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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 172 256
Rank change year-on-year -81 +84 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 413 459 412
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.53% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.70% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 308 289
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 13
10th Percentile £19.71 £25.80 £17.69
25th Percentile £27.25 £30.50 £25.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% +0.71% -33.33%
75th Percentile £82.25 £58.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.90 £82.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £35.25 £20.22
% change year-on-year +70.21% +74.38% -0.52%

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 36,453 27,072 38,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.11% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,124 16,979 25,034
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,168 886 2,250
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.13 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.50
% change year-on-year -20.81% -5.19% -4.29%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -92 356 £475 +4.40% 296
London -69 211 £488 +1.56% 101
UK excluding London -86 156 £463 +8.82% 239
Work from Home -47 132 £500 +11.11% 128
North of England -62 48 £463 -4.75% 54
Midlands -47 34 £475 +15.15% 41
South East -22 29 £500 +9.59% 81
North West -44 28 £425 -12.47% 29
West Midlands -45 25 £500 +21.21% 24
Scotland +6 17 £420 -16.00% 4
Yorkshire -54 17 £500 +21.95% 18
East of England -30 13 £450 +12.57% 25
East Midlands -26 9 £395 +7.63% 17
South West -42 8 £370 -9.54% 28
Northern Ireland -4 5 £463 -11.90% 4
Wales -3 3 - - 7
North East -17 3 £400 -23.81% 7

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 24 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.42%) Apache
5 9 (2.18%) Confluence
6 5 (1.21%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Pig
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.48%) iTrent
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 219 (53.03%) Power Platform
2 93 (22.52%) Azure
3 78 (18.89%) AWS
4 30 (7.26%) GCP
5 28 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 21 (5.08%) Serverless
7 19 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (4.60%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.36%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.12%) dbt
9 17 (4.12%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.94%) GitHub
13 7 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) 2G
1 2 (0.48%) 5G
1 2 (0.48%) LTE
1 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.48%) VoIP
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (53.03%) Power BI
2 114 (27.60%) Tableau
3 63 (15.25%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.57%) Looker
6 20 (4.84%) Big Data
7 19 (4.60%) Data Lake
8 18 (4.36%) Power Query
9 15 (3.63%) BigQuery
9 15 (3.63%) Hadoop
9 15 (3.63%) Metadata
10 13 (3.15%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.94%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.94%) MySQL
12 8 (1.94%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.69%) Mixpanel
13 7 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (8.23%) Git
2 14 (3.39%) JIRA
3 8 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.97%) ERwin
5 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.73%) MLflow
5 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) Vite
6 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 171 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 131 (31.72%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (31.23%) Finance
4 54 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 42 (10.17%) Banking
6 20 (4.84%) Marketing
6 20 (4.84%) Retail
7 15 (3.63%) Front Office
8 14 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.18%) Publishing
11 5 (1.21%) Law
11 5 (1.21%) Legal
11 5 (1.21%) Military
11 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 139 (33.66%) Analyst
2 88 (21.31%) Data Analyst
3 79 (19.13%) Developer
4 57 (13.80%) Senior
5 33 (7.99%) Data Engineer
5 33 (7.99%) Data Scientist
6 26 (6.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 25 (6.05%) Architect
7 25 (6.05%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.57%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 14 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
10 14 (3.39%) Power BI Developer
11 12 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.66%) Consultant
12 11 (2.66%) Designer
12 11 (2.66%) Lead
12 11 (2.66%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (2.42%) Insight Analyst
14 9 (2.18%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.51%) React
2 28 (6.78%) Pandas
3 19 (4.60%) AngularJS
3 19 (4.60%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.12%) NumPy
4 17 (4.12%) Vue
5 16 (3.87%) Kafka
6 14 (3.39%) Plotly
7 13 (3.15%) REST
8 9 (2.18%) Matplotlib
8 9 (2.18%) PySpark
8 9 (2.18%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.94%) D3.js
9 8 (1.94%) Seaborn
10 7 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.69%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.69%) RESTful
10 7 (1.69%) WebSockets
11 6 (1.45%) .NET
12 5 (1.21%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.26%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.94%) CMDB
8 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.69%) Life Science
9 7 (1.69%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.21%) Derivative
11 5 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.21%) Equities
11 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.18%) Linux
2 8 (1.94%) Unix
3 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 245 (59.32%) Business Intelligence
3 173 (41.89%) Analytics
4 131 (31.72%) Data Modelling
5 119 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (28.33%) Decision-Making
7 116 (28.09%) Agile
8 101 (24.46%) Actionable Insight
9 89 (21.55%) Data Analysis
10 86 (20.82%) Data Science
11 75 (18.16%) Machine Learning
12 70 (16.95%) ETL
13 69 (16.71%) AI
14 62 (15.01%) Data Pipeline
14 62 (15.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (13.80%) Dashboard Development
16 54 (13.08%) Data Governance
17 48 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (10.90%) Data Management
19 41 (9.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 228 (55.21%) SQL
2 164 (39.71%) Python
3 35 (8.47%) R
4 30 (7.26%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (4.36%) Java
7 14 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.15%) C#
9 12 (2.91%) Scala
10 8 (1.94%) VBA
11 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.45%) Perl
12 6 (1.45%) PHP
13 4 (0.97%) Bash
14 3 (0.73%) Rust
14 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.48%) C++
15 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.38%) Degree
4 14 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.97%) CFA
10 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) APMP
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.24%) ACCA
12 1 (0.24%) CBAP
12 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (19.37%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.02%) QA
3 28 (6.78%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.91%) GDPR
5 11 (2.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (2.66%) PMO
6 5 (1.21%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.48%) EMIR
8 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (4.84%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.60%) Terraform
2 17 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.66%) Kibana
4 9 (2.18%) Grafana
5 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 6 (1.45%) logstash
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 69 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.26%) Databricks
3 28 (6.78%) Google
4 16 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.42%) Adobe
6 10 (2.42%) Oracle
7 8 (1.94%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.69%) Cognos
8 7 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.21%) SAP
10 4 (0.97%) Apple
10 4 (0.97%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.97%) Murex
10 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.73%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.73%) Brio
11 3 (0.73%) Sage
11 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud