Tableau Contracts

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Tableau products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tableau over the 3 months to 23 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Tableau Software.

Tableau UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	294	374	411
Rank change year-on-year	+80	+37
Contract jobs citing Tableau	359	293	241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.77%	0.54%	0.43%
As % of the Vendors category	1.75%	1.21%	0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	238	207	166
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+1.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£285	£275	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£585	£668	£606
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£425	£375
% change year-on-year	-11.76%	+13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	4	4
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£43.63	£80.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-49.57%	-45.46%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£20.50	-	£94.07

Tableau is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	20514	24183	25039
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	43.82%	44.94%	44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	12454	14905	14646
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£395
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+1.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£361
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	709	826	1130
Median hourly rate	£18.70	£20.00	£18.88
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.50%	+5.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.25	£11.50	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£42.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Tableau as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Tableau in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Tableau over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Tableau 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 Tableau.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Tableau 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 Tableau within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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	+68	340	£425	-	120
London	+39	218	£446	+5.00%	68
South East	+30	56	£365	-2.66%	14
City of London	+17	48	£475	+15.15%	16
Berkshire	+35	16	£370	-43.07%
Scotland	+52	15	£500	+66.66%	3
South West	+16	15	£375	-	4
North West	+11	14	£419	-1.47%	13
Edinburgh	-	14	£500	-	3
Yorkshire	+17	12	£350	-53.17%	7
Surrey	+8	12	£394	-12.53%	1
West Midlands	+10	9	£450	+12.50%	3
East of England	-3	9	£375	-19.78%	6
Bristol	-	9	£650	-	4
Manchester	+10	8	£419	-6.94%	8
West Yorkshire	+28	7	£450	-	4
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	7	£520	-
Leeds	+18	6	£450	-	3
East Midlands	-12	6	£350	+7.69%	2
Hampshire	-	6	£338	-	2
Middlesex	-	6	£263	-
East Sussex	-	6	£280	-
West Sussex	+14	5	£278	-26.00%	2
South Yorkshire	-4	5	£350	-53.33%	2
North East	+67	4	£565	-22.06%	2
Gloucestershire	-	4	£360	-
Reading	-	4	£375	-
Hove	-	4	-	-
Slough	-	4	£280	-
Birmingham	+16	3	£285	-	1

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Tableau 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 Tableau.

1	383 (52.90%)	Business Intelligence
2	382 (52.76%)	SQL
3	293 (40.47%)	Analytics
4	247 (34.12%)	Visualisation
5	179 (24.72%)	SQL Server
6	170 (23.48%)	QlikView
7	168 (23.20%)	Data Warehouse
8	161 (22.24%)	Finance
9	136 (18.78%)	ETL
10	132 (18.23%)	Big Data
11	128 (17.68%)	Data Visualisation
12	125 (17.27%)	Power BI
12	125 (17.27%)	SQL Server Integration Services
13	123 (16.99%)	Analytical Skills
14	120 (16.57%)	R

15	119 (16.44%)	Hadoop
16	111 (15.33%)	Python
17	106 (14.64%)	Data Modelling
18	105 (14.50%)	SAS
19	104 (14.36%)	Microsoft Excel
20	103 (14.23%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
21	102 (14.09%)	Microsoft
22	98 (13.54%)	Agile Software Development
23	86 (11.88%)	Degree
24	82 (11.33%)	Data Analysis
25	77 (10.64%)	Oracle
26	73 (10.08%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
27	71 (9.81%)	Dashboard Development
28	68 (9.39%)	Marketing
29	66 (9.12%)	Cognos

Tableau
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	105 (14.50%)	SAS
2	57 (7.87%)	Apache Spark
3	31 (4.28%)	Apache Pig
4	25 (3.45%)	SharePoint
5	12 (1.66%)	Apache
6	9 (1.24%)	Confluence
7	6 (0.83%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	5 (0.69%)	Elasticsearch
8	5 (0.69%)	SharePoint 2010
9	4 (0.55%)	CMS
9	4 (0.55%)	JBoss
9	4 (0.55%)	Jupyter
9	4 (0.55%)	Mule
9	4 (0.55%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	4 (0.55%)	Oracle Workflow
9	4 (0.55%)	WebLogic
9	4 (0.55%)	WebSphere
10	3 (0.41%)	Apache Solr
11	2 (0.28%)	Drupal
11	2 (0.28%)	nginx

