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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 204 241
Rank change year-on-year -100 +37 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 379 405 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.36% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.50% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 263 302
10th Percentile £363 £322 £313
25th Percentile £425 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £557 £575
90th Percentile £699 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.60% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 9
10th Percentile £18.33 £21.75 £22.72
25th Percentile £31.50 £31.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.79% -16.93% +50.92%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.15 £73.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £32.23 £20.16
% change year-on-year +113.34% +59.85% -22.46%

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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -104 346 £500 +9.89% 146
London -74 177 £523 +4.50% 63
UK excluding London -86 163 £475 +11.76% 110
Work from Home -44 132 £488 +8.33% 67
North of England -57 54 £438 +0.69% 31
South East -48 37 £516 -6.14% 29
Midlands -40 35 £488 +18.18% 19
North West -19 32 £430 -0.86% 26
West Midlands -37 25 £500 +17.65% 7
South West -30 19 £475 +16.14% 12
Yorkshire -63 19 £500 +25.00% 2
East of England -32 11 £463 +28.23% 8
Scotland -13 10 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -22 10 £488 +18.54% 12
North East -37 3 £400 -17.95% 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 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Superset
5 5 (1.32%) Apache
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (17.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 224 (59.10%) Power Platform
2 85 (22.43%) Azure
3 73 (19.26%) AWS
4 25 (6.60%) GCP
5 23 (6.07%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.49%) Serverless
7 15 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.43%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.17%) dbt
10 11 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.37%) GitHub
11 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.32%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Wireless
2 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (59.10%) Power BI
2 107 (28.23%) Tableau
3 71 (18.73%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 33 (8.71%) Power Query
6 25 (6.60%) Metadata
6 25 (6.60%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.07%) Looker
8 21 (5.54%) Data Lake
9 17 (4.49%) Big Data
10 16 (4.22%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.43%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
15 8 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (1.85%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 14 (3.69%) Git
1 14 (3.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.06%) ERwin
3 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) Flyway
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Postman
5 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (34.83%) Social Skills
3 108 (28.50%) Finance
4 47 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.44%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Marketing
7 15 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Retail
9 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.37%) Publishing
10 8 (2.11%) Law
11 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.32%) Automotive
13 5 (1.32%) Front Office
13 5 (1.32%) Military
14 4 (1.06%) Legal
15 3 (0.79%) Billing
15 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (31.40%) Analyst
2 73 (19.26%) Data Analyst
3 61 (16.09%) Developer
4 49 (12.93%) Senior
5 46 (12.14%) Data Engineer
6 29 (7.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 25 (6.60%) Data Scientist
8 23 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 21 (5.54%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (5.28%) Architect
10 20 (5.28%) Business Analyst
10 20 (5.28%) Consultant
11 12 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (3.17%) Lead
11 12 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (2.64%) Performance Analyst
12 10 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.11%) Data Consultant
13 8 (2.11%) Data Manager
13 8 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.07%) REST
2 22 (5.80%) React
3 13 (3.43%) CSS
3 13 (3.43%) Pandas
4 10 (2.64%) HTML
4 10 (2.64%) Kafka
5 9 (2.37%) .NET
5 9 (2.37%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.85%) Spring
6 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.58%) PySpark
7 6 (1.58%) RESTful
7 6 (1.58%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.58%) Vue
8 5 (1.32%) Electron
8 5 (1.32%) Matplotlib
8 5 (1.32%) OpenFin
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.32%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.32%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.39%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.85%) Life Science
8 7 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.58%) Clustering
9 6 (1.58%) PKI
10 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.06%) Derivative
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
10 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.58%) Windows
1 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 243 (64.12%) Business Intelligence
3 174 (45.91%) Analytics
4 147 (38.79%) Data Modelling
5 119 (31.40%) Decision-Making
6 115 (30.34%) Agile
7 105 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.37%) Actionable Insight
9 77 (20.32%) AI
10 76 (20.05%) Dashboard Development
11 75 (19.79%) ETL
12 68 (17.94%) Data Science
13 64 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (16.89%) Data Governance
13 64 (16.89%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (16.62%) Data Analysis
15 57 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 53 (13.98%) Validation
17 52 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 49 (12.93%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 210 (55.41%) SQL
2 124 (32.72%) Python
3 39 (10.29%) R
4 37 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (7.65%) Java
6 26 (6.86%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.49%) C#
7 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.64%) Scala
10 8 (2.11%) VBA
11 6 (1.58%) Perl
11 6 (1.58%) Rust
12 5 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.06%) C++
13 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.61%) Degree
4 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) APMG
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
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 87 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.39%) QA
3 17 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.22%) PMO
5 14 (3.69%) GDPR
6 9 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.69%) Terraform
2 8 (2.11%) Kibana
3 6 (1.58%) SCCM
4 5 (1.32%) Grafana
4 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) logstash
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 58 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.86%) Databricks
2 26 (6.86%) Google
3 25 (6.60%) Oracle
4 19 (5.01%) SAP
5 16 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.37%) Adobe
7 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
7 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.58%) Apple
8 6 (1.58%) BMC
8 6 (1.58%) Informatica
8 6 (1.58%) Remedy
9 5 (1.32%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.32%) Solace
10 4 (1.06%) Cognos
11 3 (0.79%) Brio
11 3 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) Palantir