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

 6 months to
29 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 223 232
Rank change year-on-year -107 +9 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 372 392 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.19% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.32% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 247 292
10th Percentile £363 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £391 £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 £730 £664 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +7.95% -2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 8
10th Percentile £25.75 £19.80 £34.75
25th Percentile £41.25 £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% +25.00%

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
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 £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -97 340 £500 +9.89% 198
London -89 169 £525 +5.00% 103
UK excluding London -81 167 £475 +7.95% 122
Work from Home -49 130 £488 +11.81% 75
North of England -60 55 £437 +10.86% 28
South East -61 39 £538 -6.52% 39
Midlands -42 37 £420 +1.82% 25
North West -30 32 £430 +21.13% 18
West Midlands -46 22 £450 +5.88% 17
South West -34 20 £475 +10.59% 19
Yorkshire -51 20 £500 +25.00% 8
East Midlands -8 15 £375 -9.09% 8
East of England -19 11 £463 +13.50% 7
Scotland -26 10 £450 -10.00% 4
North East -44 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 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.61%) Apache Superset
3 6 (1.61%) Confluence
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.81%) Apache
5 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (16.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.54%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (2.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.08%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.81%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) iTrent
5 1 (0.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 212 (56.99%) Power Platform
2 74 (19.89%) Azure
3 62 (16.67%) AWS
4 26 (6.99%) GCP
5 20 (5.38%) Snowflake
6 17 (4.57%) Serverless
7 16 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.49%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.69%) GitHub
13 9 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.15%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.61%) dbt
16 5 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) HTTP
2 3 (0.81%) 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
1 212 (56.99%) Power BI
2 96 (25.81%) Tableau
3 62 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (10.48%) Relational Database
5 35 (9.41%) Power Query
6 23 (6.18%) Looker
6 23 (6.18%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.38%) Metadata
8 19 (5.11%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.30%) BigQuery
10 15 (4.03%) Big Data
11 14 (3.76%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.42%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.42%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.15%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.15%) QlikView
14 8 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.76%) JIRA
2 11 (2.96%) Git
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.81%) 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
1 137 (36.83%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (35.75%) Social Skills
3 105 (28.23%) Finance
4 50 (13.44%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.87%) Banking
6 18 (4.84%) Marketing
7 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.15%) Military
8 8 (2.15%) Retail
9 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.61%) Law
9 6 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Billing
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (27.96%) Analyst
2 65 (17.47%) Data Analyst
3 58 (15.59%) Developer
4 51 (13.71%) Senior
5 48 (12.90%) Data Engineer
6 27 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 27 (7.26%) Data Scientist
7 24 (6.45%) Consultant
8 22 (5.91%) Architect
8 22 (5.91%) Power BI Developer
9 19 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 17 (4.57%) Lead
11 15 (4.03%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.49%) Designer
13 12 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.96%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.69%) Analytics Consultant
15 10 (2.69%) Performance Analyst
16 9 (2.42%) Data Consultant
16 9 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.26%) REST
2 18 (4.84%) React
3 13 (3.49%) CSS
4 12 (3.23%) .NET
4 12 (3.23%) Pandas
5 11 (2.96%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.69%) HTML
6 10 (2.69%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.15%) Kafka
7 8 (2.15%) Spring
7 8 (2.15%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.88%) Middleware
8 7 (1.88%) OpenFin
8 7 (1.88%) PySpark
8 7 (1.88%) SOAP
8 7 (1.88%) Web Services
9 6 (1.61%) Electron
9 6 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.61%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.53%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.57%) Management Information System
3 16 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.42%) Clustering
8 9 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.42%) PKI
9 8 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.88%) Life Science
10 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.88%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.08%) LIMS
11 4 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.76%) Windows
2 13 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 231 (62.10%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (48.12%) Analytics
4 140 (37.63%) Data Modelling
5 112 (30.11%) Decision-Making
6 111 (29.84%) Agile
7 97 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (19.62%) AI
8 73 (19.62%) Dashboard Development
9 72 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
10 66 (17.74%) Data Analysis
10 66 (17.74%) Data Science
11 65 (17.47%) ETL
12 61 (16.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 59 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
15 56 (15.05%) Data Governance
16 53 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (14.25%) Validation
17 49 (13.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 200 (53.76%) SQL
2 120 (32.26%) Python
3 41 (11.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 39 (10.48%) R
5 25 (6.72%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.45%) Java
7 17 (4.57%) C#
7 17 (4.57%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.42%) Scala
10 7 (1.88%) VBA
11 5 (1.34%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.08%) C++
12 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.08%) Rust
13 2 (0.54%) Bash
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Korn
13 2 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.40%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.10%) Degree
4 15 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.81%) PhD
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.91%) QA
3 21 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.03%) PMO
5 10 (2.69%) GDPR
6 5 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.08%) GMP
7 4 (1.08%) GxP
7 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.81%) SLA
8 3 (0.81%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.69%) Terraform
2 6 (1.61%) Kibana
2 6 (1.61%) SCCM
3 5 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 3 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 62 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.80%) Oracle
3 25 (6.72%) Databricks
4 20 (5.38%) SAP
4 20 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.84%) Google
6 9 (2.42%) Adobe
6 9 (2.42%) BMC
6 9 (2.42%) Remedy
7 8 (2.15%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.61%) Informatica
8 6 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.61%) Solace
9 5 (1.34%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.34%) Palantir
10 4 (1.08%) Apple
10 4 (1.08%) Foundry
11 3 (0.81%) Brio
11 3 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) ESRI
210 Data Visualisation jobs Nationwide