Applications
1	104 (14.36%)	Microsoft Excel
2	39 (5.39%)	SPSS
3	25 (3.45%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	18 (2.49%)	Microsoft Office
5	16 (2.21%)	Stata
6	9 (1.24%)	Spreadsheet
7	4 (0.55%)	MS Visio
8	3 (0.41%)	UserZoom
9	2 (0.28%)	Microsoft Project
9	2 (0.28%)	SPSS Modeler
9	2 (0.28%)	Weka
10	1 (0.14%)	Adobe Creative Suite
10	1 (0.14%)	InfoPath
10	1 (0.14%)	Simulink

Business Applications
1	6 (0.83%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
1	6 (0.83%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	5 (0.69%)	WebTrends
3	4 (0.55%)	Adobe Campaign
3	4 (0.55%)	Cognos TM1
3	4 (0.55%)	Dynamics AX
4	3 (0.41%)	Oracle BPM
4	3 (0.41%)	SessionCam
5	2 (0.28%)	Changepoint
5	2 (0.28%)	Data Workbench
5	2 (0.28%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.28%)	NetSuite
5	2 (0.28%)	Oracle ERP
5	2 (0.28%)	SAP ERP
5	2 (0.28%)	SAP HR
5	2 (0.28%)	Scribe Insight
6	1 (0.14%)	Cognos Planning
6	1 (0.14%)	Dynamics NAV
6	1 (0.14%)	FastStats
6	1 (0.14%)	FRx

Cloud Services
1	49 (6.77%)	Google Analytics
2	34 (4.70%)	Microsoft Azure
3	33 (4.56%)	Amazon AWS
4	15 (2.07%)	Adobe Analytics
4	15 (2.07%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	9 (1.24%)	IaaS
6	8 (1.10%)	GitHub
6	8 (1.10%)	SaaS
7	7 (0.97%)	SmartFocus
8	6 (0.83%)	PaaS
8	6 (0.83%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
9	5 (0.69%)	Azure Data Factory
9	5 (0.69%)	Data Lake Analytics
10	4 (0.55%)	Amazon S3
10	4 (0.55%)	Office 365
11	3 (0.41%)	Google Tag Manager
11	3 (0.41%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
11	3 (0.41%)	Veeva
12	2 (0.28%)	AWS Lambda
12	2 (0.28%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	6 (0.83%)	Internet
1	6 (0.83%)	LDAP
2	5 (0.69%)	Kerberos
2	5 (0.69%)	SMS
3	3 (0.41%)	HTTP
3	3 (0.41%)	SSL
4	2 (0.28%)	Intranet
5	1 (0.14%)	Firewall
5	1 (0.14%)	NAS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	179 (24.72%)	SQL Server
2	170 (23.48%)	QlikView
3	168 (23.20%)	Data Warehouse
4	132 (18.23%)	Big Data
5	125 (17.27%)	Power BI
5	125 (17.27%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	119 (16.44%)	Hadoop
7	103 (14.23%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	73 (10.08%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	62 (8.56%)	BusinessObjects
10	50 (6.91%)	Apache Hive
11	42 (5.80%)	Data Mining
12	40 (5.52%)	Spotfire
13	36 (4.97%)	Relational Database
14	35 (4.83%)	MySQL
14	35 (4.83%)	NoSQL
15	25 (3.45%)	SQL Server 2012
16	23 (3.18%)	OLAP
17	21 (2.90%)	Data Lake
18	19 (2.62%)	SQL Server 2016

Development Applications
1	28 (3.87%)	Talend Open Studio
2	14 (1.93%)	JIRA
3	10 (1.38%)	Visual Studio
4	9 (1.24%)	ERwin
4	9 (1.24%)	Jenkins
4	9 (1.24%)	Team Foundation Server
5	8 (1.10%)	Git (software)
6	6 (0.83%)	Oracle APEX
7	4 (0.55%)	Subversion
8	3 (0.41%)	Bitbucket
8	3 (0.41%)	Eclipse
8	3 (0.41%)	JUnit
8	3 (0.41%)	Mockito
8	3 (0.41%)	TeamCity
9	2 (0.28%)	Bower
9	2 (0.28%)	Octopus Deploy
10	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Forms
10	1 (0.14%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10	1 (0.14%)	Toad
10	1 (0.14%)	Vagrant

