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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 258 277
Rank change year-on-year +47 +19 -9
Contract jobs citing Tableau 377 407 571
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 0.93% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.80% 5.57% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 279 416
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £597 £613
90th Percentile £675 £690 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 13
10th Percentile £22.65 £35.85 £20.60
25th Percentile £23.55 £41.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £32.96 £45.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +3.45% +57.69%
75th Percentile £41.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £45.35 £58.50 £62.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £30.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -11.07% -15.28% +59.13%

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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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 30 April 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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Tableau in the UK

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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 30 April 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 +44 336 £500 - 700
London +55 222 £500 - 501
UK excluding London +21 132 £500 - 215
Work from Home +36 108 £450 -10.00% 317
North of England +22 41 £515 +14.44% 74
South East +10 28 £425 -5.56% 42
East of England +50 26 £638 +21.43% 18
North West +11 26 £600 +32.60% 48
Scotland +5 15 £550 - 11
Midlands +21 11 £300 -52.94% 39
Yorkshire +8 11 £488 +8.33% 22
South West +37 8 £625 +16.28% 21
East Midlands +12 6 £447 -14.86% 17
West Midlands +11 5 £279 -58.70% 21
Northern Ireland -9 5 £425 +6.25% 7
North East +1 4 £450 +8.43% 4
Wales - 1 £238 - 5

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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 (8.22%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.98%) Confluence
3 12 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.65%) SAS
5 8 (2.12%) Apache
6 5 (1.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 75 (19.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.92%) Oracle Smart View
3 10 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) CATIA
7 1 (0.27%) SPSS
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.27%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.27%) FastStats
4 1 (0.27%) FastStats PeopleStage
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 209 (55.44%) Power Platform
2 86 (22.81%) AWS
3 61 (16.18%) Azure
4 46 (12.20%) GCP
5 36 (9.55%) Amazon S3
6 33 (8.75%) Snowflake
7 23 (6.10%) Serverless
8 21 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.51%) dbt
10 15 (3.98%) Adobe Analytics
11 13 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.45%) OCI
12 10 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.12%) Google Data Studio
15 7 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.86%) GitHub
15 7 (1.86%) Google Analytics
15 7 (1.86%) SaaS
16 6 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Internet
1 1 (0.27%) Skype
1 1 (0.27%) WebEx
1 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (54.38%) Power BI
2 88 (23.34%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (9.28%) Big Data
4 33 (8.75%) Hadoop
5 26 (6.90%) Looker
6 24 (6.37%) BigQuery
7 23 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (5.84%) SQL Server
9 20 (5.31%) Metadata
10 19 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (3.98%) Data Mining
12 15 (3.98%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (3.98%) Qlik Sense
13 14 (3.71%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (3.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (3.45%) QlikView
15 12 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (3.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (7.69%) JIRA
2 15 (3.98%) Git
3 11 (2.92%) ERwin
4 5 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.06%) GitLab
6 3 (0.80%) MLflow
7 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.27%) Flyway
8 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.27%) Postman
8 1 (0.27%) RStudio
8 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 132 (35.01%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (24.40%) Finance
4 46 (12.20%) Banking
5 39 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 35 (9.28%) Marketing
7 20 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.31%) Retail
8 14 (3.71%) Investment Banking
8 14 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.65%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.12%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.86%) Legal
12 6 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.33%) Games
13 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (39.52%) Analyst
2 78 (20.69%) Data Analyst
3 59 (15.65%) Developer
4 42 (11.14%) Data Engineer
5 35 (9.28%) Senior
6 21 (5.57%) Architect
7 19 (5.04%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.04%) Consultant
8 18 (4.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 18 (4.77%) Data Scientist
9 17 (4.51%) Lead
10 16 (4.24%) Tableau Developer
11 14 (3.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 14 (3.71%) Data Architect
11 14 (3.71%) Data Science Developer
11 14 (3.71%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) Report Analyst
12 13 (3.45%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.18%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.63%) Pandas
2 22 (5.84%) scikit-learn
2 22 (5.84%) TensorFlow
3 21 (5.57%) NumPy
4 20 (5.31%) Matplotlib
5 19 (5.04%) PyTorch
6 16 (4.24%) Seaborn
7 14 (3.71%) Kafka
8 12 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.12%) HTML
10 7 (1.86%) PySpark
11 5 (1.33%) Plotly
12 4 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.06%) CSS
12 4 (1.06%) D3.js
12 4 (1.06%) React
12 4 (1.06%) REST
12 4 (1.06%) SOAP
13 3 (0.80%) jQuery
13 3 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.16%) Algorithms
2 15 (3.98%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.65%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.33%) Derivative
9 5 (1.33%) IoT
9 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.33%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.06%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.53%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.33%) Windows
2 4 (1.06%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (59.42%) Business Intelligence
2 221 (58.62%) Visualisation
3 158 (41.91%) Analytics
4 151 (40.05%) Data Visualisation
5 139 (36.87%) Data Analysis
6 120 (31.83%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (27.06%) Decision-Making
8 101 (26.79%) Data Modelling
9 83 (22.02%) Actionable Insight
10 73 (19.36%) Data Science
11 69 (18.30%) Data Governance
12 68 (18.04%) ETL
13 54 (14.32%) Agile
13 54 (14.32%) Machine Learning
14 52 (13.79%) Data Analytics
15 47 (12.47%) Data Management
16 43 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (11.14%) Artificial Intelligence
17 42 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 38 (10.08%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 248 (65.78%) SQL
2 152 (40.32%) Python
3 54 (14.32%) R
4 11 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.65%) VBA
6 9 (2.39%) Java
6 9 (2.39%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.12%) Scala
8 7 (1.86%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.33%) C#
9 5 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.27%) SOQL
12 1 (0.27%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 69 (18.30%) Degree
2 53 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.47%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.77%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.18%) PhD
7 9 (2.39%) Tableau Certification
8 5 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.06%) PMP
10 3 (0.80%) CFA
10 3 (0.80%) MBA
11 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.53%) CBAP
11 2 (0.53%) CSPO
11 2 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.27%) IIBA
12 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (21.49%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.63%) GDPR
3 18 (4.77%) QA
4 11 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.80%) Basel III
8 3 (0.80%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) COSHH
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.27%) LOINC
9 1 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.27%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.84%) Terraform
2 16 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.80%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 2 (0.53%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 47 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.08%) Oracle
3 36 (9.55%) Google
4 22 (5.84%) Databricks
5 17 (4.51%) Adobe
6 16 (4.24%) Informatica
7 14 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 13 (3.45%) SAP
9 9 (2.39%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.86%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.86%) Palantir
10 7 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.59%) Virgin Media
12 4 (1.06%) Foundry
12 4 (1.06%) Sparx
12 4 (1.06%) Splunk
12 4 (1.06%) Talend
12 4 (1.06%) Vertica
13 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.80%) Pega