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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 179 262
Rank change year-on-year -102 +83 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 415 440 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.51% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.67% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 290 275
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £556 £575
90th Percentile £673 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 10
10th Percentile £19.32 £27.09 £23.58
25th Percentile £25.72 £31.64 £25.60
Median hourly rate £49.75 £33.11 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% -9.29% -27.01%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £46.56
90th Percentile £83.98 £77.55 £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.67 £32.81 £24.43
% change year-on-year +94.06% +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 38,313 26,307 38,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 90.51% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,289 17,086 24,815
10th Percentile £313 £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 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 967 2,341
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.85 £31.08 £31.65
% change year-on-year +12.13% -1.80% -12.39%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -96 367 £488 +8.33% 176
London -63 214 £500 +4.17% 70
UK excluding London -93 154 £475 +8.57% 137
Work from Home -42 134 £500 +11.73% 93
North of England -66 45 £463 +1.65% 32
Midlands -43 38 £450 +5.88% 32
South East -45 31 £516 +3.25% 47
North West -28 29 £420 -9.68% 23
West Midlands -52 24 £475 +11.76% 14
East Midlands -24 14 £385 +4.90% 18
East of England -37 14 £463 +15.77% 6
Yorkshire -55 13 £500 +17.65% 7
Scotland -2 11 £425 -15.00% 6
South West -42 11 £450 -5.26% 12
Northern Ireland +2 3 £463 - 3
North East -18 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -12 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 21 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.65%) Apache
4 10 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.41%) Confluence
5 6 (1.45%) Apache Superset
6 5 (1.20%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Eloqua
3 2 (0.48%) 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
1 221 (53.25%) Power Platform
2 95 (22.89%) Azure
3 81 (19.52%) AWS
4 31 (7.47%) GCP
5 27 (6.51%) Snowflake
6 22 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (5.30%) Power Automate
6 22 (5.30%) Serverless
7 18 (4.34%) Amazon S3
7 18 (4.34%) dbt
8 17 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.10%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.93%) GitHub
13 7 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) 2G
1 2 (0.48%) 5G
1 2 (0.48%) LTE
1 2 (0.48%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.48%) VoIP
1 2 (0.48%) Wireless
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) Intranet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (53.25%) Power BI
2 118 (28.43%) Tableau
3 67 (16.14%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (7.47%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.30%) Metadata
6 21 (5.06%) Big Data
7 20 (4.82%) Looker
7 20 (4.82%) Power Query
8 17 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.10%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (3.37%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.89%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.41%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.17%) MySQL
14 8 (1.93%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (7.23%) Git
2 17 (4.10%) JIRA
3 8 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.96%) ERwin
5 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 168 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 142 (34.22%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (30.36%) Finance
4 59 (14.22%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.92%) Banking
6 22 (5.30%) Marketing
7 20 (4.82%) Retail
8 13 (3.13%) Front Office
9 11 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.41%) Law
11 8 (1.93%) Publishing
12 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.20%) Legal
13 5 (1.20%) Military
14 4 (0.96%) Automotive
14 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (30.84%) Analyst
2 74 (17.83%) Developer
3 73 (17.59%) Data Analyst
4 64 (15.42%) Senior
5 40 (9.64%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.95%) Data Scientist
7 27 (6.51%) Architect
8 24 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 19 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 15 (3.61%) Lead
12 14 (3.37%) Power BI Developer
13 13 (3.13%) Consultant
13 13 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (2.89%) Designer
15 11 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.41%) Performance Analyst
17 9 (2.17%) Insight Analyst
17 9 (2.17%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.99%) React
2 25 (6.02%) Pandas
3 21 (5.06%) REST
4 20 (4.82%) AngularJS
5 18 (4.34%) Kafka
6 16 (3.86%) Plotly
6 16 (3.86%) Vue
7 15 (3.61%) NumPy
8 13 (3.13%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.41%) PySpark
10 9 (2.17%) .NET
10 9 (2.17%) Matplotlib
10 9 (2.17%) Seaborn
11 8 (1.93%) Web Services
12 7 (1.69%) CSS
12 7 (1.69%) D3.js
12 7 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.69%) RESTful
12 7 (1.69%) WebSockets
13 6 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.02%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.58%) Data Structures
3 18 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.69%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.45%) Life Science
9 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Derivative
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.96%) Animation
10 4 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.96%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.17%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Unix
3 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 250 (60.24%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (42.17%) Analytics
4 138 (33.25%) Data Modelling
5 119 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (27.71%) Agile
6 115 (27.71%) Decision-Making
7 97 (23.37%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (20.24%) Data Science
9 79 (19.04%) Data Analysis
10 73 (17.59%) ETL
11 72 (17.35%) AI
12 66 (15.90%) Machine Learning
13 65 (15.66%) Data Governance
14 64 (15.42%) Dashboard Development
15 63 (15.18%) Data Pipeline
16 61 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (10.84%) Data Engineering
18 45 (10.84%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (55.18%) SQL
2 150 (36.14%) Python
3 40 (9.64%) R
4 28 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (4.58%) Java
7 15 (3.61%) C#
8 14 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.89%) Scala
10 10 (2.41%) VBA
11 9 (2.17%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.45%) Perl
12 6 (1.45%) PHP
12 6 (1.45%) Rust
13 5 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.96%) Bash
14 4 (0.96%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.60%) Degree
4 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.96%) CFA
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) APMP
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.24%) ACCA
10 1 (0.24%) CIMA
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.72%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.71%) QA
3 25 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.10%) PMO
5 16 (3.86%) GDPR
6 11 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.96%) WCAG
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.48%) EMIR
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.10%) Terraform
3 11 (2.65%) Kibana
4 10 (2.41%) Grafana
5 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 6 (1.45%) logstash
6 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.96%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) collectd
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 67 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.71%) Databricks
3 28 (6.75%) Google
4 17 (4.10%) Oracle
4 17 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.41%) Adobe
7 8 (1.93%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.45%) Cognos
9 6 (1.45%) SAP
10 5 (1.20%) Apple
11 4 (0.96%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.96%) Murex
11 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.96%) Sage
11 4 (0.96%) Solace
12 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.72%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Refinitiv