Data Visualisation Contracts

Data Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 250 353
Rank change year-on-year +67 +103 -39
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation 431 411 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 0.95% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.10% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 285 277
10th Percentile £334 £313 £356
25th Percentile £400 £408 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £650
90th Percentile £628 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £26.94 £23.58 £15.61
25th Percentile £31.64 £26.62 £18.75
Median hourly rate £34.18 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% +31.58% -7.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.20 £52.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £24.43 £20.32
% change year-on-year +31.91% +20.23% -41.94%

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 26,635 37,480 53,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 86.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,166 36,804
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 2,447 1,751
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.28 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Visualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

Data Visualisation
Top 17 Contract 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 7 May 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 +70 375 £455 -9.00% 879
London +50 242 £490 -2.00% 534
Work from Home +23 154 £450 -10.00% 414
UK excluding London +60 143 £450 - 455
North of England +8 39 £453 -4.74% 123
South West +47 26 £442 -20.18% 36
East of England +43 20 £400 -7.03% 42
South East +36 20 £525 +7.69% 164
Midlands +26 19 £425 - 65
North West +10 17 £475 - 79
Scotland +5 16 £513 +7.33% 18
Yorkshire +7 15 £430 -15.27% 28
West Midlands +22 13 £425 -8.11% 37
North East +2 7 £525 +24.11% 18
East Midlands +12 6 £367 -8.25% 26
Wales - 3 £238 - 8
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 10

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 23 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.18%) SAS
4 12 (2.78%) Confluence
5 10 (2.32%) Apache
5 10 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.23%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 70 (16.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (3.02%) Oracle Smart View
3 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.39%) Adobe XD
5 6 (1.39%) Sketch
6 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) FastStats
3 1 (0.23%) FastStats PeopleStage
3 1 (0.23%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 219 (50.81%) Power Platform
2 97 (22.51%) Azure
3 93 (21.58%) AWS
4 40 (9.28%) GCP
5 36 (8.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (6.03%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.10%) Azure Machine Learning
7 22 (5.10%) Serverless
8 20 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.18%) OCI
10 17 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.48%) dbt
12 14 (3.25%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.55%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (2.55%) GitHub
14 11 (2.55%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.09%) AWS CodeCommit
15 9 (2.09%) Cloud9 IDE
15 9 (2.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.93%) DNS
2 3 (0.70%) DHCP
2 3 (0.70%) DOCSIS
2 3 (0.70%) Network Security
2 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.70%) Wireless
3 2 (0.46%) VLAN
4 1 (0.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (50.58%) Power BI
2 148 (34.34%) Tableau
3 81 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (6.96%) Relational Database
5 29 (6.73%) Data Lake
6 28 (6.50%) Big Data
7 27 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (6.03%) BigQuery
9 23 (5.34%) Oracle Reports
10 22 (5.10%) Metadata
11 21 (4.87%) Looker
12 20 (4.64%) Hadoop
12 20 (4.64%) SQL Server
13 19 (4.41%) Neo4j
14 18 (4.18%) Data Mining
15 16 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (3.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 14 (3.25%) NoSQL
18 12 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
19 11 (2.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (4.64%) JIRA
2 15 (3.48%) Git
3 6 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.93%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.70%) ERwin
6 3 (0.70%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.46%) Babel
7 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.46%) webpack
8 1 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Flyway
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Mockito
8 1 (0.23%) RStudio
8 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 146 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (25.75%) Finance
4 45 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 41 (9.51%) Banking
6 25 (5.80%) Marketing
7 21 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.02%) Retail
11 11 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.86%) Military
13 8 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.62%) Local Government
15 5 (1.16%) Police
16 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 120 (27.84%) Analyst
2 73 (16.94%) Data Analyst
3 70 (16.24%) Developer
4 46 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 45 (10.44%) Data Scientist
6 37 (8.58%) Senior
7 29 (6.73%) Architect
8 22 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 21 (4.87%) Lead
10 20 (4.64%) Consultant
11 19 (4.41%) Business Analyst
11 19 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 18 (4.18%) Power BI Developer
13 15 (3.48%) Data Manager
14 12 (2.78%) Report Analyst
15 11 (2.55%) Power Platform Developer
15 11 (2.55%) Report Writer
16 10 (2.32%) Insight Manager
17 9 (2.09%) Data Business Analyst
17 9 (2.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.21%) React
2 30 (6.96%) Plotly
3 22 (5.10%) Pandas
4 18 (4.18%) scikit-learn
5 17 (3.94%) NumPy
5 17 (3.94%) TensorFlow
6 15 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (2.78%) PyTorch
8 10 (2.32%) PySpark
8 10 (2.32%) REST
9 9 (2.09%) OpenCV
9 9 (2.09%) pydantic
9 9 (2.09%) SciPy
10 8 (1.86%) HTML
11 7 (1.62%) Akka
11 7 (1.62%) CSS
11 7 (1.62%) D3.js
11 7 (1.62%) Kafka
12 5 (1.16%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.16%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.18%) Algorithms
2 15 (3.48%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.86%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.16%) NHS
10 5 (1.16%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.93%) IoT
11 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.93%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.62%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 232 (53.83%) Business Intelligence
3 161 (37.35%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (35.27%) Analytics
5 125 (29.00%) Data Analysis
6 120 (27.84%) Data Modelling
7 112 (25.99%) Decision-Making
8 101 (23.43%) Data Science
9 86 (19.95%) Actionable Insight
10 79 (18.33%) Agile
11 78 (18.10%) ETL
12 73 (16.94%) Machine Learning
13 68 (15.78%) Data Governance
14 63 (14.62%) Data Integration
15 56 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (12.06%) Data Engineering
17 46 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 44 (10.21%) Data Management
19 43 (9.98%) Migration
20 42 (9.74%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 239 (55.45%) SQL
2 144 (33.41%) Python
3 38 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.35%) R
5 22 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (3.94%) Java
7 14 (3.25%) Scala
8 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.39%) VBA
12 5 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.93%) Go
14 3 (0.70%) C
14 3 (0.70%) C#
14 3 (0.70%) C++
14 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.46%) Bash
16 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 94 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.26%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.39%) Degree
4 21 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) PhD
7 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.93%) PMP
8 3 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.46%) ISACA
9 2 (0.46%) MBA
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CAPM
10 1 (0.23%) CSPO
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (19.26%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.18%) GDPR
4 13 (3.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (2.55%) QA
6 4 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.70%) WCAG
8 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.46%) EMIR
8 2 (0.46%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.48%) Terraform
2 8 (1.86%) Kibana
3 5 (1.16%) Grafana
4 3 (0.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.76%) Databricks
3 47 (10.90%) Oracle
4 30 (6.96%) Google
5 21 (4.87%) SAP
6 20 (4.64%) Adobe
7 7 (1.62%) Ab Initio
7 7 (1.62%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.62%) Teradata
8 6 (1.39%) Ariba
8 6 (1.39%) Informatica
8 6 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.16%) Talend
10 4 (0.93%) IBM
10 4 (0.93%) Splunk
11 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.46%) YouTube