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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 112 127
Rank change year-on-year -79 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 769 779 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 2.37% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.62% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 476 467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -7.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £602
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 57
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.50% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 4 August 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 4 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 4 August 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 -65 702 £475 +3.26% 740
London -50 359 £475 -5.00% 359
UK excluding London -66 345 £475 +5.56% 462
Work from Home -35 253 £500 +17.65% 267
North of England -43 105 £453 +4.02% 119
Midlands -36 80 £549 +33.09% 83
South East -54 65 £450 -18.18% 129
West Midlands -44 59 £558 +23.89% 55
North West -32 52 £450 +0.67% 61
Yorkshire -44 48 £469 +13.64% 38
South West -27 45 £475 +2.15% 53
East of England -27 32 £565 +2.73% 47
Scotland -27 25 £394 -13.70% 22
East Midlands -4 21 £375 -6.25% 28
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 21

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 23 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.95%) Confluence
3 13 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.43%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.30%) ArcGIS
6 9 (1.17%) Apache
7 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.65%) CMS
8 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.52%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 116 (15.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.04%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.04%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.39%) InDesign
9 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.26%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 14 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.65%) Primavera
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 385 (50.07%) Power Platform
2 157 (20.42%) Azure
3 116 (15.08%) AWS
4 53 (6.89%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.24%) GCP
6 39 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (3.77%) Serverless
9 28 (3.64%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.51%) GitHub
11 22 (2.86%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.34%) dbt
14 16 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.56%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.56%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.52%) HTTP
2 4 (0.52%) Wireless
3 3 (0.39%) DNS
3 3 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.26%) 2G
4 2 (0.26%) 3G
4 2 (0.26%) 4G
4 2 (0.26%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) SNMP
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (49.15%) Power BI
2 158 (20.55%) Tableau
3 95 (12.35%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (7.41%) Power Query
5 53 (6.89%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.42%) Big Data
7 33 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 33 (4.29%) Metadata
8 32 (4.16%) Looker
9 31 (4.03%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (3.25%) BigQuery
12 20 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (2.08%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.56%) GIS
15 12 (1.56%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.56%) Parquet
15 12 (1.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 50 (6.50%) Git
2 40 (5.20%) JIRA
3 13 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.56%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.78%) GitLab
7 5 (0.65%) MLflow
8 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 257 (33.42%) Analytical Skills
2 256 (33.29%) Social Skills
3 187 (24.32%) Finance
4 83 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.41%) Banking
6 36 (4.68%) Marketing
7 30 (3.90%) Retail
8 26 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.73%) Military
10 18 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.43%) Law
13 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.30%) Publishing
14 9 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 202 (26.27%) Analyst
2 119 (15.47%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.69%) Developer
4 104 (13.52%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.92%) Senior
6 53 (6.89%) Lead
7 49 (6.37%) Data Scientist
8 45 (5.85%) Consultant
9 39 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (4.68%) Business Analyst
11 31 (4.03%) Architect
11 31 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.73%) Designer
13 21 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (2.47%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.21%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.21%) Python Developer
16 15 (1.95%) Performance Analyst
17 14 (1.82%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.33%) Pandas
2 37 (4.81%) REST
3 33 (4.29%) React
4 27 (3.51%) Kafka
5 23 (2.99%) NumPy
6 22 (2.86%) PySpark
7 20 (2.60%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.47%) CSS
8 19 (2.47%) Web Services
9 17 (2.21%) .NET
10 16 (2.08%) HTML
10 16 (2.08%) Node.js
11 15 (1.95%) JSON
12 12 (1.56%) Apache Avro
12 12 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.56%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.56%) TensorFlow
13 10 (1.30%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.30%) GeoJSON
13 10 (1.30%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.30%) PKI
13 9 (1.17%) Clustering
13 9 (1.17%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.91%) Derivative
15 7 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.55%) Windows
2 25 (3.25%) Linux
3 13 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.91%) Unix
5 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (53.45%) Business Intelligence
2 372 (48.37%) Analytics
3 367 (47.72%) Data Visualisation
4 236 (30.69%) Data Modelling
5 201 (26.14%) Agile
6 200 (26.01%) Decision-Making
7 192 (24.97%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (20.94%) AI
9 140 (18.21%) Actionable Insight
9 140 (18.21%) Validation
10 139 (18.08%) Data Analysis
11 133 (17.30%) Data Pipeline
11 133 (17.30%) Data Science
12 124 (16.12%) ETL
13 123 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (15.99%) Dashboard Development
14 117 (15.21%) Data Engineering
15 112 (14.56%) Data Governance
16 111 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 99 (12.87%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 390 (50.72%) SQL
2 291 (37.84%) Python
3 69 (8.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 69 (8.97%) R
4 48 (6.24%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.20%) Java
6 39 (5.07%) C#
7 28 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.21%) C++
8 17 (2.21%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.43%) Scala
10 10 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.91%) Bash
11 7 (0.91%) VBA
12 5 (0.65%) Cypher
12 5 (0.65%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.52%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.52%) Rust
13 4 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 168 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.18%) Degree
4 24 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.52%) PhD
9 4 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.26%) APMG
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (21.98%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.50%) QA
3 26 (3.38%) GDPR
4 24 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.47%) PMO
6 10 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.52%) GMP
8 4 (0.52%) GxP
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) Basel III
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (3.12%) Docker
2 18 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.55%) Terraform
2 22 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.60%) Grafana
4 14 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.04%) Ansible
5 8 (1.04%) SCCM
6 7 (0.91%) Kibana
7 6 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.39%) Podman
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Cilium
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 133 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.75%) Databricks
3 49 (6.37%) Oracle
4 47 (6.11%) SAP
5 41 (5.33%) Google
6 30 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.34%) Adobe
9 17 (2.21%) Splunk
10 15 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.43%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.43%) Remedy
12 9 (1.17%) BMC
13 8 (1.04%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.04%) Palantir
14 7 (0.91%) Informatica
14 7 (0.91%) Sage
15 6 (0.78%) Solace
16 5 (0.65%) Foundry
17 4 (0.52%) VMware