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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 246 281
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 -9
Contract jobs citing Tableau 365 409 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.60% 5.60% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 284 393
10th Percentile £300 £321 £325
25th Percentile £399 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 13
10th Percentile £22.65 £34.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.55 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £32.96 £43.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +0.57% +58.18%
75th Percentile £41.00 £51.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £45.35 £53.75 £62.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £30.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year -11.07% -3.94% +32.29%

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 5,530 7,298 10,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.99% 16.92% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,800 5,213 7,485
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £422 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 144 186
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.46 £59.44 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.88 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +44 324 £500 - 888
London +54 209 £500 - 674
UK excluding London +21 133 £500 - 349
Work from Home +25 103 £450 -10.00% 415
North of England +14 41 £500 +11.11% 76
South East +9 27 £450 +5.88% 159
East of England +52 26 £650 +23.81% 18
North West +12 25 £550 +21.55% 48
Scotland +12 15 £550 +1.15% 12
Yorkshire -1 12 £475 +5.56% 23
Midlands +15 11 £300 -52.00% 54
South West +29 7 £500 -6.98% 20
East Midlands +12 6 £447 -14.86% 21
Northern Ireland -10 6 £488 +21.88% 8
West Midlands +7 5 £279 -57.12% 31
North East -2 4 £450 +8.43% 5
Wales - 1 £238 - 4

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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 (8.49%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.84%) Confluence
4 13 (3.56%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.74%) SAS
6 7 (1.92%) Apache
7 5 (1.37%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.55%) IIS
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 71 (19.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.01%) Oracle Smart View
3 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.27%) CATIA
8 1 (0.27%) SPSS
8 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.27%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 205 (56.16%) Power Platform
2 87 (23.84%) AWS
3 65 (17.81%) Azure
4 45 (12.33%) GCP
5 35 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 32 (8.77%) Snowflake
7 22 (6.03%) Serverless
8 20 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.66%) dbt
10 13 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.56%) OCI
11 11 (3.01%) Adobe Analytics
12 10 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.19%) Google Data Studio
14 8 (2.19%) SaaS
15 7 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.92%) GitHub
15 7 (1.92%) Google Analytics
16 6 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
1 1 (0.27%) HTTP
1 1 (0.27%) Internet
1 1 (0.27%) Skype
1 1 (0.27%) WebEx
1 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (55.07%) Power BI
2 86 (23.56%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (9.59%) Big Data
4 33 (9.04%) Hadoop
5 26 (7.12%) Looker
6 24 (6.58%) BigQuery
7 23 (6.30%) SQL Server
8 22 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (5.21%) Metadata
10 16 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (4.11%) Qlik Sense
12 14 (3.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (3.84%) QlikView
13 13 (3.56%) Data Mining
13 13 (3.56%) NoSQL
14 12 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (3.01%) Oracle ODI
16 10 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 29 (7.95%) JIRA
2 14 (3.84%) Git
3 11 (3.01%) ERwin
4 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.10%) GitLab
6 3 (0.82%) MLflow
7 2 (0.55%) 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
1 148 (40.55%) Social Skills
2 129 (35.34%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (24.93%) Finance
4 41 (11.23%) Banking
5 37 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 32 (8.77%) Marketing
7 20 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (4.93%) Retail
9 15 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.56%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.47%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.92%) Legal
13 7 (1.92%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.37%) Front Office
14 5 (1.37%) Games
14 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 140 (38.36%) Analyst
2 81 (22.19%) Data Analyst
3 57 (15.62%) Developer
4 41 (11.23%) Data Engineer
5 30 (8.22%) Senior
6 19 (5.21%) Architect
6 19 (5.21%) Data Scientist
7 18 (4.93%) Lead
8 17 (4.66%) Business Analyst
9 15 (4.11%) Consultant
9 15 (4.11%) Tableau Developer
10 14 (3.84%) Data Science Developer
11 13 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.56%) Report Analyst
12 12 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 12 (3.29%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.29%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.01%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.40%) Pandas
2 23 (6.30%) scikit-learn
2 23 (6.30%) TensorFlow
3 22 (6.03%) NumPy
4 21 (5.75%) Matplotlib
5 19 (5.21%) PyTorch
6 16 (4.38%) Seaborn
7 12 (3.29%) Kafka
7 12 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.92%) PySpark
9 5 (1.37%) HTML
9 5 (1.37%) Plotly
10 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.10%) React
10 4 (1.10%) REST
10 4 (1.10%) SOAP
10 4 (1.10%) XML
11 3 (0.82%) .NET
11 3 (0.82%) Middleware
11 3 (0.82%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.95%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.11%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.84%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.64%) IoT
8 5 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.37%) Derivative
8 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.37%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.10%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) Unix
2 3 (0.82%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (61.10%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (57.81%) Visualisation
3 154 (42.19%) Analytics
4 146 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
5 136 (37.26%) Data Analysis
6 115 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (27.40%) Decision-Making
8 96 (26.30%) Data Modelling
9 81 (22.19%) Actionable Insight
10 71 (19.45%) Data Science
11 66 (18.08%) ETL
12 65 (17.81%) Data Governance
13 55 (15.07%) Machine Learning
14 52 (14.25%) Data Analytics
15 51 (13.97%) Agile
16 47 (12.88%) Data Management
17 43 (11.78%) Data Pipeline
18 42 (11.51%) Artificial Intelligence
19 41 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
20 38 (10.41%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 245 (67.12%) SQL
2 158 (43.29%) Python
3 55 (15.07%) R
4 9 (2.47%) Java
4 9 (2.47%) T-SQL
4 9 (2.47%) VBA
5 8 (2.19%) Scala
6 7 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.37%) C#
8 5 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) Bash
11 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.27%) SOQL
11 1 (0.27%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 67 (18.36%) Degree
2 53 (14.52%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.60%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.21%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.29%) PhD
7 9 (2.47%) Tableau Certification
8 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.10%) PMP
10 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.82%) CFA
10 3 (0.82%) MBA
11 2 (0.55%) CBAP
11 2 (0.55%) CSPO
11 2 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) IIBA
12 1 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (21.64%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.03%) GDPR
3 15 (4.11%) QA
4 10 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.82%) Basel III
8 2 (0.55%) 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 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.75%) Terraform
2 15 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Grafana
3 2 (0.55%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Argo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 46 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.14%) Oracle
3 36 (9.86%) Google
4 23 (6.30%) Databricks
5 16 (4.38%) Informatica
6 12 (3.29%) Adobe
7 11 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.74%) SAP
9 9 (2.47%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.92%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.92%) Palantir
10 7 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.64%) Virgin Media
12 4 (1.10%) Foundry
12 4 (1.10%) Sparx
12 4 (1.10%) Splunk
12 4 (1.10%) Talend
12 4 (1.10%) Vertica
13 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.82%) IBM