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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 213 253
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 +76
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 403 440 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.14% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.33% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 292 315
10th Percentile £313 £333 £315
25th Percentile £394 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £637 £774 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £24.50 £17.97
25th Percentile £22.84 £30.88 £23.63
Median hourly rate £38.96 £42.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +31.50% -7.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.25 £44.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £53.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.92 £26.17 £26.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% -1.26% -24.29%

All Process and 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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -7 349 £455 -9.00% 531
London -1 202 £490 -7.11% 306
UK excluding London +1 161 £435 -3.33% 351
Work from Home -15 116 £425 -15.00% 227
North of England -18 55 £388 -13.89% 60
South East +26 35 £600 +20.60% 193
Yorkshire -9 35 £394 -12.50% 10
Scotland +7 22 £500 +13.64% 13
Midlands -19 20 £460 +8.18% 37
North West -23 19 £375 -15.64% 47
South West +18 13 £450 -21.74% 32
East of England +13 12 £525 -1.87% 16
West Midlands -12 11 £511 +25.72% 21
East Midlands -2 9 £413 -10.81% 16
Wales - 4 £304 - 2
North East -3 1 £400 -38.22% 3
Northern Ireland -17 1 £350 -12.50% 3

Data Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.47%) Confluence
2 14 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.98%) SAS
4 11 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.99%) Apache Pig
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (16.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.50%) Maple
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) SPSS
6 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 209 (51.86%) Power Platform
2 101 (25.06%) Azure
3 60 (14.89%) AWS
4 39 (9.68%) GCP
5 31 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 22 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (4.47%) dbt
9 17 (4.22%) GitHub
9 17 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (3.47%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.98%) Figma
12 12 (2.98%) Serverless
13 11 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.48%) OCI
15 9 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (1.99%) Adobe Analytics
17 7 (1.74%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.74%) MQTT
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) SNMP
2 2 (0.50%) SSH
2 2 (0.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.25%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (51.36%) Power BI
2 134 (33.25%) Tableau
3 60 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 32 (7.94%) Power Query
6 26 (6.45%) BigQuery
7 25 (6.20%) Looker
8 23 (5.71%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.71%) Big Data
10 17 (4.22%) Hadoop
11 16 (3.97%) Data Mining
12 13 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 13 (3.23%) GIS
12 13 (3.23%) Metadata
12 13 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (2.98%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (2.73%) Apache Hive
14 11 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (2.48%) NoSQL
16 8 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (6.70%) Git
2 17 (4.22%) JIRA
3 7 (1.74%) Gradle
3 7 (1.74%) Storybook
3 7 (1.74%) Xcode
4 5 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.24%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.50%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 165 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 132 (32.75%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (28.54%) Finance
4 36 (8.93%) Banking
5 31 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.71%) Marketing
8 17 (4.22%) Retail
9 14 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.99%) Legal
13 7 (1.74%) Front Office
13 7 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.49%) Local Government
14 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.24%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (35.24%) Analyst
2 90 (22.33%) Data Analyst
3 74 (18.36%) Developer
4 43 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.44%) Senior
6 31 (7.69%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.20%) Architect
8 24 (5.96%) Business Analyst
9 23 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 18 (4.47%) Power BI Developer
11 17 (4.22%) Lead
12 14 (3.47%) Consultant
12 14 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.23%) Data Architect
14 12 (2.98%) Power BI Analyst
14 12 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (2.73%) React Developer
16 10 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 10 (2.48%) Report Analyst
16 10 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.22%) React
2 16 (3.97%) D3.js
3 14 (3.47%) Pandas
4 12 (2.98%) PySpark
5 11 (2.73%) scikit-learn
6 9 (2.23%) HTML
6 9 (2.23%) OAuth
7 8 (1.99%) React Native
7 8 (1.99%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.74%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.74%) REST
8 7 (1.74%) SVG
9 6 (1.49%) CSS
9 6 (1.49%) JSON
9 6 (1.49%) Kafka
9 6 (1.49%) PostGIS
10 5 (1.24%) Django
10 5 (1.24%) Matplotlib
10 5 (1.24%) Node.js
10 5 (1.24%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.18%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.48%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.74%) CMDB
9 7 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.49%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.24%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.24%) NHS
12 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.74%) Android
1 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 222 (55.09%) Business Intelligence
3 161 (39.95%) Analytics
4 114 (28.29%) Data Modelling
5 111 (27.54%) Decision-Making
6 105 (26.05%) Data Analysis
7 103 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (23.08%) Agile
9 87 (21.59%) Actionable Insight
10 82 (20.35%) Data Science
11 71 (17.62%) Machine Learning
12 68 (16.87%) ETL
13 55 (13.65%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (13.65%) DevOps
14 52 (12.90%) Data Governance
15 49 (12.16%) Data Engineering
16 47 (11.66%) CI/CD
17 44 (10.92%) Dashboard Development
18 42 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
18 42 (10.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 235 (58.31%) SQL
2 167 (41.44%) Python
3 39 (9.68%) R
4 29 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (5.46%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.21%) Java
7 18 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.22%) Scala
9 5 (1.24%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.99%) LookML
10 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.74%) VBA
12 2 (0.50%) C#
12 2 (0.50%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (14.39%) Degree
2 38 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.97%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.74%) CBAP
8 3 (0.74%) CFA
8 3 (0.74%) PhD
8 3 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (0.50%) ACCA
9 2 (0.50%) CEH
9 2 (0.50%) CIMA
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.90%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.47%) GDPR
4 10 (2.48%) QA
5 8 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.99%) WCAG
7 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.50%) MiFID
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) Basel III
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) HL7
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.97%) Terraform
2 7 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.50%) Kibana
4 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.25%) logstash
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.25%) QRadar
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 89 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.20%) Google
2 25 (6.20%) Oracle
3 24 (5.96%) Databricks
4 17 (4.22%) SAP
5 13 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.98%) Splunk
7 11 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.48%) Adobe
9 7 (1.74%) MicroStrategy
9 7 (1.74%) Talend
10 5 (1.24%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.24%) Teradata
11 4 (0.99%) Informatica
12 3 (0.74%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.74%) Citrix
12 3 (0.74%) Foundry
12 3 (0.74%) Hyperion
12 3 (0.74%) Palantir