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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 106 133
Rank change year-on-year -52 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 789 751 748
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.57% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.82% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 491 492
10th Percentile £330 £337 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £578
90th Percentile £726 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +4.51% +0.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 31 40
10th Percentile £22.27 £22.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £44.06 £23.86 £37.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.76% -42.42% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70.18 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,989 26,597 37,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.89% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,206 17,155 24,229
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,068 2,445
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
% change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -55 694 £488 +2.63% 413
London -44 367 £489 -2.25% 173
UK excluding London -53 324 £475 +4.51% 291
Work from Home -22 258 £488 +5.81% 167
North of England -53 103 £453 -2.16% 73
Midlands -45 66 £494 +19.70% 47
North West -29 58 £420 -11.58% 43
South East -33 54 £500 - 92
West Midlands -45 46 £500 +19.40% 27
South West -25 43 £475 - 42
Yorkshire -41 41 £463 +7.56% 16
East of England -36 34 £565 +18.95% 24
Scotland -13 25 £450 - 9
East Midlands -16 20 £441 +20.23% 20
North East -23 7 £420 -6.67% 14
Northern Ireland +4 2 £463 +8.82% 1

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 50 (6.34%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.66%) Apache
3 19 (2.41%) Confluence
4 17 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 16 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 119 (15.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.27%) Chatbot
6 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.13%) Blender
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) iTrent
4 3 (0.38%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 360 (45.63%) Power Platform
2 161 (20.41%) Azure
3 134 (16.98%) AWS
4 59 (7.48%) GCP
5 49 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (4.69%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (3.68%) Serverless
8 26 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.04%) Power Automate
10 22 (2.79%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (2.15%) dbt
13 16 (2.03%) GitHub
13 16 (2.03%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.52%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.77%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
6 1 (0.13%) 2G
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) LTE
6 1 (0.13%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
6 1 (0.13%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (45.50%) Power BI
2 182 (23.07%) Tableau
3 100 (12.67%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (5.58%) Big Data
5 43 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.07%) Metadata
7 38 (4.82%) Power Query
8 34 (4.31%) Looker
8 34 (4.31%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.93%) Hadoop
10 30 (3.80%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.55%) BigQuery
12 26 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (2.66%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.90%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
17 13 (1.65%) MySQL
17 13 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (7.35%) Git
2 40 (5.07%) JIRA
3 15 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.77%) Eclipse
5 12 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.01%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 4 (0.51%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 269 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 245 (31.05%) Analytical Skills
3 212 (26.87%) Finance
4 85 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.10%) Banking
6 39 (4.94%) Retail
7 35 (4.44%) Marketing
8 25 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.28%) Military
12 15 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.77%) Law
13 14 (1.77%) Publishing
14 13 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.27%) Front Office
16 9 (1.14%) Legal
16 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (26.36%) Analyst
2 114 (14.45%) Developer
3 109 (13.81%) Data Analyst
4 105 (13.31%) Data Engineer
5 102 (12.93%) Senior
6 58 (7.35%) Data Scientist
7 52 (6.59%) Lead
8 49 (6.21%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.45%) Consultant
10 40 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 34 (4.31%) Architect
12 29 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 22 (2.79%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.41%) Designer
17 18 (2.28%) Data Business Analyst
18 17 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
19 16 (2.03%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.21%) Pandas
2 47 (5.96%) React
3 35 (4.44%) Kafka
4 29 (3.68%) Node.js
4 29 (3.68%) NumPy
4 29 (3.68%) scikit-learn
5 28 (3.55%) REST
6 21 (2.66%) PySpark
7 19 (2.41%) .NET
8 18 (2.28%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.28%) Matplotlib
9 17 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (2.15%) Web Services
10 16 (2.03%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.90%) JSON
11 15 (1.90%) Seaborn
12 14 (1.77%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.77%) Vue
13 13 (1.65%) HTML
14 12 (1.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.96%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.18%) Algorithms
3 32 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.01%) Derivative
13 8 (1.01%) PMI
14 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.89%) Life Science
14 7 (0.89%) NHS
14 7 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.44%) Linux
2 27 (3.42%) Windows
3 9 (1.14%) Unix
4 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (50.32%) Business Intelligence
2 380 (48.16%) Data Visualisation
3 322 (40.81%) Analytics
4 234 (29.66%) Data Modelling
5 214 (27.12%) Decision-Making
6 206 (26.11%) Agile
7 205 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (20.91%) Actionable Insight
9 142 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
10 138 (17.49%) Data Analysis
11 137 (17.36%) Validation
12 136 (17.24%) AI
13 132 (16.73%) Data Science
14 127 (16.10%) Data Governance
15 120 (15.21%) Dashboard Development
16 117 (14.83%) ETL
17 112 (14.20%) Data Engineering
18 102 (12.93%) CI/CD
19 98 (12.42%) Machine Learning
20 90 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 385 (48.80%) SQL
2 297 (37.64%) Python
3 83 (10.52%) R
4 56 (7.10%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 43 (5.45%) C#
7 37 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.56%) Java
9 26 (3.30%) C++
10 20 (2.53%) Scala
11 19 (2.41%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.65%) VBA
13 9 (1.14%) Perl
14 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Bash
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.51%) PHP
17 3 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 155 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 126 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.38%) Degree
4 22 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CISM
11 4 (0.51%) CISSP
11 4 (0.51%) MBA
11 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.38%) PhD
12 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (17.87%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.72%) QA
3 27 (3.42%) GDPR
4 25 (3.17%) PMO
5 22 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.25%) P3O
11 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (3.68%) Docker
2 9 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.06%) Terraform
3 23 (2.92%) Grafana
4 19 (2.41%) Kibana
5 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.90%) Ansible
7 13 (1.65%) logstash
8 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.63%) SCCM
10 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.38%) Databricks
3 50 (6.34%) Google
4 40 (5.07%) SAP
5 38 (4.82%) Oracle
6 24 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.66%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.15%) Sage
9 14 (1.77%) Adobe
9 14 (1.77%) Splunk
10 9 (1.14%) Informatica
11 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
12 7 (0.89%) Cognos
13 6 (0.76%) Apple
13 6 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.63%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.63%) Cisco
14 5 (0.63%) Remedy
14 5 (0.63%) Solace