Visualisation Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Visualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visualisation over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Visualisation UK / England
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	182	299	291
Rank change year-on-year	+117	-8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation	579	379	388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.36%	0.78%	0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.61%	0.93%	0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	376	241	228
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£300	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£606	£675	£650
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£450	£414
% change year-on-year	-5.55%	+8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	8	7
Median hourly rate	£33.50	£21.93	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+52.77%	+9.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£24.30	£15.18	£15.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.70	£40.60	£57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£21.36	£57.75
% change year-on-year	-	-63.02%

Visualisation is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	36004	40667	41211
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.73%	83.47%	80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	23651	27315	26961
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+8.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	936	954	1137
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.53	£12.58	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£49.46	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Visualisation as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Visualisation in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Visualisation in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Visualisation in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Visualisation in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Visualisation in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Visualisation in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in England

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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 Visualisation within the England region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+123	409	£500	+11.11%	101
South East	+37	63	£413	-9.34%	22
East Midlands	+10	28	£400	+25.49%	5
West Midlands	+26	24	£490	+22.50%	8
East of England	-2	13	£411	-11.61%	10
North East	+60	11	£360	-4.00%	3
North West	+5	11	£406	-18.75%	17
Yorkshire	-1	9	£475	+5.55%	9
South West	-5	8	£350	-3.44%	9
Midlands	+13	2	-	-	13
Visualisation UK

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Visualisation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Visualisation.

1	635 (58.85%)	Data Visualisation
2	368 (34.11%)	SQL
3	330 (30.58%)	Analytics
4	316 (29.29%)	Agile Software Development
5	293 (27.15%)	Business Intelligence
6	271 (25.12%)	JavaScript
7	254 (23.54%)	Finance
8	231 (21.41%)	Tableau
9	221 (20.48%)	Python
10	212 (19.65%)	HTML
11	189 (17.52%)	CSS
12	181 (16.77%)	User Experience
13	159 (14.74%)	Big Data
14	158 (14.64%)	Analytical Skills
15	150 (13.90%)	R

16	146 (13.53%)	Data Modelling
17	135 (12.51%)	Java
18	133 (12.33%)	Data Warehouse
19	132 (12.23%)	Microsoft
20	130 (12.05%)	D3.js
21	122 (11.31%)	SQL Server
21	122 (11.31%)	Scrum
22	117 (10.84%)	Power BI
23	116 (10.75%)	Data Analysis
24	114 (10.57%)	QlikView
25	113 (10.47%)	Hadoop
26	112 (10.38%)	Data Analytics
27	111 (10.29%)	Degree
28	107 (9.92%)	Relational Database
29	105 (9.73%)	ETL

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	72 (6.67%)	SAS
2	66 (6.12%)	Apache Spark
3	23 (2.13%)	Apache
4	18 (1.67%)	Apache Pig
5	15 (1.39%)	CMS
6	12 (1.11%)	Confluence
6	12 (1.11%)	Drupal
6	12 (1.11%)	Elasticsearch
7	10 (0.93%)	JBoss
7	10 (0.93%)	SharePoint
7	10 (0.93%)	Sitecore CMS
8	9 (0.83%)	WebLogic
9	6 (0.56%)	SharePoint 2013
9	6 (0.56%)	Skype for Business
10	5 (0.46%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	5 (0.46%)	Exchange Server 2013
10	5 (0.46%)	MS Exchange
10	5 (0.46%)	Office Communications Server
10	5 (0.46%)	SharePoint 2010
10	5 (0.46%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	81 (7.51%)	Microsoft Excel
2	39 (3.61%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	27 (2.50%)	SPSS
4	25 (2.32%)	Spreadsheet
5	23 (2.13%)	Photoshop
6	20 (1.85%)	Microsoft Office
7	15 (1.39%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	9 (0.83%)	AutoCAD
9	8 (0.74%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
9	8 (0.74%)	OmniGraffle
10	6 (0.56%)	Microsoft Project
11	4 (0.37%)	InVision
12	3 (0.28%)	3ds Max
13	2 (0.19%)	Flinto
13	2 (0.19%)	InDesign
13	2 (0.19%)	Stata
14	1 (0.093%)	Adobe After Effects
14	1 (0.093%)	Adobe Premiere
14	1 (0.093%)	FreeHand
14	1 (0.093%)	Maya