General
1	161 (22.24%)	Finance
2	68 (9.39%)	Marketing
3	63 (8.70%)	Banking
4	34 (4.70%)	Retail
5	20 (2.76%)	Telecoms
6	16 (2.21%)	Investment Banking
6	16 (2.21%)	Manufacturing
6	16 (2.21%)	Publishing
7	14 (1.93%)	Advertising
8	10 (1.38%)	Front Office
9	9 (1.24%)	Financial Institution
10	8 (1.10%)	Legal
11	7 (0.97%)	Pharmaceutical
12	4 (0.55%)	Automotive
12	4 (0.55%)	Electronics
12	4 (0.55%)	Games
12	4 (0.55%)	Spanish Language
13	3 (0.41%)	Billing
14	1 (0.14%)	French Language
14	1 (0.14%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	242 (33.43%)	Analyst
2	209 (28.87%)	Developer
3	94 (12.98%)	Tableau Developer
4	91 (12.57%)	Data Analyst
5	79 (10.91%)	Consultant
6	69 (9.53%)	Business Intelligence Developer
7	54 (7.46%)	Architect
8	46 (6.35%)	Business Analyst
9	45 (6.22%)	Business Intelligence Analyst
10	39 (5.39%)	Data Architect
11	38 (5.25%)	SQL Analyst
12	36 (4.97%)	SQL Developer
13	35 (4.83%)	Data Scientist
14	34 (4.70%)	Tableau Consultant
15	25 (3.45%)	Report Analyst
16	22 (3.04%)	Data Engineer
17	20 (2.76%)	Business Intelligence Manager
18	19 (2.62%)	Digital Analyst
18	19 (2.62%)	Project Manager
18	19 (2.62%)	SSIS Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	27 (3.73%)	HTML
2	19 (2.62%)	.NET
2	19 (2.62%)	D3.js
3	18 (2.49%)	MDX
4	17 (2.35%)	XML
5	15 (2.07%)	AngularJS
6	14 (1.93%)	CSS
7	11 (1.52%)	HTML5
8	10 (1.38%)	Web Services
9	8 (1.10%)	Natural Language Processing
9	8 (1.10%)	XSLT
10	7 (0.97%)	Middleware
11	6 (0.83%)	GWT
11	6 (0.83%)	JSON
11	6 (0.83%)	Node.js
11	6 (0.83%)	PostGIS
11	6 (0.83%)	Visualforce
11	6 (0.83%)	XML Schema
12	5 (0.69%)	jQuery
12	5 (0.69%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	123 (16.99%)	Analytical Skills
2	41 (5.66%)	Computer Science
3	25 (3.45%)	Management Information System
4	22 (3.04%)	Data Structures
5	19 (2.62%)	Algorithms
6	14 (1.93%)	User Experience
7	13 (1.80%)	Greenfield Project
8	12 (1.66%)	Social Media
9	5 (0.69%)	Virtual Team
10	4 (0.55%)	Data Protection Act
10	4 (0.55%)	NHS
11	3 (0.41%)	Blog
11	3 (0.41%)	Digital Media
11	3 (0.41%)	Fintech
11	3 (0.41%)	FMCG
11	3 (0.41%)	Life Science
11	3 (0.41%)	Mobile App
11	3 (0.41%)	PMI
11	3 (0.41%)	Security Operations Centre
11	3 (0.41%)	Shadow IT

