Tableau Contract Job Trends

Tableau
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Tableau skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 220 245
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Tableau 397 360 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.17% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.99% 6.35% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 251 296
10th Percentile £306 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.30% -6.90%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £667 £688 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.37% - -7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 12
10th Percentile £25.62 £22.80 £28.48
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.26 £35.47
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% -38.89% +3.45%
75th Percentile £49.50 £33.11 £49.69
90th Percentile £54.60 £50.15 £53.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £27.13 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.21% -11.07% +10.91%

All Database & BI 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 6,633 5,672 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.35% 18.49% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 3,781 5,132
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 176
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.06
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.38 £77.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.60 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +78.67% -25.47% -28.04%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Tableau job vacancy trend in the UK

Tableau
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau

Tableau
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tableau over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau

Tableau
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Tableau over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Top 17 Contract Job 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 18 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
England -44 349 £475 -5.00% 272
London -19 231 £491 -4.20% 114
UK excluding London -83 126 £464 -2.37% 256
Work from Home -13 120 £475 - 81
North of England -50 44 £455 -8.29% 51
North West -20 35 £455 -8.29% 27
Midlands -26 32 £455 +1.11% 37
South East -36 19 £500 +25.00% 95
West Midlands -34 17 £438 -2.78% 19
East Midlands - 15 £455 - 18
Scotland -3 11 £404 -14.95% 17
Northern Ireland -9 9 £600 +14.29% 6
South West -26 7 £475 -17.39% 21
East of England -40 7 £525 - 22
Yorkshire -56 5 £330 -19.51% 17
North East -10 4 £500 -23.08% 7
Wales -2 2 - - 9

Tableau
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 42 (10.58%) Confluence
2 25 (6.30%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.78%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Superset
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.50%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 102 (25.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (7.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.76%) Notion
6 3 (0.76%) Trello
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) Actimize
2 2 (0.50%) Eloqua
2 2 (0.50%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
3 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (63.48%) Power Platform
2 90 (22.67%) AWS
3 71 (17.88%) Azure
4 51 (12.85%) GCP
5 43 (10.83%) Snowflake
6 28 (7.05%) Serverless
7 24 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.29%) dbt
9 20 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 19 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.78%) SaaS
13 9 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.27%) GitHub
13 9 (2.27%) Google Analytics
14 8 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (1.51%) Fivetran
15 6 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) 2G
1 2 (0.50%) 5G
1 2 (0.50%) LTE
1 2 (0.50%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (0.50%) SMS
1 2 (0.50%) VoIP
2 1 (0.25%) Broadband
2 1 (0.25%) FTP
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) NAS
2 1 (0.25%) Network Security
2 1 (0.25%) SAN
2 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (63.48%) Power BI
2 72 (18.14%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (12.09%) Looker
4 28 (7.05%) BigQuery
5 21 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.04%) Metadata
7 15 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.78%) Big Data
7 15 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.77%) Power Query
10 10 (2.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 10 (2.52%) Hadoop
10 10 (2.52%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.27%) MySQL
12 8 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.02%) Data Vault
12 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (16.37%) JIRA
2 21 (5.29%) Git
3 12 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.27%) ERwin
5 3 (0.76%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.76%) GitLab
6 2 (0.50%) Postman
6 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.50%) Selenium
6 2 (0.50%) Subversion
6 2 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 151 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 142 (35.77%) Finance
3 134 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (21.16%) Banking
5 29 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.54%) Marketing
7 16 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.78%) Retail
9 12 (3.02%) Front Office
10 9 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.02%) Back Office
11 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.51%) Publishing
12 6 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.01%) Legal
15 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 150 (37.78%) Analyst
2 78 (19.65%) Data Analyst
3 58 (14.61%) Senior
4 52 (13.10%) Architect
5 44 (11.08%) Business Analyst
6 42 (10.58%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.06%) Developer
8 30 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (6.55%) Lead
10 24 (6.05%) Data Scientist
11 22 (5.54%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (4.53%) Data Architect
13 13 (3.27%) SQL Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) Tableau Analyst
14 12 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 11 (2.77%) Consultant
15 11 (2.77%) Payments Architect
15 11 (2.77%) Payments Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.77%) Senior Business Analyst
15 11 (2.77%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.53%) Kafka
1 18 (4.53%) PySpark
2 13 (3.27%) Pandas
3 10 (2.52%) scikit-learn
4 7 (1.76%) React
5 6 (1.51%) XML
6 5 (1.26%) .NET
6 5 (1.26%) Matplotlib
6 5 (1.26%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.26%) REST
6 5 (1.26%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.26%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.01%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.01%) Playwright
7 4 (1.01%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (1.01%) Seaborn
8 3 (0.76%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.76%) JSON
8 3 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.78%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.27%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.76%) Equities
9 6 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.26%) Clustering
11 4 (1.01%) IoT
11 4 (1.01%) NHS
11 4 (1.01%) PACS
11 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.76%) CMDB
12 3 (0.76%) Derivative
12 3 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.26%) Linux
1 5 (1.26%) Unix
2 3 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Android
3 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (68.01%) Business Intelligence
2 183 (46.10%) Analytics
3 176 (44.33%) Visualisation
4 122 (30.73%) Data Visualisation
5 106 (26.70%) Data Modelling
6 104 (26.20%) Agile
7 97 (24.43%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (21.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (19.65%) Data Analysis
10 77 (19.40%) ETL
11 74 (18.64%) Data Governance
12 69 (17.38%) Decision-Making
13 63 (15.87%) Data Science
14 61 (15.37%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (14.61%) Dashboard Development
16 52 (13.10%) AI
17 51 (12.85%) DevOps
18 45 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 259 (65.24%) SQL
2 151 (38.04%) Python
3 44 (11.08%) R
4 13 (3.27%) JavaScript
4 13 (3.27%) Scala
5 11 (2.77%) C#
6 9 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.51%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.51%) VBA
8 5 (1.26%) Java
9 4 (1.01%) LookML
9 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.76%) Bash
10 3 (0.76%) Bicep
10 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) C++
12 1 (0.25%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 53 (13.35%) Degree
2 47 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.76%) CFA
8 7 (1.76%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.51%) CBAP
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.01%) IIBA
10 4 (1.01%) PMP
11 3 (0.76%) CISSP
11 3 (0.76%) OCP
11 3 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.76%) PgMP
12 2 (0.50%) APMP
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (21.91%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.30%) QA
3 24 (6.05%) GDPR
4 12 (3.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 12 (3.02%) PMO
5 7 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.51%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.76%) GRC
8 3 (0.76%) PERC
9 2 (0.50%) Basel III
9 2 (0.50%) COBIT
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.50%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.78%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (6.55%) Terraform
2 19 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.51%) RSA Archer
4 5 (1.26%) Ansible
5 2 (0.50%) Grafana
5 2 (0.50%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) EnCase
6 1 (0.25%) FTK
6 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.57%) Databricks
2 38 (9.57%) Google
3 24 (6.05%) Salesforce
4 22 (5.54%) Oracle
5 16 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.53%) SAP
7 13 (3.27%) Informatica
8 11 (2.77%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.76%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.76%) Cognos
9 7 (1.76%) Talend
10 6 (1.51%) Splunk
11 5 (1.26%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.26%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.01%) Adobe
12 4 (1.01%) Anaplan
12 4 (1.01%) Confluent
12 4 (1.01%) Facebook
13 3 (0.76%) Samsung