Business Applications
1	18 (1.67%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.28%)	Dynamics AX
2	3 (0.28%)	HFM
2	3 (0.28%)	iTrent
2	3 (0.28%)	Oracle Applications
3	2 (0.19%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
3	2 (0.19%)	Oracle BPM
3	2 (0.19%)	SAP MDG
3	2 (0.19%)	SAP MDM
3	2 (0.19%)	SAP R/3
4	1 (0.093%)	Cognos Planning
4	1 (0.093%)	Cognos TM1
4	1 (0.093%)	Dynamics NAV
4	1 (0.093%)	FastStats
4	1 (0.093%)	NetSuite
4	1 (0.093%)	Oracle ERP
4	1 (0.093%)	SAP BPC

Cloud Services
1	58 (5.38%)	Microsoft Azure
2	30 (2.78%)	Amazon AWS
3	27 (2.50%)	Google Analytics
4	18 (1.67%)	GitHub
5	17 (1.58%)	Office 365
6	10 (0.93%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	8 (0.74%)	Amazon EC2
8	7 (0.65%)	SaaS
9	4 (0.37%)	Amazon S3
9	4 (0.37%)	IaaS
10	3 (0.28%)	Amazon ElastiCache
10	3 (0.28%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	2 (0.19%)	Adobe Analytics
11	2 (0.19%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
11	2 (0.19%)	Azure Active Directory
12	1 (0.093%)	AWS Lambda
12	1 (0.093%)	Azure Data Factory
12	1 (0.093%)	Cortana Intelligence Suite
12	1 (0.093%)	Flurry Analytics
12	1 (0.093%)	IBM Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	71 (6.58%)	HTTP
2	9 (0.83%)	LDAP
3	7 (0.65%)	Network Security
4	6 (0.56%)	Skype
5	5 (0.46%)	DHCP
5	5 (0.46%)	DNS
6	3 (0.28%)	Firewall
6	3 (0.28%)	Internet
6	3 (0.28%)	MVNO
7	2 (0.19%)	DSL
7	2 (0.19%)	FTP
7	2 (0.19%)	Peer-to-Peer Networking
7	2 (0.19%)	SAN
8	1 (0.093%)	Broadband
8	1 (0.093%)	LAN
8	1 (0.093%)	MPLS
8	1 (0.093%)	TCP/IP
8	1 (0.093%)	VPN
8	1 (0.093%)	WAN
8	1 (0.093%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	159 (14.74%)	Big Data
2	133 (12.33%)	Data Warehouse
3	122 (11.31%)	SQL Server
4	117 (10.84%)	Power BI
5	114 (10.57%)	QlikView
6	113 (10.47%)	Hadoop
7	107 (9.92%)	Relational Database
8	54 (5.00%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	54 (5.00%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
9	52 (4.82%)	BusinessObjects
10	47 (4.36%)	Qlik Sense
11	41 (3.80%)	Apache Hive
11	41 (3.80%)	NoSQL
12	33 (3.06%)	Data Mining
13	32 (2.97%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	27 (2.50%)	MongoDB
15	25 (2.32%)	MySQL
16	23 (2.13%)	Azure SQL Database
17	22 (2.04%)	Apache Cassandra
17	22 (2.04%)	Spotfire

Development Applications
1	101 (9.36%)	Git (software)
2	57 (5.28%)	JIRA
3	38 (3.52%)	Subversion
4	19 (1.76%)	Talend Open Studio
5	18 (1.67%)	Jenkins
6	16 (1.48%)	JUnit
7	14 (1.30%)	Axure RP
7	14 (1.30%)	Grunt
8	13 (1.20%)	Team Foundation Server
9	12 (1.11%)	Selenium
10	10 (0.93%)	Bitbucket
11	9 (0.83%)	Ant
11	9 (0.83%)	Jasmine
11	9 (0.83%)	Mockito
11	9 (0.83%)	WebDriver
12	8 (0.74%)	Apache Ivy
12	8 (0.74%)	Gradle
12	8 (0.74%)	JMeter
12	8 (0.74%)	Maven
12	8 (0.74%)	Mocha

