Visualisation Contract Job Trends

Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 867 798 805
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.29% 2.52% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.83% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 502 531
10th Percentile £342 £325 £315
25th Percentile £410 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% -1.64% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +10.01% -4.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 35 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £25.55
25th Percentile £23.57 £23.61 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £39.68 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.58% -14.08% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £50.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Visualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,213 28,195 38,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.59% 88.98% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,058 17,139 25,095
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 893 1,862
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.94 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.01
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -12.19% +15.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.62 £39.55
% change year-on-year -21.61% -22.59% +52.12%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
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 Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 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 -25 749 £500 - 825
London -18 403 £500 -4.31% 140
UK excluding London -10 368 £500 +10.01% 822
Work from Home -25 262 £500 - 281
North of England -44 108 £419 -9.46% 167
Midlands -4 77 £525 +35.48% 133
West Midlands -2 66 £525 +31.58% 55
South East +1 56 £500 +30.38% 242
Yorkshire -19 52 £514 +20.94% 66
North West -42 50 £393 -15.03% 81
Scotland +22 47 £500 +5.26% 40
South West +1 42 £750 +50.00% 102
East of England -39 35 £525 +16.67% 105
East Midlands -27 11 £395 +12.86% 77
North East -21 9 £425 -19.05% 21
Northern Ireland -11 6 £531 +6.25% 17
Wales -8 4 - - 38

Visualisation
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 49 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.84%) Confluence
3 38 (4.38%) Apache
4 28 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.73%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.27%) SAS
8 8 (0.92%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 127 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.46%) Revit
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.35%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Blender
10 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.12%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
10 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.12%) Maximo
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Summit
5 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (43.14%) Power Platform
2 196 (22.61%) Azure
3 153 (17.65%) AWS
4 72 (8.30%) GCP
5 45 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.96%) Snowflake
7 32 (3.69%) Serverless
8 29 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (3.00%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.65%) dbt
11 23 (2.65%) PowerApps
12 22 (2.54%) GitHub
13 21 (2.42%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.50%) Google Analytics
17 12 (1.38%) Figma
18 11 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.50%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.35%) SAN
4 3 (0.35%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Network Security
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (43.02%) Power BI
2 160 (18.45%) Tableau
3 99 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.65%) Relational Database
5 47 (5.42%) Big Data
6 42 (4.84%) Power Query
7 37 (4.27%) Hadoop
8 34 (3.92%) Metadata
8 34 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.58%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.34%) Looker
11 27 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (2.88%) BigQuery
13 22 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (2.19%) Data Mining
15 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.85%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.73%) MySQL
17 13 (1.50%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 61 (7.04%) JIRA
2 58 (6.69%) Git
3 18 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.73%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.50%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.81%) Gradle
6 7 (0.81%) MLflow
6 7 (0.81%) Storybook
6 7 (0.81%) Xcode
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.46%) ERwin
9 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) JUnit
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) NUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 329 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 228 (26.30%) Analytical Skills
3 222 (25.61%) Finance
4 76 (8.77%) Banking
4 76 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.58%) Retail
6 29 (3.34%) Marketing
7 27 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.54%) Publishing
9 21 (2.42%) Military
10 19 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.19%) Legal
11 16 (1.85%) Front Office
12 15 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.27%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 211 (24.34%) Analyst
2 135 (15.57%) Developer
3 120 (13.84%) Data Analyst
4 99 (11.42%) Senior
5 88 (10.15%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.42%) Architect
7 57 (6.57%) Data Scientist
8 53 (6.11%) Lead
9 50 (5.77%) Consultant
10 49 (5.65%) Business Analyst
11 46 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (4.04%) Power BI Developer
14 26 (3.00%) Software Engineer
14 26 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.54%) Designer
15 22 (2.54%) Report Analyst
16 18 (2.08%) Integration Architect
16 18 (2.08%) SQL Analyst
17 17 (1.96%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.96%) Pandas
1 43 (4.96%) React
2 35 (4.04%) scikit-learn
3 31 (3.58%) PySpark
4 30 (3.46%) Node.js
4 30 (3.46%) NumPy
5 25 (2.88%) Kafka
6 24 (2.77%) REST
7 22 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (2.42%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.42%) Plotly
9 19 (2.19%) OAuth
10 18 (2.08%) Vue
10 18 (2.08%) Web Services
11 16 (1.85%) D3.js
11 16 (1.85%) HTML
11 16 (1.85%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.50%) CSS
12 13 (1.50%) Matplotlib
13 12 (1.38%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.07%) Algorithms
2 34 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.27%) PMI
11 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.04%) CMDB
12 9 (1.04%) NHS
13 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.23%) Linux
2 39 (4.50%) Windows
3 33 (3.81%) Unix
4 8 (0.92%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (47.29%) Business Intelligence
1 410 (47.29%) Data Visualisation
2 325 (37.49%) Analytics
3 225 (25.95%) Data Modelling
4 214 (24.68%) Decision-Making
5 212 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (22.61%) Agile
7 191 (22.03%) Data Analysis
8 151 (17.42%) Actionable Insight
9 149 (17.19%) Data Science
10 131 (15.11%) Data Pipeline
11 122 (14.07%) AI
12 121 (13.96%) Machine Learning
13 117 (13.49%) ETL
14 114 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 111 (12.80%) Data Governance
16 101 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 99 (11.42%) DevOps
17 99 (11.42%) Validation
18 89 (10.27%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 392 (45.21%) SQL
2 296 (34.14%) Python
3 60 (6.92%) R
4 59 (6.81%) JavaScript
5 54 (6.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.27%) Java
7 31 (3.58%) C#
7 31 (3.58%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.34%) C++
8 29 (3.34%) Scala
9 20 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.61%) Bash
11 12 (1.38%) VBA
12 9 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) Perl
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
14 7 (0.81%) PHP
15 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.46%) LookML
Qualifications
1 163 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.46%) Degree
4 33 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.19%) CISSP
8 16 (1.85%) CISM
9 13 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.27%) PhD
11 10 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.81%) CFA
13 7 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.69%) CBAP
15 5 (0.58%) CEH
15 5 (0.58%) MBA
15 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (14.88%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.50%) QA
4 31 (3.58%) GDPR
5 15 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.61%) PMO
7 7 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.35%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (4.61%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (5.19%) Terraform
2 40 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.34%) Kibana
4 20 (2.31%) logstash
5 19 (2.19%) Ansible
6 14 (1.61%) Grafana
7 6 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.23%) vMotion
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 147 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.50%) Databricks
3 55 (6.34%) Oracle
4 44 (5.07%) Google
5 40 (4.61%) Splunk
6 32 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 30 (3.46%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.54%) Cisco
8 22 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.19%) AppDynamics
10 18 (2.08%) SAP
11 17 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
12 15 (1.73%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.50%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.38%) Centrify
14 12 (1.38%) Foundry
15 8 (0.92%) Palantir
15 8 (0.92%) Sage
15 8 (0.92%) Talend
16 7 (0.81%) Alteryx