Operating Systems
1	14 (1.93%)	Linux
2	9 (1.24%)	Unix
2	9 (1.24%)	Windows
3	5 (0.69%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	4 (0.55%)	CentOS
4	4 (0.55%)	Fedora
5	2 (0.28%)	Windows 2000 Server
5	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server
5	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2003
5	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2008
6	1 (0.14%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	383 (52.90%)	Business Intelligence
2	293 (40.47%)	Analytics
3	247 (34.12%)	Visualisation
4	136 (18.78%)	ETL
5	128 (17.68%)	Data Visualisation
6	106 (14.64%)	Data Modelling
7	98 (13.54%)	Agile Software Development
8	82 (11.33%)	Data Analysis
9	71 (9.81%)	Dashboard Development
10	62 (8.56%)	Data Analytics
11	59 (8.15%)	Statistics
12	53 (7.32%)	Data Management
13	52 (7.18%)	Mathematics
14	51 (7.04%)	E-Commerce
15	43 (5.94%)	Machine Learning
15	43 (5.94%)	Stakeholder Management
16	36 (4.97%)	Migration
17	34 (4.70%)	CRM
18	31 (4.28%)	Kimball Methodology
19	30 (4.14%)	Scrum

Programming Languages
1	382 (52.76%)	SQL
2	120 (16.57%)	R
3	111 (15.33%)	Python
4	46 (6.35%)	Java
5	43 (5.94%)	T-SQL
5	43 (5.94%)	VBA
6	28 (3.87%)	JavaScript
6	28 (3.87%)	MATLAB
7	25 (3.45%)	C#
8	22 (3.04%)	Scala
9	14 (1.93%)	C++
10	10 (1.38%)	PL/SQL
10	10 (1.38%)	PowerShell
10	10 (1.38%)	VB
11	7 (0.97%)	PHP
12	6 (0.83%)	Apex Code
12	6 (0.83%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12	6 (0.83%)	Perl
13	5 (0.69%)	Shell Script
14	4 (0.55%)	C

Qualifications
1	86 (11.88%)	Degree
2	17 (2.35%)	Computer Science Degree
3	15 (2.07%)	PhD
4	11 (1.52%)	Security Cleared
5	9 (1.24%)	Numerate Degree
5	9 (1.24%)	SC Cleared
6	7 (0.97%)	PMI Certification
7	6 (0.83%)	Master's Degree
8	5 (0.69%)	Microsoft Certification
9	4 (0.55%)	PMP
10	3 (0.41%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
11	2 (0.28%)	MCITP
11	2 (0.28%)	MCSE
12	1 (0.14%)	APMP
12	1 (0.14%)	DBS Check
12	1 (0.14%)	DV Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	57 (7.87%)	Data Quality
2	13 (1.80%)	QA
3	2 (0.28%)	GDPR
3	2 (0.28%)	PCI DSS
3	2 (0.28%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.14%)	Actionable Recommendations
4	1 (0.14%)	GCP
4	1 (0.14%)	PMO
4	1 (0.14%)	SLA
4	1 (0.14%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	12 (1.66%)	Apache Flume
2	11 (1.52%)	Active Directory
3	8 (1.10%)	Docker
3	8 (1.10%)	HDFS
4	5 (0.69%)	Virtual Machines
5	4 (0.55%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	1 (0.14%)	Cronacle
6	1 (0.14%)	XenApp
6	1 (0.14%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	7 (0.97%)	Oozie
2	6 (0.83%)	Kibana
3	4 (0.55%)	Hadoop YARN
3	4 (0.55%)	Mesos
4	3 (0.41%)	Ansible
4	3 (0.41%)	MOM
5	2 (0.28%)	Kubernetes
6	1 (0.14%)	EMC NetWorker
6	1 (0.14%)	Opscode Chef

Vendors
1	102 (14.09%)	Microsoft
2	77 (10.64%)	Oracle
3	66 (9.12%)	Cognos
4	54 (7.46%)	SAP
5	51 (7.04%)	Google
6	50 (6.91%)	Teradata
7	45 (6.22%)	Alteryx
8	37 (5.11%)	MicroStrategy
9	32 (4.42%)	Informatica
10	28 (3.87%)	Talend
11	26 (3.59%)	IBM
12	24 (3.31%)	Cloudera
13	21 (2.90%)	Adobe
14	16 (2.21%)	Salesforce.com
15	14 (1.93%)	Netezza
16	12 (1.66%)	TIBCO
17	10 (1.38%)	Ab Initio
18	9 (1.24%)	ESRI
18	9 (1.24%)	SnapLogic
19	8 (1.10%)	Vertica