General
1	254 (23.54%)	Finance
2	77 (7.14%)	Marketing
3	73 (6.77%)	Banking
4	63 (5.84%)	Retail
5	56 (5.19%)	Telecoms
6	32 (2.97%)	Front Office
6	32 (2.97%)	Manufacturing
7	19 (1.76%)	Electronics
8	14 (1.30%)	Investment Banking
8	14 (1.30%)	Publishing
9	11 (1.02%)	Legal
10	9 (0.83%)	Games
11	8 (0.74%)	Retail Banking
12	7 (0.65%)	Financial Institution
13	5 (0.46%)	Advertising
13	5 (0.46%)	Back Office
14	4 (0.37%)	Military
14	4 (0.37%)	Pharmaceutical
15	3 (0.28%)	Automotive
15	3 (0.28%)	Corporate Banking

Job Titles
1	449 (41.61%)	Developer
2	160 (14.83%)	Analyst
3	122 (11.31%)	Designer
4	91 (8.43%)	Consultant
5	76 (7.04%)	Data Analyst
6	62 (5.75%)	Business Intelligence Developer
6	62 (5.75%)	UX Designer
7	59 (5.47%)	Data Scientist
8	58 (5.38%)	JavaScript Developer
9	48 (4.45%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10	47 (4.36%)	Architect
11	45 (4.17%)	Angular Developer
12	42 (3.89%)	UI Designer
13	41 (3.80%)	Business Analyst
14	40 (3.71%)	UI Developer
15	39 (3.61%)	Java Developer
15	39 (3.61%)	Senior Developer
16	36 (3.34%)	Tableau Developer
17	34 (3.15%)	Python Developer
18	32 (2.97%)	SQL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	212 (19.65%)	HTML
2	189 (17.52%)	CSS
3	130 (12.05%)	D3.js
4	89 (8.25%)	AngularJS
5	83 (7.69%)	HTML5
6	52 (4.82%)	React
7	46 (4.26%)	CSS3
8	44 (4.08%)	Node.js
9	42 (3.89%)	RESTful
10	39 (3.61%)	jQuery
10	39 (3.61%)	JSON
11	37 (3.43%)	XML
12	33 (3.06%)	.NET
13	30 (2.78%)	REST
14	29 (2.69%)	Kafka
15	28 (2.59%)	Highcharts JS
16	26 (2.41%)	Web Services
17	25 (2.32%)	Angular 2
18	23 (2.13%)	Redux
18	23 (2.13%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	181 (16.77%)	User Experience
2	158 (14.64%)	Analytical Skills
3	56 (5.19%)	Algorithms
4	53 (4.91%)	Computer Science
5	34 (3.15%)	Data Structures
5	34 (3.15%)	Fintech
6	32 (2.97%)	Management Information System
7	29 (2.69%)	Greenfield Project
8	21 (1.95%)	Private Cloud
9	19 (1.76%)	Enterprise Software
10	16 (1.48%)	Fixed Income
11	15 (1.39%)	Graphic Design
12	14 (1.30%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	14 (1.30%)	Hedge funds
12	14 (1.30%)	Mobile App
13	11 (1.02%)	Derivative
13	11 (1.02%)	Equities
14	9 (0.83%)	CMDB
14	9 (0.83%)	NHS
14	9 (0.83%)	W3C

Operating Systems
1	89 (8.25%)	Linux
2	66 (6.12%)	Unix
3	48 (4.45%)	Mac OS X
4	15 (1.39%)	Windows
5	10 (0.93%)	Apple iOS
6	9 (0.83%)	Android
7	6 (0.56%)	Windows Server 2008
8	5 (0.46%)	Windows Server
8	5 (0.46%)	Windows Server 2003
9	1 (0.093%)	AIX
9	1 (0.093%)	CentOS
9	1 (0.093%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	1 (0.093%)	Solaris
9	1 (0.093%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	635 (58.85%)	Data Visualisation
2	330 (30.58%)	Analytics
3	316 (29.29%)	Agile Software Development
4	293 (27.15%)	Business Intelligence
5	146 (13.53%)	Data Modelling
6	122 (11.31%)	Scrum
7	116 (10.75%)	Data Analysis
8	112 (10.38%)	Data Analytics
9	105 (9.73%)	ETL
10	99 (9.18%)	Web Development
11	88 (8.16%)	Machine Learning
12	84 (7.78%)	Stakeholder Management
13	82 (7.60%)	TDD
14	81 (7.51%)	Responsive Web Design
15	79 (7.32%)	Dashboard Development
16	77 (7.14%)	Web Design
17	71 (6.58%)	Configuration Management
18	63 (5.84%)	Wireframes
19	58 (5.38%)	Data Management
19	58 (5.38%)	Statistics

