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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 104 137
Rank change year-on-year -60 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 777 734 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.54% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.79% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 453 482
10th Percentile £326 £325 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £478
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -3.14% -4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £705 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 39 42
10th Percentile £21.49 £22.41 £20.58
25th Percentile £33.06 £30.74 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £67.86 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.74 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £33.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +91.85% -47.88% -

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 41,283 26,327 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.98% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,781 16,819 23,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,472 1,115 2,532
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 2 June 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 2 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 2 June 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 -66 693 £488 +2.63% 534
London -36 368 £488 -2.50% 244
UK excluding London -66 324 £475 +5.56% 370
Work from Home -14 258 £495 +10.00% 202
North of England -64 104 £450 -2.70% 96
Midlands -48 63 £515 +28.75% 58
North West -27 57 £416 -10.00% 48
South East -40 56 £500 -9.09% 98
South West -17 49 £488 +2.63% 56
West Midlands -53 49 £525 +27.27% 36
Yorkshire -55 43 £463 +14.20% 34
East of England -43 27 £565 -5.83% 27
Scotland -5 26 £409 -8.56% 22
East Midlands -27 14 £488 +30.00% 22
North East -31 7 £420 -20.00% 17
Northern Ireland +2 2 £463 +8.82% 11

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 46 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.57%) Apache
3 17 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.06%) Confluence
5 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.42%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 121 (15.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.16%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.51%) Primavera
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 363 (46.72%) Power Platform
2 155 (19.95%) Azure
3 132 (16.99%) AWS
4 53 (6.82%) Snowflake
5 50 (6.44%) GCP
6 44 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.35%) Serverless
8 25 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (2.83%) dbt
10 21 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.70%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.45%) GitHub
12 18 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (2.06%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.29%) SaaS
14 10 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.54%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (45.95%) Power BI
2 182 (23.42%) Tableau
3 106 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.18%) Relational Database
5 43 (5.53%) Big Data
6 41 (5.28%) Metadata
7 40 (5.15%) Power Query
8 38 (4.89%) SQL Server
9 35 (4.50%) Looker
10 30 (3.86%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (3.47%) Hadoop
13 26 (3.35%) BigQuery
14 19 (2.45%) NoSQL
15 17 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (1.80%) Star Schema
17 12 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (6.56%) Git
2 38 (4.89%) JIRA
3 13 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.03%) MLflow
7 5 (0.64%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 248 (31.92%) Analytical Skills
2 234 (30.12%) Social Skills
3 197 (25.35%) Finance
4 68 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.24%) Banking
6 38 (4.89%) Retail
7 35 (4.50%) Marketing
8 26 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.06%) Publishing
11 15 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.80%) Military
13 13 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.67%) Law
13 13 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Front Office
15 8 (1.03%) Legal
16 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (26.90%) Analyst
2 117 (15.06%) Data Analyst
3 110 (14.16%) Data Engineer
4 105 (13.51%) Developer
5 96 (12.36%) Senior
6 49 (6.31%) Lead
7 48 (6.18%) Data Scientist
8 47 (6.05%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.79%) Consultant
10 33 (4.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 31 (3.99%) Architect
12 28 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.96%) Power BI Developer
15 20 (2.57%) Designer
16 18 (2.32%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
18 15 (1.93%) Data Business Analyst
18 15 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
18 15 (1.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.92%) Pandas
1 46 (5.92%) React
2 34 (4.38%) Kafka
3 31 (3.99%) REST
4 25 (3.22%) Node.js
5 23 (2.96%) NumPy
6 22 (2.83%) scikit-learn
7 21 (2.70%) PySpark
8 18 (2.32%) .NET
9 16 (2.06%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (2.06%) HTML
9 16 (2.06%) JSON
9 16 (2.06%) Matplotlib
10 15 (1.93%) Web Services
11 14 (1.80%) CSS
11 14 (1.80%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.67%) Seaborn
12 13 (1.67%) Vue
13 12 (1.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.82%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.35%) Algorithms
3 26 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.03%) Derivative
10 8 (1.03%) Life Science
10 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.03%) PKI
10 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.60%) Linux
2 27 (3.47%) Windows
3 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.77%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Android
4 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (49.68%) Business Intelligence
2 373 (48.01%) Data Visualisation
3 330 (42.47%) Analytics
4 229 (29.47%) Data Modelling
5 206 (26.51%) Decision-Making
6 202 (26.00%) Agile
7 201 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (19.31%) Actionable Insight
8 150 (19.31%) Data Pipeline
9 146 (18.79%) AI
10 134 (17.25%) Validation
11 130 (16.73%) ETL
12 129 (16.60%) Data Science
13 125 (16.09%) Dashboard Development
14 121 (15.57%) Data Analysis
15 119 (15.32%) Data Governance
16 117 (15.06%) Data Engineering
17 106 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
18 99 (12.74%) CI/CD
19 98 (12.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 393 (50.58%) SQL
2 288 (37.07%) Python
3 78 (10.04%) R
4 54 (6.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.02%) Java
7 37 (4.76%) C#
8 36 (4.63%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.45%) C++
11 17 (2.19%) Scala
12 9 (1.16%) Perl
12 9 (1.16%) VBA
13 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.90%) Bash
14 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.39%) LookML
17 3 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 154 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.30%) Degree
4 20 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) CBAP
10 4 (0.51%) MBA
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) NCDA
12 2 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (19.69%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.31%) QA
3 27 (3.47%) GDPR
4 23 (2.96%) PMO
5 21 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) NIST
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (3.35%) Docker
2 13 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.50%) Kubernetes
1 35 (4.50%) Terraform
2 23 (2.96%) Grafana
3 18 (2.32%) Kibana
4 17 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.06%) Ansible
6 12 (1.54%) logstash
7 8 (1.03%) SCCM
8 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.26%) Cilium
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 2 (0.26%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 115 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.94%) Databricks
3 45 (5.79%) Google
3 45 (5.79%) SAP
4 35 (4.50%) Oracle
5 22 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.93%) Adobe
6 15 (1.93%) Sage
7 13 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.67%) Splunk
8 11 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.29%) Amplitude
9 10 (1.29%) Informatica
10 8 (1.03%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.03%) Remedy
11 6 (0.77%) Apple
11 6 (0.77%) BMC
11 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.77%) VMware
12 5 (0.64%) Cognos