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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 227 229
Rank change year-on-year -106 +2 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 383 390 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.19% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.32% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 244 295
10th Percentile £355 £318 £313
25th Percentile £428 £398 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £553 £602
90th Percentile £691 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +5.91% -0.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 8
10th Percentile £29.05 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.97% -21.05% +40.59%
75th Percentile £70.94 £50.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £57.25 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -2.65% +27.45%

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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 July 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 July 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 25 July 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 -94 347 £500 +9.11% 186
UK excluding London -63 176 £475 +5.91% 118
London -93 167 £525 +5.00% 93
Work from Home -48 130 £488 +8.70% 71
North of England -60 57 £438 +3.06% 30
Midlands -31 43 £420 +1.82% 22
South East -67 38 £538 -4.44% 35
North West -31 34 £438 +23.38% 20
West Midlands -36 28 £450 +5.88% 15
South West -26 21 £475 +10.59% 17
Yorkshire -53 20 £500 +16.28% 7
East Midlands -10 15 £375 -9.09% 7
East of England -19 11 £463 +13.50% 6
Scotland -24 11 £463 -7.50% 5
North East -40 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 14 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.83%) Confluence
4 6 (1.57%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.04%) Apache
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.78%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (16.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.52%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.78%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.26%) iTrent
5 1 (0.26%) Primavera
5 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 219 (57.18%) Power Platform
2 77 (20.10%) Azure
3 69 (18.02%) AWS
4 25 (6.53%) GCP
5 19 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.44%) Serverless
7 16 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.39%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.61%) dbt
12 9 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.35%) GitHub
12 9 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.09%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.57%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) HTTP
2 3 (0.78%) Wireless
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (57.18%) Power BI
2 101 (26.37%) Tableau
3 63 (16.45%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (9.92%) Relational Database
5 35 (9.14%) Power Query
6 24 (6.27%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.48%) Looker
8 20 (5.22%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.22%) Metadata
9 17 (4.44%) Big Data
10 16 (4.18%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
12 13 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.61%) Hadoop
15 9 (2.35%) Star Schema
16 8 (2.09%) Data Mining
16 8 (2.09%) QlikView
16 8 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.92%) JIRA
2 11 (2.87%) Git
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.52%) 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%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 140 (36.55%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (34.73%) Social Skills
3 107 (27.94%) Finance
4 54 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.62%) Banking
6 18 (4.70%) Marketing
7 10 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.09%) Military
10 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.83%) Retail
11 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.57%) Law
11 6 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.04%) Front Office
12 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Billing
13 3 (0.78%) Legal
13 3 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (29.77%) Analyst
2 73 (19.06%) Data Analyst
3 56 (14.62%) Developer
4 51 (13.32%) Data Engineer
4 51 (13.32%) Senior
5 27 (7.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 27 (7.05%) Data Scientist
6 25 (6.53%) Architect
7 23 (6.01%) Consultant
8 22 (5.74%) Power BI Developer
9 19 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.70%) Business Analyst
11 17 (4.44%) Lead
12 13 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Data Architect
14 11 (2.87%) Performance Analyst
15 10 (2.61%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.61%) Data Business Analyst
15 10 (2.61%) Designer
16 9 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.05%) REST
2 18 (4.70%) React
3 14 (3.66%) Pandas
4 12 (3.13%) CSS
5 11 (2.87%) .NET
6 10 (2.61%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.35%) HTML
7 9 (2.35%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.09%) Kafka
8 8 (2.09%) Spring
8 8 (2.09%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.83%) Middleware
9 7 (1.83%) OpenFin
9 7 (1.83%) PySpark
9 7 (1.83%) SOAP
9 7 (1.83%) Web Services
10 6 (1.57%) Electron
10 6 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (1.31%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.31%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.57%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.35%) Clustering
7 9 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.35%) PKI
8 8 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.09%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (2.09%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.83%) Life Science
9 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.04%) LIMS
10 4 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.39%) Windows
1 13 (3.39%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 237 (61.88%) Business Intelligence
3 181 (47.26%) Analytics
4 146 (38.12%) Data Modelling
5 115 (30.03%) Agile
6 110 (28.72%) Decision-Making
7 101 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (20.63%) Dashboard Development
9 74 (19.32%) AI
9 74 (19.32%) ETL
10 73 (19.06%) Actionable Insight
11 70 (18.28%) Data Analysis
12 66 (17.23%) Data Science
13 63 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (16.19%) Data Governance
14 62 (16.19%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (14.62%) Validation
17 52 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (13.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 212 (55.35%) SQL
2 125 (32.64%) Python
3 41 (10.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 40 (10.44%) R
5 25 (6.53%) Java
6 24 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.18%) C#
9 11 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.09%) Scala
10 8 (2.09%) VBA
11 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.04%) C++
12 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.04%) Rust
13 2 (0.52%) C
13 2 (0.52%) Korn
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 95 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 67 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.75%) Degree
4 15 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) APMG
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (21.41%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.79%) QA
3 21 (5.48%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.18%) PMO
5 12 (3.13%) GDPR
6 6 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (1.04%) GMP
8 4 (1.04%) GxP
8 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 3 (0.78%) SLA
9 3 (0.78%) WCAG
10 2 (0.52%) Basel III
10 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 13 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.35%) Terraform
2 7 (1.83%) Kibana
3 6 (1.57%) SCCM
4 4 (1.04%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.78%) Grafana
5 3 (0.78%) logstash
6 2 (0.52%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.57%) Oracle
3 24 (6.27%) Databricks
4 20 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.96%) Google
6 18 (4.70%) SAP
7 10 (2.61%) Adobe
8 9 (2.35%) BMC
8 9 (2.35%) Remedy
9 8 (2.09%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.57%) Informatica
10 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.57%) Solace
11 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.31%) Palantir
12 4 (1.04%) Apple
12 4 (1.04%) Foundry
13 3 (0.78%) Brio
13 3 (0.78%) Cognos
13 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud