16%) Big Data
10 17 (3.93%) Data Lake
11 13 (3.00%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.77%) Data Mining
12 12 (2.77%) Metadata
13 11 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (2.08%) GIS
14 9 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (1.85%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.85%) NoSQL
15 8 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (8.55%) Git
2 18 (4.16%) JIRA
3 9 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.62%) Gradle
4 7 (1.62%) Storybook
4 7 (1.62%) Xcode
5 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.92%) MLflow
7 3 (0.69%) Selenium
7 3 (0.69%) webpack
8 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.23%) git-flow
9 1 (0.23%) GitLab
9 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Snyk
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 185 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 142 (32.79%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (29.10%) Finance
4 49 (11.32%) Banking
5 36 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.16%) Retail
9 16 (3.70%) Front Office
10 15 (3.46%) Marketing
11 13 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.85%) Legal
15 5 (1.15%) Back Office
15 5 (1.15%) Billing
16 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (35.10%) Analyst
2 99 (22.86%) Data Analyst
3 92 (21.25%) Developer
4 46 (10.62%) Senior
5 40 (9.24%) Data Engineer
6 29 (6.70%) Architect
7 25 (5.77%) Data Scientist
8 24 (5.54%) Business Analyst
9 23 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 21 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (4.16%) Lead
12 16 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
13 14 (3.23%) Consultant
13 14 (3.23%) Data Architect
14 12 (2.77%) Power BI Analyst
14 12 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.77%) SQL Analyst
14 12 (2.77%) SQL Data Analyst
15 11 (2.54%) Report Analyst
15 11 (2.54%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.47%) React
2 23 (5.31%) Pandas
3 22 (5.08%) D3.js
4 17 (3.93%) scikit-learn
5 16 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.70%) NumPy
6 13 (3.00%) Plotly
6 13 (3.00%) Vue
7 12 (2.77%) PySpark
7 12 (2.77%) REST
8 11 (2.54%) Kafka
9 9 (2.08%) OAuth
10 8 (1.85%) React Native
10 8 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.85%) Web Services
11 7 (1.62%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.62%) Matplotlib
11 7 (1.62%) Node.js
11 7 (1.62%) SVG
11 7 (1.62%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.62%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.31%) CMDB
8 9 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.39%) Genomics
11 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.39%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.39%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.85%) Android
2 7 (1.62%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.15%) Linux
4 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (99.77%) Visualisation
2 234 (54.04%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (42.03%) Analytics
4 121 (27.94%) Data Modelling
5 117 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (26.10%) Data Analysis
7 110 (25.40%) Agile
7 110 (25.40%) Decision-Making
8 85 (19.63%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (19.40%) Machine Learning
10 81 (18.71%) Data Science
11 70 (16.17%) ETL
12 58 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
13 57 (13.16%) DevOps
14 53 (12.24%) AI
15 52 (12.01%) CI/CD
15 52 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (11.55%) Data Engineering
17 49 (11.32%) Data Management
18 46 (10.62%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 246 (56.81%) SQL
2 184 (42.49%) Python
3 32 (7.39%) R
4 30 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.85%) Java
8 17 (3.93%) Scala
9 5 (1.15%) Bash
9 5 (1.15%) C#
9 5 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.92%) LookML
10 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.92%) VBA
11 3 (0.69%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Go
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (14.09%) Degree
2 44 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.39%) CFA
8 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) CBAP
9 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.46%) ACCA
11 2 (0.46%) CEH
11 2 (0.46%) CIMA
11 2 (0.46%) CISSP
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (15.01%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.93%) QA
4 14 (3.23%) GDPR
5 6 (1.39%) WCAG
6 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.69%) EMIR
7 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.69%) MiFID
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.46%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (3.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.16%) Terraform
2 12 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) collectd
5 1 (0.23%) logstash
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) QRadar
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 95 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.24%) Google
3 26 (6.00%) Databricks
4 18 (4.16%) Oracle
5 15 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.00%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.77%) SAP
8 12 (2.77%) Splunk
9 8 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.15%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.92%) Adobe
11 4 (0.92%) Cognos
11 4 (0.92%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.69%) Citrix
12 3 (0.69%) Hyperion
12 3 (0.69%) Informatica
12 3 (0.69%) Palantir
12 3 (0.69%) Talend
12 3 (0.69%) Workday