Data Visualisation Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Visualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Visualisation over the 3 months to 27 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.

Data Visualization UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	298	459	431
Rank change year-on-year	+161	-28
Contract jobs citing Data Visualisation	365	199	217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.77%	0.37%	0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.92%	0.44%	0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	226	139	117
Median daily rate	£500	£450	£430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+4.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£700	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£475	£375
% change year-on-year	-5.26%	+26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	5
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£49.00	£17.12
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-55.10%	+186.21%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£49.00	£15.00
% change year-on-year	-	+226.66%

Data 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 with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39792	44999	44543
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.45%	83.35%	80.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	25913	29844	28605
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1055	1094	1232
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.07%	+1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£54.00	£48.00	£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

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Visualisation over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Data Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Data Visualisation in the UK

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Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Visualisation within the UK over the 3 months to 27 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
England	+142	350	£500	+11.11%	92
London	+140	263	£500	+11.11%	53
City of London	+29	45	£575	+35.29%	10
South East	+19	29	£450	-	7
East Midlands	+5	14	£400	+20.75%
West Sussex	+25	11	£600	+20.00%
West Midlands	+23	11	£500	+25.00%	2
Worthing	-	11	£600	-
North East	+77	10	£368	-49.31%	2
Scotland	+43	10	£475	+11.76%	7
East of England	+2	9	£424	-8.43%	4
Yorkshire	+18	8	£475	-29.62%	10
Northamptonshire	-	8	£475	-
Tyne and Wear	+74	6	£358	-50.68%	2
Newcastle upon Tyne	+74	6	£358	-50.68%	2
Edinburgh	+27	6	£425	-	3
Sheffield	+4	6	£475	-34.48%	2
South Yorkshire	-2	6	£475	-34.48%	2
Surrey	+4	5	£380	-33.91%	1
Croydon	-2	5	£519	+16.57%
Hampshire	-	5	£550	-	1
Essex	-	5	£447	-
Stirling	-	4	£475	-	1
Berkshire	+20	3	£356	-8.06%
South West	-3	3	£325	-10.34%	5
West Bromwich	-	3	£500	-
East Sussex	-	3	£300	-
Westminster	-	3	£600	-
Southampton	-	3	£550	-
Brighton	-	3	£300	-

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Data Visualisation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Data Visualisation.

1	663 (100.00%)	Visualisation
2	254 (38.31%)	SQL
3	232 (34.99%)	Agile Software Development
4	228 (34.39%)	Analytics
5	212 (31.98%)	JavaScript
6	209 (31.52%)	Business Intelligence
7	178 (26.85%)	HTML
8	169 (25.49%)	CSS
9	163 (24.59%)	Finance
10	145 (21.87%)	User Experience
11	128 (19.31%)	Tableau
12	122 (18.40%)	Python
13	111 (16.74%)	R
14	103 (15.54%)	Data Modelling
15	101 (15.23%)	Analytical Skills

16	95 (14.33%)	Data Warehouse
17	92 (13.88%)	Git (software)
17	92 (13.88%)	Big Data
17	92 (13.88%)	Relational Database
18	91 (13.73%)	Scrum
19	88 (13.27%)	D3.js
20	86 (12.97%)	Web Development
21	82 (12.37%)	Power BI
22	80 (12.07%)	Microsoft
23	78 (11.76%)	Responsive Web Design
24	76 (11.46%)	Data Analysis
24	76 (11.46%)	QlikView
25	75 (11.31%)	Data Analytics
26	73 (11.01%)	Web Design
26	73 (11.01%)	Java

