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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 218 230
Rank change year-on-year -126 +12 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 367 390 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.19% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.31% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 249 284
10th Percentile £358 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £738 £640 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +3.93% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 8
10th Percentile £22.98 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £37.94 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.77% -21.05% +31.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £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% +23.81%

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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -108 335 £488 +8.33% 302
London -90 168 £524 +6.89% 172
UK excluding London -84 163 £463 +3.93% 160
Work from Home -36 129 £475 +11.76% 130
North of England -49 53 £438 +10.47% 38
Midlands -33 37 £400 -3.03% 32
South East -64 36 £550 -4.35% 46
North West -34 31 £438 +26.50% 24
West Midlands -42 22 £420 -1.18% 20
South West -37 20 £475 +5.56% 22
Yorkshire -50 19 £500 +25.00% 12
East Midlands -4 15 £375 -9.09% 12
East of England -19 12 £463 -0.80% 14
Scotland -22 10 £450 -10.00% 6
North East -39 4 £375 -16.67% 2

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 12 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Superset
2 6 (1.63%) Confluence
3 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (16.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.82%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 213 (58.04%) Power Platform
2 74 (20.16%) Azure
3 60 (16.35%) AWS
4 26 (7.08%) GCP
5 19 (5.18%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.90%) Serverless
7 15 (4.09%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.72%) GitHub
10 10 (2.72%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.63%) dbt
14 6 (1.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) 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
1 213 (58.04%) Power BI
2 95 (25.89%) Tableau
3 61 (16.62%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (10.63%) Relational Database
5 36 (9.81%) Power Query
6 23 (6.27%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.99%) Metadata
8 21 (5.72%) Looker
9 18 (4.90%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.36%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (3.81%) Big Data
11 14 (3.81%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.45%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.18%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.18%) PowerPivot
14 8 (2.18%) QlikView
14 8 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.81%) JIRA
2 11 (3.00%) Git
3 4 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.54%) 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 (35.97%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 105 (28.61%) Finance
4 50 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.90%) Banking
6 17 (4.63%) Marketing
7 9 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.45%) Military
7 9 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.18%) Retail
9 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.63%) Law
10 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (27.52%) Analyst
2 63 (17.17%) Data Analyst
3 59 (16.08%) Developer
4 50 (13.62%) Senior
5 46 (12.53%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.36%) Consultant
6 27 (7.36%) Data Scientist
7 26 (7.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 23 (6.27%) Power BI Developer
9 22 (5.99%) Architect
10 18 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.90%) Lead
11 15 (4.09%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.54%) Designer
13 12 (3.27%) Data Architect
13 12 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.72%) Data Consultant
15 10 (2.72%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.63%) REST
2 17 (4.63%) React
3 13 (3.54%) CSS
4 12 (3.27%) .NET
4 12 (3.27%) Pandas
5 11 (3.00%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.72%) HTML
6 10 (2.72%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.18%) SOAP
7 8 (2.18%) Spring
7 8 (2.18%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.91%) Kafka
8 7 (1.91%) Middleware
8 7 (1.91%) OpenFin
8 7 (1.91%) Web Services
9 6 (1.63%) Electron
9 6 (1.63%) PySpark
9 6 (1.63%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.36%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.63%) Data Structures
2 19 (5.18%) Management Information System
3 16 (4.36%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.45%) Clustering
9 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.45%) PKI
10 8 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.18%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.18%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.09%) Life Science
12 4 (1.09%) LIMS
12 4 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.81%) Windows
2 13 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 231 (62.94%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (49.05%) Analytics
4 140 (38.15%) Data Modelling
5 108 (29.43%) Agile
5 108 (29.43%) Decision-Making
6 97 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (19.89%) AI
8 71 (19.35%) Dashboard Development
9 66 (17.98%) Actionable Insight
10 64 (17.44%) Data Analysis
10 64 (17.44%) ETL
11 63 (17.17%) Data Science
12 59 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 58 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (15.53%) Data Pipeline
15 56 (15.26%) Data Governance
16 53 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (14.44%) Validation
17 48 (13.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 196 (53.41%) SQL
2 115 (31.34%) Python
3 42 (11.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 39 (10.63%) R
5 26 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.54%) Java
7 18 (4.90%) C#
8 16 (4.36%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.45%) Scala
11 7 (1.91%) VBA
12 5 (1.36%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.09%) Rust
14 3 (0.82%) C++
15 2 (0.54%) Bash
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
15 2 (0.54%) Ruby
16 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.26%) Degree
4 15 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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 82 (22.34%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.99%) QA
3 18 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.81%) PMO
5 10 (2.72%) GDPR
6 5 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.09%) GMP
7 4 (1.09%) GxP
7 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.82%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) Basel III
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (1.36%) Kibana
3 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.09%) SCCM
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 62 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.45%) Oracle
3 25 (6.81%) Databricks
4 21 (5.72%) SAP
4 21 (5.72%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.90%) Google
6 9 (2.45%) Adobe
6 9 (2.45%) BMC
6 9 (2.45%) Remedy
7 8 (2.18%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.63%) Informatica
8 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.63%) Solace
9 5 (1.36%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.36%) Palantir
10 4 (1.09%) Apple
10 4 (1.09%) Brio
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) Splunk