Programming Languages
1	368 (34.11%)	SQL
2	271 (25.12%)	JavaScript
3	221 (20.48%)	Python
4	150 (13.90%)	R
5	135 (12.51%)	Java
6	67 (6.21%)	Scala
7	52 (4.82%)	Ruby
8	40 (3.71%)	C#
9	39 (3.61%)	VBA
10	33 (3.06%)	T-SQL
11	30 (2.78%)	C++
12	26 (2.41%)	ES6
13	22 (2.04%)	PL/SQL
14	20 (1.85%)	TypeScript
15	19 (1.76%)	PHP
16	15 (1.39%)	Groovy
17	13 (1.20%)	MATLAB
18	11 (1.02%)	Perl
19	10 (0.93%)	Go
20	9 (0.83%)	PowerShell

Qualifications
1	111 (10.29%)	Degree
2	77 (7.14%)	Security Cleared
3	52 (4.82%)	SC Cleared
4	20 (1.85%)	Computer Science Degree
5	12 (1.11%)	PhD
6	11 (1.02%)	BPSS Clearance
7	10 (0.93%)	BC Cleared
7	10 (0.93%)	Numerate Degree
8	9 (0.83%)	CCA
8	9 (0.83%)	Master's Degree
9	8 (0.74%)	DV Cleared
10	6 (0.56%)	Postgraduate
11	5 (0.46%)	MCSE
11	5 (0.46%)	Microsoft Certification
12	4 (0.37%)	CCNA
12	4 (0.37%)	Cisco Certification
12	4 (0.37%)	CTC Cleared
13	3 (0.28%)	CCNP
14	1 (0.093%)	Oracle Certification
14	1 (0.093%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	50 (4.63%)	Data Quality
2	16 (1.48%)	QA
3	9 (0.83%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	8 (0.74%)	WCAG
5	5 (0.46%)	PMO
6	4 (0.37%)	Actionable Recommendations
7	2 (0.19%)	IFRS
7	2 (0.19%)	IFRS 9
8	1 (0.093%)	ISO/IEC 15288
8	1 (0.093%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	11 (1.02%)	Docker
2	9 (0.83%)	Active Directory
3	7 (0.65%)	HDFS
4	6 (0.56%)	Hyper-V
5	5 (0.46%)	Apache Flume
6	3 (0.28%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	2 (0.19%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	1 (0.093%)	KVM
8	1 (0.093%)	Virtual Machines
8	1 (0.093%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.093%)	Xen
8	1 (0.093%)	XenApp
8	1 (0.093%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	21 (1.95%)	Kibana
2	12 (1.11%)	Grafana
2	12 (1.11%)	logstash
2	12 (1.11%)	Puppet
3	6 (0.56%)	Ansible
4	5 (0.46%)	Opscode Chef
5	4 (0.37%)	Kubernetes
6	3 (0.28%)	Graphite
6	3 (0.28%)	HP Fortify
6	3 (0.28%)	StatsD
7	2 (0.19%)	Hadoop YARN
7	2 (0.19%)	Oozie
8	1 (0.093%)	Ambari
8	1 (0.093%)	Cisco Prime
8	1 (0.093%)	Mesos
8	1 (0.093%)	Rundeck
8	1 (0.093%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	231 (21.41%)	Tableau
2	132 (12.23%)	Microsoft
3	70 (6.49%)	Oracle
4	61 (5.65%)	SAP
5	58 (5.38%)	Adobe
6	35 (3.24%)	Google
7	28 (2.59%)	Splunk
8	23 (2.13%)	Teradata
9	19 (1.76%)	Talend
10	18 (1.67%)	Greenplum
11	17 (1.58%)	MicroStrategy
12	16 (1.48%)	Cognos
13	14 (1.30%)	Alteryx
14	13 (1.20%)	IBM
15	11 (1.02%)	Cisco
15	11 (1.02%)	Salesforce.com
16	10 (0.93%)	MapR
16	10 (0.93%)	Sitecore
16	10 (0.93%)	SnapLogic
17	9 (0.83%)	AppDynamics