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Co-occurring IT Skills 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	54 (8.14%)	SAS
2	34 (5.13%)	Apache Spark
3	12 (1.81%)	JBoss
4	11 (1.66%)	WebLogic
5	10 (1.51%)	Drupal
6	9 (1.36%)	Confluence
7	7 (1.06%)	Apache Pig
8	5 (0.75%)	Apache
8	5 (0.75%)	SharePoint
9	4 (0.60%)	Apache Solr
10	3 (0.45%)	CMS
11	1 (0.15%)	Apache Qpid
11	1 (0.15%)	ExpressionEngine
11	1 (0.15%)	Jupyter
11	1 (0.15%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	1 (0.15%)	PowerExchange
11	1 (0.15%)	SharePoint 2013
11	1 (0.15%)	Skype for Business
11	1 (0.15%)	WildFly
11	1 (0.15%)	WordPress

Applications
1	59 (8.90%)	Microsoft Excel
2	39 (5.88%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	21 (3.17%)	Spreadsheet
3	21 (3.17%)	SPSS
4	20 (3.02%)	Photoshop
5	13 (1.96%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	13 (1.96%)	Microsoft Office
6	8 (1.21%)	OmniGraffle
7	7 (1.06%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
8	4 (0.60%)	InVision
9	3 (0.45%)	Microsoft Project
9	3 (0.45%)	UserZoom
10	2 (0.30%)	Flinto
10	2 (0.30%)	InDesign
10	2 (0.30%)	Stata
11	1 (0.15%)	3ds Max
11	1 (0.15%)	MS Visio
11	1 (0.15%)	Weka

Business Applications
1	18 (2.71%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.45%)	Oracle Applications
2	3 (0.45%)	SessionCam
3	2 (0.30%)	iTrent
3	2 (0.30%)	SAP MDG
3	2 (0.30%)	SAP MDM
3	2 (0.30%)	SAP R/3
4	1 (0.15%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
4	1 (0.15%)	Cognos Planning
4	1 (0.15%)	Cognos TM1
4	1 (0.15%)	Oracle BPM
4	1 (0.15%)	Oracle ERP

Cloud Services
1	36 (5.43%)	Microsoft Azure
2	24 (3.62%)	Google Analytics
3	15 (2.26%)	Amazon AWS
4	9 (1.36%)	GitHub
4	9 (1.36%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	4 (0.60%)	Amazon EC2
6	3 (0.45%)	Amazon S3
6	3 (0.45%)	Google Tag Manager
7	2 (0.30%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	2 (0.30%)	Azure Active Directory
8	1 (0.15%)	Adobe Analytics
8	1 (0.15%)	Flurry Analytics
8	1 (0.15%)	IaaS
8	1 (0.15%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	65 (9.80%)	HTTP
2	11 (1.66%)	LDAP
3	6 (0.90%)	Network Security
4	3 (0.45%)	MVNO
5	1 (0.15%)	Broadband
5	1 (0.15%)	Internet
5	1 (0.15%)	Skype
5	1 (0.15%)	snoop
5	1 (0.15%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	95 (14.33%)	Data Warehouse
2	92 (13.88%)	Big Data
2	92 (13.88%)	Relational Database
3	82 (12.37%)	Power BI
4	76 (11.46%)	QlikView
5	71 (10.71%)	Hadoop
6	58 (8.75%)	SQL Server
7	47 (7.09%)	BusinessObjects
8	41 (6.18%)	Qlik Sense
9	35 (5.28%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	32 (4.83%)	SQL Server Integration Services
11	25 (3.77%)	MongoDB
12	23 (3.47%)	MySQL
13	22 (3.32%)	Apache Hive
13	22 (3.32%)	Azure SQL Database
14	21 (3.17%)	Data Mining
14	21 (3.17%)	NoSQL
15	19 (2.87%)	Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16	18 (2.71%)	SAP BW
17	16 (2.41%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	92 (13.88%)	Git (software)
2	50 (7.54%)	JIRA
3	36 (5.43%)	Subversion
4	19 (2.87%)	Jenkins
5	16 (2.41%)	JUnit
6	15 (2.26%)	Talend Open Studio
7	14 (2.11%)	Grunt
8	13 (1.96%)	Axure RP
9	11 (1.66%)	Mockito
10	9 (1.36%)	Jasmine
11	7 (1.06%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12	6 (0.90%)	Mocha
13	5 (0.75%)	Visual Studio
14	4 (0.60%)	Balsamiq Mockups
14	4 (0.60%)	ERwin
14	4 (0.60%)	Selenium
14	4 (0.60%)	Team Foundation Server
15	3 (0.45%)	Karma Test Runner
15	3 (0.45%)	Protractor
16	2 (0.30%)	Bower

