Tableau Desktop Contract Job Trends in England

Tableau Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Tableau Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 482 554
Rank change year-on-year -75 +72 +130
Contract jobs citing Tableau Desktop 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.072% 0.041% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £326 £433 -
25th Percentile £414 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £518 £494 £525
90th Percentile £522 £498 -
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £455
% change year-on-year +2.63% +4.40% -9.00%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Tableau Desktop falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 4,827 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.32% 18.51% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,846 3,229 4,389
10th Percentile £337 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 81 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.59
25th Percentile £27.25 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.50 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.57% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.60 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.27% -10.33% -25.26%

Tableau Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tableau Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Tableau Desktop job vacancy trend in England

Tableau Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tableau Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tableau Desktop in England over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tableau Desktop in England

Tableau Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tableau Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tableau Desktop within the England region over the 6 months to 12 February 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -29 2 £384 -23.20%
London -35 2 £493 +9.44% 1
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UK

Tableau Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
2 3 (75.00%) Tableau Server
3 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Looker
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP