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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 203 235
Rank change year-on-year -119 +32 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 403 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.32% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.45% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 263 308
10th Percentile £355 £316 £313
25th Percentile £423 £388 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £553 £600
90th Percentile £720 £655 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £465
% change year-on-year +7.95% -5.38% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 10
10th Percentile £18.04 £21.10 £23.58
25th Percentile £29.75 £31.56 £37.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -22.09% +55.51%
75th Percentile £71.88 £46.36 £46.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.75 £49.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.64 £20.16
% change year-on-year +65.93% +56.94% -20.94%

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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 30 June 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 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 15 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 30 June 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 -96 347 £500 +9.89% 133
London -104 174 £523 +4.50% 55
UK excluding London -80 169 £475 +7.95% 99
Work from Home -44 129 £488 +8.70% 46
North of England -59 56 £438 -0.45% 32
Midlands -41 40 £425 +3.03% 20
South East -59 38 £520 -7.56% 33
North West -24 35 £437 +5.18% 24
West Midlands -41 25 £500 +17.65% 10
South West -27 22 £475 +16.14% 7
Yorkshire -55 19 £500 +21.21% 4
East Midlands -11 15 £375 -8.81% 10
Scotland -20 10 £463 -7.50% 2
East of England -35 6 £463 +15.63% 7
North East -36 2 £400 -17.95% 4

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 13 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (16.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 229 (60.42%) Power Platform
2 88 (23.22%) Azure
3 75 (19.79%) AWS
4 25 (6.60%) GCP
5 22 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.49%) Serverless
8 16 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.17%) dbt
12 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.90%) GitHub
13 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (60.42%) Power BI
2 105 (27.70%) Tableau
3 71 (18.73%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (9.23%) Relational Database
5 34 (8.97%) Power Query
6 26 (6.86%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.80%) Looker
8 21 (5.54%) Data Lake
9 20 (5.28%) Metadata
10 17 (4.49%) Big Data
11 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
12 14 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.17%) Hadoop
14 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
16 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (4.49%) JIRA
2 12 (3.17%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Flyway
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) Storybook
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 137 (36.15%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 112 (29.55%) Finance
4 50 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.71%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Marketing
7 13 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Retail
9 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Law
11 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.58%) Military
11 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.32%) Front Office
13 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.06%) Automotive
13 4 (1.06%) Legal
13 4 (1.06%) Publishing
14 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (32.19%) Analyst
2 77 (20.32%) Data Analyst
3 56 (14.78%) Developer
4 49 (12.93%) Senior
5 46 (12.14%) Data Engineer
6 30 (7.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (6.86%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 23 (6.07%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (5.80%) Architect
10 21 (5.54%) Consultant
11 20 (5.28%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.43%) Lead
13 12 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (2.64%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.37%) Data Architect
17 8 (2.11%) Data Consultant
17 8 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.80%) React
2 21 (5.54%) REST
3 13 (3.43%) CSS
3 13 (3.43%) Pandas
4 10 (2.64%) HTML
5 9 (2.37%) .NET
5 9 (2.37%) AngularJS
5 9 (2.37%) Kafka
6 7 (1.85%) Spring
6 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.85%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.58%) OpenFin
7 6 (1.58%) PySpark
7 6 (1.58%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.58%) Vue
8 5 (1.32%) Electron
8 5 (1.32%) Matplotlib
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.32%) RESTful
8 5 (1.32%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.39%) Data Structures
2 18 (4.75%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.85%) Life Science
10 6 (1.58%) Clustering
10 6 (1.58%) PKI
11 4 (1.06%) NHS
11 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.79%) Derivative
12 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.58%) Windows
1 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 245 (64.64%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (46.17%) Analytics
4 146 (38.52%) Data Modelling
5 118 (31.13%) Decision-Making
6 115 (30.34%) Agile
7 101 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (21.64%) AI
9 78 (20.58%) Actionable Insight
10 77 (20.32%) ETL
11 76 (20.05%) Dashboard Development
12 70 (18.47%) Data Science
13 67 (17.68%) Data Analysis
14 65 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (17.15%) Data Governance
14 65 (17.15%) Data Pipeline
15 62 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 56 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 53 (13.98%) Validation
18 51 (13.46%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 205 (54.09%) SQL
2 124 (32.72%) Python
3 42 (11.08%) R
4 39 (10.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (7.12%) Java
6 24 (6.33%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.17%) C#
9 9 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.11%) Scala
10 8 (2.11%) VBA
11 5 (1.32%) Rust
11 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.06%) C++
12 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.53%) C
13 2 (0.53%) Korn
13 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 80 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.87%) Degree
4 12 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) ACCA
8 1 (0.26%) APMG
8 1 (0.26%) CIMA
8 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.86%) QA
3 18 (4.75%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 15 (3.96%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.43%) Terraform
2 6 (1.58%) Kibana
2 6 (1.58%) SCCM
3 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.06%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 62 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.86%) Oracle
3 25 (6.60%) Databricks
4 24 (6.33%) Google
5 19 (5.01%) SAP
6 17 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.37%) Adobe
8 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.58%) BMC
10 6 (1.58%) Informatica
10 6 (1.58%) Remedy
11 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.32%) Apple
11 5 (1.32%) Palantir
11 5 (1.32%) Solace
12 4 (1.06%) Cognos
12 4 (1.06%) Foundry
13 3 (0.79%) Brio
13 3 (0.79%) MicroStrategy