General
1	163 (24.59%)	Finance
2	63 (9.50%)	Marketing
3	51 (7.69%)	Retail
4	43 (6.49%)	Telecoms
5	34 (5.13%)	Banking
6	23 (3.47%)	Manufacturing
7	19 (2.87%)	Electronics
8	11 (1.66%)	Publishing
9	9 (1.36%)	Legal
10	7 (1.06%)	Advertising
11	6 (0.90%)	Investment Banking
12	5 (0.75%)	Back Office
13	4 (0.60%)	Games
13	4 (0.60%)	Pharmaceutical
14	3 (0.45%)	Front Office
14	3 (0.45%)	Retail Banking
15	1 (0.15%)	Financial Institution
15	1 (0.15%)	French Language
15	1 (0.15%)	German Language
15	1 (0.15%)	Military

Job Titles
1	273 (41.18%)	Developer
2	119 (17.95%)	Analyst
3	110 (16.59%)	Designer
4	61 (9.20%)	UX Designer
5	54 (8.14%)	Data Analyst
6	47 (7.09%)	JavaScript Developer
7	45 (6.79%)	Business Intelligence Developer
8	43 (6.49%)	UI Designer
9	40 (6.03%)	Angular Developer
10	36 (5.43%)	Data Scientist
11	35 (5.28%)	Architect
11	35 (5.28%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12	34 (5.13%)	UI Developer
13	32 (4.83%)	Consultant
13	32 (4.83%)	Senior Designer
14	30 (4.52%)	Business Analyst
14	30 (4.52%)	Java Developer
14	30 (4.52%)	Scala Developer
14	30 (4.52%)	Visual Designer
15	28 (4.22%)	Senior UX Designer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	178 (26.85%)	HTML
2	169 (25.49%)	CSS
3	88 (13.27%)	D3.js
4	61 (9.20%)	HTML5
5	60 (9.05%)	AngularJS
6	40 (6.03%)	CSS3
7	30 (4.52%)	React
7	30 (4.52%)	RESTful
8	27 (4.07%)	jQuery
8	27 (4.07%)	Node.js
9	25 (3.77%)	JSON
10	23 (3.47%)	Twitter Bootstrap
11	22 (3.32%)	Highcharts JS
12	20 (3.02%)	REST
12	20 (3.02%)	Web Services
13	19 (2.87%)	Material Design
14	18 (2.71%)	XML
15	17 (2.56%)	Angular 2
16	15 (2.26%)	Redux
17	13 (1.96%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	145 (21.87%)	User Experience
2	101 (15.23%)	Analytical Skills
3	33 (4.98%)	Algorithms
4	31 (4.68%)	Fintech
5	27 (4.07%)	Management Information System
6	25 (3.77%)	Data Structures
7	22 (3.32%)	Enterprise Software
8	20 (3.02%)	Computer Science
8	20 (3.02%)	Private Cloud
9	14 (2.11%)	Mobile App
10	11 (1.66%)	Greenfield Project
11	10 (1.51%)	Hedge funds
12	9 (1.36%)	W3C
13	8 (1.21%)	Data Protection Act
13	8 (1.21%)	Equities
13	8 (1.21%)	Fixed Income
13	8 (1.21%)	Graphic Design
13	8 (1.21%)	NHS
14	7 (1.06%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
15	6 (0.90%)	Cyberthreat

