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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 232 209
Rank change year-on-year -128 -23 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 369 399 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.21% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.33% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 264 293
10th Percentile £318 £313 £334
25th Percentile £400 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £605 £553 £638
90th Percentile £716 £650 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 11
10th Percentile £22.98 £16.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £28.21 £30.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% -10.05% +31.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.06 £51.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £64.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £30.00 £26.17
% change year-on-year +81.33% +14.66% -0.32%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -112 326 £475 +4.40% 956
UK excluding London -85 184 £438 +3.06% 485
London -115 148 £513 +4.59% 569
Work from Home -60 121 £456 +1.39% 378
North of England -80 54 £425 +9.68% 91
Midlands -27 42 £455 -10.26% 80
South East -60 37 £550 -8.33% 136
West Midlands -20 29 £470 -8.56% 61
North West -42 29 £438 +16.80% 37
South West -19 25 £475 +18.75% 51
Scotland -29 15 £408 -14.21% 36
Yorkshire -62 15 £460 +18.71% 37
East Midlands -11 13 £300 -27.27% 19
East of England -25 13 £465 -11.43% 50
North East -27 11 £350 -12.50% 17
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 26
Wales -17 2 £356 +95.21% 22

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 8 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.36%) Confluence
2 5 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (18.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) iTrent
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 233 (63.14%) Power Platform
2 69 (18.70%) Azure
3 46 (12.47%) AWS
4 22 (5.96%) GCP
5 21 (5.69%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (3.79%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.52%) GitHub
8 13 (3.52%) Google Analytics
8 13 (3.52%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.71%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (2.17%) Serverless
12 7 (1.90%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.63%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (1.08%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (62.87%) Power BI
2 82 (22.22%) Tableau
3 51 (13.82%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (13.28%) Power Query
5 29 (7.86%) Relational Database
6 21 (5.69%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.42%) Data Lake
8 19 (5.15%) Metadata
9 13 (3.52%) Looker
10 12 (3.25%) BigQuery
10 12 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (2.98%) Star Schema
12 10 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.44%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (2.17%) Big Data
14 8 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (2.17%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.17%) QlikView
15 7 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.52%) Git
1 13 (3.52%) JIRA
2 5 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.27%) Flyway
4 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JUnit
4 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.27%) Storybook
4 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 136 (36.86%) Analytical Skills
2 134 (36.31%) Social Skills
3 85 (23.04%) Finance
4 47 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.94%) Banking
6 12 (3.25%) Military
7 10 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.17%) Retail
9 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.90%) Local Government
9 7 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Marketing
10 6 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.08%) Law
13 3 (0.81%) Front Office
13 3 (0.81%) Police
13 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (26.83%) Analyst
2 64 (17.34%) Developer
3 58 (15.72%) Data Analyst
4 47 (12.74%) Senior
5 41 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.05%) Consultant
7 26 (7.05%) Power BI Developer
8 21 (5.69%) Architect
9 19 (5.15%) Data Scientist
9 19 (5.15%) Lead
10 15 (4.07%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.07%) Performance Analyst
11 14 (3.79%) Designer
11 14 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (2.98%) Data Visualisation Specialist
13 10 (2.71%) Analytics Consultant
14 9 (2.44%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.44%) Report Analyst
14 9 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.05%) REST
2 18 (4.88%) React
3 15 (4.07%) CSS
4 13 (3.52%) HTML
5 11 (2.98%) Pandas
6 10 (2.71%) .NET
7 9 (2.44%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.44%) TensorFlow
8 8 (2.17%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.17%) Redux
9 7 (1.90%) Terraform
10 6 (1.63%) NumPy
10 6 (1.63%) SOAP
10 6 (1.63%) XML
11 5 (1.36%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.36%) Middleware
11 5 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (1.36%) Playwright
11 5 (1.36%) Spring
11 5 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.05%) Data Structures
1 26 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.25%) Reference Data
4 11 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.17%) Clustering
7 8 (2.17%) PKI
8 7 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.63%) Life Science
10 5 (1.36%) CMDB
10 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.36%) LIMS
11 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.07%) Windows
2 13 (3.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.08%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 237 (64.23%) Business Intelligence
3 191 (51.76%) Analytics
4 130 (35.23%) Data Modelling
5 121 (32.79%) Decision-Making
6 100 (27.10%) Agile
7 97 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (22.76%) AI
9 72 (19.51%) Actionable Insight
10 71 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (18.97%) Data Analysis
12 69 (18.70%) Dashboard Development
13 62 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (16.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (15.45%) ETL
15 57 (15.45%) Validation
16 53 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
17 52 (14.09%) Data Governance
18 50 (13.55%) Data Science
19 48 (13.01%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (50.68%) SQL
2 109 (29.54%) Python
3 57 (15.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (7.32%) R
5 25 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.42%) Java
7 19 (5.15%) C#
8 16 (4.34%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.71%) Scala
11 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.08%) VBA
13 3 (0.81%) Bash
14 2 (0.54%) C++
14 2 (0.54%) Go
14 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.92%) Degree
4 13 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.36%) PhD
8 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) APMG
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (26.29%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.69%) QA
3 14 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.98%) GDPR
5 7 (1.90%) GMP
5 7 (1.90%) PMO
6 5 (1.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (1.36%) GxP
6 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (1.08%) GRC
7 4 (1.08%) WCAG
8 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.54%) Basel III
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.63%) Kibana
2 4 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Grafana
4 2 (0.54%) SCCM
5 1 (0.27%) QRadar
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.78%) Oracle
3 24 (6.50%) SAP
4 23 (6.23%) Google
5 19 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.61%) Databricks
7 10 (2.71%) Splunk
8 8 (2.17%) Adobe
8 8 (2.17%) BMC
8 8 (2.17%) Remedy
9 7 (1.90%) Informatica
10 6 (1.63%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.36%) Palantir
12 4 (1.08%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.08%) Ariba
12 4 (1.08%) Foundry
12 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.81%) Solace
13 3 (0.81%) Workday