Visualisation Contract Job Trends

Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 100 107
Rank change year-on-year -109 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 766 902 802
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.63% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.91% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 568 474
10th Percentile £313 £324 £322
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £702 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 50 49
10th Percentile £24.25 £18.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £30.75
Median hourly rate £44.31 £50.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -17.36% +31.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% - +40.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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 citing process or methodology skills.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills 46,644 30,975 31,502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 85.60% 90.24% 86.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,946 19,344 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £299 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,656 2,001 1,124
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.46 £17.33 £20.09
Median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £36.08
Median % change year-on-year +38.91% -30.30% -17.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.00% -35.71% -19.22%

Visualisation Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Visualisation Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation

Visualisation Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation

Visualisation Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

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 Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -101 664 £475 - 205
UK excluding London -96 358 £465 -2.11% 175
London -87 327 £500 - 73
Work from Home -67 245 £500 +5.26% 82
North of England -86 97 £438 +3.06% 44
Midlands -39 91 £540 +5.06% 24
West Midlands -28 75 £549 +4.57% 15
South East -60 65 £400 -20.00% 52
North West -31 49 £450 +11.11% 27
South West -19 47 £475 -36.67% 24
Yorkshire -70 37 £500 +11.11% 11
Scotland -37 32 £420 -13.85% 10
East of England -35 29 £515 - 15
East Midlands -3 16 £362 -10.49% 9
North East -26 12 £350 -17.65% 6
Wales -12 3 £356 +95.21% 5
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 4

Visualisation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Business Intelligence53.8%412
2Data Visualisation48.7%373
3Analytics48.3%370
4Data Modelling29.2%224
5Decision-Making29.0%222
6Agile26.6%204
7Stakeholder Management22.8%175
8AI22.7%174
9Data Analysis21.7%166
9Problem-Solving21.7%166
11Actionable Insight19.6%150
12Continuous Improvement17.4%133
13Dashboard Development17.2%132
14Validation16.8%129
15Stakeholder Engagement15.8%121
16Data Engineering14.9%114
16Data Governance14.9%114
18Data Science14.2%109
19Data Pipeline14.0%107
20ETL13.2%101