Tableau Contracts

Tableau
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Tableau skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tableau over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 220 277
Rank change year-on-year +12 +57 +18
Contract jobs citing Tableau 392 474 519
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 1.09% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.91% 6.25% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 328 380
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -7.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 10
10th Percentile £21.70 £38.75 £15.19
25th Percentile £27.79 £41.25 £19.56
Median hourly rate £33.88 £43.75 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.56% +106.32% -22.89%
75th Percentile £41.00 £48.44 £48.55
90th Percentile £41.15 £51.88 £54.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - £21.05
% change year-on-year - - -12.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Tableau 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,676 7,581 9,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.30% 17.47% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 5,413 6,755
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 150 170
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.82 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.76% +45.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tableau over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Tableau over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
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 Tableau within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England 0 352 £500 +4.17% 2,459
London +2 211 £500 - 1,650
UK excluding London +22 151 £500 +5.26% 956
Work from Home -11 97 £450 -10.00% 804
North of England +11 52 £450 - 280
South East +20 27 £525 +10.53% 250
Midlands +14 26 £436 -12.80% 162
North West +9 26 £550 +21.55% 149
Yorkshire -2 22 £410 -8.89% 111
East of England +37 20 £550 +10.00% 77
West Midlands +15 16 £300 -40.00% 105
Scotland -4 12 £505 -7.13% 44
East Midlands +6 10 £447 -14.86% 57
Northern Ireland -6 7 £575 +43.75% 25
South West +21 6 £431 -19.77% 98
North East - 4 £450 - 21
Wales - 1 - - 30

Tableau
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 31 (7.91%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.55%) Confluence
5 8 (2.04%) IBM Domino
6 7 (1.79%) SAS
7 6 (1.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.77%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.51%) IIS
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 89 (22.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.81%) Oracle Smart View
3 10 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) Maple
5 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.26%) CATIA
6 1 (0.26%) SPSS
6 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.26%) Actimize
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.26%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (63.78%) Power Platform
2 82 (20.92%) AWS
3 65 (16.58%) Azure
4 52 (13.27%) GCP
5 35 (8.93%) Snowflake
6 27 (6.89%) dbt
7 24 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.32%) OCI
10 13 (3.32%) Serverless
11 12 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.55%) SaaS
13 8 (2.04%) GitHub
14 7 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) Skype
2 1 (0.26%) WebEx
2 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (61.99%) Power BI
2 86 (21.94%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (8.93%) Looker
4 34 (8.67%) Big Data
5 32 (8.16%) BigQuery
6 27 (6.89%) Hadoop
7 19 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.34%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.57%) Metadata
10 14 (3.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 13 (3.32%) Qlik Sense
11 13 (3.32%) Relational Database
11 13 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (3.06%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (3.06%) GIS
13 11 (2.81%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (2.81%) NoSQL
13 11 (2.81%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 29 (7.40%) JIRA
2 24 (6.12%) Git
3 10 (2.55%) ERwin
4 5 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.02%) GitLab
6 3 (0.77%) MLflow
7 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.26%) Flyway
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.26%) Postman
7 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 165 (42.09%) Social Skills
2 142 (36.22%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (30.10%) Finance
4 33 (8.42%) Banking
4 33 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.12%) Marketing
6 23 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.10%) Telecoms
8 18 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.32%) Legal
10 10 (2.55%) Retail
11 9 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.04%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.53%) Automotive
14 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.53%) Local Government
15 5 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (46.68%) Analyst
2 115 (29.34%) Data Analyst
3 47 (11.99%) Developer
4 41 (10.46%) Data Engineer
5 35 (8.93%) Senior
6 23 (5.87%) Business Analyst
7 22 (5.61%) Lead
8 16 (4.08%) Architect
9 15 (3.83%) Data Scientist
10 13 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 13 (3.32%) Data Science Developer
10 13 (3.32%) Report Analyst
11 12 (3.06%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 11 (2.81%) Consultant
12 11 (2.81%) Data Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Report Writer
13 10 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.55%) Tableau Analyst
14 9 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.89%) Pandas
2 23 (5.87%) scikit-learn
2 23 (5.87%) TensorFlow
3 20 (5.10%) Matplotlib
3 20 (5.10%) NumPy
4 18 (4.59%) PyTorch
5 16 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (3.83%) Seaborn
7 14 (3.57%) Kafka
8 8 (2.04%) PySpark
9 5 (1.28%) GeoPandas
9 5 (1.28%) HTML
9 5 (1.28%) PostGIS
9 5 (1.28%) SailPoint
10 4 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.02%) Plotly
10 4 (1.02%) React
11 3 (0.77%) .NET
11 3 (0.77%) Middleware
11 3 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.91%) Algorithms
2 13 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.06%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.79%) IoT
6 7 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.28%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.02%) Derivative
9 4 (1.02%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.02%) PMI
9 4 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.77%) Unix
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
2 202 (51.53%) Visualisation
3 161 (41.07%) Analytics
4 136 (34.69%) Data Visualisation
5 126 (32.14%) Data Analysis
6 118 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (26.53%) Decision-Making
8 96 (24.49%) Data Modelling
9 87 (22.19%) Actionable Insight
10 67 (17.09%) Agile
11 66 (16.84%) Data Governance
11 66 (16.84%) ETL
12 60 (15.31%) Data Science
13 59 (15.05%) Machine Learning
14 45 (11.48%) Data Management
14 45 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (11.22%) Data Analytics
16 43 (10.97%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (10.46%) Dashboard Development
18 40 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 252 (64.29%) SQL
2 164 (41.84%) Python
3 52 (13.27%) R
4 9 (2.30%) VBA
5 8 (2.04%) Java
6 7 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.28%) C#
8 5 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.28%) Scala
8 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 62 (15.82%) Degree
2 48 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.36%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.55%) PhD
7 8 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
9 5 (1.28%) CBAP
9 5 (1.28%) CISA
9 5 (1.28%) CISM
9 5 (1.28%) CISSP
9 5 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (1.02%) PMP
11 3 (0.77%) ACCA
11 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.77%) CFA
11 3 (0.77%) CIMA
12 2 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (20.92%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.10%) GDPR
3 15 (3.83%) QA
4 6 (1.53%) Basel III
4 6 (1.53%) NIST
5 5 (1.28%) COBIT
5 5 (1.28%) IFRS
5 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.28%) MiFID
5 5 (1.28%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.02%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.08%) Terraform
2 10 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.28%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.51%) Grafana
4 2 (0.51%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.42%) Oracle
3 32 (8.16%) Google
4 21 (5.36%) Databricks
5 19 (4.85%) Alteryx
6 15 (3.83%) SAP
7 13 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.81%) Palantir
9 10 (2.55%) Informatica
9 10 (2.55%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.04%) Adobe
11 7 (1.79%) Foundry
12 6 (1.53%) Virgin Media
13 5 (1.28%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (1.02%) Sparx
14 4 (1.02%) Talend
14 4 (1.02%) Vertica
14 4 (1.02%) Workday
15 3 (0.77%) Amplitude