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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 231 210
Rank change year-on-year -125 -21 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 366 399 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.21% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.34% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 265 296
10th Percentile £319 £313 £345
25th Percentile £400 £393 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £703 £650 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +0.69% -8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 11
10th Percentile £22.03 £15.30 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £22.84 £30.88
Median hourly rate £52.20 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.98% -8.33% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.63 £64.55 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £20.92 £26.17
% change year-on-year +161.47% -20.05% -1.26%

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 46,295 29,870 32,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,040 18,573 20,019
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,185 1,844 1,407
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -123 324 £475 +4.40% 794
UK excluding London -89 180 £438 +0.69% 401
London -139 148 £514 +4.85% 480
Work from Home -55 117 £450 +0.33% 333
North of England -63 53 £425 +9.68% 72
Midlands -23 42 £400 -21.10% 75
South East -69 36 £550 -8.33% 103
North West -44 29 £438 +14.89% 30
West Midlands -22 28 £455 -11.48% 53
South West -23 24 £475 +5.56% 47
Yorkshire -59 15 £460 +18.71% 28
East Midlands -6 14 £337 -18.18% 22
Scotland -37 14 £405 -19.00% 32
East of England -32 13 £465 -11.43% 31
North East -34 10 £350 -12.50% 14
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 28
Wales -14 2 £356 +95.21% 19

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 8 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Superset
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (19.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.27%) InDesign
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (62.84%) Power Platform
2 66 (18.03%) Azure
3 49 (13.39%) AWS
4 23 (6.28%) GCP
5 20 (5.46%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.10%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.83%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.55%) GitHub
10 12 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.28%) Google Analytics
11 11 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.46%) Serverless
13 8 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.09%) Broadband
3 2 (0.55%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (62.57%) Power BI
2 86 (23.50%) Tableau
3 54 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (12.57%) Power Query
5 30 (8.20%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.01%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.46%) Data Lake
8 19 (5.19%) Metadata
9 13 (3.55%) Looker
9 13 (3.55%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (3.28%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.01%) Star Schema
12 9 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (2.46%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.19%) Big Data
13 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.19%) QlikView
14 7 (1.91%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.10%) JIRA
2 13 (3.55%) Git
3 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.27%) Flyway
5 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.27%) JUnit
5 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.27%) Storybook
5 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 132 (36.07%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (35.79%) Social Skills
3 87 (23.77%) Finance
4 46 (12.57%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.02%) Banking
6 12 (3.28%) Military
7 10 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.19%) Retail
9 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.91%) Local Government
9 7 (1.91%) Marketing
9 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.09%) Law
12 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (26.50%) Analyst
2 62 (16.94%) Developer
3 58 (15.85%) Data Analyst
4 46 (12.57%) Senior
5 41 (11.20%) Data Engineer
6 28 (7.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.10%) Consultant
8 24 (6.56%) Power BI Developer
9 21 (5.74%) Architect
10 18 (4.92%) Data Scientist
10 18 (4.92%) Lead
11 15 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.10%) Designer
12 14 (3.83%) Performance Analyst
13 12 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Data Visualisation Specialist
15 10 (2.73%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.73%) Data Consultant
16 9 (2.46%) Business Analyst
16 9 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.65%) REST
2 18 (4.92%) React
3 15 (4.10%) CSS
4 13 (3.55%) HTML
5 11 (3.01%) .NET
5 11 (3.01%) Pandas
6 9 (2.46%) TensorFlow
7 8 (2.19%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.19%) Redux
7 8 (2.19%) scikit-learn
8 7 (1.91%) SOAP
8 7 (1.91%) Terraform
9 6 (1.64%) Middleware
9 6 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.64%) Web Services
9 6 (1.64%) XML
10 5 (1.37%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.37%) NumPy
10 5 (1.37%) PySpark
10 5 (1.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.28%) Reference Data
5 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.19%) Clustering
7 8 (2.19%) PKI
7 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.64%) Life Science
10 5 (1.37%) CMDB
10 5 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.10%) Windows
2 13 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 233 (63.66%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (50.82%) Analytics
4 128 (34.97%) Data Modelling
5 115 (31.42%) Decision-Making
6 98 (26.78%) Agile
7 96 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (22.68%) AI
9 71 (19.40%) Actionable Insight
10 70 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (18.58%) Data Analysis
12 64 (17.49%) Dashboard Development
13 61 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (15.30%) Data Governance
16 55 (15.03%) ETL
17 54 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
17 54 (14.75%) Validation
18 51 (13.93%) Data Science
19 48 (13.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (50.55%) SQL
2 109 (29.78%) Python
3 53 (14.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (7.65%) R
5 25 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.74%) Java
7 20 (5.46%) C#
8 16 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.55%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.73%) Scala
11 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.37%) VBA
13 3 (0.82%) Bash
13 3 (0.82%) C++
13 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.55%) Go
14 2 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.55%) Rust
14 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 86 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.75%) Degree
4 13 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.09%) PhD
8 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (25.41%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.01%) QA
3 15 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.28%) GDPR
5 7 (1.91%) GMP
6 5 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.37%) GxP
6 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (1.37%) PMO
7 4 (1.09%) GRC
7 4 (1.09%) WCAG
8 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.64%) Kibana
2 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
3 3 (0.82%) SCCM
4 2 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) QRadar
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (24.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.10%) Oracle
3 25 (6.83%) SAP
4 22 (6.01%) Google
5 20 (5.46%) Databricks
5 20 (5.46%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.46%) Splunk
7 8 (2.19%) BMC
7 8 (2.19%) Remedy
8 7 (1.91%) Adobe
8 7 (1.91%) Informatica
9 6 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.37%) Palantir
11 4 (1.09%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.09%) Ariba
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.82%) Brio
12 3 (0.82%) Solace