Operating Systems
1	58 (8.75%)	Linux
2	55 (8.30%)	Unix
3	51 (7.69%)	Mac OS X
4	5 (0.75%)	Apple iOS
5	4 (0.60%)	Android
6	1 (0.15%)	CentOS
6	1 (0.15%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	1 (0.15%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	663 (100.00%)	Visualisation
2	232 (34.99%)	Agile Software Development
3	228 (34.39%)	Analytics
4	209 (31.52%)	Business Intelligence
5	103 (15.54%)	Data Modelling
6	91 (13.73%)	Scrum
7	86 (12.97%)	Web Development
8	78 (11.76%)	Responsive Web Design
9	76 (11.46%)	Data Analysis
10	75 (11.31%)	Data Analytics
11	73 (11.01%)	Web Design
12	71 (10.71%)	ETL
13	67 (10.11%)	Configuration Management
14	66 (9.95%)	Machine Learning
15	58 (8.75%)	Stakeholder Management
15	58 (8.75%)	Wireframes
16	56 (8.45%)	TDD
17	42 (6.33%)	Dashboard Development
18	41 (6.18%)	Kanban
18	41 (6.18%)	Statistics

Programming Languages
1	254 (38.31%)	SQL
2	212 (31.98%)	JavaScript
3	122 (18.40%)	Python
4	111 (16.74%)	R
5	73 (11.01%)	Java
6	45 (6.79%)	Scala
7	34 (5.13%)	Ruby
8	30 (4.52%)	VBA
9	23 (3.47%)	ES6
10	18 (2.71%)	PL/SQL
10	18 (2.71%)	T-SQL
11	17 (2.56%)	PHP
12	13 (1.96%)	TypeScript
13	10 (1.51%)	MATLAB
14	8 (1.21%)	C#
15	6 (0.90%)	Groovy
16	4 (0.60%)	Perl
17	3 (0.45%)	C++
18	2 (0.30%)	ABAP
18	2 (0.30%)	C

Qualifications
1	59 (8.90%)	Degree
2	48 (7.24%)	Security Cleared
3	29 (4.37%)	SC Cleared
4	10 (1.51%)	BC Cleared
4	10 (1.51%)	BPSS Clearance
5	9 (1.36%)	CCA
6	5 (0.75%)	Computer Science Degree
6	5 (0.75%)	PhD
6	5 (0.75%)	Postgraduate
7	4 (0.60%)	CTC Cleared
7	4 (0.60%)	DV Cleared
8	2 (0.30%)	Numerate Degree
9	1 (0.15%)	MBA
9	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (3.47%)	Data Quality
2	12 (1.81%)	QA
3	9 (1.36%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	8 (1.21%)	WCAG
5	4 (0.60%)	Actionable Recommendations
6	2 (0.30%)	IFRS
6	2 (0.30%)	IFRS 9
6	2 (0.30%)	PMO

System Software
1	4 (0.60%)	Apache Flume
1	4 (0.60%)	HDFS
2	3 (0.45%)	Active Directory
3	1 (0.15%)	Docker

Systems Management
1	7 (1.06%)	Puppet
2	6 (0.90%)	Kibana
3	1 (0.15%)	Hadoop YARN
3	1 (0.15%)	Kubernetes
3	1 (0.15%)	Mesos
3	1 (0.15%)	Oozie

Vendors
1	128 (19.31%)	Tableau
2	80 (12.07%)	Microsoft
3	55 (8.30%)	Adobe
4	53 (7.99%)	SAP
5	50 (7.54%)	Oracle
6	31 (4.68%)	Google
7	17 (2.56%)	Teradata
8	16 (2.41%)	Greenplum
9	15 (2.26%)	Talend
10	14 (2.11%)	Alteryx
11	11 (1.66%)	Informatica
12	10 (1.51%)	MicroStrategy
13	9 (1.36%)	MapR
13	9 (1.36%)	SnapLogic
14	7 (1.06%)	Cognos
15	4 (0.60%)	IBM
16	3 (0.45%)	ClickTale
16	3 (0.45%)	Minitab
16	3 (0.45%)	Salesforce.com
16	3 (0.45%)	Twitter