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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 231 225
Rank change year-on-year -111 -6 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 365 393 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.19% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.32% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 254 293
10th Percentile £339 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £613
90th Percentile £701 £625 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £446 £450
% change year-on-year +5.94% -0.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 9
10th Percentile £23.30 £19.80 £35.25
25th Percentile £38.81 £31.64 £41.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.89% -21.05% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.05 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £60.75 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +22.64%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -107 335 £488 +7.73% 312
UK excluding London -77 171 £473 +5.94% 164
London -110 159 £513 +4.59% 181
Work from Home -51 120 £463 +6.08% 121
North of England -64 55 £440 +11.96% 38
Midlands -35 40 £400 -3.03% 31
South East -73 35 £550 -2.22% 47
North West -19 32 £438 +26.50% 23
West Midlands -40 25 £440 +3.53% 23
South West -28 21 £475 +5.56% 26
Yorkshire -53 20 £500 +26.98% 12
East Midlands -6 15 £375 -9.09% 8
East of England -18 15 £463 -11.90% 13
Scotland -22 10 £450 -10.00% 6
North East -41 4 £375 -16.67% 3

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 11 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.64%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.64%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.82%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (18.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.55%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.10%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.82%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 215 (58.90%) Power Platform
2 74 (20.27%) Azure
3 59 (16.16%) AWS
4 23 (6.30%) GCP
5 19 (5.21%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.93%) Serverless
7 16 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.11%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.84%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.01%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.47%) GitHub
11 9 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (58.90%) Power BI
2 93 (25.48%) Tableau
3 61 (16.71%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.41%) Relational Database
5 37 (10.14%) Power Query
6 23 (6.30%) Metadata
7 22 (6.03%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.93%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.11%) Looker
9 15 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (3.29%) Big Data
10 12 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.74%) Data Mining
13 9 (2.47%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.47%) QlikView
13 9 (2.47%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.19%) PowerPivot
14 8 (2.19%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.84%) JIRA
2 10 (2.74%) Git
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Flyway
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) Storybook
6 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 132 (36.16%) Analytical Skills
2 126 (34.52%) Social Skills
3 97 (26.58%) Finance
4 50 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.40%) Banking
6 17 (4.66%) Marketing
7 9 (2.47%) Military
7 9 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.92%) Law
10 6 (1.64%) Retail
11 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.10%) Front Office
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Local Government
13 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (27.67%) Analyst
2 60 (16.44%) Data Analyst
3 58 (15.89%) Developer
4 47 (12.88%) Senior
5 46 (12.60%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.12%) Consultant
7 25 (6.85%) Architect
8 24 (6.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 23 (6.30%) Data Scientist
10 22 (6.03%) Power BI Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Lead
12 17 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 15 (4.11%) Data Architect
13 15 (4.11%) Designer
14 14 (3.84%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.29%) Analytics Consultant
15 12 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Performance Analyst
17 10 (2.74%) Data Visualisation Specialist
18 9 (2.47%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.67%) REST
2 16 (4.38%) React
3 14 (3.84%) CSS
4 12 (3.29%) .NET
4 12 (3.29%) HTML
4 12 (3.29%) Pandas
5 11 (3.01%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.74%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.19%) SOAP
8 7 (1.92%) Middleware
8 7 (1.92%) Web Services
9 6 (1.64%) PySpark
9 6 (1.64%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.64%) Spring
9 6 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.37%) Kafka
10 5 (1.37%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.37%) Redux
10 5 (1.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.40%) Data Structures
2 23 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.84%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.84%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.74%) Reference Data
7 9 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.47%) Clustering
7 9 (2.47%) PKI
8 8 (2.19%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.37%) CMDB
10 5 (1.37%) NHS
11 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.10%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.84%) Windows
2 13 (3.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.55%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 225 (61.64%) Business Intelligence
3 176 (48.22%) Analytics
4 137 (37.53%) Data Modelling
5 109 (29.86%) Decision-Making
6 107 (29.32%) Agile
7 101 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (18.90%) AI
8 69 (18.90%) Dashboard Development
9 67 (18.36%) ETL
10 61 (16.71%) Actionable Insight
10 61 (16.71%) Data Analysis
11 59 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (16.16%) Data Science
12 58 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 58 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (15.07%) Data Governance
13 55 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
14 51 (13.97%) Validation
15 48 (13.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 192 (52.60%) SQL
2 107 (29.32%) Python
3 43 (11.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 33 (9.04%) R
5 27 (7.40%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.30%) Java
7 19 (5.21%) C#
8 15 (4.11%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.29%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.47%) Scala
11 8 (2.19%) VBA
12 5 (1.37%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.10%) Rust
14 3 (0.82%) C++
15 2 (0.55%) Bash
15 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.55%) Ruby
15 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 88 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.33%) Degree
4 15 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.30%) QA
3 15 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.11%) PMO
4 12 (3.29%) GDPR
5 4 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.10%) GMP
5 4 (1.10%) GxP
5 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.82%) GRC
6 3 (0.82%) WCAG
7 2 (0.55%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.47%) Terraform
2 5 (1.37%) Kibana
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) SCCM
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 67 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.49%) Oracle
3 22 (6.03%) Databricks
3 22 (6.03%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.75%) SAP
5 18 (4.93%) Google
6 10 (2.74%) Adobe
7 9 (2.47%) BMC
7 9 (2.47%) Remedy
8 6 (1.64%) Informatica
8 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.37%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.37%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.37%) Palantir
10 4 (1.10%) Apple
10 4 (1.10%) Brio
10 4 (1.10%) Foundry
10 4 (1.10%) Solace
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) Splunk
334 Data Visualisation jobs Nationwide