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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 187 239
Rank change year-on-year -57 +52 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 417 456 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.45% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.63% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 303 300
10th Percentile £324 £325 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 19
10th Percentile £17.95 £24.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.21 £25.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.15% -6.26% -49.82%
75th Percentile £70.71 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £49.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.03 £30.50
% change year-on-year +24.89% +11.57% -12.24%

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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 January 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 January 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 29 January 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 -73 360 £475 - 221
London -40 210 £490 -2.00% 78
UK excluding London -60 159 £463 +2.78% 193
Work from Home -39 128 £500 +11.11% 89
North of England -62 54 £400 -19.38% 37
North West -25 32 £399 -16.00% 23
Midlands -41 32 £500 +23.08% 37
South East -19 27 £506 +2.53% 76
West Midlands -24 23 £500 +21.21% 19
Yorkshire -47 18 £375 -14.29% 12
Scotland +3 17 £420 -6.67% 10
East of England -16 15 £525 +27.27% 10
East Midlands -23 9 £395 +57.68% 17
South West -30 7 £394 -10.80% 21
Northern Ireland -11 5 £463 -7.50% 3
North East -19 4 £400 -27.27% 2
Wales -2 3 - - 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 23 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.08%) Confluence
3 13 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.88%) Apache
5 11 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.92%) Apache Pig
7 5 (1.20%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.72%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 59 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
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%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.48%) iTrent
1 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 219 (52.52%) Power Platform
2 105 (25.18%) Azure
3 70 (16.79%) AWS
4 38 (9.11%) GCP
5 27 (6.47%) Snowflake
6 21 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.80%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.32%) GitHub
8 18 (4.32%) PowerApps
9 17 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.60%) dbt
10 15 (3.60%) Serverless
11 12 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.88%) Figma
12 10 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.44%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (1.44%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.20%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) SNMP
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%) SSH
2 2 (0.48%) SSL
2 2 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (52.52%) Power BI
2 115 (27.58%) Tableau
3 65 (15.59%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.28%) Power Query
6 19 (4.56%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.32%) Metadata
8 17 (4.08%) Big Data
8 17 (4.08%) Looker
8 17 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.84%) Hadoop
10 13 (3.12%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.64%) Data Mining
11 11 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.40%) Apache Hive
12 10 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.92%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.92%) MySQL
13 8 (1.92%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (9.11%) Git
2 22 (5.28%) JIRA
3 9 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.68%) Gradle
4 7 (1.68%) Storybook
4 7 (1.68%) Xcode
5 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.96%) ERwin
5 4 (0.96%) MLflow
6 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Snyk
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 174 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 125 (29.98%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (29.26%) Finance
4 42 (10.07%) Banking
5 40 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.80%) Retail
7 16 (3.84%) Marketing
8 15 (3.60%) Front Office
9 14 (3.36%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.16%) Legal
11 9 (2.16%) Publishing
12 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.44%) Back Office
15 5 (1.20%) Law
15 5 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 123 (29.50%) Analyst
2 90 (21.58%) Developer
3 76 (18.23%) Data Analyst
4 48 (11.51%) Senior
5 34 (8.15%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.15%) Data Scientist
6 28 (6.71%) Architect
7 26 (6.24%) Business Analyst
7 26 (6.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 20 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.84%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.12%) Lead
12 12 (2.88%) Designer
13 11 (2.64%) Consultant
13 11 (2.64%) SQL Analyst
14 9 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 9 (2.16%) React Developer
14 9 (2.16%) Senior Data Analyst
14 9 (2.16%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.19%) React
2 27 (6.47%) Pandas
3 19 (4.56%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.84%) D3.js
5 16 (3.84%) NumPy
6 15 (3.60%) Plotly
6 15 (3.60%) Vue
7 14 (3.36%) REST
8 13 (3.12%) Kafka
9 9 (2.16%) OAuth
9 9 (2.16%) PySpark
9 9 (2.16%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.92%) WebSockets
11 7 (1.68%) CSS
11 7 (1.68%) HTML
11 7 (1.68%) Matplotlib
11 7 (1.68%) React Native
11 7 (1.68%) RESTful
11 7 (1.68%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.15%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.16%) Reference Data
6 8 (1.92%) CMDB
6 8 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.20%) Genomics
9 5 (1.20%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.20%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.16%) Linux
2 8 (1.92%) Android
2 8 (1.92%) Unix
3 7 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (99.76%) Visualisation
2 235 (56.35%) Business Intelligence
3 171 (41.01%) Analytics
4 123 (29.50%) Data Modelling
5 114 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (26.86%) Decision-Making
7 111 (26.62%) Agile
8 91 (21.82%) Data Analysis
9 86 (20.62%) Actionable Insight
10 82 (19.66%) Data Science
11 76 (18.23%) Machine Learning
12 68 (16.31%) AI
13 67 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 66 (15.83%) ETL
15 64 (15.35%) Data Pipeline
16 50 (11.99%) Data Governance
16 50 (11.99%) DevOps
17 49 (11.75%) Dashboard Development
18 45 (10.79%) Data Management
19 43 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 226 (54.20%) SQL
2 165 (39.57%) Python
3 34 (8.15%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.67%) R
5 24 (5.76%) Java
6 23 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (5.04%) Scala
7 21 (5.04%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.12%) C#
9 9 (2.16%) VBA
10 8 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.44%) Perl
11 6 (1.44%) PHP
12 4 (0.96%) Bash
12 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.72%) LookML
13 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Go
14 2 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.31%) Degree
3 42 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.68%) CFA
8 6 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.96%) CBAP
10 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.48%) APMP
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.48%) CEH
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (16.55%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.95%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.47%) QA
4 16 (3.84%) GDPR
5 9 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.44%) WCAG
7 5 (1.20%) PMO
8 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.48%) EMIR
10 2 (0.48%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.56%) Terraform
2 18 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.92%) Grafana
3 8 (1.92%) Kibana
4 5 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) logstash
5 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) collectd
6 1 (0.24%) QRadar
6 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 83 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.43%) Google
3 28 (6.71%) Databricks
4 20 (4.80%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.12%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.64%) Oracle
7 11 (2.64%) Splunk
8 7 (1.68%) Cognos
8 7 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.68%) SAP
9 5 (1.20%) Adobe
9 5 (1.20%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.96%) IBM
10 4 (0.96%) Murex
11 3 (0.72%) Anaplan
11 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.72%) Informatica
11 3 (0.72%) Sage
11 3 (0.72%) Talend