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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 175 252
Rank change year-on-year -105 +77 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 419 432 398
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.48% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.63% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 282 271
10th Percentile £341 £326 £315
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £551 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 11
10th Percentile £19.71 £27.09 £24.43
25th Percentile £27.25 £31.64 £25.81
Median hourly rate £54.50 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.60% -22.09% -15.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.15 £77.55 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 £32.81 £24.43
% change year-on-year +105.26% +34.30% -13.25%

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 39,137 26,475 37,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.32% 90.62% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,793 17,183 24,611
10th Percentile £315 £308 £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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,000 2,387
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.28 £70.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £29.23 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.59% -11.60% -7.64%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -89 372 £488 +8.33% 176
London -72 212 £490 +2.62% 70
UK excluding London -93 161 £475 +6.74% 137
Work from Home -49 138 £500 +11.11% 93
North of England -73 47 £475 +4.40% 32
Midlands -41 40 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -40 32 £520 +13.97% 47
North West -24 29 £441 -7.11% 23
West Midlands -51 25 £488 +14.71% 14
East Midlands -22 15 £385 +4.90% 18
East of England -39 15 £463 +15.77% 6
Yorkshire -52 15 £500 +16.28% 7
South West -44 12 £450 -5.26% 12
Scotland +1 11 £425 -15.00% 6
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 - 3
North East -22 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -14 1 - - 1

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 22 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.63%) Apache
4 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.39%) Confluence
5 6 (1.43%) Apache Superset
6 5 (1.19%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Eloqua
2 3 (0.72%) iTrent
3 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 226 (53.94%) Power Platform
2 97 (23.15%) Azure
3 84 (20.05%) AWS
4 33 (7.88%) GCP
5 27 (6.44%) Snowflake
6 24 (5.73%) Serverless
7 22 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.01%) Power Automate
9 19 (4.53%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.30%) dbt
11 17 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.06%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Wireless
2 2 (0.48%) 2G
2 2 (0.48%) 5G
2 2 (0.48%) LTE
2 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (53.94%) Power BI
2 122 (29.12%) Tableau
3 73 (17.42%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (7.88%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.49%) Metadata
6 21 (5.01%) Big Data
6 21 (5.01%) Looker
6 21 (5.01%) Power Query
7 19 (4.53%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.58%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (3.34%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.34%) Hadoop
11 11 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.15%) MySQL
14 8 (1.91%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (6.68%) Git
2 17 (4.06%) JIRA
3 8 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.95%) ERwin
5 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 171 (40.81%) Social Skills
2 146 (34.84%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (30.55%) Finance
4 60 (14.32%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.35%) Banking
6 22 (5.25%) Marketing
7 19 (4.53%) Retail
8 14 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.86%) Front Office
11 10 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.15%) Law
13 8 (1.91%) Publishing
14 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.19%) Legal
15 5 (1.19%) Military
15 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.95%) Automotive
16 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (30.31%) Analyst
2 75 (17.90%) Data Analyst
2 75 (17.90%) Developer
3 66 (15.75%) Senior
4 44 (10.50%) Data Engineer
5 33 (7.88%) Data Scientist
6 25 (5.97%) Architect
7 24 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 14 (3.34%) Consultant
10 14 (3.34%) Lead
10 14 (3.34%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.10%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (2.86%) Designer
13 11 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.39%) Performance Analyst
15 9 (2.15%) Insight Analyst
15 9 (2.15%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.44%) React
2 26 (6.21%) Pandas
3 20 (4.77%) REST
4 19 (4.53%) AngularJS
5 18 (4.30%) Kafka
6 16 (3.82%) Plotly
7 15 (3.58%) NumPy
8 14 (3.34%) Vue
9 13 (3.10%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.39%) PySpark
11 9 (2.15%) .NET
11 9 (2.15%) Matplotlib
11 9 (2.15%) Seaborn
12 8 (1.91%) Web Services
13 7 (1.67%) CSS
13 7 (1.67%) D3.js
13 7 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (1.67%) RESTful
13 7 (1.67%) WebSockets
14 6 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.97%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.77%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.19%) Derivative
8 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.95%) Animation
9 4 (0.95%) IoT
9 4 (0.95%) Life Science
9 4 (0.95%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.15%) Linux
2 8 (1.91%) Unix
3 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.48%) Android
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 255 (60.86%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (42.48%) Analytics
4 144 (34.37%) Data Modelling
5 123 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (28.40%) Decision-Making
7 118 (28.16%) Agile
8 99 (23.63%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (20.53%) Data Science
10 80 (19.09%) Data Analysis
11 76 (18.14%) ETL
12 73 (17.42%) AI
13 69 (16.47%) Data Governance
14 68 (16.23%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (15.27%) Dashboard Development
16 62 (14.80%) Machine Learning
17 58 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 50 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 46 (10.98%) Data Engineering
19 46 (10.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 234 (55.85%) SQL
2 152 (36.28%) Python
3 42 (10.02%) R
4 28 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (4.77%) Java
7 16 (3.82%) C#
8 15 (3.58%) Scala
9 12 (2.86%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.39%) VBA
11 9 (2.15%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.43%) Perl
12 6 (1.43%) PHP
12 6 (1.43%) Rust
13 4 (0.95%) Bash
13 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.79%) Degree
4 15 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.72%) CFA
10 2 (0.48%) APMP
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.11%) QA
3 25 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.06%) PMO
5 16 (3.82%) GDPR
6 11 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.95%) WCAG
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.24%) EMIR
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.30%) Terraform
3 11 (2.63%) Kibana
4 10 (2.39%) Grafana
5 6 (1.43%) Ansible
5 6 (1.43%) logstash
6 5 (1.19%) SCCM
7 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.24%) collectd
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 72 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.40%) Databricks
3 27 (6.44%) Google
4 19 (4.53%) Oracle
5 17 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.34%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.39%) Adobe
8 9 (2.15%) SAP
9 8 (1.91%) Amplitude
10 7 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.43%) Apple
11 6 (1.43%) Cognos
12 4 (0.95%) Brio
12 4 (0.95%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.95%) Sage
12 4 (0.95%) Solace
13 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
13 3 (0.72%) Informatica
13 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud