Visualisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Visualization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 74 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +63
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 29 37 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.16% 1.90% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.26% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 53
10th Percentile £352 £235 £350
25th Percentile £381 £353 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +2.50% +12.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £540
90th Percentile £638 £575 £615
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visualisation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Visualisation in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visualisation in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +17 15 £425 +13.33% 30
Coventry - 5 £388 - 9
Warwickshire +1 2 £725 +39.76% 9
Worcestershire -4 2 £575 +4.55% 7
Shropshire - 2 £444 - 8
Solihull +18 1 £575 +238.24% 2
Staffordshire - 1 - - 29
Visualisation
England

Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
1 3 (10.34%) R Markdown
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) Power BI
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (10.34%) Power Query
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.45%) Metadata
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) JMeter
1 3 (10.34%) Postman
1 3 (10.34%) REST Assured
1 3 (10.34%) Selenium
1 3 (10.34%) TestNG
1 3 (10.34%) Travis CI
2 1 (3.45%) Ant
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.45%) ERwin
2 1 (3.45%) Gradle
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Games
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Business Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Data Modeller
7 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Programme Manager
7 1 (3.45%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
7 1 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Shiny
2 2 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) J2EE
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (44.83%) Data Visualisation
3 10 (34.48%) Decision-Making
3 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Analytics
4 9 (31.03%) Data Analysis
4 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
5 8 (27.59%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (20.69%) Data Collection
7 6 (20.69%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (20.69%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.24%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (13.79%) Data Extraction
9 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
9 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (13.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (17.24%) R
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) CEH
3 3 (10.34%) CISSP
3 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kibana
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Sybase