Visualisation Contracts

Visualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Visualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visualisation over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 158 157
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 722 938 1,566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.67% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.86% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 575 1,012
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £471
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.85% +10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 54 65
10th Percentile £20.58 £25.50 £19.61
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +43.82% +27.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.63 £78.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year - +45.02% +121.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Visualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,713 50,320 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 89.67% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,845 55,748
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,670 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +43.19% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

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 Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 2024. 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 +3 614 £493 -4.73% 561
London +10 341 £500 -11.11% 274
UK excluding London +14 295 £450 -5.26% 297
Work from Home +37 253 £475 -5.00% 231
North of England +16 76 £453 -2.16% 83
Midlands +10 53 £425 -11.46% 49
South East +4 50 £450 -7.69% 71
Scotland +33 44 £440 -7.37% 25
West Midlands +9 43 £488 +5.41% 31
North West +4 39 £475 +5.56% 54
South West -31 36 £525 +10.53% 35
East of England -1 30 £450 -2.70% 32
Yorkshire +16 28 £450 -10.00% 20
North East +19 11 £411 -0.48% 10
East Midlands +17 9 £370 -38.33% 18
Wales +23 5 £160 - 6
Northern Ireland +7 4 £400 -8.57% 6

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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 17 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.94%) SAS
4 12 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.25%) Apache
6 7 (0.97%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 64 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.35%) Sketch
4 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.97%) Simulink
6 7 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.83%) SPSS
8 5 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.42%) InVision
10 2 (0.28%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.28%) Trello
11 1 (0.14%) Maya
11 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.55%) MIS ActiveH
2 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.28%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 298 (41.27%) Power Platform
2 160 (22.16%) Azure
3 62 (8.59%) AWS
4 38 (5.26%) GCP
5 35 (4.85%) Power Automate
6 31 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (4.29%) PowerApps
7 23 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 22 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (3.05%) Figma
8 22 (3.05%) Google Analytics
9 17 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (1.94%) GitHub
12 12 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.52%) Google Data Studio
13 11 (1.52%) SaaS
14 10 (1.39%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.39%) OCI
15 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.66%) DNS
3 11 (1.52%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.11%) DHCP
5 7 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (0.69%) 2G
6 5 (0.69%) 3G
6 5 (0.69%) 4G
6 5 (0.69%) 5G
7 3 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.42%) Firewall
7 3 (0.42%) SNMP
7 3 (0.42%) Wireless
8 2 (0.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.28%) Modbus
8 2 (0.28%) MQTT
8 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) XCAP
9 1 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (41.14%) Power BI
2 163 (22.58%) Tableau
3 98 (13.57%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (8.86%) SQL Server
5 43 (5.96%) Data Lake
6 36 (4.99%) Data Mining
7 34 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 33 (4.57%) Big Data
9 26 (3.60%) Power Query
10 24 (3.32%) Metadata
10 24 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (3.19%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.91%) Looker
13 20 (2.77%) Qlik Sense
14 19 (2.63%) Hadoop
15 17 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.80%) GIS
17 13 (1.80%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (5.82%) JIRA
2 32 (4.43%) Git
3 16 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.83%) GitLab
6 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.69%) RStudio
8 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.42%) ERwin
9 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.28%) Maven
10 2 (0.28%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.14%) Storybook
11 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 228 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 214 (29.64%) Analytical Skills
3 171 (23.68%) Finance
4 60 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.34%) Banking
6 41 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.71%) Marketing
8 25 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (3.19%) Retail
10 19 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.94%) Front Office
11 14 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.80%) Military
13 10 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Legal
13 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.11%) Advertising
14 8 (1.11%) Local Government
15 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (28.95%) Analyst
2 137 (18.98%) Data Analyst
3 136 (18.84%) Developer
4 78 (10.80%) Senior
5 63 (8.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 54 (7.48%) Power BI Developer
7 50 (6.93%) Data Scientist
8 48 (6.65%) Data Engineer
9 42 (5.82%) Senior Analyst
10 41 (5.68%) Architect
11 34 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 30 (4.16%) Designer
13 26 (3.60%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.60%) Consultant
13 26 (3.60%) Senior Data Analyst
14 23 (3.19%) Software Engineer
15 22 (3.05%) Lead
16 16 (2.22%) C++ Software Engineer
16 16 (2.22%) Data Architect
16 16 (2.22%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.29%) React
2 26 (3.60%) HTML
3 24 (3.32%) CSS
4 22 (3.05%) PySpark
5 19 (2.63%) Node.js
6 18 (2.49%) Web Services
7 17 (2.35%) .NET
7 17 (2.35%) Pandas
8 13 (1.80%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.80%) RESTful
8 13 (1.80%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.66%) D3.js
10 11 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (1.39%) JSON
11 10 (1.39%) NumPy
12 7 (0.97%) CSS3
12 7 (0.97%) Flask
13 6 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.83%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.83%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 30 (4.16%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 18 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.11%) IoT
7 8 (1.11%) Social Media
8 7 (0.97%) NHS
9 6 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.69%) Derivative
10 5 (0.69%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.55%) Biopharmaceutical
11 4 (0.55%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.55%) Equities
11 4 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.55%) Life Science
11 4 (0.55%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.93%) Linux
2 40 (5.54%) Windows
3 14 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.80%) Unix
5 12 (1.66%) Android
6 10 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (56.93%) Data Visualisation
2 321 (44.46%) Business Intelligence
3 243 (33.66%) Analytics
4 197 (27.29%) Data Analysis
5 186 (25.76%) Data Modelling
6 167 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (22.85%) Agile
8 127 (17.59%) Decision-Making
9 121 (16.76%) ETL
10 104 (14.40%) Data Science
11 87 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
12 80 (11.08%) Data Governance
13 70 (9.70%) Data Analytics
13 70 (9.70%) Machine Learning
14 68 (9.42%) Data Management
15 65 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (8.86%) Computer Science
17 60 (8.31%) DevOps
18 56 (7.76%) Data Engineering
19 55 (7.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 296 (41.00%) SQL
2 226 (31.30%) Python
3 49 (6.79%) R
4 44 (6.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.85%) C#
7 27 (3.74%) Java
8 18 (2.49%) C++
9 15 (2.08%) MATLAB
10 14 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.80%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.39%) Scala
13 9 (1.25%) C
13 9 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Bash
15 4 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) VBA
17 1 (0.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 99 (13.71%) Degree
2 93 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 81 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (0.83%) PhD
9 6 (0.83%) Postgraduate
10 5 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) CBAP
12 1 (0.14%) CSPO
12 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) IIBA
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (14.54%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.88%) QA
3 10 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (1.39%) GDPR
4 9 (1.25%) NIST
4 9 (1.25%) PMO
5 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.42%) GxP
6 3 (0.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.49%) Docker
2 15 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.11%) iptables
5 7 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.66%) Kibana
3 11 (1.52%) logstash
3 11 (1.52%) SCCM
4 7 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.97%) vCenter Server
5 6 (0.83%) Ansible
6 5 (0.69%) Terraform
7 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.14%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) QRadar
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.82%) Google
3 38 (5.26%) Databricks
3 38 (5.26%) Oracle
4 28 (3.88%) SAP
5 26 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.46%) Alteryx
7 13 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.80%) Splunk
8 12 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.25%) Adobe
9 9 (1.25%) VMware
10 8 (1.11%) Veeam
11 7 (0.97%) Informatica
12 6 (0.83%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.83%) Foundry
12 6 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.83%) Palantir
12 6 (0.83%) Trillium
13 5 (0.69%) Brandwatch